Big article about the mess in France in the Times today: https://nyti.ms/2IPX9tX

somehow it's all worked out.

welcome to Pot 2.

perhaps we need a new CL thread.

definitely better for AZ to be in EL

also - welcome to Pot 2!!!!

In the third round Benfica will play one of these teams:

PAOK Thessaloniki
Viktoria Plzen
AZ Alkmaar
Rapid Wien
Lokomotiva Zagreb
AA Gent

If they win, and depending on how the draws/results go, in the fourth round they will play another one of those teams or:

Besiktas
FK Krasnodar

Winner of EL gets Pot 1 Sevilla is currently in Pot 2 above Ajax so if they win then everybody behind them moves up a spot (including Ajax) and then would still need Benfica to lose in qualifying Inter is currently in Pot 3 below Ajax so if they win then everybody behind them moves up a spot (but no...

You need Sevilla to win and somebody to beat Benfica in qualifying. Doesn't matter what happens in CL final.

Worth noting that the coefficient difference between Ajax and Benfica is 0.5 - once again Abramovich buying the result comes back to haunt you....

It appears Univision will be showing the Madrid match

Sneijder to Nice.

PSV drop points in first match out of the gate......

Vitesse out of Europe. Netherlands down to 4 teams which will hurt the coefficient big time.

We do not go into EL group stage. We go to 4th qualifying round and might get Southhampton.

Ajax secured a seed in the 3rd round a few weeks back. A tip of the cap to Lazio - with their victory at Napoli today, if Ajax advance to the 4th round they will be seeded. Avoid United, Valencia, Leverkusen, and Donetsk but could end up with Monaco or, in a strange twist of fate, Lazio. Regarding t...

This has come to pass. PSV get Pot 1 - forcing Madrid, the team with the highest coefficient score, into Pot 2. What is *not* in our favor, however, is the new way that UEFA is doing the CL groups. Starting this year, the holders plus the league winners of the top 7 associations *automatically* go i...

Unfortunately, after this term the Netherlands will be lower than 8th place. Therefore this won't be of use to Ajax in the foreseeable future.

What is *not* in our favor, however, is the new way that UEFA is doing the CL groups. Starting this year, the holders plus the league winners of the top 7 associations *automatically* go into Pot 1 *regardless* of their coefficient. Plus, if the holders would also get in by having won their league, ...

We won't know for sure until we see what other teams qualify. Likely seeded teams that start in the fourth round will be the representatives from England (likely United) and Spain (Valencia or Sevilla) whereas those from Italy (likely Roma or Lazio) and Portugal (Sporting) will be unseeded (or at le...

not exactly an answer but interesting nonetheless....

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 03042.html

Amsterdam is quite compact and, being a NYer with the amount of walking I imagine you do, you'll find it easily in your wheelhouse. Jordaan is not far from the very center at all. Quite residential and not entirely unlike Chelsea. Tends to have fewer hotels tho. The Pulitzer is well located and actu...

These would have been your groups under the new system. Would have allowed us to get Madrid and Chelsea. Ultimately the critical goal is a national one - moving the country ranking up from its current 9th to the pot 1 guaranteed 7th. Pot 1 ------- Real Madrid Atlético Madrid Manchester City Paris Sa...

3 points to the top of the table

Roda again trouncing PSV. In Eindhoven no less....

Before we get all doom and gloom, a look at the table shows that at the quarter pole we have played: #1 away #2 away #3 at home #4 is us #5 at home #7 away #8 away #9 away only 1 team in the top half of the table left before the break, most of the top half of the table at home in the 2nd leg, and cu...

and indeed ajax will be unseeded in the round of 32 draw, so you can expect manU or city....

we actually can - top 4 CL 3rd place are seeded, bottom 4 CL 3rd place are unseeded

it will depend on how all the 3rd place teams end up.