Europa League Draw

[Scatman]

piece of cake

dub-er-lin, dub-er-lin, we are coming....

[King Kev]

Not the worst ground we have played at! (it holds 32K)

[Mark (Blue Army)]

Well we should get past them

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Timi%C5%9Foara

I dare anyone tell anything about even one of their players.

[coMs]

Here is their ground ....looks shit hot!!

[Manx Blue]

Fucking last one!

FC Timisoara v City

Who the fuck are they?

Dunno... Wasn't Timisoara the place where a load of attrocities took place under the caucescu regime?

[OliverHardy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timi%C5%9Foara

[Scatman]

Not the worst ground we have played at! (it holds 32K)

the pitch is round

[Socrates]

Here is their ground ....looks shit hot!!

wouldn't it have been better to put the car park outside the stadium?

[CityDub]

[cdncityfan]

It will be interesting to see how good FC Timisoara actually are. The Romanian contingent in the past few years have been actually quite good, particularly CFR Cluj and Unirea Urziceni in the Champions League. We should win comfortably given the quality of our squad, but this competition is notorious for massive upsets.
On FC Timisoara:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Timi%C5%9Foara
(Their official site is only in Romanian, so it has not be posted.)

[hyper]

They're twinned with Nottingham, not that that's remotely of interest.

[CityGer]

Good draw. Couldn't have asked for a better one.

Just a shame spurs gut such a favorable draw, I really wanted them to get dicked in the qualifyer.

[brite blu sky]

they beat Shakhtar Donetsk then holders of the uefa cup.

so a bit of respect needed methinks

[hyper]

Just a shame spurs gut such a favorable draw, I really wanted them to get dicked in the qualifyer.

Absolutely, I'd saved a few gloating emails & texts from Spuds fans and was looking forward to replying when they didn't qualifying - you never know though, don't underestimate the young boys.

[Dameerto]

They've got a couple of new Serbian central defenders for the start of this season - by the looks of it - one of which is under six feet tall - I thought that was physically impossible for Serbians?

[Dameerto]

They've got a striker with the name "Mansour" - I'm reasonably certain he's no relation to our Sheikh though.

[Beefymcfc]

They finished 5th last season and have drawn both their games this season, sitting in 8th.

[tchumatu]

FC Timisoara won 2-1 in the first away leg against some team from Finland (MyPA I think), and in yesterday's game they were 3 goals down at half time on their own ground. They managed to score the 3-3 goal somewhere around the 90th minute.

As I said before, they're crap. The romanian championship started about 2 weeks ago, Timisoara managed two 2-2 draws against really weak opponents (both home and away). Their only threat will be the atmosphere in the stadium.

Shit GK (though he's a tall shit GK), shit defence, mediocre midfield (Alexa and Bourceanu are two solid and aggressive defensive midfielders), shit forwards (the pace of Goga and the skill of Zicu might be worth to keep o close eye on).

For me it's the best draw we could've had, really looking forward to seeing City after so much time, even though I'll have to travel some 800km by car (and this can be such an adventure in Romania)

[Beeks]

FC Timisoara won 2-1 in the first away leg against some team from Finland (MyPA I think), and in yesterday's game they were 3 goals down at half time on their own ground. They managed to score the 3-3 goal somewhere around the 90th minute.

As I said before, they're crap. The romanian championship started about 2 weeks ago, Timisoara managed two 2-2 draws against really weak opponents (both home and away). They're only threat will be the atmosphere in the stadium.

Shit GK (though he's a tall shit GK), shit defence, mediocre midfield (Alexa and Bourceanu are two solid and aggressive defensive midfielders), shit forwards (the pace of Goga and the skill of Zicu might be worth to keep o close eye on).

For me it's the best draw we could've had, really looking forward to seeing City after so much time, even though I'll have to travel some 800km by car (and this can be such an adventure in Romania)

Nice one for the report!