Thursday Night Lights: The 2014/15 Europa League thread

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".

kalinic is rightly going to obtain the patronage of a hoy hoy as THE NEXT ZLATAN sometime next season after a backheel thru the legs of kieran gibbs, followed by a £16m january move to juventus and a bidone d'oro

― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 11:16 (5 years ago)

The Pole scores!

krychowiak is very impressive, an epl style destroyer with some technique in addition to brute force

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWqP9gZ1UPs

Wonderful free kick.

terrific game this. seville's second so sweet.

itv bros seemed to neglect to mention the quality of the throughball which was even better than the exquisite run and finish

very fond of formerly hyped prospects who do nothing for most of their twenties before a reflorescence in their 30s like reyes and quaresma

been impressed with the variety of seville's corners. btw guardian's interview with emery this morning was a p good read.

shit guardian football liveblog emailers would make a niche thread but

“What started as a great day for humanity has turned into a great afternoon for soccerball here in the USofA,” hollers Art Dubano.

nice pass, assured finish

blimey dnipro player just keeled over with no other player around him

clashed heads a couple of mins earlier, hopefully nothing more serious than concussion

good stuff, glad seville won.

Sampdoria made a massive fuss about qualifying for the Europa League this season, having risked disqualification over a betting scandal, and have just managed to lose 4-0 at home to FK Vojvodina in the preliminary round.

poor old samp (a great-grandfather i never met was a Genoese samp fan so i have some affection for them). i remember very clearly five years ago when they were on the cusp of qualifying for the champions league and threw it away http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/08/25/sampdoria-3-2-werder-bremen-aet-pazzini-puts-sampdoria-in-charge-but-subs-prove-crucial/

odd night for dortmund

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?