Ferencvaros
Ferencvaros won the Hungarian title last season.
Their place in this competition is down to their defeat in the Champions League qualifiers against Young Boys of Switzerland, after they had knocked out Slavia Prague, who beat the mob across the city last year.
They should not be underestimated, and I suspect they won’t be considering that they beat us last season and started the incredible downward slide of this team.
They’ve played two games in the league this season, both at home, and they’ve won one and lost one. They didn’t do much significant transfer business, their league not exactly being cash-rich.
They have a strong and settled squad.
Their best players, and top scorers, remain Tokmac Nguen (who got the critical second against us at Parkhead) and Myrto Uzuni. Their significant addition this season was attacker Željko Gavri? from Red Star Belgrade.
They don’t pose as big a threat as the other two sides, and they don’t have the sexy names, but they are a big aggressive side who will give us problems if we let them.
But I thought we should have beat them last season and we should be very confident of doing it here.
Away tickets will be next to impossible to get.
They play their home games in the Ferencvaros Stadium, otherwise known as the Groupama Aréna.
It holds just 22,000 fans.
Well I guess there is certainly something in what you say James. We could have had a wee bit of an easier task, like the rankers group, but you know what it is a sexy group and it will be challenging, probably what we need if we want to develop still further.
Could we do worse than Scotland did in the EURO group against strong opposition, probably not and look at the praise they got even renewed a failing manager’s contract this week to some applause.
Will we get the same accolade as them from the press/media even if we do better in our group than they did of course not. Considering our starting point this season, well done again to Ange and the team to get us to this stage. Do we need the backing or support from the Scottish pressers. Absolutely not. Who wants to associate with that bunch of bigots. Our future is bright in green and white. We’re on our side now. HH