Rijeka draw the winners of The New Saints from Wales or Europa FC from Gibraltar (first round tie) with the first leg being in Rijeka, easy tie

Osijek's potential 1st round opponents: Zeta Golubovci (MNE), Tre Penne (SME), UE Santa Coloma (AND), Floriana (MLT), St. Joseph's (GIB)...all beatable but pretty clear the Montenegrins will be the toughest

Hajduk won't know their potential opponents until the first round is completed

 

Rijeka draw the winners of The New Saints from Wales or Europa FC from Gibraltar (first round tie) with the first leg being in Rijeka, easy tie

The side from Gibraltar won the first leg in Wales 2:1, somewhat surprising (only their second win in Euro competition), but regardless neither should trouble Rijeka too much

 

Osijek draw Andorran side UE Santa Coloma, first leg in Andorra. Lokomotiva played them last season and won both legs pretty easily

 

Rijeka with a complete gift of a draw.

Looking at some of our neighbors and their draws, you have a couple of former Jugo matchups:

Zrinjski v. Maribor
Partizan v. Buducnost

If Rijeka progress, how does that work with the league route vs champions route? Would Rijeka only play a seeded team from the Champions route?

 

If Rijeka progress, how does that work with the league route vs champions route? Would Rijeka only play a seeded team from the Champions route?

They can only play teams from the Champions route, as they are domestic champions. However, they are unseeded in the next round and playoff round should they make it that far. The best draw for an unseeded team in the next round is probably somebody like BATE or Maribor

Hajduk once again got a tricky tie in the 2nd round, they will play the winners of Levski Sofia/Sutjeska Niksic, first leg at home second leg away. However in the past few years Levski haven't done that well in Europe, losing to the likes of Maribor and FK Sarajevo, but ideally you would have liked a 'smaller' team. Maybe too many (myself included) aren't giving Sutjeska much of a chance, but they are very much in the tie as well, which would be a 'spectacle'...Hajduk in Montenegro :lala:

Osijek will play FC Luzern of Switzerland in the 2nd round, hard draw

 

Maribor is a steep task for a small club like ours, but if we can play like we did against Wisla, especially away, we can surprise them!

Either way, great draws for our clubs :thumbsup:

 

I think you meant Legia not Wisla old buddy...


I honestly think Zrinjski can take Maribor, even with the loss of 2 key players in Tomic and Mesanovic...Ajmo Plemici!!!

 

Osijek had some difficulties but managed a 2:0 away in Andorra with some late goals, hard for them regardless of opposition with these games coming so early, main thing is that they won

 

by bad grba, I meant Warsaw :shades:

 

And Široki with a nice win too HS...:wink2:

 

Easy victory for Osijek who will go on to face Luzern in the next round, first leg at home

Hajduk learn their opponent, Levski Sofia, first leg in Dugopolje

Rijeka will face TNS, Welsh champions who overturned their first leg loss against Europa FC in extra time

 

HS, can you give us an update on the UEFA co-efficient points to start the season as well as the nations that surround us? hvala

 

Will do once more teams get involved, still early and some of the nations ahead of Croatia haven't started their Euro campaign yet

 

Rijeka beat TNS 2:0, a game they fully dominated and should have won by more, they should progress and win in Wales too. I'll start the coefficient update after Hajduk/Osijek play on Thursday

 

Osijek and Hajduk with nice wins without conceding.

 

Two home wins today and more importantly two clean sheets. Hajduk beat Levski 1:0 in a scrappy game full of fouls and little football. The tie is still in the air but the away leg will be behind closed stands and I would say after today Hajduk are better than Levski

Osijek with an impressive 2:0 victory over Swiss side Luzern, didn’t watch the match but according to reports fully deserved win. Osijek in good shape to progress to the next round now

RIJEKA
TNS: 1.0

DINAMO ZAGREB
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HAJDUK SPLIT
Levski Sofia: 1.0

OSIJEK
Santa Coloma: 2.0
Luzern: 1.0

5.0/4 = 1.250

12. Czech Republic 24.875
13. Switzerland 24.500
14. Austria 23.850
15. Greece 23.700
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16. Denmark 22.700
17. CROATIA 22.125

Despite the change in CL/EL format starting next season, 15th place still brings 2 CL clubs + an extra club in the EL. However the cutoff for an automatic Champions League spot for the Champions is now 10th place (in the ‘Platini format’ it was 13th). A new league to keep an eye on is Denmark, who are surging up the rankings (they were 24th only two years ago). Austria could be in danger of losing two clubs already, both their teams failed to win at home and conceded away goals.

The draw for the CL/EL Third Qualifying round is tomorrow; Rijeka in the Champions League are unseeded. Dinamo will find out their first opponents and they are seeded as well as Hajduk should they progress. Even if Osijek eliminate Luzern, Osijek will still be unseeded in the next round.

 

Rijeka draw Red Bull Salzburg in the next round of the CL, first leg in Austria. Tough draw but not unbeatable, however there were easier draws possible (APOEL was probably the best option in Rijeka's group). They did avoid Olympiakos however

 

The EL groupings were released and here are potential opponents for Dinamo, Hajduk, Osijek (the latter two if they progress of course)

DINAMO: Olimpik Donetsk (UKR), Progress Niederkorn/AEL Limassol (0-1), Kairat Almaty/Skenderbeu (1-1), Dinamo Bucharest (ROU), Vaduz-Odd (0-1), Arka Gdynia (POL)

*Not the easiest pairings, the Norwegian side is probably the best bet while Arka won the Polish Cup but were relegation candidates in the league. Kairat would be a terrible draw for many reasons but they have a tough result from the 1st leg against Dinamo's old opponents Skenderbeu

HAJDUK: CSU Craiova (ROU), Nomme Kalju-Videoton (0-3), Inter Baku/Fola Esch (1-0), Valletta/Utrecht (0-0), Paninios/Gorica (2-0), Brondby/VPS (2-0)

* Brondby is probably the team to avoid, the rest aren't scary but no pushovers either

OSIJEK: PSV Eindhoven (NED), Fenerbahce (TUR), Krasnodar (RUS), Shkendija/HJK Helsinki (3-1), Panathinaikos (GRE)

*The bingo would be Shkendija/HJK, both beatable and the Macedonians have the edge, Panathinaikos also wouldn't be the worst. However I think they have no shot at the first three

 

Tough draws for Hajduk and Osijek, Hajduk if they progress draw Brondby while Osijek potentially get PSV Eindhoven

Dinamo get the easiest pairing they can hope for in Norwegian side Odd

 

focigod says

Hajduk to win another trophy (EL 2018)

 

In our wet dreams szovkap!:grin2:


Even if we get by Levski we're done next round. Broendby look a solid team from the highlights I saw against that Finnish club...Will watch match against Midtjylland today to see if they're the real deal...Osijek surely done next round, and Rijeka 50/50 against Red Bull...Dinamo are through imho.

 

Rijeka through to play RB Salzburg, 4-1 at 71 minutes in Wales

 

Omg how have Hajduk not scored yet lol. Futacs, what the heck was he doing on that play.

 

Tomi Juric scored against Osijek, Luzern still trail on aggregate though.

 

Hajduk 1-0 down. Can't believe how.

 

Ohandza scores on 81

1-1

 

Ohandza kills the tie but this should have NEVER been this close