[Football] Midweek Fixtures - Champions, Europa and Football League

[Reg]

Scottish (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/scottish/fixtures), League 1 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/league-one/fixtures) and League 2 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/league-two/fixtures) fixtures.

Champions League Round of 16 ties spread over the next few weeks. Europa Round of 32 ties to be completed next week.

19:45 unless noted.

TUESDAY
Champions League
Benfica v Borussia Dortmund - BTS3
Paris Saint Germain v Barcelona - BTS2, Showcase

Championship
Aston Villa v Barnsley
Brighton & Hove Albion v Ipswich Town
Derby County v Cardiff City
Fulham v Nottingham Forest
Leeds United v Bristol City
Norwich City v Newcastle United
Preston North End v Birmingham City
Rotherham United v Huddersfield Town
Sheffield Wednesday v Blackburn Rovers
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Wigan Athletic
Reading v Brentford - 20:00

WEDNESDAY
Champions League
Bayern Munich v Arsenal - BTS2
Real Madrid v Napoli - BTS3

THURSDAY
Europa League
16:00:
FK Krasnodar v Fenerbahçe
18:00:
Astra Giurgiu v KRC Genk
AZ Alkmaar v Lyon
Borussia Mönchengladbach v Fiorentina - BTS Extra 2, Showcase
Celta Vigo v Shaktar Donetsk
FC Rostov v Sparta Prague
KAA Gent v Tottenham Hotspur - BTS3
Ludogorets Razgrad v FC Copenhagen
Olympiakos v Osmanlispor
20:05:
Athletic Bilbao v Apoel Nicosia
Hapoel Be'er Sheva v Besiktas
Legia Warsaw v Ajax - BTS3
Manchester United v Saint-Étienne - BTS2
PAOK Salonika v FC Schalke 04
RSC Anderlecht v Zenit St Petersburg
Villarreal v Roma - BTS Extra 2, Showcase

[Kikó]

Wake me up when the Europa starts.

[Giggles]

You'll be back asleep within 10 minutes of that shite.

[Kikó]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPBeLuG04P0

Not a chance.

[Sam]

Must win game against Wigan, didn't think I'd be saying that....

[Magic]

Must win tonight for us if we want to remain in the play offs.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPBeLuG04P0

Not a chance.

'Yoofa' and the 'European Football Union'. Innocent times.

[Giggles]

What's the Scottish Challenge Cup? Is that the league cup?

John
Adamski

[John]

It's like the 'Checkatrade Trophy.'

[Shindig]

Nervous for tonight, lads.

[Giggles]

It's like the 'Checkatrade Trophy.'

Ah right. I just seen today that our top two clubs that didn't make Europe are playing in next seasons.

[John]

Aye they're inviting a couple of Northern Irish and a couple of Welsh sides in to compete, for reasons passing understanding.

[Giggles]

Aye they're inviting a couple of Northern Irish and a couple of Welsh sides in to compete, for reasons passing understanding.

Can't see much benefit for anyone in it. The costs of travel to any games would be more than anything to be made from it. It's not like Sligo or Bray have an army of fans wanting a day out either.

[Foe]

What's the Scottish Challenge Cup? Is that the league cup?

John
Adamski

I won that as a youth. :cool:

[Reg]

Barca's kit :drool:

Glad Verratti is back playing. Him and Kante in the same team would be amazing.

[Bernanke]

woof

[Reg]

Did you hear he was man of the match in a Champions League final?

[Magic]

Fucking hell Cardiff cunts. Also that Norwich result is bad news.

[Giggles]

The champions league really is boring as fuck these days. Why is there no Championship on TV?

[Magic]

Excellent! We'd have been 8th tonight if we don't win as it stands.

[CJay]

The champions league really is boring as fuck these days. Why is there no Championship on TV?

:cab:

This has been a great game so far.

[Reg]

There aren't many midweek games on, Giggles. They probably don't want to compete with the European stuff.

PSG look a seriously good team. Could see them winning the whole thing.

Enjoying it as well, CJ.

[Giggles]

:cab:

This has been a great game so far.

I was watching the one in Portugal. Benfica should be embarrassed with the shape and how deep they're playing at home.

[Magic]

There aren't many midweek games on, Giggles. They probably don't want to compete with the European stuff.

PSG look a seriously good team. Could see them winning the whole thing.

Enjoying it as well, CJ.

Sky sometimes put a Championship game on when the CL is on because they lost it to BT.

[-james-]

There aren't many midweek games on, Giggles. They probably don't want to compete with the European stuff.

PSG look a seriously good team. Could see them winning the whole thing.

Enjoying it as well, CJ.

How are they not top of Ligue 1?

I see Falcao has engaged god mode again (Leave Lorient to me).

[Magic]

Barca. :harold:

Somehow sweeter given it was Messi who got caught in possession. :drool:

[CJay]

How are they not top of Ligue 1?

I see Falcao has engaged god mode again (Leave Lorient to me).

Because Monaco score something like 3 goals every game.

Verratti is dominating proceedings here.

[Magic]

Rabiot looks fucking good.

[Adamski]

Fantastic finish from Draxler, he's started well. Rabiot and Verratti on form too. Would love to see the latter in at City or Arsenal.

Challenge Cup also includes top league u20 teams Giggles. It's a bit of a farce.

[Reg]

The whole midfield has been awesome.

Messi as ineffectual as I've ever seen him.

[Magic]

As my dad told me at parents evening:

"Yer too nil darn at alf time, what yoo doo naar, it's croocial foh ya. Croocial"

[Magic]

Are PSG playing with 12 men or something?

[Giggles]

Someone lit a fire under these greasy cunts at half time, they're like a different team. Dortmund deserve it for pissing about so much in the first half really.

[Magic]

Rabiot is a cross between Fellaini and Luiz but with a million times more talent.

[Reg]

It's more like Barca are with 10. Messi is doing nothing when they're out of possession, which is fine against Osasuna, but it's hurting them here.

The whole team looks like they've not been training, or even been getting off the sofa, for about two weeks. They seem to be just relying on their touch without any thought or urgency.

[Magic]

Why are you watching that game when you could see an awesome performance and Barca getting demolished?

[Giggles]

Why are you watching that game when you could see an awesome performance and Barca getting demolished?

I thought Barcelona were going to walk it so I didn't bother. This one is much improved now anyway.

[CJay]

Oh my. Lovely goal.

[Magic]

Oh my God this is amazing. :drool:

[Giggles]

This Aubameyang is a top striker? He looked like a lad in front of goal for the first time in his life there. Absolutely shit himself.

EDIT: Just took one of the shittest penalties I've ever seen too.



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[Waffdon]

I'm hoping PSG don't drop off here.

[Lewis]

'The Little Genius' not closing people down is some way back on the list of problems behind having crap defenders and Andre Gomes.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lol at this so much.

Could have been more too.

Fuck Dire Maria though.

[Boydy]

Maybe Suarez will realise Barca are shit now and come back to Liverpool. :drool:

[Magic]

The PSG manager is such a disgusting looking cunt.

[Reg]

Lol at this so much.

Could have been more too.

Fuck Dire Maria though.
Di Maria :cool:

[Disco]

Does Veratti really have 'Mum' and 'Dad' tattooed on his knees? Even Merse would be ashamed of that.

[Magic]

Does Veratti really have 'Mum' and 'Dad' tattooed on his knees? Even Merse would be ashamed of that.

Unless they were gay pirates.

[Magic]

Cavani. :D

Remember everyone thought he was dog shit. I said otherwise. Nice to be vindicated.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Even Cavani is getting involved :harold:

[Boydy]

The PSG manager is such a disgusting looking cunt.

https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder167/67708167.jpg

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Cavani. :D

Remember everyone thought he was dog shit. I said otherwise. Nice to be vindicated.

He's missed some big chances already, especially in the first half when he took about 5 minutes in the box.

[CJay]

This is amazing. Barca have been even worse than that time they got twatted by Bayern.

[Waffdon]

Humped in the City of Love :drool:

[Magic]

He's missed some big chances already, especially in the first half when he took about 5 minutes in the box.

Can you shut up please, remember who is MOTM here.

[Manc]

Get a fifth.

[Waffdon]

Gimme five or six.

[Magic]

Tell us how Benfica are doing Giggs. :harold:

[Magic]

Farcelona 1 shot on target the whole game.

[Magic]

Yakubu just came on for Coventry. Thought he was dead tbh.

[Giggles]

Tell us how Benfica are doing Giggs. :harold:

They've played for 5 minutes of the 79 and have the only goal, proper smash and grab job.

Dortmund are out of ideas at this stage though.

[Magic]

Absolutely mental night in Champo. Us and the Wendies only ones winning in top 8

[Magic]

Oh my lol. Ok so only us and Dudders winning now.

[Magic]

Fuck sake Blackburn goal disallowed. Also Brizzle scored right at the end. 3 points is 3 points I suppose.

[Giggles]

Benfica celebrating like they've just won the competition after a 1-0 home first leg win :harold:

[Magic]

Fuck OFF Reading just scored to win.

[Ian]

Barcelona got fucked? Deary me, what a shame. :harold:

[Reg]

I'm worried about Huddersfield, the bastards. 4 points now. :(

[Magic]

I'm worried about Huddersfield, the bastards. 4 points now. :(

They are fucking good the horrible bastards.

[Mazuuurk]

Cavani still isn't good enough to be top level IMO. He needs 3-4 chances to score, which is 2-3 chances too many when compared to strikers like Aguero, Suarez or Lewandoski who will score at least 1 in 2 chances or more.

[John]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38978373


Former Sunderland striker Asamoah Gyan is among a group of more than 40 players deemed to have "unethical hair" under United Arab Emirates Football Association guidelines.

:D

[Mazuuurk]

Wonder what they would have done about Ronaldo's old pussycut

[Lewis]

831872823710871553

:cool:

[Reg]

Sid Lowe's arguing that Luis Enrique's finished. It would make sense, given last night's result, the way they played, and the presumed failure to win the league, but also the perception of the local media.

Skip to the last four paragraphs for the papers' stuff. https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/feb/15/barcelona-luis-enrique-humiliation-paris-saint-germain-champions-league?CMP=fb_a-football_b-gdnfootball

[Lewis]

The past decade of relative stability and purpose is the exception for Barcelona, and all of the CRISIS stuff there describes the majority of their existence.

[Giggles]

What are Bayern like these days? Any hope for these limp wristed cunts against them?

[Raoul Duke]

Time for a new bin man.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What are Bayern like these days? Any hope for these limp wristed cunts against them?

Not a chance.

They'll get fisted.

[Giggles]

Robben? I always thought he was late 20's at Chelsea and would be long retired by now. Must be the baldness.

[Reg]

He was young when he went to Chelsea. It's just about the only major young signing that Mourinho has had, I think.

Edit. Oh it was Ranieri. Well done him.

Speak of the bald man.

[Giggles]

Obviously not retired then. Fucking hell that's some hit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fucking hell, what a strike.

[Reg]

Coquelin actually showed him onto his left foot. Obviously not a big football watcher.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Coquelin actually showed him onto his left foot. Obviously not a big football watcher.

Nah, it's well known that Robben is all right foot.

[Bernanke]

That cross from Carvajal. :eek:

[John Arne]

The ref was literally 5m from Martinez acting like he had been shot in the stomach and yet the ref still fell for it, and booked Sanchez. Awful stuff.

[phonics]

John Arne. This bloke is old school Europe. The amount of calls when a player is pushed in the back but plays the ball off fine reminds me of the 90s.

[Magic]

Lol at having your opposite arm that you fell on dislocate. Little bitch.

EDIT: wait was it dislocated or not? He's still on. Still a bitch.

[Max Power]

Cracking strike from Casemiro. 3-1 is harsh on Napoli, they've looked good.

[Magic]

:harold:

[Magic]

Dat moment when you realise you were a fool for thinking Arsenal might nick it.

[John Arne]

I'm not quite sure what Iwobi does in the Arsenal line up. Defensive winger who doesn't like defending?

[Magic]

Ospina. :D

He really is a fucking joke. Cech would have saved the second and third goals as well.

EDIT: lol save of the season straight after obvs.

[Giggles]

Is Cech not injured? Oh dear.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Gibbs showing Ospina how to save.

[Magic]

Ospina. :D

He really is a fucking joke. Cech would have saved the second and third goals as well.

EDIT: lol save of the season straight after obvs.

Lol vindicated. :cool:

[-james-]

Arsenal are completely hysterical since Gabriel came on for Koscielny.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Wenger sacked in the tunnel or even NOW.

[Yevrah]

Why is Ospina playing? Wenger is such a twat.

[Kikó]

They're getting bummed if they don't change something rapidly.

[Kikó]

This is going to be about 6-1.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Why is Ospina playing? Wenger is such a twat.

He went the Spanish way of having one keeper for the league and the other for Champions League.

Failed miserably which is glorious.

[Lewis]

Somebody somewhere will be blaming Mesut Oezil for this.

[Reg]

Am I missing something with Thiago tonight? I know he's scored two goals but the way Hargreaves is going on about him it's like it's a once-in-a-career performance. Vidal and Alonso have been the ones controlling the game in my eyes.

[Magic]

Again they've all been excellent. Another midfield total annihilation performance.

[Lewis]

Somebody somewhere will be blaming Mesut Oezil for this.

Quite a lot of people, actually. Where do him and 'Alexis' go this summer? The top, top clubs probably have better options, so I'll go Italy with the former and 'Atleti' (or China, since he seems the gypo type) with the latter.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ozil would look good in an armband, so they might as well leave him here. Sanchez will go and waste his life at Juventus. Or back to Barcelona when they have an OVERHAUL.

[Reg]

Sanchez would get in the Bayern side. Maybe Real Madrid too.

[Max Power]

Sanchez to Chelsea. Ozil to Bayern.

[Waffdon]

Sanchez to Chelsea would make sense. That'd be some front three.

[Jimmy Floyd]

No way are Hazard and Sanchez playing in the same side. It would be utter chaos.

I suppose Barcelona could buy Hazard for a thousand billion.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

My mate Tommy :cool:

Fisted hard.

[Magic]

Dat defending. :happycry:

[Max Power]

I have never spoken to Antonio Conte personally, but I'd be pretty sure Sanchez is like his favourite player.

Jesus what a roasting this is.

[Lewis]

My thinking is that 'Atleti' will have loads of United's money to spend on a new manlet forward.

[Waffdon]

Too cold for him in Manchester!

[Magic]

Wenger trying to run down the tunnel but having to wait for them to remove the chains?? WTF. :harold:

[Lewis]

Too cold for him in Manchester!

Those comments were a disgrace. BOTTLE-less cunt.

[Reg]

This has to be Wenger's last season, surely.

[Lewis]

I don't know. Remember they have Jack Wilshere to come back off loan, and if they can get a full season out of Danny Welbeck...

[Lewis]

Plus you can see Theo Walcott realising his potential before long.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My thinking is that 'Atleti' will have loads of United's money to spend on a new manlet forward.

Aubameyang off there, like the gimp he is.

[phonics]

That was a hilarious second half. Almost as bad as Sanchez getting three chances to make up for he worlds worst penalty.

This is where you cry for a new manager but I'm 100% sure we're certified as a slightly better version of Spurs for the next few decades so it doesn't matter who takes charge.

[GS]

There's a clear risk in Wenger going, but this is about seven years in a row of the exact same thing. At least finishing 7th one year would give you something new to talk about.

[Lewis]

Aubameyang off there, like the gimp he is.

He's a China candidate if ever there was one.

I don't know why people choose games like this to have a pop at Arsene Wenger. Out of all of these last sixteen defeats, it's only Monaco (and maybe Milan) that they should have beaten, so as far as reasonable expectations go their League Cup defeat to Southampton is the far bigger concern.

[Max Power]

It's the manner of the defeats surely? They seem to get pumped way more than a club their size should. Getting knocked out by Bayern is fair enough, but conceding four in a half is pretty fucking shit.

[Lewis]

I'm not saying that they aren't mentally weak, and that that isn't his fault, but why kick off tonight? Tonight changes nothing, and yet the BBC is leading with 'Can Arsenal, and Arsene Wenger, recover from this mauling?' What constitutes a recovery, and how will it differ from their two years since collapsing against Monaco?

[Smiffy]

I really don't understand why Arsenal bother in Europe. Nor domestically for that matter but still.

Wenger really needs to go.

[Boydy]

You just love being contrary, don't you, Lewis?

[Lewis]

I just look at these things strategically, rather than obsessing with the wank, which means I don't see how we now know things about Arsenal/Arsene Wenger that we didn't know this afternoon (or five years ago).

[GS]

We don't, but those five years demonstrate fairly emphatically that it's not going to improve.

Walcott is a top, top parallel actually. He's been threatening to "reach his potential" for as long as Arsenal have been "threatening to break through". You'd be hard pressed to argue that either of them are materially better than five years ago.

Ultimately you pretty much know what's going to happen in the league and Europe, and the only year-on-year variable is the FA Cup. You could probably get away with picking the season up in January and only watching the cup games, with the potential bonus that their U15 side may not have been eliminated from the "EFL Cup sponsored by no-one" by then.

[Lewis]

832003448044412928

:cool:

[Boydy]

His hair's getting a bit poncy.

[Lewis]

Dressing like he's off to a family meal he doesn't want to go to shows them just the right amount of contempt though.

[Raoul Duke]

More amusingly he must be dyeing his hair. He used to have a wicked cool grey streak, which has "disappeared".

[Giggles]

Losing the face fluff has taken ten years off him.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sir Henry Winter this morning: 'It could have been a tennis score without Ospina'.

So Bayern could have scored one more? Or does he mean it would have been 40-15?

[John Arne]

Advantage Bayern...

[Adamski]

Advantage Bayern...

Nice one Dilj.

[Mazuuurk]

Walcott is a top, top parallel actually. He's been threatening to "reach his potential" for as long as Arsenal have been "threatening to break through". You'd be hard pressed to argue that either of them are materially better than five years ago.

This is kind of like a chicken - egg situation almost. You're right about Walcott, and about Arsenal. But Arsenal as a team is actually full of Walcotts. Wilshere, Oxlade Chamberlain, Welbeck, Ramsey, Chambers (?)... All of these players seem to have stellar moments, and then turn to shit or get injured. Come back next season, have a few stellar moments, then fall away.

Now as Arsenal has so many players like this, the whole team is like that as a consequence. Or is it the mentality of the club that makes players a bit lazy, so they don't work themselves into games? See Ozil, who was a bit of a don at Dortmund and Real as well to be honest. He had a shit first season, but then a great one, now he's shit again and will, just before the summer, surely go on an amazing spell proving his "worth". When he got to Arsenal, he adopted the Arsenal mentality of only running with the wind in your back.

It always seem to me as if when transfer windows approach, these inconsistent players seem to go on a decent spell, and Wenger decides "NOW is the time of Oxlade Chamberlain and besides, guys, we have Sanogo don't you know?" - so he doesn't buy anyone. And then the pressure is kind of off, and Oxlade goes back to being a bit anonymous, and so does everyone else.

Coquelin is another example. He seemed great last year when he came back from Watford or what it was and all of a sudden the "Powerful midfielder" problem was solved, and Arsenal didn't end up going for William Carvalho or whoever was the hot news that summer. And now, it seems to me Coquelin is just extremely immobile and always sort of one step behind. He's very often not where he should have been when Arsenal concede attacks that end in goals (which might make Mustafi worse than he actually is, though he does seem pretty bad recently).

[Disco]

You're describing the very well known Arsenal cycle. It's been the same for about 10 years, how exactly is this news to anyone?

[GS]

At least they're not using "style of play" as justification for failure any more.

[Mazuuurk]

You're describing the very well known Arsenal cycle. It's been the same for about 10 years, how exactly is this news to anyone?

It's not news. It's more remarkable that it keeps going on. It almost feels like everyone are a bit frustrated by Arsenal, even the people who don't even support them sometimes.

[Disco]

People in 'the media' seem perpetually amazed by it, yet another mark against the traditional know-nothing pundit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38993655

lol.

[Magic]

In October 2014, he was dropped from officiating for two breaches of protocol - speaking on the phone with then-Crystal Palace boss Neil Warnock, before leaving a ground alone to drive to an Ed Sheeran concert.

Freak!

[Disco]

Fair play, why would you stick around to get shit on by literally everyone when you can go somewhere with aircon and triple your salary (or whatever it will be)?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Worried now that Jon Moss and Kevin Friend might follow suit. Brain drain.

[John Arne]

Fair play to him. In any other job you chase better salaries and new experiences - I don't see reffing as any different. That said, I probably would have chosen China over Saudi.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Saudi is the worst. You can't get a drink and they'll behead your wife for anything.

[Magic]

*buys 2 tickets*

[John Arne]

Saudi is the worst. You can't get a drink and they'll behead your wife for anything.

From what I've heard, there are enough private parties/events/hotels that allow drinking... but yeah, you're right - no idea why he would choose Saudi over anywhere else, really.

[SvN]

Highest bidder, presumably.

[Disco]

I'm not married and don't drink, where do I sign up?

[Mazuuurk]

https://twitter.com/mojorojo/status/832165117945069568


Quite funny

[Lewis]

Remember years ago when the Premier League at the HEIGHT OF ITS POWERS wanted to buy foreign referees in? Talk about a sure way to ruin the sport.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Remember years ago when the Premier League at the HEIGHT OF ITS POWERS wanted to buy foreign referees in? Talk about a sure way to ruin the sport.

When was the height of its powers?

[SvN]

From a competitive perspective, I'd say 2005-2012 felt like a dominant period. 8 teams in the final in 8 years, 3 winners, and a lot of semi final appearances too.

[Lewis]

I would go 2005 to 2009, when we usually had two/three of our teams in the Champions' League semi-finals (2011 was only United, and 2012 was a freak), but the scheme appears to have been floated in 2004, which means it probably got binned when Jose Mourinho MIND GAMED Anders Frisk into an early grave.

[Danny]

There was talk in 2004/2005 of the prem trying to get Collina in when he hit retirement age in Italy

[Lewis]

Then he had that mare against Everton and everybody forgot about him (until yesterday, when Everton got a SEETHE on when their kit supplier wished him a happy birthday on Twitter).

[Shindig]

From a competitive perspective, I'd say 2005-2012 felt like a dominant period. 8 teams in the final in 8 years, 3 winners, and a lot of semi final appearances too.

Add to that the Europa League. Three finalists and one winner. Liverpool were in the final last year!? I... I mean, I probably watched it but can't remember.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Full strength Tottenham 1-0 down at Gent. Pray for the coefficient.

We actually could come under a bit of pressure from Italy next season. Only 0.4 ahead as it stands (for comparison, the gap from us up to Spain is a full 25 points). The season after that, we stand 2 points behind Italy and would lose our 4th spot.

[Giggles]

I heard somewhere the other day that Deeney is on over £100,000 a week. That's fucking mental enough.

[CJay]

The less (or fewer?) spots the better.

[Boydy]

Fewer, yeah.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Zlatan is god.

[-james-]

http://i.imgur.com/23l8Pgb.jpg

PAOK fans telling it straight.

Definitely getting fined though.

[CJay]

What an awful goal that was. And a total dive from Ibrahimovic to win the free kick in the first place.

What's the Macedonia thing about, James?

[-james-]

Taken down. What cucks.

[Giggles]

I don't get the banner.

[CJay]

The stream I'm watching have the ear of the 'Fifa Match Commissioner' who they go to for every semi-controversial decision. Is that an actual job? And if it is, surely their job isn't to commentate on the match? The guy is a doctor, apparently.

[-james-]

What an awful goal that was. And a total dive from Ibrahimovic to win the free kick in the first place.

What's the Macedonia thing about, James?

Ancient Macedonia falls mostly within modern Greece, to put it mildly Greeks aren't fans of Skopian appropriation of the name. You're really better off not mentioning it to any Greeks you might meet.

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

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was such a lovely run by Martial.

Shame he fluffed the finish.

[Yevrah]

Full strength Tottenham 1-0 down at Gent. Pray for the coefficient.

We actually could come under a bit of pressure from Italy next season. Only 0.4 ahead as it stands (for comparison, the gap from us up to Spain is a full 25 points). The season after that, we stand 2 points behind Italy and would lose our 4th spot.

That is fucking piss poor.

In fact, are we 4th as we speak? That's fucking shocking too.

[Yevrah]

Ah, I see you mean dropping the 4th CL spot.

[Reg]

That is fucking piss poor.

In fact, are we 4th as we speak? That's fucking shocking too.
We should be 3rd, probably. Italy treat the Europa with more respect than we do so it's no surprise they're close. Juventus in a CL final might have given them a huge bump as well(?).

We're nowhere near as good as the top Spanish teams, but we should give Germany good competition in the next few years now that Dortmund have fallen off a little bit.

[CJay]

Are Saint Etienne bossing this, or is it just me?

[Reg]

They're looking quite good, although I missed the first 19mins.

That Blind tackle/trailing leg should have been a penalty too.

[CJay]

That Blind tackle/trailing leg should have been a penalty too.

Hmm, looked soft at best to me. The trailing leg was there, but I didn't see an angle where it clearly caught him.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Martial has a career in MMA after he retires. m

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The third Pogba is a shambles with his hair.

[randomlegend]

Pogba must have set a record for hitting the post/bar this season.

[Lewis]

He hits them too well.

[Reg]

United are infinitely better to watch than they were under van Gaal.

Did you go, Kikó?

[Kikó]

No reg. Going to the return leg next week.

[Magic]

Rabiot is a cross between Fellaini and Luiz but with a million times more talent.


Rabiot looks fucking good.

John

:drool:

[John]

It wasn't that. It was someone who had been to a game and had specific praise, not a comment based on his haircut comparing him to two players completely different to both him and each other.

[Magic]

Damnit. I will win your approval one day. One day.

[-james-]

Yeah, it was after the Parkhead game in the group stage. Probably had it a bit easier then than tonight tbf.