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.

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