Europa League 2013/14

Already in the qualifying stages for this, not going to bother to list all of these games as it would be a waste of time.



The know teams that are already in the group stages are:
Spain Valencia
France Bordeaux
Italy Lazio
Russia Anzhi Makhachkala
England Wigan Athletic
Germany Freiburg
Portugal Vitória de Guimarães

Tottenham Hotspur enter in the 3rd qualifying round with the CL teams that have not qualified for their Group stages.

The Final next year will be held at Juventus' new stadium.

Last years thread is here: but locked. http://www.lfcreds.com/reds/index.php/topic,43343.0.html

Just noticed after the event that Swansea are playing Malmö tonight.

Doesn't seen to be on TV, Welsh or English.

ITV4 if you're interested.

Swansea 4-0 Malmö

Not a bad run out.

Jonjo had a good game, and the Bony/Michu partnership looked great.

Gave me a laugh seeing the tweet from the official Malmo FF twitter account last night:

@Malmo_FF: Slut. 0-4

They went on to explain two hours later:

@Malmo_FF: "Slut" in swedish = "The end", "End of the game" etc

 

Swansea City up 1-0 on Valencia after Bony with a nice finish from Michu cross. Also Valencia are down to ten men after defender got red for puling down Bony as last man

2-0 Michu finish off nice pass from Pozuelo, funny watching this I believe Swansea City have more Spanish players on the pitch than Valencia

3-0 De Guzman with a nice free kick from 25 yards out finds the top corner

DeGuzman's freekick was better than Messi's freekick from yesterdays CL. A point against them in the PL don't look too bad judging by this game.  Shame Swan's could not replicate this to the mancs. 

They should scrap this league and just make the CL a bigger league and give the Prem 6 slots, Germany 6 slots, Spain 6, italy 6 and the rest 3 slots as their leagues are crap.

They should scrap this league and just make the CL a bigger league and give the Prem 6 slots, Germany 6 slots, Spain 6, italy 6 and the rest 3 slots as their leagues are crap.

If anything, we should go back to the former setting, European Cup for league winners and defending the European Cup only.  Cup Winner's Cup and Uefa Cup should be brought back.  If they wanted to keep a Champion's League type affair, it should only be League Winners & the Countries major Cup winners that qualify, if a team wins the double, 2nd in the league gets the spot.  Unfortunately, because money talks, your crass idea may have legs amongst the brown envelope types at UEFA.

Spurs 1-0 down. Fantastic ball into the box from a free kick that was headed home.

Soldado lucky to be on the pitch, blatant elbow in the first half.

Spurs pull one back. This could get interesting.

Dnipro down to 10 men for such a stupid red card decision considering what Soldado did first half.

Spurs up 2-1 now. Need just one more.

Red card for Dnipro. Jan Vertonghan made the most of that! Soldado's elbow was more worthy of a red!

hope spurs hang on here, would love them to have at least 2 more Thursday night games maybe even the quarters as our game v them is 3 days before the quarter finals!!

Spurs through! Excellent...

Dim Sherwood through to the final then smashed by Rafa that would be perfect.

This will drain them even more and it's a good thing for us all the way .

Adebayor barely breaks into a trot all game, scores twice against ten men and now he's a world beater.

Red card for Dnipro. Jan Vertonghan made the most of that! Soldado's elbow was more worthy of a red!

I was livid when I saw it happen.  Vertonghan is a blatant cheat imo.  That was disgraceful to the highest level... absolutely ruined the game.  To shaft sportsmanship like that just so you can win an EUROPA league game is absolutely bollocks.  lost all respect for the player and for the f**king tottenham fans that say it was deserved and took the 3-1 win as a justification that they are a freakin top 4 side.

just absolutely disgraceful.  That game was ruined due to BS theatrics.   F**kin spurs and their fans


here' is a vid of it.... what a f***in tool Vert is

I was livid when I saw it happen.  Vertonghan is a blatant cheat imo.  That was disgraceful to the highest level... absolutely ruined the game.  To shaft sportsmanship like that just so you can win an EUROPA league game is absolutely bollocks.  lost all respect for the player and for the f**king tottenham fans that say it was deserved and took the 3-1 win as a justification that they are a freakin top 4 side.

just absolutely disgraceful.  That game was ruined due to BS theatrics.   F**kin spurs and their fans


here' is a vid of it.... what a f***in tool Vert is

Woudn't see our Luis doing any of that nonsense

This competition is really hotting up. Some cracking games concluded this week. Better than the UCL matches played mid week. The frankfurt - Porto game was boss. So was Ludogorets - Lazio game, Spuds game was tame compared to these.
If you missed it try to watch the whole game with only knowing the 1st leg result.

a Seville derby in the next round, love those games, insanity tends to take over, hope the referee doesn't be too fussy and lets the aggro go.