Europa League - Matchday 1 Thread

New look UEFA Cup kicks off tonight!

A AFC Ajax 19:00 FC Timişoara
A NK Dinamo Zagreb 19:00 RSC Anderlecht
B LOSC Lille Métropole 19:00 Valencia CF
B Genoa CFC 19:00 SK Slavia Praha
C Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC 19:00 Celtic FC
C SK Rapid Wien 19:00 Hamburger SV
D Hertha BSC Berlin 19:00 FK Ventspils
D SC Heerenveen 19:00 Sporting Clube de Portugal
E PFC CSKA Sofia 19:00 Fulham FC
E FC Basel 1893 19:00 AS Roma
F Panathinaikos FC 19:00 Galatasaray AŞ
F SK Sturm Graz 19:00 FC Dinamo 1948 Bucureşti
G S.S. Lazio 21:05 FC Salzburg
G Villarreal CF 21:05 PFC Levski Sofia
H FC Steaua Bucureşti 21:05 FC Sheriff
H Fenerbahçe SK 21:05 FC Twente
I SL Benfica 21:05 FC BATE Borisov
I Everton FC 21:05 AEK Athens FC
J Club Brugge KV 21:05 FC Shakhtar Donetsk
J FK Partizan 21:05 Toulouse FC
K AC Sparta Praha 21:05 PSV Eindhoven
K CFR 1907 Cluj 21:05 FC København
L Athletic Club 21:05 FK Austria Wien
L CD Nacional 21:05 Werder Bremen

I think Panathinaikos-Galatasaray could be a good game. Hopefully the la liga sides get off to a good start.

Fulham might get raped, they're playing their fringe players by all accounts. CSKA Sofia have a squad packed to the rafters with Bulgarians.

Jaime wrote:I think Panathinaikos-Galatasaray could be a good game.

The one I'll be watching tonight... I'll keep an eye out for the Roma game too.

Arda Turan, Leto and Vucinic

CSKA Sofia should get a new name to stop confusing me

Ajax have left Oleguer on the bench!

JOL OUT!

Suarez starting?

Ade wrote:Suarez starting?

Yes.

Good to see Valencia taking the competition seriously.

-------------------Cesar

Saltor-----Navarro-----Maduro-----Mathieu

-------------Michel-----Albelda

Joaquin------------Miku-------------J. Alba

--------------------Zigic

Disastrous start for the Panathinaikos defence. Baros slides the ball across, not too dangerous but instead of clearing it the defender just kind of slides it into the path of Elano.

0-1

Zapater puts Genoa ahead as well....he's scoring quite a bit since moving to Genoa.

Weird to see the extra officials by the goals.

Streams are going out left and right.

Basel 1 Roma 0 (Carlitos)

Heerenveen 1 Sporting 0 (Sibon)

Elano

Totti hits the bar

Liedson equalises for Sporting. So that's why everyone in the fantasy game picked him

Sporting equalise through Liedson...now watching Ajax-Timasoara

Timisoara in all kinds of trouble at the moment. Four corners in the last couple of minutes for Ajax. Suarez and Cvitanovich have both gone close.

kas wrote:Liedson equalises for Sporting. So that's why everyone in the fantasy game picked him

More the fact he cost 4.5 mill

kas wrote:Liedson equalises for Sporting. So that's why everyone in the fantasy game picked him

True geniuses like me have him in third place on the bench

He scores again. Wish i swapped Elano for Turan now then i'd be looking at a great score, forgot Elano even played for them.

Liedson again!

Genoa 2 Slavia 0
Hapoel Tel-Aviv 0 Celtic 1
Hertha 1 Ventispils 0
Rapid Vienna 1 Hamburg 0

Rapid double their lead over Hamburg.

Half time around the Europa League:

HT Ajax 0 Timisoara 0
HT Dinamo Zagreb 0 Anderlecht 0
HT Genoa 2 Slavia Prague 0
HT Lille 0 Valencia 0
HT Hapoel Tel Aviv 0 Celtic 1
HT Rapid Vienna 2 Hamburg 0
HT Hertha 1 Ventspils 0
HT Heerenveen 1 Sporting 2
HT Basel 1 Roma 0
HT CSKA Sofia 0 Fulham 0
HT Panthinaikos 0 Galatasaray 1
HT Sturm Graz 0 Dinamo Bucharest 0

A tremendously inept dive in the Celtic game just now. The Tel Aviv player burst into the box before dropping to the ground, with the nearest Celtic player a couple of feet away and not trying to make a challenge.

Wow, absolute disaster for Panathinaikos now. Baros made it 0-2 and an own goal from Sarriegi makes 0-3.

Ventspils has equalised in Berlin as well.

WTF is up with Ajax they are such c**ts. i was sure they'd win 5-0

3-0 Rapid Vienna

Their fans and the atmosphere are impressive.