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SC Braga – scouting report

This week sees the visit of Braga to St Andrews, and as my knowledge of Portuguese football isn’t that great I thought I’d take a look at how our opponents got on this weekend, with a view to seeing where their strengths and weaknesses are.

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Off To Partizan – the NK Maribor Preview

On September 29th, Birmingham City travel to their first away fixture of the Group Stage of the Europa League. With this in mind, I’ve put this article together to help people who want to travel and to give a little more information on our opponents.

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NK Maribor Day Trip

From reading the various messageboards, it seems obvious that the most difficult game for Blues fans to get to is NK Maribor, on the 29th September. With flights to Graz, Vienna and even Zagreb being snapped up, it’s getting increasingly harder to get to the Slovene club and for many, the price is prohibitive.

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Europa League Travel Partners

Often Partisan is pleased to announce it’s recommended travel partner for European trips away – Sutton Travel.

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Off to Partizan – The Europa League Group Stage Draw

After last night’s magnificent win over CD Nacional of Portugal, I’m guessing most blues fans who were able were watching or listening to the Europa League draw in Monaco today. As you may well know, Blues have drawn SC Braga of Portugal, Club Brugge of Belgium and NK Maribor of Slovenia as their opponents in the Group stages of the Europa League.

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Blues 3 v Nacional 0

My reflections on the second leg of the Europa League Playoff Round tie against CD Nacional.

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Match Preview: Europa League v Nacional

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Today sees the return leg of the Europa League Playoff Round tie against CD Nacional of Madeira. After the first leg finished in goal-less stalemate, Blues know that they have a good chance against a team that doesn’t travel well – but they also know that they cannot afford to concede an early away goal.

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Ticket to Ride? The problems with Europa ticketing…

When the official BCFC twitter feed announced this afternoon that there were 200 tickets on general sale for the away leg of the UEFA Europa League playoff round tie against CD Nacional, I was surprised. When we pulled Nacional out of the hat, it was almost immediately confirmed Blues would be lucky to get more than 250 tickets for the match as Nacional’s ground holds barely 5,500 fans. Having cogitated about it tonight, I’m not so surprised.

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Off to Partizan – Draw Day

Today is the day of the Europa League draw, and whilst Blues will be seeded so will Partizan Belgrade – so we won’t be “Off to Partizan” just yet! The complete list of unseeded teams, complete with the country they are in is thus:

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Off to Partizan IX

It’s now just nine days until the playoff round draw for the Europa League, and despite all the crap that has gone on this summer, Blues will be in the hat. The Europa league third qualifying round ties take place this Thursday and next Thursday; and there are fifteen Champions League 3rd qualifying round ties also taking place this week and next. As the losers of the Champions League ties will drop into our draw, I thought I’d take a look through last night’s results and see who could be in with us.

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