This is the big surprise on Thursday evening: the Vikingeur Reykjavik won 3-0 during the reception of Brondby, in the third qualifying round of the league conference. The Icelandic training is well left to face Strasbourg in play -offs. She is led by Gylfi Sigurdsson, 35, probably the best player in the history of her country (ahead of Eidur Gudjohnsen). The attacking midfielder shone for a decade in the Premier League with Swansea, Tottenham and Everton.
The RCSA will carefully follow the return round, next Thursday, to know if the team led by Liam Rosenior will fly well for Iceland or rather for Copenhagen (Brondby is west of the Danish capital), for its return match of the conference dams on August 28. The Alsatians will first receive at La Meinau on August 21, as decided by the draw.
In the event of qualification for the third European competition, Racing will then play six games on behalf of the first phase (and not eight as in the Champions League and in the Europa League). During the draw on August 29, the 36 clubs will be distributed in six hats and will therefore inherit an opponent from each pot. X account Football meets data Updated its projection of the hats of the draw after Thursday's results.
Fiorentina and Crystal Palace for Strasbourg?
Strasbourg can really come across very heavy. Among the heads of standard, we find La Fiorentina, Alkmaar, the PAOK, the Slovan Bratislava, the Legia Warsaw. It is by discovering hats 2 and 3 that Strasbourg supporters can worry. Crystal Palace is in the second with Anderlecht and Dynamo kyiv. Note that Eagles are still waiting to know if they can be reinstated in the Europa League. Nottingham Forest would then go back to conference (and with the same UEFA coefficient).
In Pot 3, we find the representatives of Liga and Bundesliga, namely Rayo Vallecano and Mainz, but also Besiktas. And in hat 4 where Strasbourg is, Santa Clara, fifth of the last Portuguese liga, is the team to avoid. Several clubs would give very distant trips: the Rigas FS (Latvia), Breidablik (Iceland), Kups Kuopio (Finland) and FC Noah (Armenia).
