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Thursday, 15 August, 2002, 16:17 GMT 17:17 UK

Bangor lay Uefa plans

Bangor City v FK Sartid at the Racecourse Ground, kick-off 1930 BST, Thursday 15 August.

Bangor manager Peter Davenport has called for his team to rise to the challenge of playing poweful Yugoslavian side FK Sartid in the Uefa Cup first qualifying round.

Sartid finished third in their national league last season, behind giants Partizan Belgrade and Crveda Zvezda (formerly Red Star Belgrade), and knocked out Dundee in last season's Intertoto Cup.


" Sartid will be better prepared than us "
Bangor manager Peter Davenport

Bangor, meanwhile, have lost striker Marc Lloyd-Williams - last season's top scorer in the League of Wales and runner-up in Europe's Golden Shoe table of goal scorers - to Nationwide Conference side Southport.

Davenport is also concerned that because of the League of Wales season structure they have not yet had any competitive matches, while Sartid's season is already underway.

"Ideally I would have liked the match a month into the season," Davenport said.

"They will be better prepared than us but I think we're in pretty good shape.

"We've tried to replace Marc - he's a diificult man to follow - but Paul Roberts, who played up front with Marc last season, has looked very, very sharp.

"This could be the season when he blossoms."

Bangor will play at Wrexham's larger Racecourse Ground for the first leg before heading for the return in Yugoslavia in two weeks' time

"If we can keep it tight over here then we have a chance in the second leg, but from the looks of things they're top quality," Davenport added.

"They've got international players in their ranks and they are no mugs."


Uefa Cup: first qualifying round (matches to be played on 15 August and 29 August:
Group 1:
Liteks Lovetch v FK Atlantas
FC Encamp v Zenit St Petersburg
FK Atyrau v Matador Puchov
Glentoran v Wisla Krakow
Group 2
FK Pobeda v FC Midtjyiland
NK Primorje v Zvartnots
FK Ventspils v Lugano
Hapoel Tel-Aviv v Partisani Tirana
Group 3
Apollon Limassol v Ferencvaros
Hajduk Split v GI Gota
SK Brann v FK Suduva
Amica Wronki v T.N.S.
Group 4
FC Copenhagen v Lokomotiv Tbilisi
FK Metalurgs v FC Karnten
FC Vaduz v Livingston
Silema Wanderers v Polonia Warsaw
Group 5
Anorthosis Famagusta v CS Grevenmacher
FC Levadia Talinn v Maccabi Tel-Aviv
Leixoes v FK Belasica
Stabaek v Linfield
Group 6
Olomouc v FK Sarajevo
Zimbru Chisinau v IFK
Ujpesti v KI Klaksvik
MyPa v Odense BK
Group 7
Dinamo Minsk v CSKA Sofia
TVMK Talinn v Dinamo Tbilisi
Servette v Spartak Yerevan
Djurgardens IF v Shamrock
Group 8
Varteks v Dundalk
Gomel v HJK Helsinki
FC Nistru Otaci v Aberdeen
IBV Vestmannaeyja v AIK Solna
Group 9
Rapid Bucuresti v HIT Gorica
Domagnano v Zizkov
Kairat Almaty v Crvena Zvezda
Metalurg Zaporizhzhya v Birkirkara
Group 10
Bangor City v FK Sartid
FK VTJ KOBA Senec v Siroki Brijeg
SK Tirana v National Bucuresti
Beggen v Ipswich
Fylkir v Excelsior Mouscron


Related to this story:
Lloyd-Williams quits Bangor (16 Jul 02 | League of Wales) Euro results trigger calls for change (25 Jul 02 | League of Wales) Barry bow out with defeat (24 Jul 02 | League of Wales) Dragons face Latvian trip (21 Jun 02 | League of Wales) Dundee go down to Sartid (23 Jun 01 | Europe)


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