UEFA Cup 2008/2009

[Summers]

Osbourne*

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ITV commentating on Kristiansen, the Copenhagen goalkeeper 'Well, he has played in Scotland and we all know about Scotland and goalkeepers...'

What?

[Crybaby Bunting]

Either he's meaning that they're pretty good (see Craig Gordon), or that they're of absolute shite standard (see 4/8 of the SPL goalkeepers)

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It was definitely in a negative context, which was what surprised me. Are the goalkeepers really noticeably worse than other positions? Andy Goram, Stefan Klos, Craig Gordon, Artur Boruc, even Allan MacGregor. All pretty decent keepers. If you look at the bottom half of the SPL obviously there are shite players, but they're all shite, not just the keepers.

[IAceI]

They should give the UEFA Cup a Russian name instead of the "Europa League" may as well, they're awesome at that level

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"I was hoping City would play with a bit of a faster tempo, really try to get at them."

NINETY SECONDS they've been playing for fuck's sake.

[IAceI]

But that's where the match is won and lost.

[HailtotheYo]

Wow, Felippe of Fiorentina just blasted someone from Ajax. Fuck. No card, no free kick, nothing. Hell yeah, this shit needs to happen more often (in reference to harder play rather than typical pansy diving Oh God He Breathed On Me bullshit).

[Scott McFly]

ITV commentating on Kristiansen, the Copenhagen goalkeeper 'Well, he has played in Scotland and we all know about Scotland and goalkeepers...'

What?

Must be the same thing with England and commentators.

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I want to agree but ... Andy Gray

[IAceI]

By "shin to shin" I assume they mean "studs on ankle"?

[Crybaby Bunting]

"Good handball shout there"

LOL. He touched the ball with his hands indirectly as he fell to the ground and the ball was pretty much blasted at him for that to happen.

God I hate ITV football. The TV feed is so bad that it'd be better quality to watch it on my PC monitor

[The Quasi Juice]

Just came across the UEFA co-efficients for European leagues. Very strange after last season:

1 England 75.749

2 Spain 75.266

3 Italy 60.410

4 France 52.668

5 Germany 48.722

6 Russia 43.750

7 Romania 40.599

8 Portugal 39.927

9 Netherlands 38.213

10 Scotland 33.375

11 Turkey 31.725

12 Ukraine 30.100

Romania 7th in Europe? Holland down in 9th? France above Germany? Granted, a lot of these will change after this season's results, most likely. They're calculated over the last 5 seasons and France have their best season of those coming off next season (and Germany by far their best.) Holland have one of their worst coming off and Portugal have one of their best, so they'll probably swap over.

Yeah our division certainly doesn't match the quality of our national team. PSV was doing well in the Champions League until this season (they sucked horribly). It's all about money these days and Dutch teams have none >.> Well, maybe Ajax are fairly rich but nobody wants to play in Holland any more.

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And it's actually Ajax that have failed to get to the CL group stages for 2 years in a row, really hurting the co-efficient. AZ did pretty well in the UEFA a few years ago but haven't really had that much success since. NEC and Twente went out tonight as well, so it's not looking great for getting the ranking up soon. On the positive side, it's really hard to see Netherlands losing even a single place in the near future. Scotland have had a terrible year and a good one coming off the rankings and Turkey have made no indication they're going to do that much better.

[King Ellis]

Ha! Just as Bellamy has scored 2, so has Pizzaro. That has Bremen going through on away goals. Good news for Matzat

[King Ellis]

Kou says:

Spurs out of Europe?

Kou says:

That was funnier than perhaps it should have been (Y)

[The Quasi Juice]

And it's actually Ajax that have failed to get to the CL group stages for 2 years in a row, really hurting the co-efficient. AZ did pretty well in the UEFA a few years ago but haven't really had that much success since. NEC and Twente went out tonight as well, so it's not looking great for getting the ranking up soon. On the positive side, it's really hard to see Netherlands losing even a single place in the near future. Scotland have had a terrible year and a good one coming off the rankings and Turkey have made no indication they're going to do that much better.

Ajax just eliminated Fiorentina, yay. Twente were better than Marseille but lost on penalties, sucks So now it's Ajax/Marseille next round, which Marseille will probably win considering Twente is probably better than Ajax lately and they lost to them. On the other hand I rate Fiorentina higher than Marseille so they might just pull it off again..

[Big Red Fury]

Best pleased with the result tonight. Aalborg will be a bit tough, but they've been down in the league this year so hopefully we'll catch them off form.

[Herr Matzat]

:w00t: :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: BYE BYE MILAN :w00t: :w00t: :w00t:

[mikevandam]

BYE BYE FC Copenhagen

And Aalborg rolled over Deportivo La Coruna