Played well whenever he’s had a chance. Lampard completely froze him out until the last few games for some bizarre reason. Potter was giving him game time but got an injury.
Presume he’ll get a loan at a PL club next season unless Poch fancies him to kick on.
Edit: he does need to find a pair of proper boots though. Loves to slip over
How many penalties did Bono save at the WC?
Stunned that it's 2023 and El Shaarawy is appearing in a European final.
He's got good feet. Maybe a bit lackadaisical, but perhaps that comes with feeling he might be better than this level.Originally Posted by Waffdon
Cracking finish by Harry Kane's replacement to make it 1-1.
McManaman's go-to line seems to be "he wasn't looking at that direction" as if peripheral vision is not a thing.
This has always annoyed me with the English play off finals. Championship on the Saturday, League Two on the Sunday, League One on the Monday. Is there some logic I'm missing?
I could maybe see some logic to that one, as Sunday is when the last round of Premier League was on, so you put the lowest one there (although it was played earlier so who knows), then Saturday is your best option so you put the Championship there.
I would imagine it's traffic/police management.
Highest traffic league on a separate day to the last Prem games. Stick the least traffic against the Prem and then the last the day after when there's nothing on.
I always assumed it was because the pitch would get progressively shitter over the three days so you give the higher level first use. May or may not be an issue any more.
It's also a more "condensed" season due to the World Cup so not your usual scheduling. But the Europa/Conference League thing happened last season as well so it's on purpose.
I'll never understand teams playing for penalties.
With the European stuff they probably don't want the higher profile UEFA Cup Final getting in the way of the mandatory week long build-up to the European Cup Final.
Horrendous but oddly enjoyable shitfest.
That's how it was for years and years before the Conference League was introduced though.
Edit: Ah nevermind, it was only the most recent years that it was like that. That makes sense then.
This gotta be the longest match in a long while. Been over 20 mins added on at the end of halves.
Yeah, but in the past you didn't need a superbowl week before the European Cup Final, as no one is that bothered, it's just a football match. It was also a full week in between because they were both in midweek, where they should be.
146 minutes of 'football'. Neither team should be awarded the trophy or the Champions League place.
120+11 or whatever it is must be some sort of record.
There's usually about 2 mins max at the end of extra time.
That's one of the worst pens ever.
Bono is class.
Sevilla's record in this competition is proper absurd.
Bono
They seem to inhabit a strange hinterland between being too good for this, but rarely good enough to get out of their Champions League group, and they've been there for years.
They need the camera on Mourinho after the re-take.
Went in wanting Roma to win but very glad they have lost. Horrible approach to the game, horrible conduct and they deserved absolutely nothing.
Centre halves going up for penalties 2 and/or 3 always seems to happen and I don’t know why. Both Roma defenders looked petrified. What a shambles
Pretty lol way to finish it.
This is the shittest pitch invasion ever.
Fuck all fans are on the pitch.
Pretty much.
Not a fan of the retake at the end there, but it is what it is.
A fitting end to this match to be fair.
Sevilla winning again is obviously the most boring option but boring is better than Mourinho succeeding.
Also a big fan of the Sevilla manager's arc. Journeyman who has coached Eibar (twice), Athletic Bilbao, Valladolid, Osasuna, Levante and Alaves, must be the Spanish version of a proper football man. His previous European tie before this season (2005) was in the Intertoto Cup.
U20s just been the victim of a fairly comedy VAR hatchet job from some extra greasy officials.
That's quite pathetic.
Imagne passing up the scoop of the year. I'm giving you one more chance or I'm taking this to Pleb.
(NB: when I said The Rock I obviously meant a syndicate that Ray Winstone is a small part of)
If Mourinho sees a UEFA touchline this side of next Christmas then they've been far too lenient on him. The post match comments and his general antics throughout the game were scandalous. He would have been sent off early on but for UEFA presumably agreeing with the referees not to send off managers in a final (something he would have known).
lol third world country.
That alone should see the club out of Europe for a year or two. It's getting really dangerous with refs. He had a fucking great game as well.
That old security guard just palming the chair off.
Stick him in goal. He would've saved one.
Wild that he learnt absolutely nothing from the Anders Frisk situation.
Well, that's fairly come full circle.
Allardyce out. Lol.
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