Europa League 24/25

Bodo come back in stoppage time to win the tie. No they haven't. Twente tie it up right at the death. VAR check on the Twente goal. Goal stands.
 
AZ fan here too (my 2nd team)

We are absolutely capable of giving any side a good game on our day. Defensively we are one of the best sides in Eredivise despite young players in our back line. We lack the absolute top draw players right now to hurt sides in attack more than we do, but the first XI (when fit) is a really good mix of players who fit the system we play well.

It’s a young side, but it has a solid core of players. Not as good of course as Ajax or PSV but there is absolutely no reason we can’t be considered the 3rd best side in Dutch football right now.

I’d absolutely love a United vs AZ in the next round it would be my dream come true! We played 5 years ago and convincingly won, but I think this side is better balanced, even if it’s lacking a talisman of Teun Koopmeiners, we make do with his brother Peer.
Thanks for all that.

Sounds like AZ are the kind of solid, well organised team that get the best out of the players and are better than the sum of their parts, etc. In short, pretty much the opposite of us!

Athough you say they're lacking top quality attacking players? So at least we have something in common. :)
 
Galatasaray being knocked out is very encouraging. Not so keen on facing Sociedad next round if it is them though.
 
I could swear I saw at some point that we would meet winner of Sociedad - Midtjylland game but now I can't find anything about that, was I dreaming
 
I could swear I saw at some point that we would meet winner of Sociedad - Midtjylland game but now I can't find anything about that, was I dreaming
It was either the winner of that tie, or the winner of AZ v Galatasaray.

AZ won that. So now it's either AZ or the winners of Real Sociedad v Midtylland (which is looking like Sociedad).

The draw is tomorrow - we play one of the winners, Spurs play the other.
 
I'm not sure how we would fare against AZ but we would absolutely lose to Sociedad.
 
I'm not sure how we would fare against AZ but we would absolutely lose to Sociedad.
I’d rather we play AZ as I think we’d play better against what they can do to us.

However id love to see more of Kubo. Lovely player.
 
I’d rather we play AZ as I think we’d play better against what they can do to us.

However id love to see more of Kubo. Lovely player.
Never been to Old Trafford so i prefer Man United!How are they doing?
 
of the 8 teams we played in group, 5 are now in last 16. Porto surprisingly out. Surprised we got through without defeat given the mayhem of this season.
 
Which of the two is the easier tie for us? Kinda hoping we win it this year, and at least that would somewhat compensate for our league form/finish.
 
Looks very weak this year. Would be hilarious if we won it.
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Smash Alkmaar 5-1.

Smash Ajax 4-0

Smash Lazio 6-2

Smash Spurs 3-0 in the final.

Be the first club in history competing in the Champions League while playing in the Championship next year.
 
Give me AZ any day of the week over Sociedad. Even when we had better teams than our current one, worse Spanish sides on paper had a knack of exposing our naivety in Europe. Too many bad memories.