Europa League Opponents 2009-2010

[Blind3]

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Donderdag 17 september: Ajax - Timisoara
Donderdag 1 oktober: Anderlecht - Ajax
Donderdag 22 oktober: Ajax - Dinamo Zagreb
Donderdag 5 november: Dinamo Zagreb - Ajax
Woensdag 2 of donderdag 3 december: Timisoara - Ajax
Woensdag 16 of donderdag 17 december: Ajax - Anderlecht

Talk about the importance of winning your home matches. Not cock - a - hoop about away fixtures in Romania , Croatia , and Belgium. I agree wholeheartedly with the time will tell if it's a good draw contingent .

[saddlerian]

TYPICAL!!!! Can't make any of them!!!! Bloody work ruins everything!!!

[Blind3]

I'm screwed as well . My vacation is already set..ten Pearl jam shows , including four in Philadelphia in October and OZ and NZ ; Brisbane, Auckland ,and Christchurch ; in November. PJ may play "I Got S*** " , but they don't play like s*** . A sad commentary that I prefer to spend my disposable income , and more of it , on the opposite side of the globe.

[Rooie]

What a terrible, terrible tackle... Shocking:

http://i29.tinypic.com/33e1wfd.gif

http://www.sporza.be/polopoly_fs/1.5893 ... 445802.jpg

[Jojo]

When was that?

Ugly!!!!!!

[Rooie]

Tonight, Anderlecht - Standard Luik, Witsel with a foul against Wasilewski

[Manneken Pis]

I don't think I'll make it to one of the away games. Don't really feel like a trip to Zagreb or Romania, whereas Brussels will be a day of violence, for sure (thousands of Ajax fans, grim atmosphere in town, lots of trouble). Fair chance Ajax will make that one a combi, just like Bruges at the time.

K.

I'll be going to the Anderlecht game ... but I'll be avoiding the city centre like the plague.

[orange goblin]

This is our squad list for the Europa League campaign:


Keepers
No. Nome
1 Maarten Stekelenburg
12 Kenneth Vermeer
31 Sergio Padt *
41 Jeroen Verhoeven

Defenders
No. Nome
2 Gregory Van der Wiel *
3 Presas Oleguer
7 Thimothée Atouba
15 Bruno Silva
17 Rob Wielaert
19 Toby Alderweireld *
27 Daley Blind *
30 George Ogăraru

Midfielders:
No. Nome
4 José Eduardo de Araújo
5 Jan Vertonghen
6 Rasmus Lindgren
8 Urby Emanuelson
11 Ismaïl Aissati
18 Gabri
21 Eyong Enoh
22 Siem De Jong *
23 Vurnon Anita *
26 Jeffrey Sarpong *
29 Mitchell Donald *
40 Demy de Zeeuw
51 Christian Eriksen
53 Lorenzo Ebecilio *

Forward
No. Nome
9 Marko Pantelić
10 Miralem Sulejmani
16 Luis Suárez
20 Dario Cvitanich
28 Dennis Rommedahl
32 Kerlon Moura Souza
33 Javier Martina
34 Kennedy Bakircioglü
43 Marvin Zeegelaar *
46 Danilo Campos *
47 Geoffrey Castillion *
Legenda:
* B list

[Thijs]

What does the B-list mean? I'm wondering why (for instance) Gregory van der Wiel and Toby Alderweireld are on that list...

[Rooie]

The B-list contains youth ('home grown') players (but for instance Eriksen has just joined our youth-ranks and therefore isn't counted as home grown player).

[LucaS]

Stekelenburg?

[Rooie]

http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Dow ... WNLOAD.pdf

Article 18

[Orange14]

http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Dow ... WNLOAD.pdf

Article 18

Interesting, players on the B list must have been born after 1/1/1988 so they are in the 21 and under camp. Looks like it is a simple way to get around the team roster size. Clearly a number on the A list came up through the Ajax youth system. Thanks for the link clarifying this.

[aztattooedsean777]

I hope we get off to a good start this week!

[Kowalczyk]

Okay people, 40 minutes to go until the draw in Nyon, Switzerland.

The teams will be divided over two pots. The first pot contains the Europa League group winners and the four best numbers three from the Champions League. The second pot contains the runners-up from the Europa League groups and the four 'weakest' numbers three from the Champions League.

Since we made ourselves look a bunch of fools yesterday evening, we will be in the second pot. Two of the teams in the first pot, will be 'blocked' for Ajax: Anderlecht (because they're from the same group as Ajax) and PSV (because they're from the same country as Ajax). Which means we will be paired with one of the following teams: Valencia, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Sporting Lissabon, AS Roma, Galatasaray, Shakhtar Donetsk, Fenerbahce, Benfica, Werder Bremen, Unirea Urziceni, Juventus, VfL Wolfsburg, Olympique Marseille.

For the record... Hadn't we embarrassed ourselves yesterday evening and grabbed at least one point, the options would have been the following: Lille, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC, Fulham, Panathinaikos, Villarreal, Everton, Club Brugge, FC Kopenhagen, Athletic Bilbao, Liverpool, Rubin Kazan, Standard Luik, Atletico Madrid (FC Twente would have been 'blocked' for Ajax).

We'll see what happens. Let the show begin!

K.

[afcajax73]

veeery difficult

[afcajax73]

Ajax - Juventus whoops

[Venezuelan Ajacied]

Fuck !!!

[afcajax73]

then its either fulham or shakthar

[souras84]

I think everybody expected the history repeating itself after 13 years! Now we must prove that we arent just a shadow of the past and eliminate them!

[SPL]

after last nights woeful performance we get a top team. So thats 2 final games in Europe this season and somehow hope Twente or PSV drop loads of points so we can finish 2nd.

[afcajax73]

Juve have a relatively slow team, so maybe if we can get some pace at their defence we have a chance, but i cant see us getting anything from this tie to be honest :( :(

[Philippe]

juventus, I just hate them.
Van Gaal's Bayern just crushed them 1-4 on their Turin pitch. We do have good chances.

[Orange14]

Ajax - Juventus whoops

Well, I called this pairing right last evening over on the Anderlecht match forum! Juventus are a team in some sense of trouble and I'm not at all confident that their manager will be around after this year. We get most of the Juve games on cable over here and I've watched them quite a bit. Camorinesi looks to be out for the year and he is the one who really makes them go. Buffon just had knee surgery but should be OK by the first of the year. I hope we give them a solid run! I don't thinking winning the group would have resulted necessarily in a better pairing as some top teams were in Pot 2. We'll have to play 'em one at a time and see how things turn out.

[Jari Litmanen]

What a classical encounter, I love it. I think we really have a shot at winning this time. Juventus has been playing poorly, and Ajax has a pretty solid team (although, everything seems to turn to shit when Suaréz is off.). Just look at our goals made, averaging 3.11 goals per game in the league, that's pretty decent.