FC Iberia 1999

Hearts against Nordlesjand.

STVV against Saburtalo.

Bran against Lincoln Red Imps.

Copenhagen versus Braga.

You just kind of know that the Spanish teams and stuff, it always can be, uh, pretty tricky.

And yeah, like I said, St. Truiden, they're playing FC Iberia 1999.

Um-

[laughs] Great name, great name

Champions League happening in Europe today.

Matchday two starts at quarter to 7:00, Lens against Sporting and Saburtalo against Slavia Prague.

Arsenal take on Lille at nine o'clock.

The Gunners are without Piero Hincapie and Martin Zubimendi.

They're actually using this window as a chance to catch up on some postponed matches.

So in Georgia, you've got the reigning champions, the Iberia, playing against the record champions, Dinamo Tbilisi, on the 4th of October.

So a pretty massive match there.

In Ukraine, you have Veres Rivne playing Kudrivka.

Yeah

... out to Iberia 1999.

Uh, but he's already, at 17 years of age, a Georgia international with a couple of caps to his name.

In fact, he's progressed and always been playing at a higher age group than, than, you know, whatever age he's been.

And it is, it's not dissimilar to what Adrian's been saying, but I'm gonna go a step further Uh, it, it's been dawning on me recently.

It dawned on me actually s- uh, sat at Old Trafford, um, as a fan last week in that Champions League game against Saburtalo, 4-0 victory.

I just couldn't get excited, uh, because I looked at the team and I thought, "This is still rubbish." You know, and Azerbaijan champions still a couple of times cut through our defense at will.

Um, there were still basic mistakes that were, there were being made.

They've destroyed the morale of the football club.

The fans hate INEOS and Ratcliffe as much as they despise the Glazers.

So how do you get back to competing for Premier League titles and the Champions League? We're gonna have to cherish that win over Saburtalo because we played a pub team.

We're, we're not, we're not gonna play anybody else as bad as that for the rest of the season, and I, I fear we're not gonna get out the Champions League, leagues phase.