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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

There's something really heartwarming about that, Rod's a fucking great, great Celtic fan, most likely the most devout of the mainstream celebrity fans, even the jaded bastard that is me gives a wee smile at that.
 
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Amazing win for Celtic. To win with 11% possession and close to a ninth of the number of passes is incredible. Barca struggle too much against terrific defensive performances because they've got no plan B. Plus with their defence they're always likely to concede at least once if you've got a competent finisher.

Chelsea. Ruddy little buggers. Getting something away to Juve is still a major ask. Especially the way they're playing right now. Juve will cut them open and they cant rely on outscoring Juve away. I still think Juve and Shakhtar are favourites to go through. Juve should get at least a point vs Chelsea and then there's a good chance they can get 3 points against Shakhtar on the last game as Shakhtar should already be through by then. Tempted to put a bet on Donetsk at 33/1. Chelsea and City both ending up with Thursday Night Football? Oh god :mark:

Stale Utd performance. Got the result though, that's all that counts. Or rather they gifted us the result. Top confirmed with 2 games left is neat. Just the League to concentrate on now until the end of the year :mark:

:wilkins and Souness' analysis of zonal marking on Sky the other was quite something too.
 
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Chelsea. Ruddy little buggers. Getting something away to Juve is still a major ask. Especially the way they're playing right now. Juve will cut them open and they cant rely on outscoring Juve away. I still think Juve and Shakhtar are favourites to go through. Juve should get at least a point vs Chelsea and then there's a good chance they can get 3 points against Shakhtar on the last game as Shakhtar should already be through by then. Tempted to put a bet on Donetsk at 33/1. Chelsea and City both ending up with Thursday Night Football? Oh god :mark:
Juve have to beat us if they want to get through. We're a point ahead of them and our last game is at home against Nordsjælland. So a draw is not good enough for them.

It suits us, because they can't just counter attack us now. They have to come out looking for the win.

Gonna be hard, but I honeslty think the hardest match is out of the way (Shakhtar) and we can get a draw in Turin.
 
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Well done to Celtic on a great win against Barcelona. They defended brilliantly and got the result they needed through some clever counter attacking, which was well deserved. Barcelona just didn't look like they had a Plan B.

As for the Braga/United match last night, we looked absolutely dire until the final 10 minutes, where we actually started to play some decent football and move the ball around better. The team selection was rather odd with Giggs/Anderson playing centre midfield together and Welbeck playing on the left wing, when he's not looked comfortable there in the last few games. Our passing was sloppy and sluggish and we kept resorting in long balls to Chicharito, who didn't get many opportunities for 80 minutes.

The penalty we conceded wasn't a penalty, what was Evans supposed to do? Rooney also dived for his penalty.

We look much more settled once Van Persie came on. Once the Braga keeper made that dreadful error and Van Persie capitalised on it with the goal, we started to look more comfortable and retain the ball better. Rooney scored a penalty through pure luck and then Hernandez scored a comedy goal. That and the floodlights going out for 10 minutes, it was a very odd second half.

Valencia played much better when he was moved higher up the pitch, Smalling looked decent and had a better game than Evans, Evra had another solid game, Anderson did alright but gave the ball away a lot in the first half, Giggs did better towards the end of the match and Rooney looked good second half also. Van Persie was fantastic when he came on. Nani not so much, yet again he starts a game where he looks poor throughout. We looked better when he came off injured as he did nothing on the wing.

I'm pleased we've now won the group and can rest players for two games.
 
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Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread

I miss the Cup Winners Cup. I think it's a legit trophy as there is such a thing as a good cup side, who might flounder in a league but can pull out one-off performances to beat bigger and better clubs.

Seemed right to me for those teams to have their own contest, best of the best of the knock-out specialist teams.

It could never survive the current Champs League format though, with loads of the domestic cup winners qualifying for that via the league placings.
 
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I recently had a Newcastle fan say that they've won a trophy more recently that Arsenal. Intertoto Cup 2006 apparently counts as a trophy.
 
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Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread

all about selling dem alternate shirts :hmm:

Hendo has looked lively (in comparison to the rest, who are near comatose) which is fairly pleasing. Downing has played alright thus far as well. Having said that now they're both going to suck for the rest of the game.
 
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