Hibs Europa League draw reaction as David Gray's men handed tricky assignment

Edinburgh Evening News

Our Hibs correspondent, John Greechan, reacts to Hibs' Europa League second qualifying round draw.

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00:00well that could have been worse

00:03maybe not in a football sense

00:05Michelin are

00:08clearly the toughest team that Hibs could have drawn

00:11in today's Europa League

00:14second qualifying round draw

00:17European veterans who've played in the Champions League

00:21against Liverpool, Ajax, Atalanta

00:24missed out on the Danish league title by a point last season

00:28and they are renowned as being kind of

00:34at the forefront of the data revolution

00:36that swept football that Hibs are now hoping to take

00:38full advantage of with Garvin Stewart in the building at East Mainz

00:42so yeah they are a tough footballing prospect

00:45in terms of practicalities

00:48Hibs have won a watch not having to go to

00:51Tirispol in the

00:53semi-autonomous self-declared independent region of Transnistria

00:58right on the border of Ukraine

01:00where the latest foreign office advice is

01:04don't go there

01:05it's as simple as that

01:06in black and white

01:07on the foreign office help pages

01:09it could have been better

01:11you could have got a

01:12you know

01:13a more easy team

01:15you maybe hope for one of the

01:16the unseeded teams in the first round

01:18to come through and knock somebody out

01:19but Denmark easy to get to for fans

01:22you know the cheapest place

01:24it's not bowling club prices

01:26for the pints of beer over there

01:29or the litres of Carlsberg or whatever it is

01:32but yeah a tough draw

01:35if you're going to get into the Europa League

01:38into the later qualifying rounds

01:40you know it should be tough

01:41it's a difficult competition

01:44Hibs themselves and Scottish teams in general

01:46don't have a great record

01:47so you're always going to be unseeded

01:49coefficient points aren't there

01:52they have to do things the hard way

01:54and if they lose

01:57you don't want to jump ahead that far

01:58but if they lose

01:59they drop into the

02:01conference league third qualifying round

02:02which

02:02probably most people would say

02:05represents a better challenge

02:07for Scottish clubs

02:07the conference league is

02:08it's where our teams belong maybe

02:12I don't know if that's defeatist or not

02:14but anyway so

02:15July 24th

02:17in Denmark

02:18and then the 31st

02:20back at Easter Road

02:21they'll just be hoping

02:23that it's alive

02:24for that home game

02:25big European night

02:26full house

02:27bring the noise

02:29sunshine on Leith at full time

02:31simple

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