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Since Liverpool are starting their Europa League campaign tonight, may as well start this thread now.

This will be rodgers first season in Europe, so I expect he'll look to have a solid competition. I reckon AVB will take this competition more seriously than Redknapp and Newcastle will want to do well for sure. Hopefully these three teams will do well and help England's co-efficient points.

As for the CL, we're retaining it :jordan2

 
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Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread

Fuck Barcelona.

Great second half performance from United. Very encouraging heading to Stamford Bridge, even more encouraging is the Chelsea score. Really think they're due a few losses in the PL, they're just not that good, namely because of their striker.

Hernandez was just fucking all kinds of epic tonight. Scoring for Mexico lately too he seems to be getting his swag back. Such a dangerous player when he's in form, always think he can score. Has to start against Chelsea, where he's got a great record. Weren't too many other notable performances, was ready to strangle Cleverley before he put in that brilliant cross, still can't really see what he's going to offer us in the long term, don't think he has enough about him. Kagawa still looks lost in our system, he can't find space and he needs space to operate, I fear he's going to fall out of the lineup soon, particularly now with Welbeck and Hernandez starting to perform. Defensively we were hilariously bad in the first half, I'll put that down to Carrick starting there. Should never happen again under any circumstances. It has never worked.

Also - :javy
 
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Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread

They'll beat Nordsjælland in two weeks and they can beat us at the Juventus Stadium. Especially if we turn up to another European game like we did tonight. If we beat Shakthar in two weeks, the group will become even more deadly.
 
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Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread

Absolutely gutted with the Celtic result, but at the same time I'm delighted with the performance, I expected a pumping but the lads played their fucking hearts out! And you just have to respect Barca, they play the game the way it's meant to be played.
 
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Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread

The only positive is that winning Serie A would take on even greater importance and make the league more exciting. Part of me wishes that it could go back to being a CHAMPIONS league (including cup winners too) but that wouldn't be fair on teams from hard campaigns.

Also, having the German, Spanish and English champions in the same group is ridiculous. Anyone who triumphs in those three leagues should be automatic top seeds with other spaces then reserved for the holders and teams with superior recent history.
 
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Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread

Pleased with our performance last night after that highly offensive start defensively. Definitely not convinced that Buttner will be a mainstay. Marking for their 2 goals was just unacceptable at any level. Thought he was very rash defensively against Wigan too but that was overshadowed by his strength going forward. He's certainly talented going forward but is it really too much to ask for a defender to be able to defend? Cant believe we played Carrick at CB again. Surely Fergie and co can tell by now that he's useless at CB. Just play Keane or Wooton.

Hernandez was fucking ON IT last night though. So great to see him playing like that again. I'll sound like a smug prick but fuck it, I said Hernandez was gonna be magical last night inside the first 5 minutes. Smug prick boi. He deserves to start vs Chelsea but that'd mean playing him, Rooney and RVP and that might be too risky. I guess we could move RVP out to the left and play Rooney deeper again with Valencia coming back in. Thought Cleverly was really good again too. That cross was beautiful. Fletcher was very good too. #

Not surprised Chelsea lost. Shakhtar away is probably one of the hardest fixtures in Europe right now. Chelsea are just too open to work against the stronger teams in Europe. Judging from the Highlights it looked like it should have been a repeat of the Madrid match if they finished their chances better. Figuring they need 4 points from Juve away and Shakhtar at Home. Juve dropping points in Denmark might be their saving grace though.

Harsh luck on Celtic losing like that but the highlights were all Barca attacking bar the goal which had a touch of good fortune.

Soldado destroying BATE was :mark:
 
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