I don't like Belgrade too much. It is too 'grey' for my liking. Novi Sad is a lot, lot better and generally speaking friendlier as it is a student city with 50-60k young people walking around town constantly. Loved to live there really

Zenit losing 0-4 to Minsk, while Feyenoord is also down 0-4 to Trencin.

Sturm Graz vs. Larnaca is suspended because someone threw a beer cup at the linesman.

What is a trencin

Dont know but it just ran over Feyenoord without slowing down at all

There's an expression in German to refer to Bohemian villages when you don't know wtf it is which kinda fits here imo. Apparently Greek to English speakers.

Some ramblings about Kukesi-Torpedo match being fixed. Some local bookies suspended betting on overs. No sign of this in the international market - no big money moves as far as I can tell (maybe our wizard can confirm)

BUT it is an albanian team and they are pretty much notorious for matchfixing, might be worth a few quid

I mean, the first leg already ended 5-2...

yea, but their home games are usually low scoring. that said 1-0 to Kukesi

lol Legia, already down 0-2 to DÜDELINGEN

Zenit game is kind of good.

Kukesi 2-0. Just one more

Besiktas down 2-0 to Linz, need a goal to stay in it.

Suduva grind out a 0-0 against Jurmala and will now face Celtic in the play-offs.

Zenit really delivering the drama

7-1!

Besiktas with the late goal as well

Amazing scenes

all we need is a Legia goal for some late drama there

Holy **** 8

lol Negredo scored the Besiktas goal and got a second yellow for taking of his shirt

Was Negredo's celebration beating up the keeper? he got sent off

there we go. Legia 2-2. 2-3 would be epic

Düdelingen GOAT. lol Polish football

I'm watching Feyenoord now. They decided to shoot 20 and score only 1. SHould be fun if they can find 1-2 more

Stevie G is moving on! Not a bad 2-leg result against a team who was in the CL group stages last season

Steaua also with a 93rd minute goal to stay alive and knock out Hajduk Split, damn.

8-1 after extra time.

How is such a result even possible?

And down a man for a lot of those goals? What the hell?

3rd round of qualifying - Round up:

Game of the round:
Zenit - Dinamo Minsk 8-5 agg.: After the 0-4 in the first leg, Zenit came back to knock out Minsk despite being a man down and needing two goals for extra time in the 72nd minute. Thanks to Dzyuba, they got the two goals, but after the 99th minute goal by Minsk, they had to get two more. And they did! And then did it once more, with Minsk falling apart in the final minutes of extra time. Final score 8-1! Zenit through to the play-offs, where they will face Molde from Norway.

Other notable results:

Sturm Graz - AEK Larnaca 0-7 agg.: LOL Graz, after the 0-2 home loss they got smashed 0-5 in Cyprus.

LASK Linz - Besiktas 2-2 (Besiktas on away goals): Linz had Besiktas on the ropes, but a late Negredo goal sends Besiktas through to a play-off tie against Partizan Belgrade. That's gonna be... fireworks.

F91 Dudelange (a.k.a. DÜDELINGEN) - Legia Warsaw 4-3 agg.: Legia Warsaw once again showed the best of Polish football and drops out to Luxembourg's champions. Six years after knocking out Salzburg in CL qualifying, Dudelange now has the chance in another EL playoff, this time against CFR Cluj. With Jagiellonia and Lech Poznan also dropping out, there are no Polish clubs left.

Feyenoord - Trencin 1-5 agg.: Unfortunately for the Dutch, their comeback fell quite a bit short compared to Zenit. A promising start with an 8th minute opener was quickly followed by the equaliser in the 10th minute. Feyenoord couldn't find the 5 goals they needed. Trencin will now play AEK Larnaca for a place in Pot 4 of the EL Group Stage draw.

Playoff ties:
o/u 2.5 suspensions in the two matches between Partizan and Besiktas?



And here are the pots assuming the higher ranked team wins the EL playoff and the lower ranked team loses the CL playoff:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45216364

burnley!

Just got in from another late night, we're making hard work of these qualifiers! Still unbeaten in Europe though.

Special mention for Joe Hart who was excellent tonight.