Champions League 08-09

Here we go from the opening round of the Champions League 2008\09

Below you will find the first round and 2nd round draw for the Champions league qualification.

You are asked to predict who will win each tie.

Once you have done the first round, you must take in the 2nd round draw baring in mind who you have predicted would get into that round.

Then once you have done that, you are to predict who will win the 2nd round ties.

Once the 3rd round draw is made public.... you will be again asked to update your predictions.

Scoring System.
Teams who are seeded to play in the first round and win through 10points per round.

Teams who are seeded to play in the second round and win through 6points per round

Teams who are seeded to play in the third round and win through 2points.

All entrys MUST be in by the 14th of July as the thread will be locked there after.

Your entry should look like this for the 1st n 2nd rounds.

First qualifying round
Game Number
1 Linfield
2 Valetta
3 ect
4 ect
5 ect
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14

2nd qualifying round
Game Number
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14

First round



Second round

just bumping

When you talk about teams who are seeded, by seeded do you mean involved in the round, or is one team seeded in each game, say for example Linfield v Dynamo Zagreb with Zagreb being seeded?

Redcanuck wrote:

When you talk about teams who are seeded, by seeded do you mean involved in the round, or is one team seeded in each game, say for example Linfield v Dynamo Zagreb with Zagreb being seeded?

All the teams in the first round are seeded as 10 point teams if they win.....

If the winner of a first round match wins in the 2nd round as well.... thats another 10 points

But if a team thats seeded to come into the cl at the 2nd round such as Rangers.... and they win... they get 6pts

This is crap shoot. I have only heard of about a third of those teams in the first qualifying round. I am afraid I had to rely on the odds that the bookies where posting. Some of these teams are a hell of long shots. FC Santa Coloma is 1/9 at home to win the first game, how bad are they. We could probably pick at team from the website and give them a game. Little better in the 2nd qualifying round, at least I have heard of all the teams.

First qualifying round

Game Number
1 Dinamo Zagreb
2 Artmedia Bratislava
3 FC Dinamo Tbilisi
4 FBK Kaunas
5 IFK Gothenburg
6 Ventspils
7 Anorthosis Famagusta
8 Inter Baku
9 Tampere United
10 Domzale
11 KS Dinamo Tirana
12 FC Sheriff Tiraspol
13 Drogheda
14 BATE Borisov


2nd qualifying round

Game Number
1 Rangers
2 Brann Bergen
3 Partizan Belgrade
4 Artmedia Bratislava
5 Rapid Vienna
6 Dinamo Zagreb
7 Panathinakos
8 IFK Gothenburg
9 Sparta Prague
10 Dinamo Kiev
11 Anderlecht
12 Beitar Jerusalem FC
13 Fenerbache
14 Aalborg BK

Got absolutely no idea, very much a lucky dip...do some of these places actually exist? ...Dudelange?! Isn't that a slang term for part of the female anatomy?

First qualifying round
Game Number
1 Zagreb
2 Artmedia
3 Tbliisi
4 Santa Coloma
5 Goteburg
6 Ventspils
7 Famagusta
8 Rabotnicki
9 Tampere
10 Domzale
11 Tirana
12 Aktobe
13 Drogheda
14 Valur

2nd qualifying round
Game Number
1 Rangers
2 Brann
3 Partizan
4 Artmedia
5 Rapid
6 Zagreb
7 Panathinaikos
8 Basel
9 Prague
10 Dynamo Kyiv
11 Anderlecht
12 Jerusalem
13 Fenerbache
14 Aalborg

I agree it is a bit of a crap shoot, but I guess it will help pass the time.

Game Number
1 Dinamo Zagreb
2 Artmedia Bratislava
3 FC Dinamo Tbilisi
4 FBK Kaunas
5 IFK Gothenburg
6 Ventspils
7 Anorthosis Famagusta
8 Inter Baku
9 Buducnost Podgorica
10 Domzale
11 KS Dinamo Tirana
12 FC Sheriff Tiraspol
13 FC Levadia Tallinn
14 BATE Borisov

2nd qualifying round

Game Number
1 Rangers
2 Brann Bergen
3 Partizan Belgrade
4 Buducnost Podgorica
5 Rapid Vienna
6 Dinamo Zagreb
7 Panathinakos
8 IFK Gothenburg
9 Sparta Prague
10 Dinamo Kiev
11 Anderlecht
12 Wisla Krakow
13 Fenerbache
14 Aalborg BK

Round 1

1.Dinamo Zagreb
2.Bratislava
3.Dinamo Tbilisi
4.Kaunas
5.Goteborg
6.Vantspils
7.Famagusta
8.Rabotniki
9.Tampere
10.Domzale
11.Tirana
12.Aktobe
13.Drogheda
14.Valur

Round 2

1.Rangers
2.Brann
3.Partizan Belgrade
4.Valleta
5.Rapid Wien
6.Dinamo Zagreb
7.Panathanaikos
8.Basel
9.Sparta Prague
10.Dynamo Kiev
11.Anderlecht
12.Wisla Krakow
13.Fenerbahce
14.Aalborg

13 out of 14 that's pretty good. I think I stumbled on to a new betting strategy. Only bet on games where I know nothing about the teams involved and if I have never heard of the teams, even better.

You're not bottom TIck!!!

i like chocolate wrote:

You're not bottom TIck!!!

haha.... makes a change.... but its not over yet.

.....I know my place....I look up to them but I look down on...er well noone really !!!

1st leg results for the 2nd round of games...... Oops Rangers

Shocked by Rapid Vienna getting beat 3-0, but I guess you have to stop thinking in the past. A once famous big club playing a little Cyprus club, but I think we all messed up on that one.

As for Rangers, I listen to the second half on a radio link, and Rangers were all over them. 0-0 some times is not a bad result, if they capitalize on one of their chances in Lithuanian, than Kaunas has to score twice. Rangers are still in with a shout.

Standings

RED 196
TICK 176
CHOC 173
DICANIO 163

Here we go into round 3

This time as well as giving us the winners of each tie.... you will be allowed 3 jokers.

Those jokers will treble your points in the matches you play them in.

Please post your thoughts as u did in the previous round.

From top to bottom in the above list.... with the 3 Jokers.... next to the team u want.

IE

Olympiacos
Vitória Guimarães
Shakhtar Donetsk jOKER
Schalke 04 jOKER

ECT
ECT

Olympiakos
Basel
Shakhtar Donetsk
Schalke
Aalborg
Barcelona JOKER
Levski Sofia
Liverpool JOKER
Fenerbahce
Arsenal JOKER
Spartak Moscow
Juventus
Marseille
Fiorentina
Galatasaray
Sparta Prague

Olympiacos JOKER
Basel
Dinamo Zagreb
Schalke 04
Aalborg BK
Barcelona JOKER
Sofia
Liverpool
Fenerbache
Arsenal
Dynamo Kiev
Juventus JOKER
Marseille
Fiorentina
Galatasaray
Panathinaikos

Olympiakos JOKER
Vitória Guimarães
Shakhtar Donetsk
Atletico Madrid
Aalborg
Barcelona JOKER
Levski Sofia
Liverpool
Fenerbahce
Arsenal
Spartak Moscow
Juventus JOKER
Marseille
Fiorentina
Galatasaray
Panathinaikos

Olympiacos
Basel
Shakhtar Donetsk
Schalke 04
Aalborg Joker
Barcelona
Bate Joker
Liverpool
Fenerbahce Joker
Twente
Spartak
Juventus
Marseille
Fiorentina
Galatasaray
Panathinaikos

Well we know who are in todays pots and here is the results of our little swindle

Standings

TICK 280
RED 250
CHOC 227
DICANIO 215

Thanks to some clever play with the Jokers..... I have wormed my way to the top!!!!

Well done to all

Congratulations with the win Tick, you caught me off guard with the jokers, didn't really fully comprehend them until I saw your picks, by then it was too late and I knew I was in trouble.