‚ö? Backa Topola v West Ham - Official Match Thread

[charleyfarley]

". . V Gradski Stadion Thurs 30th Nov 17:45 GMT VAR Clay Ruperti (NED) Allard Lindhout (NED) : (15) - 51 4 Awaiting team news Fabia?Ñski, Johnson, Mavropanos, Aguerd, Cresswell, Fornals, Ward-Prowse, Souƒçek, Paquet?°, Benrahma, Mubama Subs: Areola (GK), Anang (GK), Emerson, Scarles, Kehrer, Zouma, Ogbonna, Orford, Coventry, Chesters, Cornet, Ings Backa Topola 11/1:Draw 6/1: West Ham 3/11 ."

[Gaffer58]

"We must win the group, this avoids a playoff against a team from the champions league, then we need to go all out and win the thing outright to claim the champions league spot, serious money to be made then so that at last we can buy a decent centre forward."

[ludo21]

"U21s are playing Lyon tonight so I doubt any of them will make it over to Serbia (it is Serbia isn't it?)... perhaps one or two on the bench at the very most, Marshall?"

[Sir Alf]

I’ll be behind my sofa for this one. :-) “But knowing my luck… “

[simon.s]

Think it will be warmer out there than over here!

[Manuel]

"BRANDED 4:32 Mon Nov 27 ''Fourth win on the trot and a fun chilly evening. Really looking forward to it'' What time is your flight? Yes, it should be fund and chilly over there :-)"

[Huggie]

"head to head is the tie breaker and we won 1 - 2 away so I assume a 0 - 1 defeat at home would mean we go through if goals scored count in the head to head. In other words, I've got no idea."

[norwaytips]

Hope we put out a strong team and that they take it seriously. We should win this quite comfortably and that will put us through. ‚öí

[Sydney_Iron]

"Win, Lose or draw its the game against Freiberg that matters even if we win and they lose especially with their better GD. Saying that we should win this comfortably and hopefully get a few goals, but no matter what we will need at least a draw in that final game. COYI"

[RM10]

Lucky Alf watches behind his sofa!

[daveyg]

think we need to attack this lot from the start. use some of the youth on the flanks. 3 at the back will give us some proterction. play Chesters and Scarles as wing backs like they do for the u21's. Fab Kehrer Mavropanos Cresswell Chesters JWP Fornals Scares Benrhama Cornet Mubama JWP won't have to be to deep and Fornals can play central rather than attempting to be shoe horned on the left. Cornet and Benrhama can move across the front interchanging with Mubama. Moyes won't be adventurous and will play several players out of position and play his old boys to for the hell of it.. Ogbonna can come on for Cresswell but we can't have both of them in the team. Backa Topola won against the top Serb team away 4-0 at the weekend.They have nothing to lose by going for it.

[daveyg]

think we need to attack this lot from the start. use some of the youth on the flanks. 3 at the back will give us some proterction. play Chesters and Scarles as wing backs like they do for the u21's. Fab Kehrer Mavropanos Cresswell Chesters JWP Fornals Scares Benrhama Cornet Mubama JWP won't have to be to deep and Fornals can play central rather than attempting to be shoe horned on the left. Cornet and Benrhama can move across the front interchanging with Mubama. Moyes won't be adventurous and will play several players out of position and play his old boys to for the hell of it.. Ogbonna can come on for Cresswell but we can't have both of them in the team. Backa Topola won against the top Serb team away 4-0 at the weekend.They have nothing to lose by going for it.

[twoleftfeet]

"What the fuck is wrong with you Sir Alf. On a site full of miserable, whining cunts you are at the top of the pile."

[charleyfarley]

my apoloigies Mike and Simon it is 17:45

[Manuel]

"Sir Alf 2:59 Mon Nov 27 ''Unlike in the conference cup last season I don’t think we will even get to the quarter finals in the knock out stages especially if the draw brings the inevitable match up with Liverpool which is usually the case'' You really are a serious fucking bore these days, the worst thing about posters like you is that you call it wrong so many times but without any kind of guilt whatsoever you rock up on the next match thread with your same, predictable, inane bile, how about giving it a rest?? We can't even draw an English side until the last 8, so at least get your fucking facts right? Wil we win this? No. But to say we can't get past the next stage with a load of mediocre sides left is an utter fucking nonsense."

[swindon hammer]

Man Utd & Newcastle could both drop into the Europa League so there may well be 5 Premiership teams in there after the group stages.

[Mex Martillo]

Thanks Charley

[Mike Oxsaw]

"The BBC say it's a 17:45 kick-off. Away game, so could well be true. Can Man U still drop down into this competition or is it now do or die for them in the CL?"

[simon.s]

18.45 over there.

[torino hammer]

I've see the kick off time listed at 17.45pm?

[simon.s]

Anyone know the meeting point in Belgrade for the coaches?

[BRANDED]

Fourth win on the trot and a fun chilly evening. Really looking forward to it.

[El Scorchio]

"Have to agree. There are a lot of decent teams in this, this year and we are playing nowhere near as well as this time two seasons ago when I think we’d have backed outselves to beat or at least give a hell of a game to anyone in the knockout stages. And of course we’ll draw Liverpool as soon as it’s possible to, assuming we get that far. It’s inevitable."

[Sir Alf]

"Unlike in the conference cup last season I don’t think we will even get to the quarter finals in the knock out stages especially if the draw brings the inevitable match up with Liverpool which is usually the case. But regardless we will be meeting better teams which arguably only happened in the final last season and cannot see us being able to get past them with no recognised forward and several players out of position and weaknesses in several positions. Nonetheless, I think we all want to go as far as possible just to keep the season interesting as these games are a bit different from the frustrating league games where Moyes continues to frustrate most fans. He’s here to the summer so anything that helps to pass the time is welcomed and cup competitions still give us something to look forward to."

[fraser]

"Even if Olympiacos beat Freiburg it will make no difference as we would still need a draw against Freiburg... Unless we swing our goal differences... But even then if Freiburg beat us by more than one, they will win the group."

[El Scorchio]

Probably be grim to watch unless we score very early on but we should have far too much for them. Win this then we just need a draw to top the group. Could do with olympiakos doing us a favour. Bit embarrassing looking at the table that 75% of their points thus far came off us.