Europa 2nd/3rd Quali Rounds: Progres/Willem II v Lincoln Red Imps/Rangers

[Yorkie Bear 496]

5 hours ago, the gunslinger said:

seeded team at home?

 

Not guaranteed.  From Uefa site:

 

The balls containing the names of the seeded teams will be placed in one bowl and the balls containing the names of the unseeded will be put into another bowl. One ball will be taken from each bowl and placed in a large empty bowl in the middle, where they will be shuffled. The first team drawn will play the tie at home.

 

 

[craig 5,195]

5 hours ago, the gunslinger said:

seeded team at home?

 

also when will the game be?

Randon draw I believe

[Malangsob 1,186]

Out of the bunch I would prefer not to play the Ex-Yugo (I keep it simple) team. However, we should comfortably stomp a mudhole in any of them. 

[Gonzo79 13,541]

Just to clarify, there are a lot of other teams we could get.  I just picked out a few that stood out.

[gaspard 562]

6 hours ago, JohnMc said:

Is it still a one off game or will it go to 2 legs?

Hope we draw Coleraine, who had a brilliant result last night. I used to work with a guy who was a director of Coleraine, he was a big blue nose too. 

Aye and no.

This draw under the present circumstances could be viewed as very unfortunate for Coleraine. 

I would imagine that a home game with a full house against us would be massive, both financially and culturally, for them and a trip to ibrox would be very significant for a lot of their supporters. 

 

If we draw Coleraine,  I will actually feel sorry for them, 1 game, no crowd and no opportunity to maximise the ties potential for a wee club.

[JohnMc 2,463]

25 minutes ago, gaspard said:

Aye and no.

This draw under the present circumstances could be viewed as very unfortunate for Coleraine. 

I would imagine that a home game with a full house against us would be massive, both financially and culturally, for them and a trip to ibrox would be very significant for a lot of their supporters. 

 

If we draw Coleraine,  I will actually feel sorry for them, 1 game, no crowd and no opportunity to maximise the ties potential for a wee club.

Aye, that's a fair point, although there would be some TV money I suspect, but nothing like the occasion it would be under normal circumstances. Although a trip to Ibrox would be significantly less expensive for them than a trip to the continent I suspect you're right and they'd prefer to play us under more normal circumstances. From our perspective though it's a short trip if we're away and we'd be massive favourites to win, significantly less tricky than a trip to Bosnia. 

[gaspard 562]

25 minutes ago, JohnMc said:

Aye, that's a fair point, although there would be some TV money I suspect, but nothing like the occasion it would be under normal circumstances. Although a trip to Ibrox would be significantly less expensive for them than a trip to the continent I suspect you're right and they'd prefer to play us under more normal circumstances. From our perspective though it's a short trip if we're away and we'd be massive favourites to win, significantly less tricky than a trip to Bosnia. 

From our perspective yes, an ideal draw.

I was just looking at it from Coleraine POV 

[compo 6,073]

The weakest team at Ibrox will do for me .

Edited August 28, 2020 by compo

[Gonzo79 13,541]

So, apparently the three teams we can get in the 2nd round are Lincoln Red Imps (British overseas territory, Gibraltar), Servette (Switzerland) and Borac (Bosnia And Herzegovina).

[Gonzo79 13,541]

I had no idea table napkins could play football.  Hopefully we get them - easy enough to keep a clean sheet.

Edited August 30, 2020 by Gonzo79