Thursday Night Lights: The 2014/15 Europa League thread

I.LOVE.THIS.TEAM *jumps up and down Steve Ballmer style*

:)

what happens if arse and united finish 3rd and 4th but city and pool win cl and el

was wondering this today

I nearly cried.

i think 5 cl spots but fourth place drops to europa? idk abut qualifiers

fourth place goes if Liverpool win Europa, I think.

I was tutoring a kid throughout the second half. It is the first post-9pm session I've done in like years. The kid has Liverpool FC curtains. lol

http://i.imgur.com/sovpAld.png

lol 'offensive baseball cap'

Thomas Tuchel seemed to be alluding to a supernatural event in his post-match interview. Nobody says that shit about White Hart Lane.

Holy shit did we just become a big club

No and that's why

Lol. Enjoy the night.

big club would prob need to win something of significance and have some fans

Lol. Enjoy the night in Istanbul

a rung above Dublin

just watched --- glad to live in the country and without immediate neighbors

Amazing game and even more ridiculous that it was Sakho and Lovren that won it, but The Real Respect That These Two Sets Of Fans Have For One Another is some sickening bullshit.

how is it? i suppose it'd be better if they both just stood their roaring yid army for 90 minutes

I'm sure it's fantastic when you're at the game but at the same time it's just this kind of... chummy narrative commentary bullshit. No one would have mentioned it if it wasn't for Klopp.

or the fact that it's the anniversary of 96 fans dying, and the dortmund fans organised a mosaic in tribute.

I missed that it was the Hillsborough anniversary, only turned on halfway through so got the love-in without the context.

I know when to climb down off a dumb hobbyhorse. Sorry!

nah i wasn't shaming you, i just honestly think that occasion, the klopp thing, and the fact that both fans sing "you'll never walk alone" was enough to create unity.

xpost TBF there was similar talk in the first leg, at least from Lawro on the radio - he was on about the joint singing of You'll Never Walk Alone. It's not something I mind, though, I think you do get that feeling very occasionally and it seems fair to comment on it when you do, even if it only exists in your imagination.

I suppose Klopp's avuncular daddishness is a factor as well - regardless of how friendly the fans are with each other, you don't get commentators saying that with, say, Mourinho on the bench.

Even allowing for the famously warmhearted Chelsea fans.

there's been a big love-in brewing between the clubs for a while. it's like the start of a romance. a dortmund fan died a few weeks ago and there was a tribute with the fans singing ynwa which went viral among liverpool fans. i guess the presence of death in this is a topic for another day.

i'm sure there'll be friendlies in future. hopefully more european encounters.

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Reading the coverage from last night and the interviews etc, the way Klopp has managed the club itself, and the fans and their relationship to it, is absolute genius. Like he's built a narrative that depends on unity and belief and the performances have followed.

Also creating a situation where fans are going to be a lot more forgiving of early inconsistent performances, especially after years of Rodgers management speak.

managed to avoid the result and watched this morning after work, would have turned off after 10 mins if i didn't find dortmund so lovely to watch even though it was lfc on the receiving end and then OMG!!!!!

so stupid how happy that made me

emre can was immense i thought, and origi looks 3x the player he was at the start of the season.

hummells pass for reus goal was a bit whoa.

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yeah it helps that when we've been shit klopp has said so ( i realise that's probably not sustainable for season upon season) but has made a welcome change from rodgers bullshit(see roberto martinez)

Yeah you guys really loved it when Hodgson showed that kind of honesty.

he didn't though? claimed a performance vs everton was great when we were shite.

so don't know what you're on about

yeah exactly - hodgson is the EXACT case in point for moronic post-match interviews. he famously said it was the best performance of his tenure, after we had one of the worst defeats to everton i can remember.

he had a litany of other foot in mouth moments, and has done since leaving liverpool as well. space monkey gate etc. the man is a total windbag.

He'd veer back and forward between that and bitter-disappointment and formidable-challenge-ahead and It'll-be-an-uphill-struggle, it was really weird.

I mean obviously the difference is that there have been several good performances under Klopp while virtually all of Hodgson's were shit.

fourth place goes if Liverpool win Europa, I think.

No country can have more than 5 teams though so in the unlikely event that Liverpool & City both win the Cups AND City finish outside Top 4, then it's going to be a bummer for whoever finished 4th.

In Liverpool and City between them contrive to take a CL place away from a 4th-placed United then they'll probably string LVG up from the roof of Old Trafford.

nah i wasn't shaming you, i just honestly think that occasion, the klopp thing, and the fact that both fans sing "you'll never walk alone" was enough to create unity.

There's a Dortmund/Celtic thing that goes on too - or used to, I don't know anymore now that we're shite and irrelevant.

shakhtar vs sevilla
villareal vs liverpool

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.