EL 1st qualifying round 2017-18, Jun.29.

[mspm89]

Somebody has a stream for Valur?

[mspm89]

It's weird. I see available streams for Icelandic league matches all the time. Only the LRI - AEK (for which there ARE streams right now) match to compete for audience as well.

[Michael S Collins]

Balkan teams are the worst penalty takers in the world. Croats, Bosnians, Serbs, you name it, they'll lose it.

Tells you something about our mental strength.

If we had mental strength we'd be more successful than Germans. And I mean it.

National teams for sure - hard to think of two sides with more pound for pound talent across the board and sod all success like the Croatian and Serbia national teams.

[SteffenM]

Balkan teams are the worst penalty takers in the world. Croats, Bosnians, Serbs, you name it, they'll lose it.

Tells you something about our mental strength.

If we had mental strength we'd be more successful than Germans. And I mean it.

You know what fpptball is about right?

"Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win
- Gary Lineker

[zwezwe]

AEK Larnaca look very poor.
Destroying the chance of 100% coef points for Cyprus

[Michael S Collins]

Valur score.

[Firnen]

Valur goal !!!

AEK wake up, that's points thrown out of the window...

Edit: and that's 1-1 for AEK. Come on, another one...

[SirHenri]

#144 to Larnaca.

And Ventspils needs to score with ten men at Valur. No easy task.

[zwezwe]

1-1 Lincoln - AEK , penalty goal

[Firnen]

Red card for the Latvians.

[Lorric]

Balkan teams are the worst penalty takers in the world. Croats, Bosnians, Serbs, you name it, they'll lose it.

Tells you something about our mental strength.

If we had mental strength we'd be more successful than Germans. And I mean it.

Do you mean as the whole of the Balkans vs Germans? I can at least entertain that idea but I can't imagine it at a national team level. I also don't think England would be better than them even though we'd improve considerably. With the German mental toughness married to the "English fighting spirit" I think we'd push them hard and enjoy success but they'd edge it overall. They have more Germans than we have English and their grassroots is better.

[Onlyone]

So it finished at 144 goals, or 277 in both legs, averaging 2,77 per match.
Also, 14/50 unseeded teams progressed, or 28%.

[AlanK]

Well, not too shabby See you all back here next week

[SteffenM]

So it finished at 144 goals, or 277 in both legs, averaging 2,77 per match.
Also, 14/50 unseeded teams progressed, or 28%.

Haham, was my next question, but you beat me to it

Progrès Niederkorn is btw. the lowest ranked team left.
10th lowest seeded in EL Q1

Less sure about the highest ranked team out, Rangers?

On a serious note, it is
Vojvodina Novi Sad (Srb)
7th highest seeded in EL Q1

[Lurker]

So Lithuania (Trakai) Bosnia (Zeljeznicar) & Turkey (Galatasaray) now awaits the Swedish teams in the next round.
Let's see if we can keep the clean sheets intact. (I doubt it )