Your UEFA Cup Bracket

By: Ian Rose | March 14th, 2008

Well, the draw is complete, and in true March Madness style, here’s your UEFA Cup bracket for the quarterfinals, semifinals and final. Enjoy.

Category: UEFA Cup

Tags: Bracket, Quarterfinal, Semifinal, Final, UEFA Cup, Tag Index

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• Chris |  March 14th, 2008 at 6:50 am

  
  
  

  Make my final PSV and Bayern. While I am unabashedly a Bundesliga fan, I am happy to see that Bayern and Leverkusen won’t meet in the final. I think that would have turned a lot of people off.

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• diana |  March 14th, 2008 at 7:03 am

  
  
  

  Chris, I was watching the draw through the UEFA website and my immediate reaction was a possibility of an all-German semi-final. What do you think?

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• diana |  March 14th, 2008 at 7:06 am

  
  
  

  Regarding a PSV-Bayern final…sounds exciting for me.

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• Jan |  March 14th, 2008 at 7:26 am

  
  
  

  Bayern potentially have the easy route to the final. Getafe might try and bank on the fact, that they play the second leg at home, but I still think Bayern will be too strong for them. Petersburg and Leverkusen would be underdogs in the semi-final against them as well. PSV or Fiorentina would then make a great final.

  The Petersburg - Leverkusen match looks pretty open. I thought that Marseille were clear favourites against Petersburg. I thought Villareal were favourites against Peterburg. I thought that Galatasaray wouldn’t go down so easily against Leverkusen. I thought that Hamburg were favourites against Leverkusen. So, I won’t predict this one.

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• Ian |  March 14th, 2008 at 7:44 am

  
  
  

  Bayern-Fiorentina is the best final for my money, and that’s still possible. Bayern-PSV might also be good. I agree that Bayern had a pretty good draw - avoided Fiorentina until the final, though Getafe might have a chance of upsetting them if they can keep them from running away with the opening leg in Munich. Zenit gets the second leg at home again, and we saw what they did with it against Marseille … in truth, nobody wants to travel to Russia for an away leg. My prediction would still be a Bayern-Fiorentina final.

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• Chris |  March 14th, 2008 at 8:07 am

  
  
  

  It kills me that all of the people who are commenting on this post are regulars for the Bundesliga blogs.

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• Mike |  March 14th, 2008 at 10:45 am

  
  
  

  Gimme a Bayern Munich-Sporting final; could be ugly, but I like teams getting hot at the right time, and to me, that’s Sporting. Bayern, meanwhile, is destined to win the whole thing.
  http://startingeleven.blogspot.com/2008/03/uefa-cup-draw-quarterfinals-ready.html

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• john |  March 14th, 2008 at 11:30 am

  
  
  

  UUUUgggghhh. The one thing that I wanted NOT to happen was for Getafe to draw Bayern. Double Ugh. This will truely be a test of whether they deserve the title “giant killers.”

  But yeah, my money continues to ride on a Bayern-Fiorentina final, like Ian. When the last sixteen were drawn I predicted it would be Bayern v. either Fiorentina or Tottenham. I actually think that Rangers Fiorentina would be an interesting match, and I don’t find it particularly unlikely. Rangers have proved they know exactly how much it takes to get the job done, and that they can manage exactly that much.

  Still, I’ll sign off with… Vamos Azulones!!!

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• Ian |  March 14th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

  
  
  

  John - that’s the problem with Rangers. They do not an inch more than what’s required, which always ends up biting you in the end. Good teams take advantage of bad days for their opponents, and run up the scoreline to put ties away. Rangers just aren’t good at that, and truth be told, they’re a little lucky to be here. Still, Ibrox is one of those places no one wants to go if they can avoid it, so we’ll see.

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• john |  March 14th, 2008 at 2:43 pm

  
  
  

  No doubt, you’re right Ian. And it can be maddening how little faith the Rangers have in their own squad, opting to immediatly close down the offense when they’ve gained a lead. They’re very good, however, at holding on to leads, and while their strategy will eventually fail them (I predict), I don’t know that Sporting will be the club to find them out.

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• john |  March 14th, 2008 at 2:44 pm

  
  
  

  And Ian - thanks for keeping track of Uefa Cup. As neglected as it is, I find it a very exciting competition!

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• Sam |  March 18th, 2008 at 9:09 pm

  
  
  

  Don’t write off Rangers just yet… They’ve been remarkable so far.

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