We may as well book our Istanbul hotels and flights. It’s written in the stars.
[Albion] Champions League final group fixtures
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Every other element of that draw would be incredible except Winifred. Too much to hope someone two foots him and puts him out till July?
I'd take not winning on Thursday if it guaranteed Braga - bad, bad, selfish fan.
Yes - just checked the rules. Benfica scored more away goals in the head-to-heads. What a way to go out!!
Benfica would be incredible too. Better than Galatasaray IMO.
Stadium holds 65,000 so plenty of tickets, and we've beaten Ajax so Ajax + Benfica in a season would mean I could retire as a football fan in total happiness.
Still hoping we win on Thursday and have one less game though.
I'm more than happy to edit in Benfica.
So, if we don’t win on Thursday we have a 2 in 8 chance of playing a Portuguese side - and could be 3 in 8 if Shakhtar beat Porto tomorrow.
Off to Turkey we go then.
That would be fantastic
It's ridiculous we're even discussing this!
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
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Away goals in head to head results was last used as a tiebreaker in the 20-21 season.
Benfica scored more goals in all group games so that’s why they went through. Had they not scored that late goal Salzburg would have gone through on goals difference in head to head matches.
This is how teams are split -
- Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
- If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- Away goals scored in all group matches;
- Wins in all group matches;
- Away wins in all group matches;
- Disciplinary points (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);
- UEFA club coefficient.
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While 'they' are discussing 'Im a Celebrity...'.It's ridiculous we're even discussing this!
Gluteus Maximus
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He was absolute turd tonight and got taken off early 2nd half.
3 in 7, if Newcastle finish 3rd too.
patchamalbion
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Similar to the group stages where we had a 3/7 chance of visiting Athens I think,
I think Tyler designed a Farage Tifo which, ironically, Surrey Nigel very much objected to. The alternative tribute to Nella Rose wasn't carried either as the meeting wasn't quorate, what with the trains from Reigate being cancelled and no one wanting to walk round Thornton Heath after 6pm.
In the end they settled for meeting up at the same time, same place, next week and singing 'Woooooaaaaaaargggh' while dressed in Primark's new 'black rainwear' range and colouring in some bog roll.
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I assume your point is "we'll win on Thursday, so all third place CL teams will be irrelevant to us".It's ridiculous we're even discussing this!
If so, I say: not really - I'm interested to know what teams are dropping into the Europa League and who we may be facing in the round-of-16.
From what I can see looking at last year's tournament, the group winners do not face each other initially, with each one drawn against a winner of the intermediate knockout stage. So, in short, there could be a CL third place side in our near future one way or another!
