Decision time

The exciting Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro may be over on a world level, but next week another sporting event will draw us attention with its qualifying conclusion in Europe. Over three days it is time to find out which clubs will go in the group stages and which will say good bye until next season in both European cup competitions. For the following clubs 90 more minutes are ahead of them while some can acquire the right to play additional time or even penalties. Will it be luck or pure knowledge to enter into next month's group stages we will find out from Tuesday until Thursday. 

In the Champions league a fair distribution of the clubs will be conducted over two days. Five winners each from Tuesday and Wednesday will have the right to entertain us until December. All ten games are starting from 20.45 CET:

Tuesday, 23 August: Roma - Porto.
Tuesday, 23 August: Hapoel Beer Sheva - Celtic.
Tuesday, 23 August: Legia - Dundalk.
Tuesday, 23 August: Monaco - Villarreal.
Tuesday, 23 August: Viktoria Plzen - Ludogorets Razgrad.

Wednesday, 24 August: APOEL Nicosia - FC Copenhagen.
Wednesday, 24 August: Rostov - Ajax.
Wednesday, 24 August: Manchester City - Steaua.
Wednesday, 24 August: Borussia Moenchengladbach - Young Boys.
Wednesday, 24 August: Red Bull Salzburg - Dinamo Zagreb.

All Europa league matches second leg from the play off round will be played on the last Thursday of the month. This will be the last time that games are beginning before 19.00 CET because from the group stages two well known time slots will be applied.

Thursday, 25 August at 18.30 CET: Qarabag - IFK Goteborg.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Brondby - Panathinaikos.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Grasshoppers - Fenerbahce.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Slovan Liberec - AEK Larnaca.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Rosenborg - Austria Vienna.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.30 CET: Partizani - Krasnodar.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.00 CET: AZ Alkmaar - Vojvodina.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.00 CET: Anderlecht - Slavia Prague.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.00 CET: BATE Borisov - Astana.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.00 CET: Genk - Lokomotiva Zagreb.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.00 CET: Osmanlispor - Midtjylland.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.00 CET: PAOK - Dinamo Tbilisi.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.00 CET: Skendija - Gent.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.00 CET: Sparta Prague - SonderjyskE.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.15 CET: Maribor - Qabala.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.30 CET: Crvena Zvezda - Sassuolo.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.30 CET: Hajduk - Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.45 CET: Olympiacos - Arouca.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.45 CET: St. Etienne - Beitar Jerusalem.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.45 CET: West Ham - Astra.
Thursday, 25 August at 21.00 CET: Shakhtar Donetsk - Basaksehir.
Thursday, 25 August at 21.05 CET: Rapid Vienna - Trencin.