It was "fun" while it lasted - Europa League 2019-20

Because the Wolves' 2nd round draw happens today! Can't wait to take on Crusaders.

2nd Qualifying Round

*cough*

Wolves vs. Crusaders. What is this, basketball?

Lol called it

wooooh 3Q round in Armenia, just hope Jimenez isn't too badly injured

Forgot this was an early (for us) kick off, ah well, two up at half time, hope the jet lag doesn't fuck us

PSV's tragic start to the season (cunted out of the CL) sees us playing against Haugesand in Norway rn.

A Wolves vs PSV final still very much on the cards.

the mass cards

he's been ready since 1976

https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2019/08/14/wolves-fan-travels-6000-miles-for-18-minutes-of-football/

Yeah I read that this morning, I mean it's not exactly eco-admirable is it? Like the bit where it was a trip to Hull he missed tho

We used to have a guy from the Isle of Man I think traveled home and away a lot

I mean it's not exactly eco-admirable is it?

this is a pretty churlish take lol

obv i have ended friendship with the greens and labour is my new best friend

Paid about six bucks for the Wolves stream, but website has crashed. Fans raging on Twitter

Had to watch it all on a pirate feed. Saw the goal. Yay!

Hopefully be back up by 2nd half

JOTAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

oof, conceded one right back. two road goals though will help with tiebreaking

Jimenez! That was sweet

ugh dumb pen at '89, makes for a tighter 2nd leg than it should be.

thank goodness for 3 away goals

Tempting to think of Wolves as plucky underdogs when of course they're easily the richest club in the competition at this stage.

I was doing something else last night, that's a solid result tho, Torino was a big step up.

Def was more lopsided than the score made it look. Now just not to Barca the 2nd leg away

Their counterattack was p balls out at times which is encouraging.

Sounds like it was a good game tonight, and now we're in the draw tomorrow. Woooooo.

I watched long enough to see the Dendoncker goal. The attack was solid. Hope they do that to Everton now.

Defending got a bit sloppy again, but they were already up 2 in aggregate at the time.

not even gonna try to understand how this draw works

Wolves-PSV final still on afaict

Wolves - Besiktas will be fun.

both games likely to be intense, happy with our group for good-looking games tbh

Celtic and Cluj will be sick of each other.

Wolves get a trip to glamorous Bratislava.

feels like a 70s classic that

Suspès el Dudelange - Qarabag per un dron pic.twitter.com/VeNebrJHuo

— Enric Fuentes (@ilynhenke) October 3, 2019

Armenian drones suspend Dudelange vs Qarabag crunch match.

Qarabag players were trying to knock the drone out of the sky with the ball.

A brawl has broken out in the crowd too.

There is no bottom for this Utd team

^^ harsh on AZ imo

Wolves-PSV final still on afaict

― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Friday, August 30, 2019 1:41 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not taking anything away from AZ, who seem to be a decent young side

We didn't manage a single shot on target. Only managed one attempt worthy of the name. I've watched a lot of shit Utd performances in the post-Fergie era but that is down there with any of them

Genuinely remarkable showing from Fred too. Actually incapable of completing a pass greater than five yards

And Solskjaer literally looks like the ghost of David Moyes

Yay Wolves, sick of these airing during work

i couldn't watch because for some fucked up reason somebody in the pub decided that Rangers was a thing that people wanted to sww but a win in Istanbul is seriously serious goodness

Still, at least you got to see Rangers lose in the last minute.

Always a pleasure

And Solskjaer literally looks like the ghost of David Moyes

― Number None, Thursday, October 3, 2019 11:53 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I see Solskjaer has said he was "pleased" with ManU's performance, so it's all good! Seriously though, it doesn't matter how bad a pitch is if you can't manage a single shot on target. Dark days.

Hey he scored a goal once, he must be a Top Manager

Jesse Marsch’s half-time team talk in the #Salzburg dressing room at Anfield is genuinely something to behold pic.twitter.com/KGZ1D3BbeV #LFC #UCL

— Richard Buxton (@RichardBuxton_) October 4, 2019

You can see it raining Untergang-style memes from this, but this is great to watch.

come on you Wolves

big win, it's now officially a "European adventure" apparently

soft sending off for Jota tho

Yay Wolvesss!

Managed to watch while teaching a class

first pepe freekick decent but the keeper fucked it, second one felt like an arrival tho

Jammy Gooner bastards. I don't know where Celtic found Christopher Jullien - well, I do, it was Toulouse - but that guy is sheer class.

coming back to beat nazio yas

I remain slightly peeved we didn't beat Rennes in the first match, we should have.

If it's to be a Celtic v. Wolves final, I fancy Celtic tbh.

Wolvvvvvvessssss, finally on a week when I have off from work.

with that lineup, Nuno probably wants this win more than the Aston Villa one. tho I think they can get both.

This broadcaster has already badly misidentified two Wolves players

Liking the start

Being able to dribble around defenders this easily should start opening things up

Holy shit Jimenez. Almost a wundergoal

celtic putting the fash to the sword in the 95th minute yaaas

Good half. One will fall soon

PK!

Some amazing through balls in this half.

But Neto is down.

Fuck. Saved

Let Jimenez take it next time.

Holy hell Doherty almost an amazing goal.

Wolves look great just haven't pulled back

Also very few fouls in this one

If this broadcaster mistakes Jimenez for Neto one more damn time

Cutrone in

Just took my boy to see "The Beach Bum" so I haven't seen any of this

Still 0-0.

Idk how at this point. Wolves have had them on their heels for 15 consecutive minutes

Rangers beating Porto 2-0

Oof Jimenez accidentally knocked dude unconscious with a bicycle kick

xp. oof, el bufalo on the score-sheet once more

Gonna be about 10 mins of stoppage

JIMENEZ!!!!

fuckin get in!

No more bicycles Raul before you get someone killed!

Great win. Should have been 3-0 but Bratislava kinda started playing for the draw in the second half.

9 points don't clinch knockouts but it's hella comfy now

one more point clinches it i think? don't wanna count chickens but this has been great

yeah one more I believe.

it was a fun one to watch. now hopefully they have enough in the tank to get 3 against Aston. i see no reason why not. Jota didn't play due to the red so he's fresh.

(It's Villa, not Aston)

Aye!

Is the game between Wolves and Braga being played in an empty stadium?

Not purposely as far as I know, but there's been two nights of fighting in Porto so I assume there's policing issues

More worried about fucking Arsenal tapping up Nuno tbh

Braga has that three sided stadium, right?

... sorry, two-sided. Also, they've qualified so why bother going to watch them play, er, Wolves?

sellick actually being within a shout of topping a europa league group. be still my feniany heart

Indeed, I hope Lennon doesn't instruct them to take the foot off the gas.

Goal Doherty!!!!

And now Traore!!!

Get in!!!! :)

Knew I should've watched this :(

Missed the first two goals. Braga's was a fluke, on replay.

Raul's was a beaut

Nice to see man u losing to a team only people who know who Michael Cox is have heard of

Rangers fans must be praying - if that's allowed - Morelos isn't sold in January.

I saw Astana being beaten by Viktoria Zizkov one time. Exactly.

xp. el búfalo loyal

Meh Wolves defended abysmally in that second half, 3-3 draw.

But they're through to the knockout round. They can send out a B squad in game 6 now.

Nice to see man u losing to a team only people who know who Michael Cox is have heard of

Not that our first XI wouldn't have done their best to lose, but this was the Utd XI:

Grant, Laird, Tuanzebe, Bernard, Shaw, Levitt, Garner, Gomes, Lingard, Chong, Greenwood

Bernard Shaw in the centre of defence? No wonder you lost.

If the Celtic v. Wolves final doesn't happen I'll settle for Celtic v. Rangers tbh.

... otm? Because a Wolves vs PSV final sure isn't going to happen. We're bottling it in Portugal, 3-0 behind at half-time, continuing an already disastrous season. Fuck football tbh.

More worried about fucking Arsenal tapping up Nuno tbh

... about that.

More worried about fucking Arsenal tapping up Nuno tbh

... about that.

I dunno why he'd want to go backwards but one worries.

am a bit glad that frimpy isn't registered to play in the europa league. someone is going to snap him up before long, doesn't need to be in the shop window anymore than is necessary

Still annoyed that Celtic drew the first game in France, Rennes are hopeless.

Wolves - Celtic final still on

Let's 'ave it.

All through this competition Celtic have got away with not finishing off opponents when they're on top but their luck is due to run out eventually.

otoh: an away goal in european knockout competition for the first time since the seville season.

but yeah, should have scored more, were a bit pish in the second half it seems

At one point they had 16 shots on target to their 3 but still had to rely on them missing a farcical penVARty.

yomp

jesus christ, that Neves shot. i think the net is still smoking.

2-0 aggregate lead into the second leg would be great, let's get two more!

Meanwhile future Tranmere Rovers manager Steven Gerrard's current team are 1-0 down at home.

OMG, Jota the high difficulty third goal!

astonishing shithousery from espanyol's gomez there. oh look wolves have scored again

yeah that should never have even come off of Jota's foot lol

getting zero away goals will pretty much fuck Espanyol if they can't pull one back in this one

game. Jota owns youuuuuuuuu

lol at three defenders not being able to prevent Jota from ripping that.

Espanyol look terrible

rangers 3-2 up! stevie genius

lovely team move for jota's 3rd albeit espanyol have palpably given up

(xp) lol, it's the hope that'll kill them

good match Rangers. please knock Braga out.

What have you got against Braga?

nuttin, they were just the only squad to beat us in the group stage

Ah, I was worried you might be pro-Rangers there for a horrible moment.

I was here and not here; that was booming

Rangers beat Sporting Braga home and away, got to admit that's quite impressive. We'd better win our tie now.

brag away = easy

kilmarnock away = uh oh

Bruno <3

what the actual fuck at that Deli red card

not only is her already our best player by far, he's raising the level of the entire team just by playing one and two touch football

Forgot about the Wolves match. Glad they won on aggregate and rotated the squad tho!

Celtic's nerves are shot right now

guess we proved that denmark is better than scotland

Arsenal going to extra time

Tsk, amateurs

Every country in Scandinavia has a Socialist and a Social Democratic party, btw. And a Green one, and probably a Socially Liberal one. It's great. You can really pinpoint the melts.

― Frederik B, Tuesday, February 25, 2020 9:49 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's everyone but the Socialists, of course

― Frederik B, Tuesday, February 25, 2020 9:50 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

As usual, Fred, you have no idea what you're talking about, you have no clue about the Labour Party and the Labour movement in the UK - its history, its significance, its importance, so shut the fuck up and go and irritate some Americans instead.

― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, February 25, 2020 10:17 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

let it not be said that karma does not exist

looooool

^^^^^ :D

crazy miss by aubameyang at the end after scoring a peach of a goal earlier

guess we proved that greece is better than north london

Jesus fuck @ that Arsenal game, great stuff, gtf Gooners. Meanwhile Lennon is lucky he's still in a job after, for no apparent reason, changing the formation that has led to Celtic winning every single domestic game this year, playing three centre backs, dropping Griffiths, playing Elyounoussi - Copenhagen weren't that good, you stupid cunt.

Istanbul Basaksehir v FC Copenhagen

Olympiakos v Wolverhampton Wanderers

Rangers v Bayer Leverkusen

Wolfsburg v Shakhtar Donetsk

Inter Milan v Getafe

Sevilla v Roma

Red Bull Salzburg or Eintracht Frankfurt v Basel

LASK v Manchester United

Second leg at home, I'll take that

Just like Arsenal took it 😉

We're not Arsenal 😁

Who are Basaksehir btw? Presumably new-money upstart who the old guard loathe

Hopefully really bad

Erdogan FC if you believe the majority of Turkish ppl I’ve spoken to.

Oh god OK, #imwithfred

Inter v Getafe should be tasty

Man Yoo get the easiest team left as per

The conspiracy theory I most believe is that every football draw is fixed. Yeah sure Man Utd versus Wayne Rooney just happened

LASK are pretty good tbh. Better than Rangers, at least.

Better than Red Bull Salzburg as far as the Austrian League is concerned too.

I mean maybe postponing tomorrow might be an idea

so not only are UEFA insisting that games go ahead, but they're going ahead under the strong possibility that the competitions get suspended next week anyway. top class administration.

Prescient thread title tbf

First behind-closed-doors game Ive watched and its pretty fucking weird. Ighalo looking like he's having a great game

always sad to watch a team give up completely

but mostly lol

don't think they'd have given up quite like that with a home crowd watching them, some nice goals from united all the same though

greenwood certainly looks like a lethal, instinctive finisher

so Wolves-Olympiakos, while I'm training people. let's just say I am trying to get through the material fast today.

so it's 1-1 on aggregate, but Wolves have an away goal, so if it ends 0-0, they win on tiebreaker due to away goals, right? and if both teams score a goal and it's 2-2 aggregate, then away goals will be tied, and it goes extra time?

and if it's 2-2 today, 3-3 on aggregate, Olympiakos fuckin wins?

and if both teams score 63 goals...

Yep.

Wolves should be good enough to win it in 90 imo.

hope so. the final Premier match was one of their worst performances of the year, but they're well-rested now.

wondering if I can teach and watch out of one corner of my eye.

decided not to go to a pub for it because pubs just aren't conducive at the moment so i'll try and get a good stream. can't disagree with us being favourites but Olympiacos are Not Mugs, clearly

this is about the third time both Wolves and Orlando City have played the same day in the last month and neither team has won on the same day for me on the previous three attempts, so......

hopefully the streak breaks.

Awful fuck up from the debut keeper, hopefully that'll settle us

28 years old with 16 professional games under his belt.

I meant it's his first in Europe afaik, worded it badly

No, I was just noting that he has barely played at all in his career!

Yeah, interesting back story, both parents are deaf, he coaches the French deaf football team I believe

Hope Jonny's injury is minor

Great move by Olympiakos there

This has been a great comeback,

Very unlucky.

Camara looks good.

Stream's about 3/4 minutes slow, their forwards' movement frightens me whenever they get a chance

Another bullshit VAR offside? Still going to be like that next season

Robbed there I think

His feet were behind Doherty's

Lol Raul

Jesus

This is the most stressful match I’ve seen in months and I don’t even care who wins.

I'm sure the weather is warm tonight but I've had to stick a fan on

God what a game

barely got to watch it....thanks to my class. I saw the goal and I saw most of the second half.

glad we won. but I'm siiiiick of missing tourney matches due to work. next time one of you call in and say I died.

should be Tuesday afternoon your time next

don't know if my nerves can hold up for knockout football now

when's the draw? or do we already know who plays who?

oh united have copenhagen, just remembered

already made, Wolves play Sevilla, Man U play Copenhagen, managed by former Wolves boss Stale Solbakken, not sure about the other half

Inter v Leverkusen, Shaktar v Basel

united were so shit last night and haven't been good for a few games now - could easily see them getting beaten by wolves should they meet

like i said it's straight knockouts now, we've not reached any heights since football restarted but who knows

Sevilla are pretty good at this competition.

I’m an @Arsenal fan, but well played @Wolves tonight! Great result.

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) August 6, 2020

might need a new club any suggestions?

Wolves definitely haven't gotten out of first gear since restart, but were just kind of blessed to have lots of matches against the relegation zone. today they could have won without even scoring based on the first leg.

but idk, maybe a knockout where they have no second leg to bail em out will motivate them not to fuck up.

Sir Keir doesn't at all sound like a complete fucking pillock desperately grasping for *normal bloke* credentials!

lol goddammit I teach a class on Tuesday at that time (3 pm), the same one I taught this week, and there's noooo chance I'll be able to give them busy work at 3. oh well, will do my best to be the worst teacher alive. I tried to delay the live broadcast and catch up but CBS Access didn't let me. maybe I can 'DVR' it on Youtube TV lol.

Orlando won today so they again play on the same day, lol.

2-1 Inter after 20 minutes, VAR checking for a penalty.

Greenwood again but could be offside

that goal is living a charmed life at the moment

second half has flown by, really entertaining game but my nerves are shredded already

pen looked more than a bit soft but i'm saying heck yes just to give my jittering heart a breather

Some run that

Terrible pen.

Awful!

It’s the kind you know the player is going to miss because of their stupid run-up.

Nani (yes, *that* Nani) missed one like that for Orlando City just a few weeks ago, then he did it again and we all wanted to murder him.

i hate this. I've seen like 20% of the match cos of training, though I did see the trip in the box and the missed PK.

going to try and see more of the second half when my class is doing assignments (thank the Lord).

Raul put the pen exactly where he put the Olympiakos one so that was poor but we've played that half well otherwise

Goalkeeper had done his homework.

Wide open match, good performance from Wolves bar that miss, nervy as fuck

beautiful run by Adama up to that point too, but i pretty much knew he was going to get mugged. for that reason - easier for a GK to block a Pen then stop Traore from a sure goal like that.

Interesting half. Sevilla absolutely dominant without looking very threatening, Wolves potentially capable of scoring on the break at any point.

I hear the dominant thing but I think we've threatened more, as I say penalty aside I'd take that performance

All the hallmarks of a late 2-0 win to Sevilla. Sorry lads

Jiménez should have overhit his penalty as much as he has every pass so far

Not sure where a Sevilla goal is going to come from, tbh. it’s not dissimilar to watching Spurs.

Shakhtar look pretty safe in the other match.

Assumption these days is ‘a penalty’

Definitely just sucking it up now

I'd've subbed Saiss instead and dropped Donk to centre half but that was coming

4-0 Shakhtar. The semi vs Inter should be a blast.

O no.

Welp

The rare player taken out after the shot penalty

Bruno is stupidly good from the spot though

He’s the only person who should be allowed to do the silly run-up.

Bizarre from Williams there

anything Sevilla can do

that skill from pogba at the end there

Rashford has largely been terrible post-lockdown

It's killing us

ref is a cunt

Dreadful defending from United

Lindelof just like "nah"

Ole is such a chickenshit. Should have brought Ighalo on for Rashford at half-time - gives him three minutes of injury time

Hope we're making some signings!

Pyatov’s kicking is terrible.

Inter look very comfortable.

5-0 Inter. Shakhtar have been shocking.

managed to miss this from conte earlier in the season

Antonio Conte, sharing with L’Equipe the advice that he gives his players about how to approach their sex lives. “In periods of competition, it should not last long: you need to put in the minimum effort possible, so it’s best if their partner is on top. It’s preferable to do it with your own wife, that way you are not obliged to put in an exceptional performance.”

^ thread title still on point

How is Diego Carlos still playing? Three penalties in three consecutive matches and should have been off.

All unbelievably stupid.

This is great. 2-1 Sevilla, Conte has a yellow card, everyone’s trying to get everyone else sent off.

2-2!

Fair play to Lukakau. He doesn't usually score when the chips are down

Darude’s going to get some decent royalties from Spurs tonight but I don’t think any of the goals will match this one.

Rijeka's goal at Copenhagen tonight is the new best goal of all time. More enjoyable every time you watch it. (📷 via @CRO_Scout)pic.twitter.com/IPt1dFM6On

— Colin Millar (@Millar_Colin) October 1, 2020

lmao

haha

Lovely worked goal from Spurs there

Bale and Doherty seem to be on roughly the same wavelength, which is promising.

Nobody on the same wavelength so far tonight.

That goal was some dire defending, no-one even close

Celtic somehow beating an on-form Lille 2-0 away from home despite being chronic generally and historically shit away from home in Europe

lol four subs at half time.

And yet Winks still on the pitch.

Celtic somehow beating an on-form Lille 2-0 away from home despite being chronic generally and historically shit away from home in Europe

The one time I decide not to watch them.

lol four subs at half time.

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 29 October 2020 18:59 (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I remember Mourinho doing a triple substitution at half time for Chelsea in the FA Cup. Ended with men and Lampard in goal iirc

9 men even

All five on with half an hour to go so maybe Kane will get a go in goal again.

of course it's now 2-2 in the Celtic game

That's because I started watching.

Also because Ntcham is playing and doing his usual strolling about the pitch trying to avoid the ball.

The five subs have yielded no shots on target.

my WhatsApp chat with my 2 pals about Celtic

[12:09 PM, 2020-11-05] Jonny: No less than 3 points acceptable.
[12:27 PM, 2020-11-05] Jonny: Fuck me
[12:27 PM, 2020-11-05] Anthony: Fuck me man
[12:27 PM, 2020-11-05] Anthony: Shite
[12:32 PM, 2020-11-05] Jim: mon tae fuck

Lennon might not last the season at this rate.

Correction, the week.

apparently this was a weakened Sparta team? michty me. id be taking the pitchfork to janefield street the now if I weren't on the wrong landmass

Harry Winks with a (probably accidental) golazo.

GOAL! HARRY WINKS OH MY GOD 🤯🤯🤯 #THFC #COYS pic.twitter.com/4MyUcPNnXy

— The Spurs Web ⚪️ (@thespursweb) November 26, 2020

tsk, disrespectful

yeah that's an overhit cross

intentional fallacy

Spurs have been appalling with a relatively strong team. Deservedly behind.

Pathetic from Hart.

Sanchez is now a full blown liability

Harte should have caught both, let alone saved

Rotten performance from everyone but tanganga, hut especially in defence where every individual decision all night has been panicky shite

*checks*

you're winning

you'll want to have tried sitting in the freezing cold for 3 hours only to watch mk dons play your boys off the absolute park, which is how i celebrated the end of closed-doors yesterday

spurs' 2nd XI has issues and they seem like very pressing ones!

Check again.

Ah fuck off are u srs

ahaha i kind of thought that might happen after i posted all that

Deserved

Not sure again that was a strike joe hart should not get near

I must have missed Joe Hart signing for Spurs, hilarious.

went viral for his left-arm pace in a spurs cricket knockabout the other day

Hart is effectively an ex-professional despite only being 33. I get why they want an English player to pad out the squad but if Lloris gets injured after January, that’s the season done.

Kane rested vs Wolfsberger but Vinicius still benched. Looks a strong side, though.

Fun so far, dele actually at it and bale and son bright so far

Left side of the defence just shown up as total mugs mind you so lets get a few more

Lovely

Im quite ok actually hammering these lads, we could use a confidence primer

Joke defending of back post again and should be 2:1

Making mincemeat of them.

Brilliant save from lloris for that earlier chance i referenced

We wont learn anything positive about our centre halves or davies or winks tonight but everyone else has the chance to impress imo

Stupid penalties in four of the last five matches now.

Not too late to get money on a draw

Bergwijn and Vinicius at nothing since coming on

Dier regression to Gary Doherty continues

otoh if we crossed to vinicius he might be ok

Yep, expecting him to replicate what Kane and Son do is ridiculous but he will finish chances that are presented to him.

Leverkusen were 3-0 down vs Young Boys at half time, came back to 3-3 and conceded to lose in the 89th minute.

Great goal from Dele.

Oh deleeee

Beautiful cross and a very nice finish

But dier shouldve been sent off just before, carving out a disaster from nothing again with his now predictably awful decisions about what to to leave to gk or not

Woof

Proper no 10 performance alli tonight

This is nice

Lovin the chubstitute they brought on

sliced it tbf

^gonna see if this guy ever admitted the Rooney shinned overhead

Surely any trve heads would have Scholes vs either Villa or Bradford as best Utd goal of last 25 years anyway tbf

Best post-Cantona I mean

Can't argue with the Scholes picks but if we're talking volleys I'd add:

Rooney vs Newcastle
RVP vs Villa

Yeah

Beckham header from a first time gary neville sidefoot cushioned volley cross against....i wanna say middlesboro

And cron vs porto, the shot that would be travelling still if no net

of course, the real heads will point to this ultra-rare bootleg Veron/Van Nistlerooy combination in a pre-season friendly against Madrid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfEf9ashI8A

Wow at the Dele goal. Not sure I've seen someone set themselves up for a bicycle kick before.

Wow at the Dele goal. Not sure I've seen someone set themselves up for a bicycle kick before.

I'm sure darragh's done it once or twice

lol

brb starting 'footzing'

I havent but its the rivaldo one isnt it

I havent in any way the aerial agility for that stuff, im a "wand of a right foot" pedestrian type fyi

Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Berbatov against Liverpool, I'm sure Zlatan's done it...

Very fine game this

That looked more off than not to me but great ball

I love how keown and adams dress up for bt sport

Decent first goal for the lad

Have you seen Amad Diallo's goal from Bruno Fernandes assis??😱😱😱
Manchester United wonderkid is here #MUNACM pic.twitter.com/KpCD6ad0hh

— Nungua Bruno Fernandes (@kwaku_talia) March 11, 2021

That was great!

It was grand

Job done spurs, that is

This is disastrous stuff.

Disastrous, season-ending, stuff at this rate.

Rather keep levy, mourinho and the stadium tbh

Ah well. Not even going to make it to penalties.

it's pathological

when you win this on that ludicrous away goals after extra time rule don't come crying to me

If we burn it to the ground with all in it would it cure it

I think you’d need to salt the earth afterwards to be sure.

Jose otm

I was about to say you've passed up the chance of a Battle of Britain tie with Rangers, but they're getting beat too.

An apology from Joe Hart after one of his social media team posted “job done 3-0’ assuming that #THFC had beaten Dinamo Zagreb pic.twitter.com/fM19Om3t6O

— The Spurs Web ⚪️ (@thespursweb) March 19, 2021

only a coward blames his social media team

Imagine having that on your CV in 2021.

Look it's been a rough year you take a job where you can find it

He still did his job better than 15 other cunts i could name last nighy

Congrats to Villarreal (pop. 51,367), the only team in Europe this year to stand up to the Evil Empire.

i look forward to seeing them in the Super League next season

You're more likely to see Wolves in the Super League than Villarreal tbf.

Game is free tonight on BT's YouTube channel for those without BT Sports

Lindelof would drive you to drink

A nothing player

xp ah thanks, thats good to know! am watching it free on the bt sport app, but that means using a tiny phone screen so i haven't really got a clue whats happening. united are winning though amirite?

Only question is if United can't break them down is who's on the bench to change it up?

Plenty time tho, Villareal don't look that solid

this match so far has basically been every other united game this season, so not sweating it yet tbh

Balls, I wish I'd seen this thread earlier. Doesn't sound like the 1st half was much cop though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx6ydLt_MkE

Their YouTube channel will also be showing the CL final on Saturday if you fancy watching what will probably be four halves of not much cop xp

Yes, just noticed that, no interest in watching it though.

Game on

Emery just needs a cardigan with some holes in it and the resemblance to Rigsby would be complete.

not sure what changes united can make here, think i'd rather see ole on that most of the bench

If it goes to pens my theory is Villareal win but who knows, cup football

Also just enjoying watching a decent match in a pub

Utd need to bring on Henderson if it goes to pens

Dan James is getting younger - and paler - with every passing month.

This is going on until someone hits the post. Neither keeper looks like saving anything.

lol

Just glad those pens are over tbh jfc

Blimey.

Excellent penalties from the last couple of Villarreal defenders.

Henderson sub was the easy call

De Gea simply doesn't save penalties (or score them it would seem)

Sombody's been at Villarreal's wiki page:

UEFA Champions League
Semi-finalists: 2005–06
UEFA Europa League
De gea is shiit: 2020–21
UEFA Intertoto Cup
Winners: 2003, 2004

Not watching the match but surely Spurs can’t be playing badly enough to need Kane, Son and Lucas being brought on vs Mura.

Kane with a 20 minute cameo hat trick.

Spurs’ lack of any available adults to play up front has meant they’ve carried absolutely no threat vs Vitesse.

Vitesse deservedly ahead.

Roma getting thumped 6-1 by Bodo/Glimt, in case anyone is feeling nostalgic for Jose.

Mou out surely.

Moucastle

jeez, god, yeah, moucastle is a likely thing, huh, he'll have enough money to buy Alli, Pogba and Shaw just to keep them individually, in boxes of sand in his office. On match day, he'll make it a ritual to go to each box and put his finger over the solitary airhole, muttering something about past transgressions. Who says money can't buy Jose happiness.

Now im not against that for each of them neither tbh

It looks like Spurs are going to get kicked out of the Conference League.

UEFA has said the Rennes match won’t be rescheduled and has been referred to a disciplinary panel.

Probably slightly better than failing to get out of the groups anyway I guess

Award us a 3:0 loss id have settled for anyway

looks like Spartak Moscow are being kicked out of the competition

good, i don't see a more ethical choice

There’s a non-negligible chance West Ham could win the Europa league and qualify for the CL. RBL would probably be favourites but I wouldn’t bet against them at this stage.

Can you imagine a West Ham v Rangers final? Great bunch of lads.

Hopefully this will make up for Michelle O’Neill becoming First Minister.

This has been a completely extraordinary run for a team that has looked so average against Celtic this season.

Forgot to watch. What’d I miss?

so Feyenoord reached the final of the Conference League at the expense of Olympique Marseille. they will be the underdogs against AS Roma in the final, but who cares?
Arne Slot, their manager, is one to watch by the way.

Judging by the behaviour of some of the Frankfurt fans last night if I was a resident of Seville I'd be out of the city for the few days when this final is on. Obviously that would have been advisable anyway because Rangers are playing - look what they did in Manchester the last time they were in a European final - but this could be a real bloodbath.

This has penalties written all over it. Two pretty ordinary sides, extremely well matched.

...spoke too soon.

... no I didn't.

Thought Rangers were by far the better team in extra time, shocking miss from Kent at the end and shite pen from Ramsey

*chef's kiss*

I said, "Ramsey's going to miss this". Big shot player who 2as brought in on ludicrous wages to win stuff.

I said, "Ramsey's going to miss this". Big shot player who 2as brought in on ludicrous wages to win stuff.

Oh hi

Lol howzitgaun onimo?

Hanging on

'mon the onimo

Lovely to see you onimo!

Hi Onimo!

Critical support to comrade Penalties Heartbreak on this occasion.

hai onimo!

thank. fuck.

bad internet has thwarted my attempts to watch the barca game but it sounds like a good 'un

Ten Haag might be kind of The Man For The Job. I havent seen that kind of fight in United for a mighty long time. Funny old game innit etc etc

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sharklike

just needs his own Triggs

would it be fair to say that if one man in world football was capable of being booked twice in a game but legally not sent off before winning the match

That was some Vince McMahon running out with the mic in the middle of the main event to say this is now a no DQ match shit

Did he also manage to somehow get booked for timewasting while in possession of the ball at his feet, in open play, or was that a product of the fevered imagination of a handful of Aston Villa fans

he lived long enough to see himself the hero

Football.

This has been on during our anniversary dinner. I've been keeping far too many tabs. What a fuckin ending

Blimey

While there goes the unbeaten season they're getting absolutely leathered here.

in for the Alonso backlash

oh a third, stick a fork in 'em

we taught this kid everything he knows. it was us remember us. cool

Atalanta have been absolutely fucking awesome.

Lookman so hot and cold

Lookman
I always wanted you to go, have a Look man

Some interesting results in the Conference League tonight.

Śląsk Wrocław beat St. Gallen 3-2 but St. Gallen went through 4-3 on aggregate thanks to a penalty in the 18th minute of injury time. Slask had three players sent off, the last of them in the 22nd minute of injury time.

Hapoel Be'er Sheva also had three players sent off while losing to Mladá Boleslav.

Pafos were going out against CSKA 1948 until a goal in the 7th minute of injury time, and then promptly scored three more without reply in extra time.

Ajax beat Panathinaikos 13-12 on penalties (in the Europa League) while, at the opposite end of the scale, Zira FK beat NK Osijek 2-1 on penalties.

porto v man u, what a wacky rollercoaster ride this is. bruno got send off again. utd pissed away a two goal lead and ended up a goal behind. maguire has headed in an injury time equaliser. there's been no suggestion of them ever being in control of the game and porto should've scored at least a couple more. very desperate for eth but its been entertaining all the same

looks like rangers got humped, 1-4 loss against lyon

At least it wasn't 7-1 though so they still got bragging rights after a fashion. More surprising was Hearts winning in Minsk despite being rock bottom, failing to win a single game and already losing a manager in the SPL.

lol at this manu v bodo match

wtf Rangers 3-0 up at half time in Nice?

4-1 to Rangers. The obvious reaction is to assume Nice must be utter mince but this is the first time they've lost at home in any competition since losing to PSG... in May.

yeah it's a great result for them. wankers!

I'm happy for them to win, it helps the coefficient (English football fans might have to Google that).

Fenerbahce v Rangers

Great bunch o' lads the pair of them.

United and Spurs on course to meet in the final according to some of the media, who've obviously not watched either team play this season

(xp) Talking of arsehole clubs you wouldn't touch with a bargepole, the owner of Steaua Bucharest or FCSB as they are now known, who are playing Lyon in the next round, is quite the repulsive scumbag:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigi_Becali

Don't know what to make of this Sociedad United game apart from its very boring, even with the two goals.

Rangers' European form continues to be a total mystery. Lose to St Mirren and Motherwell at home, go to Fenerbahce and win 3-1? And they had two goals chalked off by VAR by the way, the first one of which was extremely dubious.

LOL @ Mourinho losing 3-1 at home to Barry Ferguson.

might need rangers to knock out man united

who wins a spurs united final

(j/k everyone’s a loser in that scenario)

el crapico

Certainly not the neutrals.

It's obvious the Norwegian ref was trying to make sure Man Utd won the tie in the expectation that Bodo/Glimt would beat Spurs.

Absolute farce that two of the shittest rich teams in Europe can have a shot at the CL next season. The time to give a Europa League winner a CL place was when it involved good teams or teams that dropped out of the CL, yet they introduce it as this weird safety hatch for two of the most abysmal English failure teams of the modern era, even versus their own lowest recent standards.

Not sure what you're on about. The Europa league winner has qualified for the CL since 2015

I remember it being a thing in 2016 because 8th place Liverpool had a chance to qualify if they'd won it

point stands - it's never been easier to win ergo it never has deserved a cl place less.

i remember 2016 well also - eighth, not that bad a position really when you think of how many positions there are in the league that a large, badly run club could sink to.

Europa League winners qualifying for the Champions League has been a bad idea since 2015.

agreed

Surely Bilbao are the best out of the 4 teams left but they shat the bed last night

Spurs by no means there yet btw!

How grim must it be for Bilbao to miss out on a final in their own stadium?

LG on a tear this morning. League title isn't enough. Mancunia delenda est

Don't let the devil(s) gain a foothold, lest it becomes a stronghold.

fear not, Tottenham (probably) stand in the way of these lads

you can always rely on tottenham

agreed that a cl spot is too big a prize for this competition which tbh has been chock full of shit, including ofc us

i fancy spurs to reach the final, at least, but i still hate them and they'll concede or go a man down within 5 mins against utd in a final

Oh no one hates this Utd team more than me

And they certainly don't deserve any sort of reward for this season

I was only responding to LG's strange implication that the rules of the competition have been changed because of the their badness

fair point!

Spurs haven't lost to United for almost three years so it seems odds on they'll do just that in the final

Of course, there's no guarantee they'll even get there yet

Best 15 minutes of the season lol

Absolutely shite before that of course

Anon: Mentally Spurs fans will be better equipped to handle the Europa League loss than United.

this ref performance is actually shameless

vicario a clown

The cherry on the cake of Luke Shaw's career

What an utterly dismal game

Funny that the winning manager is the one getting sacked

Absolutely no way did I think Spurs would ever win that game. Utd at absolute rock bottom.

Absolutely dire standard of football. But I'll take the win

ange out

happy Spurs won, not happy I watched that dreck

BBC not even trying to polish a turd tbh:

Brennan Johnson became the first Welshman to score in a Europa League final since Fulham's Simon Davies in 2010

Absolutely no way did I think Spurs would ever win that game. Utd at absolute rock bottom.

I'm not in the least bit surprised

Amorim basically can't beat Premier League teams

not an awful way to leave a club tbh ange out

it was 'fun' while it lasted, manchester united 1878-2025

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ange already talking himself back into the sack it seems

"I made the decision after the transfer window this was the trophy to go for.

"Everything I've done, from training to decisions, was to be for the best possible chance in the Europe.

"That's come at a cost... I just felt the end game was more important."

"People can go on about the 20 league defeats, but they're missing the point of what we're trying to do here - or what I'm trying to do."

"I remember Daniel said 'we've gone for winners, it hasn't worked, we've got Ange.' Mate, I'm a winner, I've win everywhere I've been. All I've done my whole career is win things.

"But, whatever happens, I push on to do what I do."

he should resign

Like Amorim has once again said he might have to do. Seriously both of these clowns need a simple course in "the lads have done well but we won't get carried away" or "we're disappointed but there are some positives to take" or whatever shite, rather than Jesus on the cross every single press conference.

did....did you just say "clown"

he'll be coming for you

I thought Ange would mic-drop resign on the spot too tbh

as if any manager would ever resign and forego the payoff. amorim has been saying he would, if the fates demand it, but i find that doubtful, and i don't even judge any of them for it.

I really really wanted Amorim to succeed. He looks the part, generally talks a good game, and his CV was promising

But I have never seen a more inflexible manager in my life

Every game, no matter the opposition, and no matter what happens IN that game, it's the same formation and shit, negative approach. I've lost count of the times this season when we've been chasing a game and he's brought on another fucking centre back rather than an attacker. And if things get really bad then he occasionally sticks Harry Maguire up top

He's won six games in the league, none of them convincingly, and this is the third time this season he's been beaten by a terrible Spurs team

Of course there's no reason he should resign but this is the only club in world football where there'd even be a question of him not being sacked. On his record so far, he's not just the worst Utd manager of my lifetime, he's one of the worst Premier League managers ever

It's actually four times. And we've only won 17 matches all season. So roughly 25% of them have been against United lol

Ten Hag managed the first loss

I'm still seeing the odd delusional Man United fan saying "But Klopp/Pep had very bad first seasons too"

The worse United get the worse Klopp and Pep's first seasons (the latter got 80 points) seem to become.

He just needs more time/a pre-season/his own players

delete as appropriate

Klopp obviously had his ups and downs but it was clear even in the first game something was brewing. Then they hammered City away that winter and again you could see this is going places, despite the odd howler result.

I guess it's a matter of debate whether a good manager must be versatile, like Pep or someone probably isn't, but at the same time it seems very dense and naive to keep trying to force a system on a squad that can't play to it.

echoing nn frustration here but with ange obv

the conflicting dysfunctional silos at the club (board, coach, players) all pushing narratives and pointing fingers rather than even trying to do a 6/10 job each first is a sickener

ange now spinning that he junked the league from feb to win this trophy, that was his baseline for future success.....like being shite 90% of the time is some sort of calculated and necessary tradeoff to beat bodo glimt....

idk im a little unarsed by the "i can believe its still the uefa cup" cup and ive never bought the line that the slow progress from jol through whatever the fuck conte/mourinho tail end was didnt count for anything because we didnt cap it with cups that middlesborough or brendan rodgers have won.

absolutely shite season and if theres players or coaches at spurs that think theres now measure of acceptable balance and we move id like them all to be identified and shipped too.

theres just nothing to build on with ange after two years and nothing there has changed for me. thanks for the trophy.

Eternally grateful to Ange for Kyogo, Maeda and Hatate, but he's been pretty well useless for Spurs.

pep is a management consultant theres a level at which he is known and understood to have power and control from corporate that trumps any requirement to lead or be correct. he becomes a fact, you can succeed because or in spite of him but you cannot achieve anything by questioning him.

theres a level of value in this in very certain setups and he makes sure he doesnt test himself anywhere else.

“shite season”

you literally just won the europa league tf

what profile of manager could work at spurs, it feels doomed. get mckenna in and stick with him would be the least bad play maybe

argument there is to stick with ange for another season tbh

the "win now" managers cant do fuck all with a squad with this technical floor and levys appetite for turnover at loss is nil

ange in, glumly?

you've lost your fire

slowly doused by years of leakage

I’m ange out for his sake not spurs’. play for them is def ange in imo - he’s already arguably overachieved. would be mad to dump him having won a trophy. a european trophy, no less.

saw some people saying arsenal have had a better season which is just mad to me. different mentalities or perspectives, I guess

I think they have. Spurs lost 21 games in the league. Spurs may have ultimately had a more successful season, but a better season to me implies commenting on the week to week. Spurs have had an absolutely abysmal season on that basis.

Agree that Ange would be better off leaving Spurs.

if he doesn't leave then his friends should organise an intervention

he could sell it as a success on the cv now to clubs that only watch cup finals

top ten, any sign of actual project/rebuild (instead of an uncommitted inconsistency and an easily beaten setup) and the season could be called a success. 17th and likely 22 losses and no mistakes acknowledged to learn from? there's nothing to take from that that says this is working.

all his players will be injured again in October and he'll be gone regardless

just think winning a european trophy is an insanely big deal. once in a generation type stuff for non-super elite clubs

I’d be as happy as the next guy to troll spurs fans by claiming that it’s a diddy compy or saying they only had to beat a wifi password in the semi but it’s a genuinely huge achievement. one that’s not easy to do. should be a day of joy

jol in

Would you be saying the same if Rangers hadn't lost on penalties in the Conference League final a couple of years ago?

it was the europa league no? and, yes, it would have soured me to my very core. it would have been an even more massive achievement for rangers (given the budget discrepancies involved vis-a-vis EPL clubs). thank god, it never happened. aaron ramsey is my personal hero

i enjoyed the final and was delighted by the grit and work shown

im very much enjoying the day

i just believe what im saying here also

if he stays then grand, i hope he achieves great success but every week another stinking performance doesn't really make me very enthusiastic about it is all

it would have reignited the bitterness of seville that resides (still to this day) deep within me

(I mean, yeah, you’re probably right that publicly I’d be undermining the compy at every turn but deep down I’d know.)

"with cups that middlesborough or brendan rodgers have won"

Lol

I like Ange but I’d struggle to argue he has any particular strengths as a manager.

Even taking injuries into consideration, the squad is too thin to complete seriously on more than one front and buying another set of promising 19-year-olds in the summer isn’t going to change that.

I’d love to see what Iraola could do with them but he is also someone who seems to struggle to gets teams out of prolonged slumps if they fall into them, which Spurs inevitably will.

here's where i start to look at what works with levy and ofc the answer is "very little" because he jumps from ten years of build on shoestring to pretending you can swap in mourinho or conte to ask them to tell individuals how to control a football or....try...without losing all of that detail loving caretaker stuff underneath

ange in

granted iraola is quite a bit younger than postecoglou but he’s only ever won the cypriot charity shield

Nice that some interesting reflections and discussion have arisen from this match which was in all other respects an embarrassing stain on the sport

Went on a Bournemouth forum a couple of of weeks ago and they seemed to think Iraola is good but not able to switch things up much

Nice that some interesting reflections and discussion have arisen from this match which was in all other respects an embarrassing stain on the sport

Presumably I mean, I was having a shower

I don't think i'll ever be clean again

one that’s not easy to do

it's easier than ever to do. not even trolling spurs, it just is way, way easier now. besides man u, who are going through their own terrible season/decade, they are beating teams whose wage bill is tiny in comparison to theirs. think i read bodo's was less than 1% of theirs but frankfurt won't be competitive either in that regard.

doesn't mean it's not a big thing for the club and fans but it has been devalued progressively over time by the expansion of the cl and the removal of the pathway from cl teams to the europa.

ange has underperformed beyond any expectations. nobody would even believe he'd still be in a job if you said they'd lose this many games, and i mean mid-season. he's in uncharted territory for how long it's gone after the point of failure, in the modern era. it's been bizarre to watch as a result.

xpost

cl qualification aspect is bigger than the trophy and i know exactly howuch ire that statement will raise

i rate it as less of a deal than the actual uefa cup, somewhere short of the fa cup, spurs were iirc favourites to win it from the start

preventing banter comments about trophies being the only measure of progress or success might be important to people who actually believe that shite

oh- it doesn't help that the "attacking" football is as bad as anything served up under mourinho or conte as pragmatists. deeply frustrating, unbalanced and unimaginative stuff.

if we had actually played to the requirements of each opponent or the situation all season like we did last night, we'd be a reasonable prospect

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Is it a bad reflection on the rest of the European leagues that 2 of the worst teams in the PL were able to get to the final

Saw an interview with ange where he was praising vincent kompany for getting the Bayern job, saying people take notice when you stick to your principles like he did at Burnley and I found it p alarming. Any managers job is surely to try to win, but he and kompany seemed more concerned with making sure their personal brand was undamaged rather than trying to win games of football.

Is it a bad reflection on the rest of the European leagues that 2 of the worst teams in the PL were able to get to the final

Give us a break none of the rest of us has any money to spend, the EPL has hoovered it all up.

It isn't cos they are prob by far the two richest teams in it. This isn't the Europa of old.

They're by far two of the richest teams in the world of course.

The whole current EL format was made after the plans for the super league fell through to give teams a failsafe for maybe getting into the CL, from what I read.

It's been throwing up some good, deserving finalists from a diverse range most years recently. The CL format kerps most nbg clubs out of it. Weird how much Sevilla have won it yet they never did well in the CL.

(nbg? big)

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