Official Champions League & Europa League thread

[Flipmo]

Nothing really... until it's used to provoke ultras.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

Champions League Playoff draw

Champions League play-off draw:
Wisla Krakow v Apoel Nicosia
Maccabi Haifa v Genk
Dinamo Zagreb v Malmo FF
FC Copenhagen v Plzen
BATE v SK Sturm Graz

Odense BK v Villarreal
FC Twente v Benfica
Arsenal v Udinese
Bayern Munich v FC Zurich
Lyon v Rubin Kazan

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

Villarreal, Bayern got a good draw, I expect Arsenal to win but it will be difficult.

 

[Bobby Sands]

Shamrock Rovers beat Partizan Belgrade and made the group stages of the Europa league. great achievement for them. First irish team to ever make the group stages of european competition.

They got drawn with Spurs, Rubin Kazan and Aris Salonika (i think)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vOfNq6JY_BE

 

[Pittsey]

^^

They also cheated.... Divers...!

Where's all that Thierry Henry hate now?

 

[Bobby Sands]

 

[Pittsey]

You agree then?

 

[Flipmo]

Shamrock Rovers beat Partizan Belgrade and made the group stages of the Europa league. great achievement for them. First irish team to ever make the group stages of european competition.

They got drawn with Spurs, Rubin Kazan and Aris Salonika (i think)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vOfNq6JY_BE

God bless the Irish.

 

[Flipmo]

http://videa.hu/videok/sport/rm-1-0-ajx-kLJKBhbO3eVPwrSU#b

Counter-attacking 101.

(Still, fuck Real)

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

Real Madrid were impressive from what I saw.

 

[Flipmo]

 

[Kobe]

^^Its funny if you haven't got a clue about German.

 

[Flipmo]

Best sending off, evar.

 

[Flipmo]

 

[Flipmo]

lmao @ Olympiakos.

They thought they had reached the knockout phase, then Marseilles when through at their expense by beating BvB in extra time.

 

[Bobby Sands]

Manchester United are out lol

Basle are a decent team though. alot of Swiss internationals in that side.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

Honestly...One i am obviously disappointed. Two its humiliating..

but I think this will maybe (hopefully) give Fergie a reason to go out and fucking spend. His "there's no value in the market" comments are really showing up now.

Serie A has more teams in the knock outs than other leagues. Every year they're in apparent demise but they still somehow just do enough.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

I think the bigger story should be the blatant fix that Lyon went through and Ajax didn't. Some of the shit is shambolic. How you get a 9 goal turn around?

 

[Kobe]

Honestly...One i am obviously disappointed. Two its humiliating..

but I think this will maybe (hopefully) give Fergie a reason to go out and fucking spend.

Do you think United will take the Europa league seriously?

I agree, Fergie needs to spend as the team is completely out of sort at the moment.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

I'm unsure. Fergie might punish his players by making them play in there so they realise how bad it feels to get knocked out of the CL and play in that tournament. But if there's a big Premiership game on the weekend then he will play the kids.

I wouldn't mind going for it and winning it.