Spurs in the Europa League: Road to Gdańsk

[RickyVilla]

Sorry for dragging this post up but what happened to Defendi the defender?

Rodrigo Defendi - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Became a bit of a journeyman from the looks of it. If only we had signed his cousin Carlos Attackingmidfieldi, we would have been sorted.

 

[Westmorlandspur]

From our site:

"Premier Sports is available via Sky, Virgin TV and the Premier Player. New customers can take advantage of a special introductory offer by signing up for just £9.99 for the first two months on Sky and the Premier Player, using the case-sensitive promo code SPURS"

To me that sounded like £9.99 for 2 months. But when trying to signup it's actually £9.99 per month, for 2 months.

Normal price with no contract is 11.99. The offer will be to pay for each month at 9.99.
Easiest just pay for one month and then cancel after our last match whenever that is. If we get through two games it will be 1st Oct for the last one.

 

[Westmorlandspur]

I have subscribed under the 9.99 for 2 months but you are not tied in to a second month. Needs 5 days notice to cancel if card payment. Simple enough..came on straight away.

 

[Trotter]

Vertonghen Own Goal putting PAOK 1-0 up against Benfica in Champions League qualifier.
Loser of that game drops straight into Group Stage of Europa

 

[mstill13]

Normal price with no contract is 11.99. The offer will be to pay for each month at 9.99.
Easiest just pay for one month and then cancel after our last match whenever that is. If we get through two games it will be 1st Oct for the last one.

Yeah I didn't think about how quick our games are coming and that one month will be enough.
£9.99 for 3 games (hopefully!) seems reasonable.

 

[Marty]

Vertonghen Own Goal putting PAOK 1-0 up against Benfica in Champions League qualifier.
Loser of that game drops straight into Group Stage of Europa

Not yet. Benfica dropped into the Europa playoff, not straight into the group stage.

 

[Marty]

2020/21 Europa League group stage as it stands | UEFA Europa League

The line-up for the group stage is now complete, with all 48 spots confirmed.

www.uefa.com

@MK Yid I apologise, you're right. But I don't see how they decide which six losers this midweek have to do the playoff round and which three go straight to the group stage? Is it Champions path has to do playoffs and league path goes straigh to groups?

Because I know Molde weren't secured a Europa group stage place before beating Qarabag last night, and they're in the Champions path.

 

[Trotter]

2020/21 Europa League group stage as it stands | UEFA Europa League

The line-up for the group stage is now complete, with all 48 spots confirmed.

www.uefa.com

@MK Yid I apologise, you're right. But I don't see how they decide which six losers this midweek have to do the playoff round and which three go straight to the group stage? Is it Champions path has to do playoffs and league path goes straigh to groups?

Because I know Molde weren't secured a Europa group stage place before beating Qarabag last night, and they're in the Champions path.

There was only 3 games in the League section of the CL qualifiers this week Benfica, AZ67 and Rapid all dropped to the group stage of Europa League..
The other CL qualifiers were all from the Champions Phase of the CL, those 5 losers (Zagreb, Qarabag, Red Star, Young Boys and Brest) go into the Europa League Play Round for the Champions Path where they will have to play champions from other smaller nations that have also been knocked out of CL.

 

[Marty]

There was only 3 games in the League Stage of the CL qualifiers this week Benfica, AZ67 and Rapid all dropped to the group stage.
The other CL qualifiers were all from the Champions Phase of the CL, those 5 losers (Zagreb, Qarabag, Red Star, Young Boys and Brest) go into the Europa League Play Round for the Champions Path

It makes sense but bloody hell UEFA could hardly have made it more difficult. I just assumed no team was guaranteed a group stage place if they were knocked out before the playoffs.

 

[spursfan77]

Just what everyone wants, another paid subscription to go along with Sky, BT Sports & Amazon etc, absolute piss take.

Exactly. Fuck Premier Sports. I suspect take up for the games from fans will be minimal.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

I’ve just paid £12 for a subscription, then cancelled it immediately so it doesn’t go beyond 17 October. Hopefully I end up paying £4 per match.

 

[rabbikeane]

Sorry for dragging this post up but what happened to Defendi the defender?

Here are some blasts from the past:

Rodrigo Defendi - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Spase Dilevski - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Diego Bortolozzo - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Emil Hallfreðsson - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Edson Silva (footballer, born 1983) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

This guy just decided to retire it seems, after he failed his trial with us. Remember him and Edson Silva testing themselves with us.

Dagui Bakari - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[DiVaio]

 

[TheCheeseRoom]

Edson Silva (footballer, born 1983) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I can't remember watching a `professional` player look any more amateur than Edson when he played for us in pre-season.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

No words if we can’t win with that side.

 

[sage]

we're not fucking around eh... also great to see Gio back on the starting lineup

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Even though obviously it’s Plovdiv and there’s the likes of Sissoko etc, will be interesting to see how we do with a 433

 

[carmeldevil]

Apologies if this has been answered but is the next game a one-off too?

 

[SpursSince1980]

Apologies if this has been answered but is the next game a one-off too?

Yep. If scores tied at 90, extra time and then pens.

 

[SpursSince1980]

Even though obviously it’s Plovdiv and there’s the likes of Sissoko etc, will be interesting to see how we do with a 433

Turns out... not so good.