The prestigous Europa League thread 2012/ 2013

Davie Cooper Templeton with the goal.

Brendan better get used to the term consistently inconsistent

Oh…

Yurt

Well done by Suarez but the keeper shouldnt be beaten from there.

Hearts fans are a dirty rotten shower of cunts.

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What the fuck is going on with Pepe Reina these last few seasons? He’s basically a party organiser for the Spanish national team and not much else.

He seems to be living off the back of the Spanish team’s success. His concentration levels are gone to shit.

He could have a big part to play in what Rodgers wants to do given his footballing skills but I could see Rodgers losing patience.

Luxembourg’s interest in European football also ended last night with Dudelange crashing to a 4-0 defeat in Tel Aviv to lose 7-1 on aggregate.
Disappointing tie overall for a team who had done so well in the CL qualifiers, going out with a whimper to Mickee’s beloved Hapoel.

The competition resumes in tonight with Athletico Madrid coming to Israel to play Hapoel TA in the biggest game in Europe so far this season
Athletico have pissed a few people off not to mention UEFA by announcing that they are coming here minus six of the team that started against Chelsea in the supercup final.
Diego Simeone’s decision to leave Falcao, captain Gabi, Arda Turan, Diego Godin and Filipe Luis in Spain has pissed off UEFA and the Israeli football association.
Tickets went on sale last week for 350 NIS ( 70 euro) but Hapoel were forced to slash them to 120 NIS after the announcements from madrid and the general lack of interest from the public at the previous extortionate price.
Athletico have been drifting dramatically on the exchanges from 8-15 on Tuesday they are now out to 4-5
Hapoel expect to finish second in this group that also contains Victoria Plzen and Academia from Portugal, they currently lie top of the Israeli league with 3 wins from 3 and 0 goals conceded and have really stegthened their side over the summer by signing Eric Djemba djemba and John Pantsil and hanging onto the extrmely highly rated Eliroie Cohen and Omer damari
Hapoel could catch Madrid tonight, they’ve beaten Celtic, benfica and Shalke over here in the last few years however Id still except madrid to have too much and if you can 4-5 its worth taking…

Elsewhere Bilbao will beat Kiryat Shmona in the Basque country tonight by at least 2 goals

Ill fire another throwaway one hundred on the combo tonight

Athletico 4-5
Bilbao -1 4-6
Lyon 1-2 ( vs Prague)
Levante 1-4 ( vs helsingborg)
Napoli 1-3 (vs solnna)

reagrding hapoel i found out the following piece of info from wiki for SS** that by and large is very true:
Just for the record i fucking despise hapoel tel aviv and all their commie fans

Supporters and politics

The team is the standard-bearer of the Israeli left. It was the last club to cut formal links with politics, in this case the trade union movement and Labour party. At home matches the fans, known as ultras hapoel, unroll banners emblazoned with the face of Che Guevara[/url],[sup][url=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapoel_Tel_Aviv_F.C.#cite_note-6”][7][/url][/sup] and banners with the political slogan “[url=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers_of_the_world,_unite!”]Workers of the world, unite![/url]”. The club has relationships with [url=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_St._Pauli”]FC St. Pauli[/url], [url=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omonia_Nicosia”]Omonia Nicosia[/url] and [url=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Li%C3%A8ge”]Standard Liège.
According to a survey conducted in 2010, Hapoel Tel Aviv is the most hated club in Israel, with approximately about 22.3% of Israeli football fans chose Hapoel to be their most hated football club.[sup][8][/url][/sup] A [i][url=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haaretz”]Haaretz[/url][/i] poll published on June 2011 identified Hapoel Tel Aviv as the second most popular football team among [url=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel”]Israeli Arabs[/url], behind [url=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabi_Haifa_F.C.”]Maccabi Haifa[/url].[sup][url=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapoel_Tel_Aviv_F.C.#cite_note-8”][9][/sup]
Another survey had been conducted in March 2012 by Yedioth showed that Hapoel is the fourth most popular team among Israeli football fans (19%). Same survey revealed that 32% of Tel Aviv residents support the team[sup][10][/sup]

Liverpool one up in Switzerland thanks to a comical own goal, defender heads it off the back of one of his teammates and it ends up ricocheting into the net.

Liverpool quite calm and controlled in possession

Terrible defending there from Liverpool, firstly Carragher and then Enrique. 1-1

Liverpool reply immediately from a corner - Wisdom?

Young Boys fucking Murderpool.

That was a lovely 3rd goal for yb…carragher should hang up the boots infairness.great finish

Christ, Lou Macari is some dose. He just said that Shelvey has more experience than Assaidi as he came on for him.

That’s a super goal

4-3 to Liverpool, good goal that.

Shelvey gives Liverpool the lead after a nice move. Borini has done well since coming in.

I was going to say good goal by Shelvey but couldnt bring myself to type the words.

Sahin has been anonymous.