UEFA Europa League 2018/19

[stokeriño]

Rangers behind after 43 seconds... Good work, Stevie G.

And just now, Willian puts Chelsea 1-0 up at PAOK. Hooray!

Giant political banner across the TV-facing side of the PAOK stadium: "Macedonia is one and only and it's here".

Honestly, shut up and let the existing Macedonia have their country in peace.

[stokeriño]

Fucking hell, Morata is a mess. I'm starting to feel bad comparing him back to Torres, because Torres scored 22 goals in that season we won the Europa League and I can see no way Morata gets anything near that this year.

Edit: On that note, Giroud is being brought on for the last 10+ minutes.  Oh dear.

 

[FestiveJack]

Man remember how people were saying Morata was a better signing than Lukaku....

[stokeriño]

Brutal impact from the keeper's knees against Pedro's skull.

[FLiam]

Wow, these Europa group stage games are even worse than the Champion’s League ones.

I realise this seasons CL games have started off quite well this time around though...

[stokeriño]

Just now, Liam Mk2 said:

Wow, these Europa group stage games are even worse than the Champion’s League ones.

I mean...obviously?

[FLiam]

Well the Championship can often be much better than the Premier League to watch... 

[FestiveJack]

F91 Dudelange from Luxembourg are currently holding AC Milan to a goalless draw at half time.

[Kaney]

4-2 finish is a good result but it's still annoying to be conceding like that. Sokratis has been really good and Iwobi was as well to be fair to him. Lichtsteiner at fault for the first but the last kick of the ball being a goal makes me sad. Haven't really been able to get a read on Leno cos he didn't really have anything else to do.

[MDK]

11 hours ago, Kaney said:

4-2 finish is a good result but it's still annoying to be conceding like that. Sokratis has been really good and Iwobi was as well to be fair to him. Lichtsteiner at fault for the first but the last kick of the ball being a goal makes me sad. Haven't really been able to get a read on Leno cos he didn't really have anything else to do.

How 4-2nate

[Kaney]

Arsenal and Celtic both ahead early in their ties thanks to very early goals. Salzburg are a good team so it'll be a great result if Celtic hold on.

[Kaney]

35 minutes ago, Kaney said:

It'll be a great result if Celtic hold on. 

They didn't.

[FLiam]

Oh Danny Welbeck. 

[MDK]

 

19 minutes ago, Kaney said:

They didn't.

This is much better if you read this in Morgan Freeman's voice. 

[stokeriño]

I swear that everyone in the Chelsea squad not named Hazard has completely forgotten how to shoot properly.

[stokeriño]

"Morata in the Europa League so far this season: 12 shots on goal...none on target."  

...Aaaand on comes Hazard in the 54th minute. We are such a one-man team these days.

[stokeriño]

 Morata done scored a goal!!!  

[Arjen Robben]

Still concussed 

[Lineker]

Hazard is out of the BATE game with a back problem.

[stokeriño]

55 minutes ago, Lineker said:

Hazard is out of the BATE game with a back problem.

Yeah, from when he got hacked down by Ashley Young with zero consequence.

...I mean, he would have been benched for the BATE game anyway, but it could still be awkward if we *once again* required him to bail the rest of the team out in the second half.