Thursday Night Lights: The 2014/15 Europa League thread

oh hey paolo, been missing your input on anglo-scots club relations recently

Some comedy stuff from Celtic tonight but I still think Inter are there for the taking.

Some comedy stuff, as usual in Europe, that is.

So shit from Soldado.... absolutely criminal for a striker to screw up a 2 on 1

Fucking hell Fazio, of all the players on the pitch to give a comedy assist to.

Another goal would lead to extra time now and basically kill our final on Sunday, so I dunno how I feel about the rest of the game now.

extra time for liverpool, not good for the game against man city either

lol smh itv4 cutting out just in time for the pens

impressive penos all round so far

Errrrrr

Lol

....and Lovren blasts it a mile wide

why Lovren to take that peno? idgi

Lovren eclipses Carroll as worst signing ever in an impressively quick time.

hes fairly bad alright

Torino down to ten men after half an hour. 2 justified yellows. They'd completely stifled Zenit with ease until then.

Hulk gets dispossessed more than any player I've ever seen.

Witzel 1-0. Torino have been defending the width of the box quite well, but that was neat play by Zenit.

"He can argue all he wants he has no argument there" - Danny Higginbotham.

palacio 1-0 after Schurrle sloppily gives the ball away. Tentatively suggest this Wolfsburg vs Inter game will be an end to end classic.

Schurrle has been astonishingly bad thus far.

Naldo powers in a header from a de bruyne corner.1-1.

my word rodriguez has put in a couple of absolutely beautiful crosses

de bruyne 2-1. awful 'pass' from inter keeper straight to vierinha on to kdb, goal

de bruyne free kick 3-1. keeper woreful again. stood behind wall and couldn't see the ball.

this has been great & frantic, you wonder why everton don't play like this in the epl

Everton 3-1 down after 37mins. Their defence is SO BAD. Couple of great goals (yarmolenko and lukaku)

What has happened to Roma recently? They have been awful.

5-1 down now, another wonderful strike (antunes)

Best league in the world, guv.

Roma were so terrible tonight it was bordering on the criminal. Goalie lols for the 2nd, non-existent marking for the 3rd. Ljanic sent off at the end. Shambles. They've barely won a game this year.

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".

That was some strike for the Rennes goal

sweet flick for the own goal too :D

cracking goal!

*weakly* it's a trapp

well that's one of the weirder penalty saves I've seen

Could tell from the run up he was not going to score.

It’s a shame. Frankfurt were the better team for most of the match. Some good last ditch defending from Chelsea though.

kepa redemption narrative or something

there was quite a collection of tics, stutters, etc, in that shootout

The Jorginho hop was pretty good.

yeah it's effective too

so it's an all-england final in both huh

the defence is just not to move and rely on your reflexes though (which Ederson did in the Carabao Cup final)

This is pretty appalling and I’m surprised something couldn’t have been worked out,

https://www.arsenal.com/news/henrikh-mkhitaryan-miss-europa-league-final

yep, disgraceful for UEFA

Though it does look like the Azeri government had assured him he’d have no travel issues and that a security plan was in place, so I’m not sure what more they could have done, really. It looks like it was a personal decision from Mkhitaryan in the end.

I heard they had made assurances it wld be fine but it was clearly p vague. azerbaijan probably shouldn't be holding the final, UEFA probably shouldn't exist etc.

Tempers fraying in the Chelsea camp? 😡

Higuain and Luiz come together in training and Maurizio Sarri is furious! pic.twitter.com/obSZ51KGGd

— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) May 28, 2019

Not even bothering to use VAR when it's available for a penalty shout seems weird.

Arsenal playing p well so Chelsea will probably score soon.

this is shite

Just feels like the ‘final’ of a made up pre season tournament

Feels like the season was so so long ago to me. I feel weirdly emotionally removed from the upcoming champs lge final as well.

great advert for English football

Although if LFC lose that will change p sharpish.
Xp

There it is.

Giroud hedging his bets with the celebration there

And there's the clincher

Lol falling apart now

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?