sne Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 I'll take as favorable opponent as possible thanks. Playing important games in the middle of summer and at the very start of the season is always a gamble. Emery is a European cup master and some of our players have experience but a lot of them don't and the club in it's current iteration is a novice at it. Give me Real Keflavik, Borussia Dundalk or similar rather than one of those perennial group stage clubs from the medium quality leagues. Honestly wouldn't even face Hammarby from Sweden on their plastic pitch, due to injury risk but still. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted June 10, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 10, 2023 48 minutes ago, sne said: I'll take as favorable opponent as possible thanks. Playing important games in the middle of summer and at the very start of the season is always a gamble. Emery is a European cup master and some of our players have experience but a lot of them don't and the club in it's current iteration is a novice at it. Give me Real Keflavik, Borussia Dundalk or similar rather than one of those perennial group stage clubs from the medium quality leagues. Honestly wouldn't even face Hammarby from Sweden on their plastic pitch, due to injury risk but still. 100%...especially if next thursday draws us a tough start to the league. we don't want to be facing juve, utd and city all in the space of 8 days 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villa_Vids Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 35 minutes ago, tomav84 said: 100%...especially if next thursday draws us a tough start to the league. we don't want to be facing juve, utd and city all in the space of 8 days They don't want to play us! I would rather lose to good opponents than bad too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 2 hours ago, picicata said: I guarantee if we end up unseeded that we will be the team all the seeded teams hope they don't get We're one of the 20 wealthiest clubs in world football. We are strengthening a team who were top 4 in PPG under Emery. We have a coach renowned for his knock out football. I think if teams could pick from the entire list. It would be Juve and Villa that nobody wants to play in that order. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlobalVillan Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 (edited) Notice our neighbours calling this the Papa John's Conference and claiming it is not a major trophy and doesn't count if we win it. Saying its nowhere near as big as the Carabao Cup. Whilst that's clearly bollocks, West Ham winning it has definitely taken the shine off it a bit. Let's just make sure we use it a stepping stone to get into the Europa League next year. As an aside, the teams in it look a fair bit harder than West Ham got to face. Some big clubs in it this year. Although we should still be 4th/5th favourites or so. Juventus must be avoided at all costs. Especially early on. They aren't the 7th best team in Italy, they are only there because of a points deduction. They are a top CL side in reality and should be massive favourites to win the tournament. Hoping for Kazakhstan or Israel, as they are the only countries I've yet to visit out of the teams who've qualified. Edited June 10, 2023 by GlobalVillan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 16 hours ago, MrBlack said: Can anyone explain why they are playing and what they're playing for? The Danish league setup is making no sense to me. Does a draw do anything for us? It’s all over now so of no concern to us but I still fail to understand why the club who came 3rd in the Danish Superliga were playing the one that came 8th for a place in the Conference League. What did nos. 4-7 do wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 33 minutes ago, GlobalVillan said: Notice our neighbours calling this the Papa John's Conference and claiming it is not a major trophy and doesn't count if we win it. Saying its nowhere near as big as the Carabao Cup. Whilst that's clearly bollocks, West Ham winning it has definitely taken the shine off it a bit. Let's just make sure we use it a stepping stone to get into the Europa League next year. As an aside, the teams in it look a fair bit harder than West Ham got to face. Some bug clubs in it this year. Although we should still be 4th/5th favourites or so. Juventus must be avoided at all costs. Especially early on. They aren't the 7th best team in Italy, they are only there because of a points deduction. They are a top CL side in reality and should be massive favourites to win the tournament. Hoping for Kazakhstan or Israel, as they are the only countries I've yet to visit out of the teams who've qualified. At least Grasshoppr Club Zurich didn’t make the cut. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 1 hour ago, briny_ear said: It’s all over now so of no concern to us but I still fail to understand why the club who came 3rd in the Danish Superliga were playing the one that came 8th for a place in the Conference League. What did nos. 4-7 do wrong? Yeah, I couldn't figure out out either. Viborg won the relegation league or something... not sure what that means. And they play 3rd place in the Premier league equivalent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted June 10, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 10, 2023 2 hours ago, GlobalVillan said: Notice our neighbours calling this the Papa John's Conference and claiming it is not a major trophy and doesn't count if we win it. Saying its nowhere near as big as the Carabao Cup. Whilst that's clearly bollocks, West Ham winning it has definitely taken the shine off it a bit. Let's just make sure we use it a stepping stone to get into the Europa League next year. As an aside, the teams in it look a fair bit harder than West Ham got to face. Some big clubs in it this year. Although we should still be 4th/5th favourites or so. Juventus must be avoided at all costs. Especially early on. They aren't the 7th best team in Italy, they are only there because of a points deduction. They are a top CL side in reality and should be massive favourites to win the tournament. Hoping for Kazakhstan or Israel, as they are the only countries I've yet to visit out of the teams who've qualified. whether it's SHA or anyone else calling it a nothing cup, they're all kidding themselves if they think they wouldn't be absolutely buzzing just to be in the thing let alone win it. even those on here that have been playing it down i'm sure will jump on the bandwagon if/when we get to the latter stages 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlobalVillan Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 5 minutes ago, tomav84 said: whether it's SHA or anyone else calling it a nothing cup, they're all kidding themselves if they think they wouldn't be absolutely buzzing just to be in the thing let alone win it. even those on here that have been playing it down i'm sure will jump on the bandwagon if/when we get to the latter stages Absolutely. The only trophy we can realistically win each season is the Carabao Cup and Man City have even won that 4 times in a row until recently. It doesn't help that we pull put of the FA Cup in round 3 every year, but I suppose it saves us from an inevitable defeat to one of the Manchesters later in the tournament. Therefore, this is a genuine chance to win a trophy as well as travel around Europe and watch a lot more midweek Villa games. There's no downside at all. It's gonna be fun. They still bang on a out taking 200,000+ to the Leyland Daf for goodness sake. But playing in a tournament with the likes of Juventus and Frankfurt is tinpot? Righty oh. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 2 hours ago, GlobalVillan said: Notice our neighbours calling this the Papa John's Conference and claiming it is not a major trophy and doesn't count if we win it. Saying its nowhere near as big as the Carabao Cup. Whilst that's clearly bollocks, West Ham winning it has definitely taken the shine off it a bit. Let's just make sure we use it a stepping stone to get into the Europa League next year. As an aside, the teams in it look a fair bit harder than West Ham got to face. Some big clubs in it this year. Although we should still be 4th/5th favourites or so. Juventus must be avoided at all costs. Especially early on. They aren't the 7th best team in Italy, they are only there because of a points deduction. They are a top CL side in reality and should be massive favourites to win the tournament. Hoping for Kazakhstan or Israel, as they are the only countries I've yet to visit out of the teams who've qualified. They would though wouldn't they, but they would bite your hand off if you offered it to them. They are just jealous of us (yet again) and that's exactly as it should be. 3 hours ago, CVByrne said: We're one of the 20 wealthiest clubs in world football. We are strengthening a team who were top 4 in PPG under Emery. We have a coach renowned for his knock out football. I think if teams could pick from the entire list. It would be Juve and Villa that nobody wants to play in that order. Juventus yes. I think we would probably be alongside Eintracht Frankfurt, AZ, Lille, Fenerbahçe, Club Brugge, Gent and Dynamo Kyiv as a group of teams the rest would rather avoid (we may still be a little under the radar to an extent on the continent). I suspect that the bookies will start with Juventus as favourites, with Eintracht or ourselves as second favourites. I won't be betting against us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 5 hours ago, briny_ear said: It’s all over now so of no concern to us but I still fail to understand why the club who came 3rd in the Danish Superliga were playing the one that came 8th for a place in the Conference League. What did nos. 4-7 do wrong? Think it is cause they split the league halfway like in Scotland. So they give the "winner" of the lower half or 8th in fact something to play for. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomer Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 (edited) Interesting...not sure how to do embedded links...sorry! https://twitter.com/uefarankings/status/1667561509122363392?s=46&t=uszqo-thNy4_ZlgJ0zuXvQ Edited June 10, 2023 by chomer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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StewieGriffin Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 Looking at those seeds, I'd want us to avoid Juve, Frankfurt, AZ, Fenerbahce (purely for the difficult away trip), and Lille. Id back us against anyone else there tbh. I think we'd do AZ and Fenerbahce over 2 legs, but there are easier ties there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, MrBlack said: Yeah, I couldn't figure out out either. Viborg won the relegation league or something... not sure what that means. And they play 3rd place in the Premier league equivalent Edited June 10, 2023 by briny_ear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted June 11, 2023 Share Posted June 11, 2023 UECL aint ready Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheStagMan Posted June 11, 2023 Share Posted June 11, 2023 So will Juve actually be allowed to take part in the tournament? I thought there was still a question about them being allowed to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewieGriffin Posted June 11, 2023 Share Posted June 11, 2023 Not been confirmed yet, but I suspect them agreeing to withdraw from the Super League is part of the bargain for being allowed to compete in European competitions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted June 11, 2023 Share Posted June 11, 2023 It's going to be Juventus isn't it. That would be typical villa luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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