Thursday Night Lights: The 2014/15 Europa League thread

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.

Boring this, innit?

a match involving lvg's man u boring surely not?

Terrible performance, not getting my hopes up for the hammers at the weekend

this is honestly one of the most perplexing managerial reigns in the history of the sport

NOTHING he does makes sense

and the humiliations just keep coming

LOL

LOL @ SCHOLES actually saying the word "British" in his dire post-match rant

turns out all those times picking up the kids from training and not yet writing autobiographies his internal monologue was worse than the ilx thread

and tbf lol at both these clubs, playing each other on a thursday night and lfc only able to score via a penalty and michael carrick failing to control a terrible cross from an offside jordan henderson

apparently Fellaini elbowed Sakho at some point before the end

I don't think I've ever hated a Utd player more. And Wayne Rooney still plays for us

was that not can. can went down just at the very end, in my stream they said there was some incident with fellaini.

not gonna get wildly excited, but i do feel liverpool are a bit like spurs post-bale, a lot of the signings that seemed a waste are growing in confidence. people even dismissed firmino earlier this year. lallana is really playing well, can is looking like the midfielder we've needed, clyne has been good from the beginning, and allen coming on seemed to steady us a lot.

i mean yeah, prob lose 3-0 next week, but there's some promise there.

I initially dismissed firmino because I watched him play for brazil in the copa america last summer and he was bobbins and missed a diabolical sitter from about 12 yards in one game

Was it him that did that crazy backheel turn between mata and whoever? Need a vine of that

that was lallana i think. he has definitely improved under klopp