2010/2011 Europa League

[Pesci]

Well that was all kinds of feckless.

[DJ Ice]

C'MON PSV! Bunch of bastards are out

[Guest viperlike]

Liverpool and Man City are out. Having a nice pint to celebrate!

[lanky316]

Well put simply, the referee couldn't keep his whistle out of his mouth. Every time Kiev pushed men forward and we got the ball back, they flopped. With most referees, you would see those sort of free kicks given a couple of times until they think "Oh, this little cunt is having me on", to which said free kicks would not

Thing is, for the most part they WERE fouls loads of little niggles and trips which were bloody frustrating. What he did do though was take note of the various standard time wasting ploys and play lots of stoppage time, which he did (even added a minute for a relatively quick sub). He knew they were making a meal of things and didn't book players and made them leave the pitch ASAP.

Problem is Bally had one of the worst half hours football I've seen for a long time and City despite dominating position didn't really create a chance. Ref had a decent game and didn't make any real mistakes. What is it with English sides and blaming foreign officials?

[Crybaby Bunting]

It's because they're foreign. How the hell are they meant to be correct if they're not English?

[stokeriño]

Wait. Are you suggesting that English sides don't blame English officials?

[GoN_]

3 Portuguese teams in the quarter-finals. Amazing!

[lanky316]

Wait. Are you suggesting that English sides don't blame English officials?

Not at all, however in the last couple of weeks we've seen two English sides fans whining they were cheated when neither referee has made a single mistake of any consequence which wouldn't have raised an eyebrow here. At least Scousers so far have seemed fairly dignified. If Arsenal or City had things go against them fair enough but nobody cOst them anything.

[MJB]

lol Liverpool

Oh and . . .

lol Man City

[Johnny Latino Heat]

3 Portuguese teams in the quarter-finals. Amazing!

Quite honestly, I only really wanted Benfica there, since I hate both Porto and Braga.

Hey, I'm not a hypocrite, I hate them and I don't care if they're Portuguese, and there's no way in hell I'll ever root for Porto, a.k.a. "Corruption R Us".

Stupid CSKA and Liverpool.

Oh, and I really loved to see how many Benfica fans were in Paris tonight. There were more Benfica fans than PSG fans! Now THAT is amazing.

Edited March 18, 2011 by Johnny Latino Heat

[DavidMarrio]

Officials were shite at the Liverpool game the linesman on my side didn't have a fucking clue at all but thats football its what you do on the pitch end of the day and we just didn't cut it.

Great atmosphere to be at though just a shame we didn't look like doing much, seemed to lack creativity, said it to me mate before the game that our problem was the fact that we'd only have Kuyt/Carroll/Ngog (Who looked decent when he came on) If we had Suarez we'd be able to have a creative spark.

Fair play to Braga on advancing.

edit: haha was just watching some highlights on youtube and spotted me in a closeup off the linesman in the front row. Channel 5 celebrity now

Edited March 18, 2011 by davidmarrio

[Starvinho]

Quarter-final draw (7 &14 April)

FC Porto (POR) v FC Spartak Moskva (RUS)

SL Benfica (POR) v PSV Eindhoven (NED)

Villarreal CF (ESP) v FC Twente (NED)

SC Braga (POR) v FC Dynamo Kyiv (UKR)*

Semi-final draw (28 April & 5 May)

1: Braga/Dynamo v Benfica/PSV

2: Porto/Spartak v Villarreal/Twente

Final (18 May, Dublin Arena)

Winner semi-final 2 v Winner semi-final 1

So City and Liverpool would have faced each other if they both got through, that would have been a decent tie for the neutral.

[Baddar]

...and in other news, if Baddar's aunt had bollocks, she'd be his uncle.

[GoN_]

3 Portuguese teams in the quarter-finals. Amazing!

Quite honestly, I only really wanted Benfica there, since I hate both Porto and Braga.

Hey, I'm not a hypocrite, I hate them and I don't care if they're Portuguese, and there's no way in hell I'll ever root for Porto, a.k.a. "Corruption R Us".

Stupid CSKA and Liverpool.

Oh, and I really loved to see how many Benfica fans were in Paris tonight. There were more Benfica fans than PSG fans! Now THAT is amazing.

I wanted Braga to go out, but now really want to get through both portuguese teams to win the cup .Shame it might be too much of a dream, but it would be amazing to beat Porto at the final. If we get to the final I will do my best to be in Dublin that night.

[Johnny Latino Heat]

3 Portuguese teams in the quarter-finals. Amazing!

Quite honestly, I only really wanted Benfica there, since I hate both Porto and Braga.

Hey, I'm not a hypocrite, I hate them and I don't care if they're Portuguese, and there's no way in hell I'll ever root for Porto, a.k.a. "Corruption R Us".

Stupid CSKA and Liverpool.

Oh, and I really loved to see how many Benfica fans were in Paris tonight. There were more Benfica fans than PSG fans! Now THAT is amazing.

I wanted Braga to go out, but now really want to get through both portuguese teams to win the cup .Shame it might be too much of a dream, but it would be amazing to beat Porto at the final. If we get to the final I will do my best to be in Dublin that night.

The one good thing to me that could come out of a Benfica-Porto final? Neutral field, no golf balls allowed. (For the non-Portuguese out there, Benfica has been received with golf balls and other objects in Porto's stadium since last year, and in Braga's as well during this year. Porto paid a fine of about 2200£ and Braga about a 7£ fine, despite players getting hit more than once during the matches. It's Portuguese football for you, folks!)

[Lineker]

How the hell have Benfica not scored yet?

[jack95]

I think I may adopt Benfica as my unofficial favourite team. Every time I've watched them on TV this season they have been absolutely superb. They've just torn PSV to pieces tonight.

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

Pretty gutted that I didn't stick any real money on Benfica to win the entire thing. Put them down on OLBG site when they were 15/1, wish I had of just stuck a fiver on them now. Hoping they win it, just hoping it's not Porto or Villarreal, who are currently smashing Twente.

[GoN_]

Really happy with how we outplayed PSV for most of the game and got a really good result out of it. A shame we had to concede that goal, but I think we are in a pretty good situation to get to the semis, something we haven't done in a UEFA competition since 94 in the old Cup winner's Cup, something I don't even remember.

[Johnny Latino Heat]

What the fuck is wrong with Benfica? If they keep this up, I can see Europa League going down the drain!