Europa League draw friday 12.30

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

The draw will be at 1.30pm CET, thats 12.30pm British time.

The draw is streamed live on UEFAs site.

http://video.uefa.com/video/Competitions/UefaCup/Season=2011/liveDraw_videoFlash.html

Being totally positive from the outset, here is what we will be competing for in Dublin on 18th May 2011.

[JUAN PABLO]

Bring it on......

[Chipsticks]

I want to play Celtic.

we would've last season if we'd only beaten Rapid Fucking Vienna.

[eric woolban woolban]

Final in Dublin.

What an incentive.

[Dante Lavelli]

I'd like to think we can do well this season.  The competition may even move up our priority list if we have a bad start to the season.

Either way, I would take the knock out round seriously as I think the kids need the opportunity to play in the group games, especially any games were the result is less important.

Bring it on.

[cdbearsfan]

Could do with a home first leg... we have a long trip to Newcastle after the first game.

TNS please.

[tremzvillain]

Motherwell would be good.

[cdbearsfan]

Do the extra officials come into effect straight away or is that only in the Group Stage?

[JUAN PABLO]

I do get excited still about Villa being in european football,  I love looking at those grand names we might end up playing downVP and the teams I have never heard of ..

Im just hoping certain people feel the same....

[Irish villain]

Final in Dublin.

What an incentive.

It'd be almost too perfect for me!

Looking forward to the draw. It's the one thing that is giving something (villa related) to really look forward to!

[Ad@m]

Is there any kind of seeding in this round?  There are loads of teams I don't fancy playing at this stage - Juve, Liverpool, Citeh, any Spanish, German, French or Russian team, etc.

TNS would be perfect!!

[saunders_heroes]

Didn't realise the final is in Dublin. What an incentive. Is it at the new Lansdowne Road stadium?

[cdbearsfan]

We face one of the following (if the seeding on Wiki is correct)...

Unseeded Teams

 Anorthosis (Cyprus)
 Aris Thessaloniki (Greece)
 Brøndby (Denmark)
 Grasshopper (Switzerland)
 Rapid Wien (Austria)
 Timişoara (Romania)
 APOEL (Cyprus)
 PAOK (Greece)
 Vaslui (Romania)
 Lech Poznań (Poland)
 Trabzonspor (Turkey)
 Sibir Novosibirsk (Russia)
 Genk (Belgium)
 Tavriya Simferopol (Ukraine)
 Karpaty Lviv (Ukraine)
 Marítimo (Portugal)
 IF Elfsborg (Sweden)
 Utrecht (Netherlands)
 Sturm Graz (Austria)
 Gent (Belgium)
 Motherwell (Scotland)
 Lausanne-Sport (Switzerland)
 Debrecen (Hungary)
 Dundee United (Scotland)
 Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia)
 Omonia (Cyprus)
 AIK (Sweden)
 Maccabi Tel Aviv (Palestine)
 HNK Hajduk Split (Croatia)
 Maribor (Slovenia)
 Dinamo Minsk (Belarus)
 Qarabağ (Azerbaijan)
 HJK Helsinki (Finland)
 Aktobe (Kazakhstan)
 Dnepr Mogilev (Belarus)
 Győri ETO (Hungary)
 The New Saints (Wales... play in England)

[Ad@m]

Is there any kind of seeding in this round?  There are loads of teams I don't fancy playing at this stage - Juve, Liverpool, Citeh, any Spanish, German, French or Russian team, etc.

TNS would be perfect!!

I've stopped being lazy and looked it up.  Turns out we're seeded and there aren't too many unseeded teams I fear (or have heard or for that matter)!

[Ad@m]

 Sibir Novosibirsk
 Tavriya Simferopol

I feel sorry for the stadium announcer if we draw either of them!