[Albion] All teams that have gone through to the round of 16 and play-offs in EL!

[Jim in the West]

The other good news is that seeded teams play their home games second....so it's 7th March (away), 14th March (home)

 

[kevo]

Let’s put our feet up, watch the next round with outside interest, and decide after that

I think this is the correct response. Love the fact we are in effect skipping a round and can just sit back and see who we might end up meeting.

 

[Hamilton]

I’m going glamour all the way.

Benfica please.

Let’s just draw all the best teams for as long as we can and enjoy the ride.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Yes, maybe? I don't know!

That seeded business innit. First I’ve heard of it (although at my age I’ve stopped listening to a lot of things)

 

[WhingForPresident]

So - who do we want? Now we're in the knock-out stages, I think I would rather a team we can knock-out than a 'glamour' tie.

Slavia/Sparta, should beat them and an away day in Prague. Lovely stuff.

We'd go in as favourites against: Young Boys, Shakhtar, Rangers, Freiburg, Rennes, Braga, Toulouse, Qarabag, Lens, Feyenoord. The likes of Sporting, Roma, Milan, Galatasaray, Atalanta, Leverkusen, Villarreal would be best avoided if poss!

 

[Stat Brother]

Let’s put our feet up, watch the next round with outside interest.

Alternatively known as:-

'Doing a palace'.

 

[Stat Brother]

Be happy to have Rangers, not a glamour tie but one we could win

FFS - We've just won the group of death.

The Albion aren't playing Swindon on the weekend.

 

[A1X]

The other good news is that seeded teams play their home games second....so it's 7th March (away), 14th March (home)

Also means the Home games against Forest and Man City on 9th and 16th will move, although the second one not a huge surprise anyway

 

[Garyoldfan]

I presume Im the only one who hasn’t got a clue what’s going on with all this who we could play business ?

 

[WhingForPresident]

I presume Im the only one who hasn’t got a clue what’s going on with all this who we could play business ?

So now we have won the group rather than finishing second, we don't have to deal with a two-legged 'play-off' against a team that finished third in their Champions League group-- we effectively have a bye to the Europa League last 16.

We will end up playing one of the teams that prevails from those games in the round of 16 in March, IIRC.

 

[The Grockle]

After getting what was probably the toughest draw in the group stage I think lady luck should draw us an 'easy' game in the last 16...our heroics would quickly be forgotten if we were stuffed in the next round.

I'd love to meet Rangers in the quarters, would be a real spectacle and I'd fancy us over two legs

 

[Dirty Dave]

The draw is on 23rd Feb - just 13 DAYS before our first leg away tie.

Very little time to sort tickets, flights and accommodation!

I'm not complaining but will have to be on the pulse!

 

[Soton Seagull]

I'm away skiing week of 11th March. Bugger!

 

[Simster]

By the time the last 16 comes round, the teams left will read like a who's who of European football. There really won't be many crap draws from the 7 unseeded teams available.

Personally I hope we draw a side with a massive ground and ideally with home end ticket availability. So ideally one of the two Lisbon clubs or Milan or Roma.

 

[Milano]

I’d like a team with a big stadium so as many Albion fans as possible can go. Benfica or Milan please.
The only team I’d ‘fear’ over 2 legs in that entire list is Liverpool.
By the time we play those ties we should, touch wood, have back - Enciso, Fati, Estupinan, Lamptey, Welbeck, Webster, plus I have a feeling that we will bring in at least one new player in January.

 

[dwayne]

The draw is on 23rd Feb - just 13 DAYS before our first leg away tie.

Very little time to sort tickets, flights and accommodation!

I'm not complaining but will have to be on the pulse!

They kept going on about the draw being on Monday on tnt thought that sounded wrong

 

[Eeyore]

So - who do we want? Now we're in the knock-out stages, I think I would rather a team we can knock-out than a 'glamour' tie.

We can probably get both if folks want somewhere nice to travel.

 

[studio150]

They kept going on about the draw being on Monday on tnt thought that sounded wrong

Had me thinking I was wrong. Probably looking to boost their viewing figures given no English or Scottish teams are involved in the play off round.

 

[Yoda]

I’m going glamour all the way.

Benfica please.

Let’s just draw all the best teams for as long as we can and enjoy the ride.

Pah! Sporting Clube de Portugal for me

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Sparta Prague please god Sparta Prague. I don’t think I’d ever make it home. One of the best European cities

A mate of mine had a two week holiday, full board, open bar, karaoke, the lot, in Sparta and says it was shitehouse. Spartan, he said it was.