The Europa League 2017/18(Use the SF thread to discuss the current match)

Lookman is the definition of a raw talent. Passing and decisions have been shocking but still looks a threat.
 
Tbh I don't really see it.. of course it's only one goal so it can always happen but imo we've not looked good in any match this season. We really need to improve drastically on all fronts.

Well we could've score a goal or two, I agree. But I don't think 0-1 goals from the chances we created are a surprise and Rosenborg could've scored more as well. Now I don't think we should be losing that match but imo we should create far more than this. Last season we created a chance every few minutes.

Yeah, Rosenborg could have had one in the first half, when Veltman cleared off the line. Other than that I thought they looked a bit hopeless going forward. I thought Younes had done well getting beyond the full back and putting the ball in to dangerous areas. Dolberg's movement looked a bit lazy. Ajax look a bit better since Huntelaar has come on IMO.
 
These Everton commentators are quite funny. Micheal Keane clears high into the air

'That ball was so high Snodders you could have headed it'

'Headed it? I was going to bring it down'
 
6-0 FT for Milan. Easy win, but still great display in the end. Rosenborg, Red Bull and Austria Wien also win, while Bruges, Marseille and Legia draw.
 
Some goals:

Adegbenro, Ajax 0-1 Rosenborg


Andrè Silva 1st goal


Andrè Silva 2nd goal


Morgan Sanson, Domzale 1 - 1 OM
 
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Everton will need to step it up against the bigger teams if they have any chance of progressing.
 
Didn't mean to offend croatian people and who support Hajduk. It's just many supporters down in the Balkans are fecked up in the head.

You didn't say much wrong. There was a fraction of supporters who were there just to cause trouble. And yes, in Balkan that means to show up like tough guys.

Moronic.
 
Braga lucky to win. Two costly individual mistakes that led to both goals.

Amazing how insufferable Portuguese teams become in the 2nd half when they are winning. You can set your watch to it.

A shame. I was rooting for FH. I got a soft spot for Iceland teams. I hate Braga as well.
 
Ludogorets with a routine win against Suduva (who are fecking awful), which basically guarantees their spot in the group stages.

No one really cares about Ludogorets in Bulgaria, though. They have few fans in their home town (stadium is half empty even on European nights) and only have one Bulgarian in their starting eleven on a regular basis.

It's a necessity for success, but I just don't give a feck whether they do well or not.
 
Lookman is the definition of a raw talent. Passing and decisions have been shocking but still looks a threat.
he's 19 years old and at the beginning of 2017 was still playing in League 1. Not to mention he didn't even go to an academy, some semipro side picked him up at age 11 after seeing him playing footy in a park or something.
 
Ludogorets with a routine win against Suduva (who are fecking awful), which basically guarantees their spot in the group stages.

No one really cares about Ludogorets in Bulgaria, though. They have few fans in their home town (stadium is half empty even on European nights) and only have one Bulgarian in their starting eleven on a regular basis.

It's a necessity for success, but I just don't give a feck whether they do well or not.
I root for them to get into the Champion's League to at least maybe make some other teams believe and push for it in Europe. But otherwise I just don't care about them, their success is absolutely meaningless. They're not a Bulgarian club, their success just seems completely meaningless and plastic
 
I root for them to get into the Champion's League to at least maybe make some other teams believe and push for it in Europe. But otherwise I just don't care about them, their success is absolutely meaningless. They're not a Bulgarian club, their success just seems completely meaningless and plastic

Yeah, I agree.
 
Ajax fans laughing at Psv not qualifying mist be biting their lip now. Reach the finals last year and fail to qualify the next, typical.
 
:lol:

You have no idea how bad it gets. You were lucky it was only after they started winning, we face teams everyweek that start with that mindset from the moment the game starts.
I expected more honestly. They last came here about 7 years ago and that was the worst display I've seen live.

They were really poor tonight. FH played well but it's a team in a slump that just sold their 2nd best player yesterday. Don't know if they were underestimating them or something but it took them a while to get going. Difference in quality still huge as they didn't need to do much to win.
 
I expected more honestly. They last came here about 7 years ago and that was the worst display I've seen live.

They were really poor tonight. FH played well but it's a team in a slump that just sold their 2nd best player yesterday. Don't know if they were underestimating them or something but it took them a while to get going. Difference in quality still huge as they didn't need to do much to win.

They're not very good these days. Abel isn't a good manager and I expect him to leave soon enough and they sold their main striker yesterday to Fulham so it's expected that they're not at their best.

Maritimo managed to draw 0-0 at home vs Dinamo Kiev so our teams are actually doing pretty well so far.
 
I expected more honestly. They last came here about 7 years ago and that was the worst display I've seen live.

They were really poor tonight. FH played well but it's a team in a slump that just sold their 2nd best player yesterday. Don't know if they were underestimating them or something but it took them a while to get going. Difference in quality still huge as they didn't need to do much to win.
Even without playing that well they won naturally the match because they have more individual quality, and probably they will have to buy a new forward to replace Rui Fonte.
 
They're not very good these days. Abel isn't a good manager and I expect him to leave soon enough and they sold their main striker yesterday to Fulham so it's expected that they're not at their best.

Maritimo managed to draw 0-0 at home vs Dinamo Kiev so our teams are actually doing pretty well so far.
Both teams sold their main striker before playing each other the next day? :lol:
 
Both teams sold their main striker before playing each other the next day? :lol:
Probably yes, actually Rui Fonte is brother of José Fonte and is more a forward than a classical striker, as usual until the end of the month they will sign someone to replace him, but they are not playing at their best now.
 
@Scorpy @ValenciasDrilledCrosses been told the owner of ludogorets wanted to buy CSKA originally, but the owners tried to scam him or something since he's loaded. So he got pissed and decided to create a brand new club instead, and that's ludogorets. Club is like 15 years old

Any truth to that?
 
Didn't mean to offend croatian people and who support Hajduk. It's just many supporters down in the Balkans are fecked up in the head.

We ask ouselves the same here every summer when we get to watch English tourists of about the same age as these Torcida idiots pisssing on our historical monuments.

I tell you, football fans being football fans is really nothing compared to that experience.
 
We ask ouselves the same here every summer when we get to watch English tourists of about the same age as these Torcida idiots pisssing on our historical monuments.

I tell you, football fans being football fans is really nothing compared to that experience.
I can image. I apologize again ;)
 
@Scorpy @ValenciasDrilledCrosses been told the owner of ludogorets wanted to buy CSKA originally, but the owners tried to scam him or something since he's loaded. So he got pissed and decided to create a brand new club instead, and that's ludogorets. Club is like 15 years old

Any truth to that?

Yeah I think it's true. It's basically common knowledge that he tried to buy the club as several papers reported it at the time, but apparently it was about a year after he started his Razgrad project.
 
I see Ajax still haven't turned up to a game since the Europa League Semi first leg last season.

Also nice to see the San Siro being used for AC Milan in Europe again.
 
My God, Dinamo are worst then Hajduk. Was thinking they'd be only Cro team in EL, but if they play like that in 2nd half, it will have to be us:wenger: