Other Football 22/23

[Rushies tash]

Sheffield Wednesday scoring in added time after added time to level the tie 4-4. Great game.

[Jairzinho]

Sevilla gonna Sevilla.

[Lee909]

Get in Sevilla

[Mathewbet1]

8 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

I hope David Moyes wins the cup. There I've said it.

Dont be silly he IS already a winner , haven't you seen the plaque in that taffs tavern 

[Lee909]

1 minute ago, Rushies tash said:

Sheffield Wednesday scoring in added time after added time to level the tie 4-4. Great game.

 

Fuck Sheff Wed's and their cunt fan base

[Rushies tash]

1 minute ago, Lee909 said:

 

Fuck Sheff Wed's and their cunt fan base

 

Fair enough. Still a dramatic game.

[Red Shift]

2 minutes ago, skend04 said:

4-0 Wednesday. Unbelievable Jeff. 98th minute, injury time in injury time.

19 points ahead of Peterborough over the season. Another travesty of a situation where the consistent performers could get robbed by the football league, but what an epic comeback.

[Harry Squatter]

So that is Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Fulham and now West Ham who have all qualified for European finals since the ban was lifted in 1990.

 

Also Wigan, Blackburn, Swansea, Birmingham and Portsmouth have all won domestic trophies since 1995.

 

But Everton haven't been able to compete because they have never recovered from Heysel..

[Lee909]

19 minutes ago, Red Shift said:

19 points ahead of Peterborough over the season. Another travesty of a situation where the consistent performers could get robbed by the football league, but what an epic comeback.

 

The Italian system is better for their playoffs

 

 

At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to Serie A and four teams are relegated to Serie C. The top two teams are automatically promoted as is the 3rd-placed team if they are 10 or more points ahead of the 4th-placed team, else there is a playoff tournament that determines the third ascending team.

 

Since the 2013–14 season, anywhere between two and six teams within a "playoff margin" of 14 points from the 3rd-placed team will enter the playoff tournament. Under the new playoff format, up to three rounds may be required. The final two rounds are two-legged ties while opening round matches (if required) are single legs hosted by the higher-ranked team

[Lee909]

Imagine getting sent off in thr 116th minute of a European semi final for time wasting and missing the final

[Simbo]

What a game!

[Jairzinho]

An Italian side in all three finals.

 

The third, sixth, and eighth best teams in Serie A.

 

[Red Shift]

5-1 full time. Penalties at Hillsborough

[johnsusername]

1 hour ago, Harry Squatter said:

Watch out for the usual shithouse club puppets to push the following:

 

No CL - can't attract the top players. Even though we never bothered when we won the thing.

 

The run at this late stage of the season means that Klopp is happy with his options and only minor tweaks are needed. 

 

The re-emergence of Curtis Jones and Trent playing in midfield means that Liverpool do not need to spend big on a midfielder.

 

The ARE was built with CL football in mind, as a result of the club not qualifying, the majority of income will be channelled into this and will impact upon summer spending. 

 

Mate there are posters in the midfield thread saying we've got enough midfielders for next season already. It's mind boggling. 

 

Klopp is having to drive a Porsche with a Morris Minor engine. 

[Grinch]

13 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

An Italian side in all three finals.

 

The third, sixth, and eighth best teams in Serie A.

 

Everyone of them absolute muck like the whole league.  
 

 

[Grinch]

4 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

 

Mate there are posters in the midfield thread saying we've got enough midfielders for next season already. It's mind boggling. 

 

Klopp is having to drive a Porsche with a Morris Minor engine. 

That’s the cucks getting their excuses in for the inevitable.  

[A_S]

If West Ham win a European trophy and qualify for the Europa League, despite flirting with relegation at times, would they have had a better season than Liverpool, who will finish comfortably 5th (IMO) and also qualify for the Europa League?

[bossy]

We should refuse to do any business at all with Brighton. Everton, now this. Fuck them. 

[an tha]

18 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

 

Mate there are posters in the midfield thread saying we've got enough midfielders for next season already. It's mind boggling. 

 

Klopp is having to drive a Porsche with a Morris Minor engine. 

There might be an argument to say there is enough - if you only look at it numerically...

 

Of course if you look at it from the more sensible and realistic perspective of what those numbers actually add up to you soon see we need quite a bit.

[Jairzinho]

18 minutes ago, Grinch said:

Everyone of them absolute muck like the whole league.  
 

 

 

Yes, reaching European finals is usually a sign of being rubbish.

[Red Shift]

10 minutes ago, A_S said:

If West Ham win a European trophy and qualify for the Europa League, despite flirting with relegation at times, would they have had a better season than Liverpool, who will finish comfortably 5th (IMO) and also qualify for the Europa League?

No. How many teams beat Manchester Cheaty this season? Very few. We did it and got a piece of silverware called the Community Shield.

[Grinch]

3 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

 

Yes, reaching European finals is usually a sign of being rubbish.

Having Oliver Giroud and Eden Dzeko as your starting forwards are a sure sign of real quality.  Players that have been past it at premier league level for years.

 

Europaan football has been dogshit for years.  We’ve wrote two of the last three seasons off and sailed through the group stages.  Even Woy was able to make a mockery of a European group.

 

 

[Grinch]

7 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

 

Yes, reaching European finals is usually a sign of being rubbish.

West Ham 

[Turkish Delight]

Those Italian finalists haven't beaten a genuinely top team between them in the knockouts.

 

Roma had one or two half decent teams but Inter couldn't have had a luckier draw and unfortunately I can't see them doing anything other than getting smashed by City.

 

Inter: Porto, Benfica, AC Milan

Roma: Salzburg, Real Sociedad, Feyenoord, Bayer Leverkusen

Fiorentina: Braga, Sivasspor, Lech Poznan, Basel

[Jairzinho]

Inter were in a group with Barcelona and Bayern Munich. That doesn't seem particularly lucky.

 

And are Real Sociedad and Bayer Leverkusen not good sides for the Europa League? Who are you expecting them to play against?

 

There are no truly great Italian sides. There is probably only Man City in the world who are a truly great side. But Serie A has been an entertaining league, and all of their sides have done well in Europe. They have outperformed their English, Spanish, and German counterparts. Tactically they've been much better. Hence a side in each final.