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16 hours ago, stewarty said:

Anyone but Monaco for me.  Though they'll all be tricky ties.

Yeah, Monaco would be a tough draw. 

 

Mind you, there doesn't seem to be many easy games in Europe anymore. 

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17 hours ago, stewarty said:

Anyone but Monaco for me.  Though they'll all be tricky ties.

Most important team to worry about is ourselves.

  

If we are at it, we can go into any tie with confidence.

 

If we haven't sorted our business, fully prepared, players settled in/recovered and aren't fully up to speed then we will probably struggle regardless of opponent.

 

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18 minutes ago, buster. said:

Most important team to worry about is ourselves.

  

If we are at it, we can go into any tie with confidence.

 

If we haven't sorted our business, fully prepared, players settled in/recovered and aren't fully up to speed then we will probably struggle regardless of opponent.

 

Agreed.  As said, there's no easy ties.  In Gio we must trust.

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5 minutes ago, stewarty said:

Agreed.  As said, there's no easy ties.  In Gio we must trust.

Given the 3 years of successful European qualifiers under Steven Gerrard, we would have trusted in him on our way to Malmö. 

 

The difference, it would seem was that SG didn't appear to think we were as well prepared for the challenge. IIRC, he seemed to suggest he needed more backing for quality players .... (relatively complex matter)

 

Another potential issue is you actually lose out on competitive match preperation when you don't have to play earlier qualifiers.

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21 minutes ago, buster. said:

Given the 3 years of successful European qualifiers under Steven Gerrard, we would have trusted in him on our way to Malmö. 

 

The difference, it would seem was that SG didn't appear to think we were as well prepared for the challenge. IIRC, he seemed to suggest he needed more backing for quality players .... (relatively complex matter)

 

Another potential issue is you actually lose out on competitive match preperation when you don't have to play earlier qualifiers.

Malmo were halfway through their league season when we played them. We’d played one just league game. They were more up to speed than we were

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9 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

Malmo were halfway through their league season when we played them. We’d played one just league game. They were more up to speed than we were

Malmö had played 4 league matches (and European qualifiers).

 

A couple of seasons prior to that Midtjylland had played 4 league matches before we put 7 past them.

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