Thursday Night Football - The Europa League 2011/12 Thread

[boycey]

Fuming with Di Natal wasting those chances, cost me a nice little eight fold tonight!

Seeds
PAOK
Standard Liege
PSV Eindhoven
Sporting
Besiktas
Athletic Bilbao
Metalist Kharkiv
Club Brugge
Atletico Madrid
Schalke 04
Twente
Anderlecht
Man City
Man Utd
Valencia
Olympiacos

Unseeded
Rubin Kazan
Hannover 96
Legia Warsaw
Lazio
Stoke
Salzburg
AZ
Braga
Udinese
Steaua Bucharest
Wisła Krakow
Lokomotiv Moscow

grim

[Pepe the Horseman]

Olympiakos winning 1-0 at Rubin. Roy Carroll coming off the bench to save a pen.

[TheMaraudingDog]

Thursday night, in Amsterdam

[TheMaraudingDog]

Amsterdam beefs us security
http://www.football.co.uk/manchester_un ... 5501.shtml

seems like half my FB will be there. Going to be a cracking trip and well worth getting knocked out of the champions league for.

[Victor Meldrew]

Amsterdam beefs us security
http://www.football.co.uk/manchester_un ... 5501.shtml

seems like half my FB will be there. Going to be a cracking trip and well worth getting knocked out of the champions league for.

Travel to Amsterdam is not restricted to Thursday nights in February and watching two teams that have failed dismally this season.

[TheMaraudingDog]

Who mentioned watching any football?

[FiNeRaIn]

Sounds like victor is upset he wont be joining the carnage and fun. Its fine Victor, melon will keep you occupied in the team section.

[No Fixed Abode]

At least there's a little more interest in this competition now United and City are in it. Got bored to Fulham and Liverpool being in it all the time.

[TBM]

At least there's a little more interest in this competition now United and City are in it. Got bored to Fulham and Liverpool being in it all the time.

and next year you'll have Newcastle and Arsenal

[Silver Fox]

You don't think Chelsea will make it?

[DandyRoyal]

I watched the Stoke v Valencia game last night, and really came away with the feeling that Stoke and Pulis are something of an embarrassment to English football.

Stoke's somewhat bullish approach was laughable when compared to Valencia's intricate passing, excellent close control and sublime movement. Although actually the thing that impressed me most about Valencia was their fine defending. I expected them to be fluid in possession and possess guile going forward. But they were also physical at the back rarely troubled aerially and totally shut down Stoke's wingers (although I think i could have shut down Etherington he is slow and fat and has no tricks).

I know all managers wear blinkers, but honestly Pulis is such a massive whiner he has to be the worst of the lot. The look of disbelief on his face when a desultory Crouch penalty claim was turned down was funny as hell. It was a dirty game and there was certainly some dodgy stuff from Valencia but to be honest, they were merely descending to Stoke's level, Pulis was just pissed because Valencia managed to match them at their own game off the ball, and on the ball were vastly superior.

Stoke's biggest night in a long while and the crowd were silent and £10 million man Jones didn't even play. I don't even like a lot of Spanish football because the gamesmanship is too much for me but even I was rooting for Valencia after 10 minutes last night. They are gonna get so rolled over in Spain it's gonna be hilarious. In many ways Valencia played their second string last night, god only knows what their strongest team could do.

ESPN has the worst half time punditry and analysis I have ever witnessed.

[TBM]

Is the Man City game on TV anywhere?

Kicks off in 40mins

[Silver Fox]

Thursday night channel 5 apparently

:runs away

[1871 Royal]

ESPN TBMers.

[TBM]

Thursday night channel 5 apparently

:runs away

[Pepe the Horseman]

1-0 City! Aguero after 20 seconds!

[TBM]

Why are they kicking off at 5pm btw?

[TBM]

£25m for Nasri

[Terminal Boardom]

Why are they kicking off at 5pm btw?

So as not to detract from the Champions League fixtures?

[YateleyRoyal]

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