FK Borac Banja Luka

Never heard of them.

Uh, Borac Banja Luka.

We were gonna play them, so I'm not gonna say too much about that.

So yeah, there's, there's, there's, there's teams there that get into, uh, they, that we are bigger than.

Nordgeland at home, Trabs on Spore away, Thun away, Monaco at home.

Borac at home and Pafos away.

And it looked a little bit tricky to me.

But yeah, seeing as, you know, every man and his dog wanted to be on them to win the SPL at sort of 20s, 25s last season, to get 150s in the sort of the lesser European competition might be of interest.

The only positive I can think of with this draw is the timing of it.

The fact that Borac is up first, then I think it's either Keirat or the Bulgarian side, CSKA Sofia, and then it's the Danes away.

So you get those four games out of the way until the last two, Freiburg away and Brighton at home.

Borat, as we were saying, familiar foe.

That's at home though.

FK Borac at home.

And then we've got Payfos away as well.

so your thoughts on that draw john i'll come to you first

Again, I'm not taking

into account any Cup games and so forth because inevitably as you get closer into December when we, of course, get into the League Cup final, we'll need to take that into account as well.

Then you've got FK Borac, Motherwell and Payfos.

So, looking through the teams again, where, if anywhere, well, what are the games you're looking forward to most of all then? Adam, we'll come to you first.

They are also a team I look, I, I would tip very strongly to be there at the end.

Borac Banja Luka are there.

Braga of Portugal, I expect big, big things from them in this competition this season.

Brugge are also there.

Miloš Jojić, the Serbian attacking midfielder who played for Riga for a few seasons in 2023, I think, 2024.

He played for Borussia Dortmund before, so he plays for Borac Banja Luka, so it will be interesting.

Not homecoming from him as he will not head to Skonto, but in meeting the guys, because there are still plenty of Riga guys who he played with.

Kajrat, yeah, Kajrat is Champions League side last season, but they're not the same.

Kaunas Zalgiris will face two top five teams in Freiburg and Brighton Hall, Balbion.

They also have Swiss side Lugano, Norwegian side Bran, Riga FC, as we mentioned, and Egnatia from Albania, while Riga FC will host Atalanta.

play away game against Paphos, they also have away game against Bosnian side Borac Banja Luka, home game against Karata Almaty, away game against Kaunja Žalgiris and at home they will host Jablonec from Czechia who beat RFS in the third qualifying occasion round of the europa conference so yeah the first match day is on 15th october so less than two months and the second one is on 22 22nd of october it goes for three months okay so now the prediction time let's go the best thing the prediction time uh what you the the i seven with seven points there is space in the top 24 with eight points it's almost for 95 guaranteed that you have made the top 24 with nine points it 100 guaranteed so what uh after seeing the draw what's what kind of points do you get for county george

Well, it's a very hard question, to be honest.

But that could have been a lot worse as well, like Atlanta and things like that.

And Borac as well.

And again, I am no Bosnian football expert, so I'm going to be asking you about the different teams.

But Borac in pot three, there's a lot harder ones in there.

At the same time, pot four, there was a real mix of teams in Trabzonspor.

They just signed Mohamed Salah.

rapid, but look where that left them.

We're moving on to pot three.