UEFA Europa League 2017/18

[Monkey D. Lars]

Dutch Football is amazing atm. We will end up with Feyenoord in the CL and only Vitesse in the EL. Hooray we will lose our CL spot.

[Kyle]

HOWS THAT FOR A SCREAMER 

[Baddar]

Wow, worth every penny.

[Kyle]

1 minute ago, Baddar said:

Wow, worth every penny.

To steal something I heard, 1 million for every yard that ball travelled.  

[Adam]

Stunning goal. Now if he could just do that in the derby...

[Lineker]

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Pot 1: Arsenal, Zenit St. Petersburg, Lyon, Dynamo Kiev, Villarreal, Athletic Bilbao, Lazio, AC Milan, Viktoria Plzen, FC Salzburg, FC Copenhagen, Braga
Pot 2: Steaua Bucharest, Ludogorets Razgrad, BATE Borisov, Everton, Young Boys, Marseille, Real Sociedad, Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Lokomotiv Moscow, Austria Vienna, Hertha Berlin, Nice
Pot 3: Astana, Partizan Belgrade, Hoffenheim, Cologne, NK Rijeka, Vitoria Guimaraes, Atalanta, Zulte Waregem, Zorya Luhansk, Rosenborg, Sheriff Tiraspol, Hapoel Beer-Sheva
Pot 4: Apollon Limassol, Istanbul Basaksehir, Konyaspor, Vitesse Arnhem, Slavia Prague, Red Star Belgrade, Skenderbeu, FC Zlin, AEK Athens, FC Lugano, Vardar Skopje, Ostersunds

Russian and Ukrainian teams, as well as Serbian and Albanian teams will be kept apart.

[Adam]

Ideal draw for Everton is probably Plzen, Tiraspol, Zlin. Something like that. I'd like to draw Ostersunds though.

Worst case scenario...Milan, Hoffenheim and Vitesse. Or a combination of trips to like Ukraine and Turkey. 

[Lineker]

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Here are some of the interesting names to look out for in the draw:

Ostersunds: Swedish minnows who, incredibly and implausibly, have made it this far under the stewardship of Englishman Graham Potter. They’re based a five-hour train ride north of Stockholm. Brilliant trip for somebody.

Istanbul Basaksehir: Arriviste Turkish club who are better than pot four and can call upon Gael Clichy and Emmanuel Adebayor. Could be fun for Arsenal!

Vardar Skopje: The first Macedonian team to have got this far. Scalps this summer already include Malmo and Fenerbahce.

Red Star Belgrade: First group stage appearance in a decade for the one-time European champions, who beat Krasnodar yesterday. Are they on their way back? An away tie at the Marakana would be quite the experience for Arsenal or Everton.

Nice: Knocked out by Napoli in the Champions League play-offs but Balotelli, Sneijder, Seri and company won’t be anyone’s first choice for a Pot 2 opponent.

[DavidMarrio]

I feel like trying to pronounce half the teams in the pots will give me a brain hemorrhage 

[Gazz]

Clearly, England's best route to European glory is to declare war on Spain, Germany, Italy and France to gain favourable draws.

[Baddar]

Kinda want Everton to have a tough-ish group to give me something to watch on Thursday's now that we're back in the big time.

As an aside, I noticed the Spurs games are on a different night to ours so I can watch their big Madrid/Dortmund ones.

[Lineker]

Arsenal in Group H with BATE Borisov (of Belarus).
Everton in Group E with Lyon.

[MDK]

1 minute ago, Lineker said:

Arsenal in Group H with BATE Borisov (of Belarus)

Arsenal (of England)*

[Kyle]

Everton in Group E with Lyon.

Also, Lineker edited his post. I got the scoop dammit  

[Baddar]

2 minutes ago, Lineker said:

Arsenal in Group H with BATE Borisov (of Belarus).
Everton in Group E with Lyon.

Ooh, Lyon is a good test. They should advance in the competition. I guess it's just avoid Hoffenheim and they'll be fine now.

[Lineker]

Atalanta join Everton and Lyon in Group E.
FC Köln join Arsenal and BATE in Group H.

Skenderbeu, of Albania, top off Group B with Dynamo Kiev, Young Boys and Partizan Belgrade. Hang on, that’s Albania v Serbia....

Red Star Belgrade finish off Group H with Arsenal, BATE, and FC Köln.
Apollon Limassol finish off Group E with Everton, Lyon, and Atalanta.

[Kaney]

Could have been easier but by all rights we should still get out of that group no worries.

[Lineker]

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Group A: Villarreal, Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Astana, Slavia Prague.
Group B: Dynamo Kiev, Young Boys, Partizan Belgrade, Skenderbeu.
Group C: Braga, Ludogorets, Hoffenheim, Istanbul Basaksehir.
Group D: Milan, Austria Vienna, Rijeka, AEK Athens.
Group E: Lyon, Everton, Atalanta, Apollon.
Group F: Copenhagen, Lokomotiv Moscow, Sheriff Tiraspol, Zlin.
Group G: Viktoria Plzen, FCSB, Hapoel Beer-Sheva, Lugano.
Group H: Arsenal, BATE Borisov, Cologne, Crvena Zvezda.
Group I: Salzburg, Marseille, Vitoria SC, Konyaspor.
Group J: Athletic Bilbao, Hertha Berlin, Zorya Luhansk, Ostersund.
Group K: Lazio, Nice, Zulte Waregem, Vitesse.
Group L: Zenit St Petersburg, Real Sociedad, Rosenborg, Vardar Skopje.

[Kyle]

There's already an Apollon fan on one of the Everton fanpages on Facebook telling us they're going to smash us. Of all the three teams in our group, c'mon now.

[Lineker]