[FOOTY] Midweek Fixtures - Champions League & Europa League (21-23 November)

[Reg]

Tomorrow, Chelsea's early evening game is on BT's free Showcase channel, and Ipswich v Sheff Wed is on Sky.

http://www.live-footballontv.com for live stuff
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/europa-league/scores-fixtures for Europa fixtures
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/championship/scores-fixtures for Championship fixtures

https://i.imgur.com/MuHOKcx.png

Thursday - English sides' Europa fixtures
FC Cologne v Arsenal - 18:00 BT Sport 2
Everton v Atalanta - 20:05 BT Sport 2

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Cutting it close, Reg.

[Bernanke]

How is Besiktas top in Group G?

[John Arne]

Seville-Liverpool is being played at a proper mad pace. Should be 3-3, as it is, it's 2-0 to Liverpool.

[John Arne]

Offff. 3-0.

[Spoonsky]

Are Sevilla just terrible now?

[Mike]

Easy this.

[Bernanke]

https://imgtc.com/w/BlgDT8s

That backheel by Yarmolenko. :drool:

[niko_cee]

In fairness this is what they should have done to them in the first leg/match.

And Spartak.

[John Arne]

Moreno really doesn't like playing against Seville, does he :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Benzema only able to score against Cypriot goat herders, lol.

[Foe]

Moreno concedes a pointless free kick. Moreno is beaten in the air at the front post. Goal to Sevilla.

[Spoonsky]

Liverpool playing like they want to get Istanbul'd here.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Insigne just scored a worldy.

[Bernanke]

https://imgtc.com/uploads/aj0sT5DyzL2.mp4

:drool:

Thank god Ventura left him on the bench against us.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Moreno is amazing.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Also the Napoli manager is chewing on a cigarette filter as he can't smoke on the sideline :sick:

[Raoul Duke]

Moreno was in the Guardian the other day giving it the big 'un about he's not a spastic any more. I knew he was doomed from then...

[Mike]

Easy this.
:D

[John Arne]

Moreno really doesn't like playing against Seville, does he :D

Hmmmm.....

[John Arne]

Mercado is a right greasy little square-headed cunt.

[Spoonsky]

I have never seen better evidence of a conspiracy theory than Alberto Moreno's performances against Sevilla.

[Mike]

Moreno just doesn’t like playing.

[niko_cee]

It's like the wafer cup final all over again.

[John Arne]

I've no idea why Mercado wasn't booked (and sent off) for that ridiculous dive. Is diving not a bookable offence anymore?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:harold:

[Mike]

Oh dear

[-james-]

Blurgen Bloop

[Jimmy Floyd]

Dortmund are turd now, aren't they?

In fact the Bundesliga as a whole seems to have slid horribly backwards ever since it acquired ', mate' status.

[-james-]

I loved that Kane goal earlier. He has absolutely no right scoring from that chance.

[Spoonsky]

Liverpool playing like they want to get Istanbul'd here.

Yep.

That third was the most predictable goal in the history of football. There's a serious mental weakness in Liverpool under Klopp.

[John Arne]

That second half was absolutely garbage. The front three completely switched and thought we had won already.

That said, Sevilla really are a horrible bunch of fucking cheating, moaning little cunts. Horrible players.

[-james-]

Dortmund have serious issues but it's just their defence really. I watched the u19 fixture earlier and it really does appear to be a top-down system of fielding disabled centre-backs.

[SvN]

It's a real shame that collapse won't really make any difference. I'd have loved it if it cost them qualification.

[Luke Emia]

That was just like watching the second half of the Europa League final. Moreno was awful and maybe that will be the end of him but the amount of times we got caught with one ball taking Wijnaldum and Henderson out of the game was ridiculous.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I really don't understand why Robertson isn't an ever-present there.

[Guybrush]

That second half was absolutely garbage. The front three completely switched and thought we had won already.

Yep.

Had no out ball at all second half. Mané was completely shot after 70 minutes.

Gutted. Spartak game has a lot riding on it now.

[Luke Emia]

I really don't understand why Robertson isn't an ever-present there.

One can only assume Moreno has something on Klopp. The thing is Robertson looked decent when he played. As I said hopefully that does for Moreno now.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Does he have a director of databall telling him Moreno creates 0.2 more goals per month or something?

Having looked it up, yes he probably does.

[CJay]

Someone should make a definitive catalogue of Moreno's cock ups. He's such a careless player, as he demonstrated perfectly in first miscontrolling the ball and then stupidly taking their moustachioed twat out.

We'll beat Spartak next time out and get Real in the second round.

[Giggles]

The last few posts made me check the score after flicking past it when I seen it was 3-0.

Fucking lol :harold:

[Magic]

Only here to lol at the Blunts and Cess. :harold:

[Spammer]

Absolutely MAD game from THE MIGHTY BLADES last night.

1-0 up, 2-1 down, 2-2 but then 5-2 with 10 mins to go...ended 5-4. Mental.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41978325

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPMU83LV4AA01un.jpg

Full kit wanker.

[Jimmy Floyd]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42082570

Bit of a theme developed over the years.

[John]

One of the Qarabaq players has just tried to emulate Benjamin Massing, albeit without quite the same level of violence.

[John]

'Driven past a goalkeeper who barely moved,' says our man on comms. The goalkeeper dived a good six yards across his goal and wound up a yard or two outside the post. It probably wouldn't have been within his ability to move much more than he did.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Really not sure how Atletico Madrid have leaked 4 points to that absolute rag-tag bunch of goat herders.

[Lewis]

Marcos Rojo is BACK, Fellainimania is primed to run wild, and Paulp Ogba is being risked for no reason. :cool:

[phonics]

I'm watching the game on Swiss telly and Mourinho is doing the pre-match interview in better than my admittedly not the best French.

[Giggles]

Barcelona and Juve is on here. Is that the Everton lad playing?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lol at PSG.

[SvN]

It will still finish about 7-1

[Lewis]

Ander Herrera becoming shit overnight is a weird one. His strengths were running about, doing so with a degree of tactical intelligence, and winding people up. It's not like he actually had any QUALITY, so what has happened?

[Lewis]

If he was match fit Fellaini would have three goals already, and I think there is a good case for United using that David Moyes Everton tactic with him as a 'false nine' for the rest of the season.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm watching the game on Swiss telly and Mourinho is doing the pre-match interview in better than my admittedly not the best French.

He'll be taking the Rennes job to haunt Ranieri again.

[Pen]

It will still finish about 7-1

Good shout.

[Adramelch]

They have a very high percentage of French speakers in Portugal if I recall correctly. Also Latin languages and all.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Hope he stuck some money on it.

[Pen]

Touch of Liverpool here from United. Should have been out of sight by half time and they have been shit in the second half.

[Lewis]

Rojo has been good, but the other three were somehow all at fault there.

[Pen]

Not that it matters much as they won’t lose the top spot unless they lose 4-1 or more against CSKA at home.

Edit: I think it might be 2-5 and even then they’re through.

[Kikó]

Mourinho out.

[Ian]

What a time to be alive.

[Magic]

Raped by Wolves.

[Giggles]

SvN :hail:

[CJay]

Interesting situation in United's group. All three teams can now finish on 12 points. What happens if Basel have a better h2h against United, but a worse h2h against CSKA, and United have a better h2h against CSK but worse against Basel? Or is it all just goal difference?

[Adramelch]

Interesting situation in United's group. All three teams can now finish on 12 points. What happens if Basel have a better h2h against United, but a worse h2h against CSKA, and United have a better h2h against CSK but worse against Basel? Or is it all just goal difference?

Essentially a 3-team table is created with the results between those teams, which goes to goal difference. As it is now it's

Man United +5 (7-2)
Basel -1 (4-5)
Cska -4 (3-7)

So Cska need a 3 goal win.

[Pen]

United had all but guaranteed the top spot after four games already. They would have to lose to CSKA 2-5 or more to lose the top spot and then Basel would have to fail to win against Benfica. If Basel win against Benfica it pretty much puts CSKA out unless they win by 4 or more at Old Trafford.

Edit: I remembered that United beat Basel 4-0 so yeah a 3 goal win would do it.

[Danny]

35 Year old Yakubu retired today.

Interesting DOB on these squad listings :rosebud:

http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/isra01squads.html

[Adramelch]

United had all but guaranteed the top spot after four games already. They would have to lose to CSKA 2-5 or more to lose the top spot and then Basel would have to fail to win against Benfica. If Basel win against Benfica it pretty much puts CSKA out unless they win by 4 or more at Old Trafford.

If I recall correctly in a 3way tie it's only the matches between those teams that get factored in.

Edit: "If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;"

So the results against Benfica are removed and it's Points>Goal difference>Goals scored>Away goals scored. It means United are top unless they lose by 5 goals or more and Basel can't be top (since CSKA will overtake them in that scenario). CSKA need 3 goals or more to go to the next round.

[Jimmy Floyd]

God it's years since I went on rsssf. The greatest website there is.

[Lewis]

United should be alright as long as they play a goalkeeper, Ogba, and then just nine other random idiots. If it's ten idiots, or nine idiots and Nemanja Matic, then they're stuffed.

[John Arne]

David Unsworth appears to be arguing with... himself re the Niasse dive.



"We don’t want contact taken out the game. Slowly but surely, piece by piece, it has started to come out of the game."

"I am all for protecting players and nobody wants to see bad tackles."

"But we do have to have experts who know what a foul is and those who don’t know the game… It’s a dangerous place and a dangerous precedent that could be set if decisions are given against you which are debatable."

"I think it’s a great rule but it doesn’t change my stance on if there’s contact anywhere on the pitch – slight or not, contact is contact."


Also, I thought it was common knowledge that the likes of Terry Butcher, Lee Dixon and Danny Murphy are on the panel... hardly "those who don’t know the game".

[Adamski]

How much have you heard of Terry Butchers football insight in the last few years?

[Magic]

Listening to Lee Dixon's thoughts on anything is akin to drowning in engine oil.

[Magic]

Robinho sentenced to 9 years in jail lol.

[Lewis]

Is that an actual sentence, or one of those third world ones that turns into a fifty quid fine on appeal?

[phonics]

1) it's Italy
2) it happened 4 years ago
3) the chick who got assaulted was Albanian

He won't serve a day.

[Bernanke]

The Östersund FM-save continues.

[phonics]

They don't put the foreign Europa League matches on over here so have to use the PPV service. I've spent a tenner this month watching two of the worst matches I've ever seen.

[phonics]

Yuge dive. At least something happened.