Thursday Night Lights: The 2014/15 Europa League thread

Banger from the lad rooney

Shit match, three pretty beautiful goals

Sheer managerial genius by Mourinho to leave the bag o' shite on the field till the 89th minute.

might have been a different story with valencia on instead of darmian, but that was such a shit performance

The overwhelming shitness of United is slightly baffling, theres some good players there. So bad in midfield tonight too. Mkhitaryan so bad too when he came on

Xp Darmian not one of them obv

I actually despise Darmian. A nothing player Bill

so many cowards in the team though

the mind reels at the thought of our midfield on the weekend with Pogba and Herrera out

There's always Carrick but I guess fellaini will be recalled from the circus. Pisser that pereira is out on loan cos I thought he was tremendous. Wonder if Mou will ever give Tim fm some games?

Memphis Depay still languishing there too

bt sport commentator in soton/inter just used the word 'fascia'

i'm impressed, that's all

Watched Ajax tonight because fml. They cruised to a comfy 3-0 and got embarrassingly close to being held to a draw in the end, 3-2 to Celta de Vigo.

Kasper Dolberg tho, he's the real deal. What a gifted player. Get yer scouts to Amsterdam to scoop that kid up asap.

He can stay there imo, sadly I don't think he'll ever turn the corner at united. Always so tense when he comes on, nothing ever really works for him going forwards and he's a bit lazy tbh when it comes to tracking back. Memph needs to be cut loose and set free

Xps re memphis

IVE BEEN DEPRESSED FOR YEARS IT DOESNT MATTER ANYMORE

https://www.balls.ie/football/watch-paul-scholes-depressed-man-utd-fenerbache/350733

This leaden paul

lol

Bravo! Some big scoring games tonite.

Memphis, Schneiderlin, Darmian, Fellaini, Rooney, all need to go

Zlatan was a mistake too

Yep

when he was signed I expected him to rotate with Rashford in the centre forward position. Which would have been fine, and offered some good attacking variation. Instead he's become the new undroppable and plays 90 minutes basially every game, and Rashford is shunted out wide even though we desperately need movement up front.

Made absolutely no sense to bring him on when Pogba got injured either, especially with Rooney also on the pitch. Spent most of the game strolling around the centre circle. I swear at one point Mata was playing as striker ffs

and it was zlatan's foul in defence that gave away the free kick for the second goal iirc

as if scholesy isn't loving this, deep down. if he could have been a pundit while he was still playing the hovis ad that is his subconscious would have found a way to criticise the latest version of himself.

when he was signed I expected him to rotate with Rashford in the centre forward position. Which would have been fine, and offered some good attacking variation. Instead he's become the new undroppable and plays 90 minutes basially every game, and Rashford is shunted out wide even though we desperately need movement up front.

Agreed.

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? 😡

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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