Thursday Night Lights: The 2014/15 Europa League thread

valencia v rapid vienna
fiorentina v tottenham
dortmund v porto
fenerbahce v lokomotiv moscow
anderlecht v olympiacos
midtjylland v man utd
augsburg v liverpool
sparta prague v krasnodar
galatasaray v lazio
sion v braga
shakhtar v schalke
marseille v athletic bilbao
sevilla v molde
sporting lisbon v leverkusen
villareal v napoli
st etienne v basel

like augsburg, always seems to be a terrific atmosphere there and marcus weinzierl is an excellent manager

dope ties

Very satisfactory this despite alli lucky to stay on and Davies and Son not being great in possession

Jesus tino lucky to stay on there too. Refs good.

How does a goalkeeper contrive to injure himself in the warm up?

Lol utd

WOOF

Deflected but WOOF ANYWAY

Would quite like to.see us sub off some.of these booked players tbh

That was decent enough, we didn't panic when put under pressure after the goal. Fancy us to win at WHL.

Strong Liverpool team out. I guess they all had a nice stroll last Sunday.

not even worth commenting on at this point

Louis remains

xp yeah it wasn't great in the second half but kane rested and hopefully no injuries, and we'd almost certainly have lost that game in other years.

I can't get used to this new spurs positivity.

...are the Augsburg jersey player names in comic sans?

didnt Costa Rica have players names in comic sans in the last WC too?

@SpursOfficial 2 minutes ago

TEAM NEWS: "@HKane has broken his nose and has had an operation today. He will miss tomorrow's game." - Mauricio

#pray4

Based on where we are at the moment, you'd think it'd be easier to qualify for the CL by finishing Top 4 rather than winning the Europa, so wouldn't actually mind if we go out tomorrow - especially given our poor record on a Sunday following the Thursday Europa game.

What happens if United finish 5th but also win the Europa, and Chelsea win the Champions League?

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together...

but also I'm pretty sure that means only the top 3 plus the two European trophy winners would qualify

Yeah, one country can only have a maximum of five clubs in the CL so 4th would miss out

Stick a fiver on it and you would be too rich to care.

Think Lucas might be playing CB today.

Mignolet, Clyne, Lucas, Sakho, Moreno, Can, Henderson, Milner, Firmino, Sturridge, Coutinho. Subs: Ward, Toure, Benteke, Origi, Smith, Teixeira, Chirivella.

be nice to see studge, firmino, coutinho together again.
obviously overpaid to start with but i wonder just how many millions have been knocked off benteke's value by the summer? here's hoping prem riches/desperation lead to someone willing to cough up.

Leading thru a dodgy pen but my god sturridge is so so good.

This last 15 mins so predictable after spending 70 mins being far too casual in front of goal.5 mins of injury time , a goal is probable.

never in doubt

and yeah so good to have studge back

Utd one nil down, Martial injured in the warm up

the fun never ends

And why didn't the ref play on with Blind almost clean through? Flips sake.

Lovely stuff this.

Alonso m. Looks like ilxor reed m. Imo

Utd 2-1 up now. Marcus Rashford with the debut goal

Memphis having his best game to date

turned out to be quite fun this

Looking at the last 16 and it's pretty big names all the way down. Could be some cracking ties.

memphis looked like he was having the time of life for once. not convinced i didn't just dream that whole performance.

http://i.imgur.com/xXCN1eS.gif

That's such a me move

/pre Dec 15 disaster obv

Ambivalence about the number of games remaining easily trumped by the satisfaction of comfortably beating a proper team.

Really want Dortmund in the next round. Although anyone other than the English teams and Basle would be nice.

liverpool v united in the next round

and spurs v dortmund!

Yessssssssssssss.

Good stuff.

Looks like Poch has got his priorities sorted and fielded a pretty young team against a strong Dortmund side tonight.

Think It's kind of a pity that he's not gone absolutely full-tilt at this tbh, good experience for the champs league next year.

Lovely treat having these two games one after the other tonight

Champions League next year not assured yet though so that has to be first priority.

Fucking hammer shot from Mkhitaryan. Far be it from me to cast aspersions on the relative merits of Tom Carroll and Josh Onomah but we're getting fucking twatted here.

Ugh Robbie Savage. Shame no Gundogan. Weigl has been great this season.

Nice shot by Derek.

Sweet.

I'll be disappointed if it turns out there's no fan song for him to the tune of MIA's Galang

Lol.

I guess we should be happy Aubameyang isn't playing for Arsenal, which in a former era he definitely would be.

Robbie Savage's belligerent insistence that Eric Dier is all that would be required to stem the tide is more annoying than the goal.