Champions League Second qualifying round (17/18 and 24/25 July) F91 Dudelange (LUX)/SP Tre Penne (SMR) v FC Salzburg And it looks like it will be Dudelange with a 7-0 lead after the home leg. Europa League Second qualifying round (19/26 July) VMFD Žalgiris (LTU) v VfB Admira Wacker Mödling FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk (BLR) v SV Ried Third qualifying round (12/9 August) - Draw on 13.30CET, 20/07/12 Rapid Wein
Good Start by the road teams: Žalgiris 1-1 Admira Radavičius 72 Hosiner 12 Shakhtyor1-1 Ried Osipenko 44 Hadzic 70 (P)
Champions League Third Round DRAW: The ties will be played on 31 July/1 August and 7/8 August. The losing sides will go onto the UEFA Europa League play-offs while the winners will compete for a place in the UEFA Champions League group stage. Champions Route NK Maribor (SVN)/FK Željezničar (BIH) v F91 Dudelange (LUX)/FC Salzburg (AUT) If they can come back against Dudelange, Salzburg will face Maribor or Željezničar
UEFA Europa League third qualifying round DRAW: Matches will be played on 2 and 9 August with the winners progressing to the play-off draw on 10 August. FK Vojvodina (SRB)/FK Sūduva (LTU) v SK Rapid Wien (AUT)FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk (BLR)/SV Ried (AUT) v SK Liepājas Metalurgs (LVA)/Legia Warszawa (POL)VMFD Žalgiris (LTU)/VfB Admira Wacker Mödling (AUT) v AC Sparta Praha (CZE)
If Salzburg go out to Dudelange that would be really embarassing. They will have a tough match if they make it though. Maribor seems quite good.
And Embarrassing it is! Salzburg 4-3 Dudelange Aggregate: 4-4 Dudelange win on away goals Let me just say I hate the new editting capability of bigsoccer!!!
Good FINISH by the home teams: Admira 5 - 1 ŽalgirisAdmira advances 6-2 on aggregate. Ried 0 - 0 ShakhtyorRied advances on away goals.
Updated UEFA Europa League third qualifying round DRAW: Matches will be played on 2 and 9 August with the winners progressing to the play-off draw on 10 August. FK Vojvodina (SRB) v SK Rapid Wien (AUT)SV Ried (AUT) v Legia Warszawa (POL)VfB Admira Wacker Mödling (AUT) v AC Sparta Praha (CZE)
Thankfully Modling and Ried made it through. So disapointed in Salzburg. They don't even get a parachute into EL qualifying. Really bad for the coefficient. I don't like Salzburg...for the obvious reasons, but I was hoping they could represent the league well in Europe this year. Too bad. We really need 2 teams to make EL group stage. Rapid has best chance and easiest draw this round. Both Ried and Modling will be underdogs, but I'm hopeful one of them can scrape through.
First leg results:FK Vojvodina (SRB) 2 - 1 SK Rapid Wien (AUT)SV Ried (AUT) 2 - 1 Legia Warszawa (POL)VfB Admira Wacker Mödling (AUT) 0 - 2 AC Sparta Praha (CZE) Ried and Rapid are still in it. Admira's chances are slim.
Second leg results:SK Rapid Wien (AUT) 2 - 0 FK Vojvodina (SRB) Legia Warszawa (POL) 3 - 1 SV Ried (AUT)AC Sparta Praha (CZE) 2 - 2 VfB Admira Wacker Mödling (AUT) Rapid scored two goals in stoppage time to advance. Ried came up a goal short, and Admira couldn't overcome the loss at home. So Rapid's the only Austrian team left in Europe.
Seems the PAOK - Rapid Wien match got out of hand. UEFA slapped both clubs with serious penalties: http://www.uefa.com/uefa/footballfirst/matchorganisation/disciplinary/news/newsid=1851424.html
Nothing but tough groups in the Group Phase for the Pot 4 teams. Rapid finds: Group K Leverkusen(GER)Metalist(UKR)Rosenborg(NOR)Rapid Wien Matchday 1 : 20 September 2012Matchday 2 : 4 October 2012Matchday 3 : 25 October 2012Matchday 4 : 8 November 2012Matchday 5 : 22 November 2012Matchday 6 : 6 December 2012(AUT)
20 September SK Rapid Wien - BK Rosenborg Bayer 04 Leverkusen - FC Metalist Kharkiv 4 October Metalist - Rapid Wien Rosenborg - Leverkusen 25 October Rosenborg - Metalist Kharkiv Rapid Wien - Leverkusen 8 November Metalist - Rosenborg Leverkusen - Rapid Wien 22 November Rosenborg - Rapid Wien Metalist - Leverkusen 6 December Rapid Wien - Metalist Leverkusen - Rosenborg
Rapid at the bottom of the group after one home loss! 20 September 2012 Rapid Wien 1-2 Rosenborg Katzer 66 Elyounoussi 19 Dorsin 60 Leverkusen 0-0 Metalist
25 October Rapid Wien 0 - 4 Bayer Leverkusen Rosenborg 1 - 2 Metalist Kharkiv After three rounds, including two home matches, still no points for Rapid. I know 32 out of 48 teams make it to the next round, but that's looking like a very tall order at this point.
Of those 32, eight are the third place teams from the CL groups. Only two from each Europa group advance.
Well, since Bayer Leverkusen and Metalist Kharkiv are both sitting on seven points, I see no chance for Rapid.