Thursday Night Lights: The 2014/15 Europa League thread

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.

Moreno was lucky alright

i was v pleased with this game, ty

Just realised that Liverpool achieved this while starting Kolo Toure over both legs.

I was thinking about this just now. Kind of amazing.

Shame that City are out because the possibility of United finishing fourth and Liverpool nicking their CL place was just too beautiful.

I'm not massively confident about the final really. Anfield has been at the heart of most of these good performances.

ISTANBUL.

a 35k stadium in basel doesn't quite have the same potential. i'm guessing sevilla are going to be more likely to score goals. still - it is p great just to have something to care about in may. i know how rare that is!

i mean football-wise - i care about other elements of life

I've been joking around that Klopp '16 = McClaren '06, with the dramatic comeback wins in the UEFA/EL (ok, this semi wasn't on a par with Boro's semi ten years ago) and, hey, it's a final vs Sevilla.

I am fairly confident that Liverpool will not lose 4-0.

Sevilla winning three times in a row would be unprecedented, right? Five times in ten years would also be frankly ridiculous.

eleven years

bit of a failure holding the final in such a small stadium.

have you all seen this btw?

http://www.espnfc.com/video/latest-videos/600/video/2864398?&ex_cid=espnapi_internal

craig burley murdering gabriel marcotti about "expected goals".

as much as burley is just going radge, and probably just hates stats, i can't stand marcotti and a quick look at twitter sees all these stats idiots patting themselves on the back because they're smarter than burley.

I have zero interest in in-game football stats, but CB isn't really making any sense at all there, which is not to say it isn't fun watching these dudes shout at each other.

yeah he's definitely wrong. i prob just hate marcotti.

You've just loved the sainted phrase "I deal in facts" since Rafa's greatest ever day.

This is dull as ditchwater so far isn't it?

this is the first time ive watched fitba in ages

none of banega, firmino (firminho (c) owen hargreaves) or coutinho have really got involved yet

nobody else is likely to do anything interesting

so if Sevilla win this they'll've won the Europa League/UEFA Cup 5 years out of 10.

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kolo toro has been everywhere today (in a positive sense)

this is way too cagey - that Seville chance says it all. Liverpool don't win games at this tempo.

It's tense. No real momentum for Liverpool yet, while Sevilla dont seem to need momentum to win games like this.

Frustrating match this,

Well well well

Great finish.

sturridge is probably my favourite english player

That was very very good indeed.

Also I only found out today that BT are streaming both this and the CL final on YouTube THIS IS THE FUTURE.

Ok this is momentum

480p is not the future tho

such a skilful player

idk if coutinho and firmino had combined before the goal but with a more open game they should probably be able to kill it

This is also van Gaal's fault

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNR2KNXI0v4

reminded of the henry one

the fifth one there is from a corner XD

cuco martina and bournemouth's right-back both hit amazing ones this season too

Quaresma :)

the real heads will have spoken in hushed tones of sylvinho vs chelsea and jon harley vs aston villa