Thursday Night Lights: The 2014/15 Europa League thread

Once I saw Alcatraz was playing for Everton and Howard was in goal then the result was inevitable. No English teams involved in Euro QF's for the first time in 20 years!

watching wolfsburg on delay, another assist by kevin de bruyne.

Bendtner seals it

Napoli, Wolfsburg, Kiev, Zenit, Brugges, Fiorentina, Sevilla, Ajax/Dnipro

Do Ajax fans always sing that one bob marley song?

Not singing anymore.

so the russian and ukrainian teams aren't allowed to play each other. hardly a free draw then.

blimey lfc representation here as well!

(xp) good way of increasing the likelihood of a Russian v. Ukrainian final.... in Warsaw too!!!!

sevilla - zenit (andre - unai)
dnipro - brugge
kiev - fiorentina
wolfsburg - napoli

looking frwd to that last one.

Sevilla with the perfect away performance so far, early goal and chances on the break.

Howler from Beto, Rondon taps in. Game on. So awful from the keeper.

Beto so shook that Hulk decides to shoot from about 35 yards away on the right touchline, off the bar and in. Outrageous.

Zenit rampant right now. Hulk blasts away from distance, Beto tips over.

Sevilla break, Gameiro strikes. 2nd away goal, Zenit need 2 in 5 mins.

Sevilla through, that was a terrific 2nd half.

Dnipro
Fiorentina
Napoli
Sevilla

napoli vs dnipro
sevilla vs fiorentina

hoping for a napoli - sevilla final tbh.

I think that would be the most likely outcome.

Dniepro goal yesterday was pretty sweet.

rain

Yes! Nikola Kalinic!

Aug 28, 2008 - It was Croatian football coach Slaven Bilić who dubbed the young striker, Nikola Kalinić, "the future of Croatian Football".

kalinic is rightly going to obtain the patronage of a hoy hoy as THE NEXT ZLATAN sometime next season after a backheel thru the legs of kieran gibbs, followed by a £16m january move to juventus and a bidone d'oro

― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 11:16 (5 years ago)

The Pole scores!

krychowiak is very impressive, an epl style destroyer with some technique in addition to brute force

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWqP9gZ1UPs

Wonderful free kick.

terrific game this. seville's second so sweet.

itv bros seemed to neglect to mention the quality of the throughball which was even better than the exquisite run and finish

very fond of formerly hyped prospects who do nothing for most of their twenties before a reflorescence in their 30s like reyes and quaresma

been impressed with the variety of seville's corners. btw guardian's interview with emery this morning was a p good read.

shit guardian football liveblog emailers would make a niche thread but

“What started as a great day for humanity has turned into a great afternoon for soccerball here in the USofA,” hollers Art Dubano.

nice pass, assured finish

blimey dnipro player just keeled over with no other player around him

clashed heads a couple of mins earlier, hopefully nothing more serious than concussion

good stuff, glad seville won.

Sampdoria made a massive fuss about qualifying for the Europa League this season, having risked disqualification over a betting scandal, and have just managed to lose 4-0 at home to FK Vojvodina in the preliminary round.

poor old samp (a great-grandfather i never met was a Genoese samp fan so i have some affection for them). i remember very clearly five years ago when they were on the cusp of qualifying for the champions league and threw it away http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/08/25/sampdoria-3-2-werder-bremen-aet-pazzini-puts-sampdoria-in-charge-but-subs-prove-crucial/

odd night for dortmund

Richard Whiteley RIP

hello darkness my old friend

^ sad like :-(

Celtic website spinning brilliantly like it's all one big tournament.

Get behind the Bhoys as the European campaign continues

ha!

the draw for the groups is 12pm GMT tomorrow. Not sure when the fixtures are announced. I know when the dates will be played, and know that if I'm lucky and Celtic play at home on the match day that falls on Thursday September 17th I will be able to go to two home matches at Celtic Park when I'm home to visit for a fortnight. Ha, fingers-crossed to be able to attend a Europa League Group game, what has become of me...

but, you know, nothing like a Thursday night tie against a team half the punters haven't heard of with the top-tier of the stadium closed is there?

Well I assume all the punters have heard of all the teams, at least. 17th September is an away game though.

I'm out of the country when Fenerbahce come to town.

aye im gubbed. no Europa league action for me.

Fenerbahce should be interesting. Hopefully Deila plays Mulgrew at left-back again, he'll have Nani in his pocket no bother.

And Dear Dedryck will have RVP running scared.

That's an interpretation for sure. I'm glad I'll be watching it in a bar where beer is a euro. I may not come back home.

Some potentially good matches on:

Fiorentina / Basel
Ajax / Celtic
Dortmund / Krasnodar
Anderlecht / Monaco
Dnipro / Lazio
Sporting / Lokomotiv

If Spurs are going to get out of the group i think they have to win tonight but i'm not sure it's going to happen.

Rodgers' attitude towards the Europa League is infuriating and should actually be grounds for dismissal imo.

Wtf is this formation? 3 at the back again with emre can back on defensive duty.Gomez a cb by trade I believe but generally playing lb so far for lfc now playing in midfield??

Ah actually Gomez one of the 3 CBS and can in midfield that makes more sense. Outrage retracted. Still Rodgers out anyway.

great advert for English football

tbf there was only one English footballer on the pitch

not was is. I hate Chelsea with a passion but Arsenal falling flat on their faces is never not funny.

And he just gave a penalty away

That was sweet from iwobi though

Beautiful beautiful

Nice goal. I love Hazard, so happy he's leaving this odious club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaRApYrjWhI

I've had like the hardest week. Emery out.

Good hustle from Ozil there

Can't they cancel this final now, it should never have happened in the first place ;-)

Just so fucked off, can't we nationalise this fucking club already.

which club?