UEFA Cup: Draw will be on Tuesday
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UEFA hand Spurs seeding boost
Tottenham may be bottom of the Premier League but they find themselves among the top-rated teams for Tuesday's UEFA Cup group stage draw.
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Spurs are in Pot 1 alongside six-times European champions AC Milan, 2006 and 2007 UEFA Cup winners Sevilla, 2004 winners Valencia and 2005 champions CSKA Moscow.
Portuguese giants Benfica, German side Schalke - UEFA Cup winners in 1997 - and Hamburg round off the top pool.
Manchester City are in Pot 3 alongside Rosenborg, Udinese, Feyenoord, Braga, Slavia Prague, Galatasaray and Sampdoria, while Portsmouth and Aston Villa are in the fourth pot with Hertha Berlin, Partizan Belgrade, Nancy, Racing Santander, FC Copenhagen and Dinamo Zagreb.
Standard Liege, who dropped into the UEFA Cup after losing to Liverpool in the Champions League qualifiers, are in the fifth pot despite knocking Everton out of the competition in the first round last week.
UEFA have stated that teams from the same country will not be drawn together into the same group.
There will be eight groups of five teams, with each team playing two home games and two away games. The top three teams from each group progress to the knockout stage, where they are joined by the eight teams finishing third in the Champions League group phase to make up the last 32.
Matches will be played on October 23, November 6, November 27, December 3 and 4, and December 17 and 18.
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auntwallop (Portsmouth fan)
"What time is the draw?"
drewclements (Aston Villa fan)
"The seedings were decided according to the team¿s UEFA Coefficient rankings. This coefficient is determined by the results of the clubs of the leagues in UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League games over the past five seasons.
To be honest, if Villa are to win they need to beat the bigger teams, if any team really believes they can break into the CL they have to face teams generally better than these top seeds!!"
2suave (Tottenham Hotspur fan)
"villa_84 i agree with you even tho i am a spurs fan. it tells us that the football world is going crazy and stupid ike the banks in the world these days. lets all stop watching EPL and not let these overratyed players suck our savings out while they go clubbing and get laid with the beautiful women and all cos we all paid for it!"
aadrien (Portsmouth fan)
"the seedings are based on a coefficient on performance in all competitions over the previous 5 years. Winning cup competitions and league place finishes all have different points attributed and they are all added up. Spurs have won a cup and have some 5th place finishes. That adds up to more of those points than the rest of us."
Wompy14 (Tottenham Hotspur fan)
"It might have something to do with us being in it last season oh and the season before that where we reached the quarter finals. No disrespect to Villa fans but...sour grapes much? "
ps124 (Tottenham Hotspur fan)
"Sorry Villa fans, even with Spurs being bottom of the table, we are widely regarded as a bigger club then you across Europe. Bad season? Agreed, but overall, Spurs still have bags of potential. "
violentk (Newcastle United fan)
"regarding the uefa group stage draw. Its a boost to not only spurs but every team minus the pot 1.tottenham in pot 1 will only make the rest of the unseeded club happy. they cant wait to be in its group"
villa_84 (Aston Villa fan)
"No disrespect to Spurs and Man City at all, but how on earth are Villa down in pot 4? We finished ahead of both teams last season, and we're ahead of them in the league so far this season. How are Spurs in pot 1?"
tonydaley (Aston Villa fan)
"So basically, the more foreign players an English team has in their line-up, the higher the seed. Villa finished 6th to get into Europe, Spurs won the Carling Cup and City went through via fair play. Does this count for nothing? It's an absolute joke. "
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