FC Viktoria Plzeň

So I think that will help us.

And having a quick glance at Bournemouth's games, they've got Victoria, Pilsen, then they've got Arsenal away on the Sunday before they then have to come to Anfield, and they're going to have to prioritise, and then they've got home game against Coventry, you know, on the weekend, so I think, looking at the squad that they've got, I think that, yeah, they'll prioritise, you know, making sure that they're getting through in Europe, and they'll try and make sure that they can hold some sort of Premier League form, so I assume they'll make quite a lot of changes, so I think from this point, yeah, I I'm expecting Liverpool to at least get to Wembley because if we get Man City in the semis, OK, it'll be two legs.

That'll be very, very difficult.

And I think the winner will come out of Liverpool and Man City.

listened to

O'Neill after it and he was saying how we'll see when the league phase is done how many points we've got if we were good enough or not and the to me is worrying because obviously like O'Neill's not going to say oh look if we lose the next game I'll go but he clearly has no intention of stepping away from it and you're sitting with Victoria Pilsen and Arat Armenia and Marseille is your only teams that have got zero points it's pathetic and as I say this is a competition we've dropped into a lot of people see if we dig it through against Lask people would have probably said oh you know what we'll try and get a few wins in the Champions League and now you're sitting thinking are we going to get any points in the Europa League like five games to go don't get me wrong we're probably capable of winning all five games but we're much more likely to lose all five of them and that is terrifying because it is just an absolute indictment of where the club is and I don't know what you can do about it because trying to wind those shut you've got a fucking puppet of a CEO who does nothing there's no accountability for these failures at Celtic they're never going to sack Martin O'Neill you've got a transfer strategy it's all over the place you've got a youth set up that produces fuck all and so how would he do like as I say he's out the league cup and probably at Europa ready as well if he were a serious club you would just you'd be binning the transfer staff head of recruitment you'd be binning the coaching staff and the manager you'd

I say

the players we've got are probably going to be good enough to get through domestic games, but we're going to start building towards a sort of long-term European style of play and look for European progression because that's where we should be measured on.

Right.

They lost their last league game against Plzen.

Plzen?

Plzen.

Yeah.

Just, just, just for, um, context here, listeners, Jack hasn't got somebody in the attic.

By the way, in the recent days, we have heard about Hori having a contract extension on the table as well.

And we've also heard about a genuine interest from Viktoria Plzeň to get him back to the club, even matching his salary that he has at Slavia, because he has got a large salary, of course, high salary.

And apparently they even offered him a longer deal.

And this potential transfer to Plzeň was definitely something Hori would have to consider because of his future, right? But it doesn't make sense.

I'd let Spanish teams in it, to be honest.

I think you, you kind of need to commit a little bit to the bit and say, "This is, this is for, this is, this is for, like, Maribor and Celje and tho- and Viktoria Plzen." Like, that is, that's who this is, that tournament was meant to be for.

So Br- I think Brighton will probably win it and win it quite easily, to be honest.

So, so Rory is advocating a sort of European LDV Vans i- i- in that-

The league form hasn't been good, but this is a game they should win and, and should give them confidence then going into the weekend.

Ferencváros, Victoria Plzeň.

Ferencváros beat Celtic.

Uh, Victoria, Victoria Plzeň, they got hammered by Union.

Uh, I'm gonna pick a Ferencváros win.

Dinamo Zagreb against Anderlecht.

Torres and Dembélé in good form, Erling Haaland will arguably represent the biggest threat, though the visitors have their own in-form attackers ready and willing to do battle.

Former Barcelona ace, Ferran Torres, became the first player to score a hat-trick on his Champions League debut for a new club since Robert Lewandowski did so for Barca against Victoria Pilsen in September 2022.

Alongside the World Cup winner, Ousmane Dembélé continues to impress, and the Frenchman recently became just the third PSG player to score two-plus goals and provide two-plus assists in a UCL match, 6-1 win versus Slovan Bratislava.

Only Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe have achieved a similar feat.

It is Florian Wiegel.

He's 25 years old, playing for Victoria Pilsen in Czech Republic since 2024.

He was loaned to Grazer in Austria and has played for several clubs in Austria.

Actually, smaller name clubs, probably the first club he was with as a youth club, Sturm Graz, who he was with for 12 years, is probably the biggest name among them, and he played for Sturm Graz's B team for two years before moving on to smaller clubs there.