Intertoto Cup Third Round Preview

by Lonnie on July 16, 2008 · 0 comments

intertotocup sml Intertoto Cup Third Round PreviewSome of the more well-known clubs jump into the fray in this final round of com­pe­ti­tion includ­ing 2007 Bun­desliga cham­pi­ons VfB Stuttgart, Aston Villa (for­mer Euro­pean Cup and 2001 Inter­toto Cup Win­ners) and Nor­we­gian club Rosen­borg. Win­ners of this round enter UEFA Cup sec­ond qual­i­fy­ing round. The ulti­mate win­ner of the Inter­toto Cup is the club from the sur­viv­ing 11 who advances the fur­thest in the UEFA Cup.

My pre­dic­tions of who will advance are high­lighted. I’m pick­ing what might be con­sid­ered an upset by choos­ing Russ­ian club Sat­urn over Stuttgart but the Russ­ian league is in mid-season and Sat­urn crushed their oppo­nents in the last round 8–1 on aggre­gate so they are in fine form going into this fix­ture. The same logic was applied to select Rosen­borg advanc­ing over NAC Breda.

Here are the com­plete fix­tures, the first leg takes place over July 19th and 20th with the sec­ond leg being held on July 26th and 27th.

Bnei Sakhnin FC (Israel) v RC Deportivo La Coruña (Spain)
Pan­io­n­ios GSS (Greece) v SSC Napoli (Italy)
Sivass­por (Turkey) v SC Braga (Por­tu­gal)
Grasshopper-Club (Switzer­land) v PFC Cher­nomorets Bur­gas (Bul­garia)
FC Sat­urn Moskovskaya Oblast (Rus­sia) v VfB Stuttgart (Ger­many)
PFC Neftçi (Azer­bi­jan) v SC Vaslui (Roma­nia)
Stade Ren­nais FC (France) v SC Tavriya Sim­fer­opol (Ukraine)
SK Sturm Graz (Aus­tria) v Budapest Hon­véd FC (Hun­gary)
NAC Breda (Nether­lands) v Rosen­borg BK (Nor­way)
Odense BK (Den­mark) v Aston Villa FC (Eng­land)
IF Elfs­borg (Swe­den) v FK R?ga (Latvia)

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