Thursday Night Lights: The 2014/15 Europa League thread

Think It's kind of a pity that he's not gone absolutely full-tilt at this tbh, good experience for the champs league next year.

Lovely treat having these two games one after the other tonight

Champions League next year not assured yet though so that has to be first priority.

Fucking hammer shot from Mkhitaryan. Far be it from me to cast aspersions on the relative merits of Tom Carroll and Josh Onomah but we're getting fucking twatted here.

Ugh Robbie Savage. Shame no Gundogan. Weigl has been great this season.

Nice shot by Derek.

Sweet.

I'll be disappointed if it turns out there's no fan song for him to the tune of MIA's Galang

Lol.

I guess we should be happy Aubameyang isn't playing for Arsenal, which in a former era he definitely would be.

Robbie Savage's belligerent insistence that Eric Dier is all that would be required to stem the tide is more annoying than the goal.

Blimey p high there

Reus free kick p wide and p high - Savage "good technique"

Lol he really is obsessed with Dier

The amount of space...

Loathe to admit it for all sorts of reasons but robbie savage basically otm that if poch wanted to rest his best players he'd have been better off doing it against villa, could send the youth team out and come away with 3 points on Saturday.

Imagine how much of a clown he'd look if they somehow lost that though.

Loving Thomas Tuchel's 1995 eurorave puffa jacket by the way. I hope he was blasting out Technohead's I Want To Be A Hippy to get the team all amped up before the game.

When tuchel was at Mainz saw one game where he'd obviously decided the dugout was too far from the pitch cos he was sat in an actual deckchair in the technical area.

Should have been two

Pen surely???

Just seen the Utd team. Fellaini starts which guarantees a shit game but also that Utd will score from a corner.

That was beautiful

Wow

idg poch's plan am I not supposed to watch this game

sounds like I shd go and find a clip of that third goal huh

Yeh it was a nice one - Aubamayang 1st touch, the final ball and the finish all beautiful. Premier league so weird and shit quality this season, it's a shame that the only English team in European competition who have been impressive just gave up right at the moment they came to play someone good.

poch is a cunt for this

welp not quite goal of the season as Clive Allen claimed but p undeniable aye

Hummels has been so smooth tonight.

#freeshinji

tbh spurs could win the prem this season, if they do so it will be the biggest thing in forever for the team and everyone will remember it for a long, long time.

if they were to win the Europa league this season - obviously they won't now - in about ten years people would be like "didn't spurs win the Europa league once?"

Ah idgaf about the uefa if it shores up CL qualification this season.

But I would like our second string to be better than this.

But idk Dortmund a p good template for how we could have possession and also be actually effective so yknow learn from it I guess.

A good template in the same way Barcelona were a good template for Arsenal

who is going to play the pointless and soul-crushing second leg

Yeah but in arsenes first full season

on the sidelines poch smirks. if this don't convince facking levy to cough up for scott parker nothing will

I'm just annoyed with Spurs cos this match was supposed to be the rich delicious crab lasagne with champagne velouté before the fridge cold ginsters of five past eight

I feel bad about mocking Reus's hair for so long now that he's decided to turn himself into Alex Turner.

Do me a favour

Still, another 4-7 games in this competition would have killed us, this is what you get for designing such a stupid, onerous, interminable tournament. Ditch the group stage and the second leg and teams might actually compete properly.

Teams do compete properly. Just not English ones.

The only thing I'd change would be CL drop outs being involved.

Other European leagues have less stupid onerous domestic campaigns though.

God this is gonna be a shit foulfest isn' t it?

is the seemingly team-wide adoption of the stutter-step PK going to be balo's lasting legacy?

Incredible first half for de gea. fellaini absolutely useless in a match like this though, everything is just going around him the whole time

Fucking de gea, gonna regret these missed chances when hendo is sent off.

Bah should be 4-0. John Aldridge used to do the shimmy step peno back in the 90s tbf

He almost had that pen stopped too

I mean I love lil Phil but FFS stick it in with your left foot!!

fellaini absolutely useless in a match like this though, everything is just going around him the whole time

redundant second clause tbf

Carrick's coming on anyway. We desperately need to go 433 but van Gaal has seemingly abandoned it forever

looool 352

what a fucking chancer

When teams who've done next to fuck all in Europe for years decide to throw European games I just want the rest of their season to go to shit.