UEFA Europa Conference League 2021/22

[GoGo Yubari]

Beating Manchester City to losing to the 5th-best team in Portugal in one week is The Tottenham Hotspur Experience, alright (not that a single player that started against City played here).

I didn't watch it but on paper it basically looks like either we full-stop don't give a fuck about this competition or this leg was purely an exercise in evaluating depth and the answer is "our depth isn't great," which I basically already knew. Surprising that Nuno didn't bring a single first-choice attacker to come off the bench.

[DavidMarrio]

Return leg at home with a one goal difference still gives Tottenham a big chance of qualifying. From what I've read it sounded like a dreadful performance though. 

[Lineker]

Honestly forgot that this was tonight.

 

Oh well. Like GoGo says - peak Spurs.

[METALMAN]

I know Spurs don’t seem to realise this, but they aren’t actually good enough to not give a fuck about the second and third tier competitions. If they’d like to win something for a change this is how you do it.

[Lineker]

Kane is back at it again.

[GoGo Yubari]

Glad it's turned out that Spurs do indeed give a fuck about this competition. This has been a fun game to this point, Bryan Gil is extremely lively.

[GoGo Yubari]

Just saw that Lincoln Red Imps made it to the group stage and are now the first team from Gibraltar to make a group stage in a European club competition. That rules. I always like checking in on the early stages of Champions League qualification every year so that's one of those team names that became very familiar to me.

[Lineker]

 

[Malenko]

If Spurs don't get out of the group with any of the possible combinations...

[Lineker]

We should be winning this. Only Roma on paper should be stopping us. I can't wait to see who knocks us out though in the quarters.

[Hobo]

Who are you to doubt Lincoln Red Imps?

[DavidMarrio]

Do Europa League clubs drop into this like Champions League clubs do with the Europa League? 

[gunnar hendershow]

1 minute ago, DavidMarrio said:

Do Europa League clubs drop into this like Champions League clubs do with the Europa League? 

I think so but it's not the same as the Europa League where the teams that drop automatically go into the knockouts. There's a preliminary round or something between them and the group runners-up.

[Lineker]

I mean, sure.

[Adam]

I don't understand what this competition is hoping to achieve.

[DFF]

9 minutes ago, Adam said:

I don't understand what this competition is hoping to achieve.

Money for rich people.

But still, go Red Imps! 

[gunnar hendershow]

It's a bullshit competition for UEFA to leverage in selling TV rights for since they're guaranteed at least one notable English, German, Spanish, or Italian club in the competition every year.

[Lineker]

Yay.

[Lineker]

Lol

[GoGo Yubari]

Moura and Bergwijn both injured, too. Really just going straight into the disaster zone, huh?