CONFIRMED!
Europa League draw (champions path). Seeded teams (5) will draw an unseeded (11). These are drawn first, leaving 3 all-unseeded ties.
So 5 seeded have 11 options. 11 unseeded could draw anyone.
SEEDED
Dinamo Zagreb
Young Boys
Red Star Belgrade
Qarabag
Dynamo Brest
Europa League draw (champions path)
UNSEEDED
Celtic or Riga/Tre Fiori
Ludogorets Razgrad
Legia Warsaw or Drita
Sheriff Tiraspol or Dundalk
Cluj or Djurgardens
Suduva or KuPS
Sarajevo or Buducnost Podgorica
Dinamo Tbilisi or Ki
Celje or Ararat-Armenia
Flora or Floriana
Tirana
What this means for the unseeded teams, such as Celtic, is the chances of drawing a seeded team are pretty much 50/50. And there is a fair spread of strength in the draw.
The non-champions path (Spurs, Rangers, Aberdeen etc) is still awaiting a few ties to complete.
We're waiting on this game for the main path.
It's 6-6 in extra time and, remarkably, Backa Topola have:
- Gone 3-2 up with 10 men
- Levelled at 4-4 in injury time with 10 men
- Twice equalised in extra time with NINE men.
UEL (main path)
SEEDS
Spurs / Shkendija
Basel / Anorthosis
Besiktas / Rio Ave
Sporting / Aberdeen
Copenhagen / Piast Gliwice
PSV / Mura
Wolfsburg / Desna
Plzen / SonderjyskE
APOEL / Zrinjski
Galatasaray / Hajduk Split
Malmo / Lokomotiva
Partizan / Charleroi
Standard / Vojvodina
UNSEEDED
FCSB / Liberec
Granada / Locomotive Tbilisi
Milan / BodoGlimt
AEK / St Gallen
Rangers or Willem II
LASK / Dunajska Streda
Beer-Sheva / Motherwell
Rosenborg / Alanyaspor
Apollon / Lech
Rostov / Maccabi Haifa
Reims / Fehervar
Rijeka / Kolos Kovalivka
CSKA Sofia / Torshavn
This section of the draw is very simple. 13 ties, with 13 seeded teams drawn against one of the 13 unseeded teams.
The big elephant in the room here? AC Milan are unseeded.....
The Europa League playoff draw is at midday on Friday, btw.
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