Thursday Night Lights: The 2014/15 Europa League thread

sevilla are gonna win this 3 times in a row aren't they? considering their ropey away form this season that would be quite something.

am i right in thinking there isn't a huge amount of difference between the shakhtar, sevilla and villareal? like i mean as far as quality goes...

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the shakhtar

Yes, i think that's probably fair. Anyone could win it.

bearing in mind no sakho, can, henderson or origi i'd take a one goal defeat with lfc scoring tonight gladly.

yeah, team looking a bit spineless minus those few. i've been p impressed by leiva's responsibility over the years though, hopefully he can step up. and allen has been great of late too.

still think it's damage limitation this evening, anything can happen at anfield. pity it's not anfield first. with the week that's in it the atmosphere would have been beyond the usual even.

your shakhtars, your sevillas. the villareals of this world.

http://tvnewsroom.site/images/news-staff/andy-townsend/andy-townsend-Image-003.jpg

no studge. klopp sure does like players who run around a lot.

michael owen "liverpool are the best team left in the competition" he seems awfully confident about that.

also a lil strange that skrtel is now 4th choice CB, maybe even 5th choice behind lucas!!

villareal just encouraging us to cross, to no effect.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChJ3b_uWwAE9mxB.jpg

great work there bbc

bollocks

oh well

thought milner was good tonight

think lfc will win at anfield but not sure if we'll do it by enough with no away goal

It had been coming in the last five minutes. Suarez was excellent all match. 2-0 at Anfield doesn't look impossible though.

Why didnt Sturridge get a run?

Mignolet, Clyne, Toure, Lovren, Moreno, Can, Milner, Lallana, Firmino, Coutinho, Sturridge. Subs: Ward, Benteke, Lucas, Allen, Skrtel, Ibe, Smith.

this may be the only game all season where i'd have liked benteke to start at CF. Villareal don't allow much up the middle and instead allow teams a lot of freedom to go wide and cross.

glad emre can is back but with firmino in as well that's the same CM that got exploited vs dortmund, would have liked to see allen or lucas in there. oh well.

mcmanaman "liverpool will win comfortably"

owen "villareal conceded 3 at madrid, 3 at barcelona, yeah those are top teams but so are liverpool"

otm

listening to this on the radio. it is p amazing that both hosts, lawro and green, are massive liverpool fans. does this happen for any other club? i am quite enjoying it, not so much those two, just normally when i can't see it on tv i use minute-by-minute, i suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that radio is far better.

Radio is far better, except when Alan Green is on it.

reckon liverpool will need the 3 here. best get started.

get in

https://twitter.com/LiverpoolGifs/status/728320687438499840

greezy

still reckon need a third here. no way this team sits on a lead.

aye the one goal lead wi the potential winning-on-away-goals on-aggregate-equalizer is the apotheosis of squeaky bum time

yeah even against 10-men, this team is so soft sometimes, they have to get the third, they have to keep playing. sitting on it just isn't part of what they are.

I often hate the away goals rule and feel like it should be scrapped, but from a neutral's perspective the great jeopardy inherent in these kind of situations - where one goal can change the winning side into the loser - is pretty great sport

yeah i was thinking that tonight is a good example of it making a game work, even though like you i think it's sort of stupid most of the time.

oh yes

otm

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otm

is he definitely onside there? lallana i mean...

Man on the line had his hand on the pitch, playing everyone onside.

Benteke on to shore up the defence.

that'll do klopp :))

i love europa league

love big european nights back again - nothing beats them as a liverpool fan over the last decade or so.

shame the final can't be at anfield.

2 finals in 8 months ain't bad

sevilla winning this 3 times in a row would be whoa

yeah it's extraordinary

couple of flaky sides could go either way i think? konoplyanka v moreno might be ugly

be tempted to play flanagan (if fit) myself, but that's not how klopp rolls.

That was a damn near perfect performance. Final should be a ding dong battle and no mistake.

How good was Emre Can btw

love emre

player of the season for us i think with only milner and coutinho coming anywhere near

love firmino

he was the best player tonight. he's been great all season

IN KLOPP WE TRUST

Flanno la's not in the Europa squad I think (unless you get a free call for the final). Seem to remember Klopp expressing some regret at leaving him out.

Haven't seen any of these games due to other Thursday commitments, and will be on holiday in Berlin for the final with my girlfriend's family who find the whole concept of football quite comical.

moreno's fine going frwd obv but he's a penalty waiting to happen, got away with one tonight.

don't know if this is post hoc ergo propter hoc thinking but the champ's league qualification you get for winning the Europa seems to have turned it into a good tournament

It was good anyway, apart from English clubs treating it as a burden on their ambitions to finish 4th.