Last 32, including Trabzonspor

Last 32, including Trabzonspor

Last 32 teams to make it this far in the 'UEFA Europa League Cup' has been decided.  

The matchup, which I will look forward to watching is the one between Juventus of Turin, Italy and Trabzonspor of Trabzon, Turkey. 

The final of the 'UEFA Cup' will be played on May 14, 2014 in Juventus Stadium, therefore Juventus will be very motivated to make it to the finals, and eliminate the Turkish side.  

Trabzonspor, on the other hand, will be 'focused' since the team just replaced their head coach of Mustafa R Akcay with assistant coach Hami Mandirali, who will want to prove himself to management, for a longterm contract.  

This will be a very good head-to-head matchup, to be played on the following dates of:

February 20, 2014 &

February 27, 2014. 

The winner of this match-up, will face the winner of: 

Esbjerg of Denmark versus Fiorentina of Italy for the 'Round of 16'.  

I am hoping for an exciting game and may the better team make it to the last 16 of this difficult competition. 

Thank you. 

Snow In Turk Telekom Stadium

Snow In Turk Telekom Stadium

If you are following this blog, I wrote about the stressful 6th, and last game of 'group B' of the Champions League; the title of the blog is simply 'Galatasaray vs Juventus in December 2013'.  

The game was played on Tuesday, December 10, but only for 31 minutes.  Why? you ask, since a soccer/football game is played for a total of 90 minutes.  

Due to snow, and hail falling onto the pitch, the game was 'called off' and after speculations of 'will the game be played' at all.  It was decided by the governing body of Europe, UEFA, that the game will be played the next day, for the remaining 59 minutes, that was today, December 11, 2013. 

Here are a few pictures of the game, while/when it was being 'called off'. 

Thank you. 

Group B of UEFA Champions League

Group B of this seasons UEFA Champions League

Group B of this seasons UEFA Champions League, looks like this, after 4 games have been played.  

Clubs.            G.     W.      T.       L.   P. 

Real Madrid    4.     3.      1.       0. 14.     

Galatasaray    4.     1.      1.       2.   4.   

Kobenhavn     4.     1.      1.       2.   4.  

Juventus         4.     0.      3.       1.   3. 

I am a 'Gala' supporter, and my second favorite team is 'Real'.  I do believe that Real Madrid has guaranteed to make it to the 'Last 16' of the competition, congratulations to that organization. 

          Galatasaray FC

However, the second place spot, and the qualifier for that coveted 'Last 16' is still up-for-grabs.  The remainder games in this group are:

27 November 2013

Real Madrid 20.45 Galatasaray

Stadium: Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid

27 November 2013

Juventus 20.45 Kobenhavn

Stadium: Juventus Stadium, Turin

10 December 2013

Galatasaray 20.45 Juventus

Stadium: Ali Sami Yen Spor Kompleksi, Istanbul (TUR)

10 December 2013

Kobenhavn 20.45 Real Madrid

Stadium: Kobenhavn 

For Galatasaray to make it to the 'Last 16', they will need to finish ahead of Juventus and Kobenhavn, therefore they will need to 'hopefully' not loose at Madrid, a tie would be a good result.  The last game will be against Juventus, and I do believe the winner of this game, will make it to the 'Last 16", which is the next round of the Champions League.  

          Real Madrid FC

I am sorry to say that, I do not give Kobenhavn has any chance of making it to the next round, therefore the last game against 'Gala' and 'Juve' will be a 'do or die' game.   The winner, surely will finish second in the group and proceed to the next round, and the looser will finish in third place.  

My prediction for 'Gala's' next two games are:

Real Madrid 0 - 0 Galatasaray

Galatasaray 1 - 0 Juventus

What is your prediction?

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