@tomEurosportTom Adams The Turkish Football Federation has confirmed that Fenerbahce are banned from the Champions League, report our Turkish office.
interesting..... not sure if that is in the same league or a different league. @dalejohnsonESPNDale Johnson When a team is expelled UEFA may give the place to the team with the highest co-efficient not currently in Europe.
Nope it has to be a team that is not playing in Europe. If it goes to the highest ranked without respect to the league.......Liverpool would get the spot.
No clue right now. No one is sure if it goes back to the league that the team was expelled from or it becomes an open spot.
Now they are speculating that it could to the team with the highest co-efficient of the losing teams in this round. Which would mean they would need to replace a team in Europa League draw. Fucking mess.
@TheBig_SamnotBigSam Hearing some Turkish side has been expelled from the Champions League & another team will be chosen to replace them. I'm quietly confident.
I'm so fucking stoked for the group of death they are going to put Milan in. I'm thinking Madrid-Milan-whoever the best 3rd pot niggies are-City. Would not be surprised if they took it easy on us and put Barcelona in there instead of Madrid
Yeah, change City to the pot 3 contender and Dortmund to pot 4. Would not make it out of the group, IMO
Dont see how they can do that with the whole league being suspended at this point for the match fixing scandal.
@pedrocnnPedro Pinto Just heard from Michel Platini himself. Official. Trabzonspor takes Fenerbahce's position in Champions League. #uefa
Trying to watch these games, as I recently purchased the full soccer package on my cable account. However, been waiting on HD box to get here instead of measly standard def. one and it arrives 5 minutes before kick off. Plug it in with some confusion and find out it has to download some software first. Sitting here looking at this damn screen and getting madder and madder. Been about 15 minutes and got about 10 more it seems.
Benfica up 2-0 on Fc Twente. 4-2 on agg. Copenhagen up 1-0 on Plzen. Plzen lead 3-2 on agg BATE up 1-0 on Sturm. BATE up 2-1 on agg
Plzen 2-1 Copenhagen. Plzen 5-2 on agg BATE 2-0 Sturm. BATE 3-1 on agg Benfica 3-1 Twente. Benfica 5-2 on agg Arsenal 2-1 Udinese. Arsenal 3-1 on agg
4 Pots for the draw Pot 1 Barcelona Manchester United Chelsea Arsenal F.C Bayern Munich Real Madrid Porto Internazionale Pot 2 Milan Lyon Shakhtar Donetsk Valencia Benfica Villarreal CSKA Moscow Marseille Pot 3 Zenit St. Petersburg Ajax Bayer Leverkusen Olympiacos Manchester City Lille Basel Pot 4 BATE Borisov Borussia Dortmund Napoli Dinamo Zagreb APOEL Trabzonspor Genk Viktoria Plzeň Oţelul Galaţi
Pot 3 is nearly as strong as Pot 2 with City, Leverkusen, Lille, and nobody wants to play @ Zenit in the winter months.