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Champions League 2023/24 - Qualifying/Play-off Stages


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Penultimate stage of qualifying before the play-offs take place

Champions Path:
Rakow Czechstowa vs Aris Limassol
Slovan Bratislava vs Maccabi Haifa
AEK Athens vs Dinamo Zagreb
Olimpija Ljubljana vs Galatasaray
Copenhagen vs Sparta Prague
Klaksvik vs Molde
(losers of these ties go into Europa League play-off round)

League Path:
Braga vs TSC
Rangers vs Servette
Panathinaikos vs Marseille
PSV vs Sturm Graz
(losers of these ties go into Europa League Group Stage)

 

Ties played 8/9th August and 15/16th August

 

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On 07/08/2023 at 16:06, Beelzebub said:

Is this the last season with the current 32 format ?

Yep, goes to a league phase of 36 teams, with teams seeded in 4 pots of nine.

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Well, the surprising result of the evening so far in the Champions League, is Panathinaikos's 1-0 win over French giants Marseille. The Greek side will be chuffed to have defeated such a strong French side.

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4 hours ago, Michael said:

Well, the surprising result of the evening so far in the Champions League, is Panathinaikos's 1-0 win over French giants Marseille. The Greek side will be chuffed to have defeated such a strong French side.

To be fair, Klaksvik winning against Molde is even more surprising. A Faroeyan team winning at that stage is almost miraculous, in my honest opinion!

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9 hours ago, Rucksackfranzose said:

To be fair, Klaksvik winning against Molde is even more surprising. A Faroeyan team winning at that stage is almost miraculous, in my honest opinion!

Yes, that's very true. It's actually quite surprising how well Faroese football has done in recent years. Well their national team has had some incredible results throughout its history, starting with their historic 1-0 win over Austria in 1990. For a country of only a mere 50,000 people, they have done incredibly well. They only have around 5,000 registered footballers in the Faroe Islands. Nonetheless, they have achieved some very impressive results over the years.

They almost always beat the likes of Malta, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Luxembourg, Gibraltar and Andorra convincingly. But they have also achieved much greater results against much more reputed national teams in competitive competitions. They famously beat Greece home and away in 2014 and 2015 during Euro 2016 qualifiers. They drew with Hungary in 2016 in a World Cup qualifier and they followed that draw with a 2-0 win away to Latvia in Riga. They also drew with Kosovo in 2018. In the past they've also held Scotland to a draw on a couple of occasions and they have done the same to Northern Ireland. All these bigger teams have much bigger populations and a much larger pool of players to choose from. Which makes the results of the Faroe Islands national team, all the more impressive.

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Rangers to meet PSV in the playoff stage again. 

Marseille set to meet Braga which should be an interesting meet-up. 

 

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10 minutes ago, Stan said:

Rangers to meet PSV in the playoff stage again. 

Marseille set to meet Braga which should be an interesting meet-up. 

 

Hold your horses Marseille aren't qualified yet : Panathinaikos scored in injury time and the match probably does go to extra time.;)

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1 minute ago, Rucksackfranzose said:

Hold your horses Marseille aren't qualified yet : Panathinaikos scored in injury time and the match probably does go to extra time.;)

Oops, saw it was 2-0 and thought it was full time! 

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1 hour ago, Stan said:

Rangers just scored an absolute peach of a goal. 

Two good goals. We played awful too.

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4 minutes ago, Rab said:

Two good goals. We played awful too.

Enjoyed the game though. Entertaining. 

Hope the return leg is just as good. 

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PSV ahead on the night and on aggregate. Been pretty much dominant all game so far. 

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