Europa League Matchday 3

Ajax Amsterdam - Dinamo Zagreb
FC Timisoara - Anderlecht
Lille - Genoa
Valencia - Slavia Prague
Celtic - Hamburger SV
Hapoel Tel Aviv - Rapid Vienna
Hertha BSC - SC Heerenveen
Ventspils - Sporting Lisbon
CSKA Sofia - Basel
Fulham - AS Roma
Galatasaray - Dinamo Bucuresti
Panathinaikos - Sturm Graz
Lazio - Villarreal
RB Salzburg - Levski Sofia
FC Sheriff - FC Twente Enschede
Steaua Bucuresti - Fenerbahce
BATE Borisov - AEK Athens
Benfica - Everton
Club Brugge - Partizan Belgrade
Shakhtar Donetsk - Toulouse
PSV Eindhoven - FC Copenhagen
Sparta Prague - CFR Cluj
Athletic Bilbao - Nacional
Austria Vienna - Werder Bremen

Galatasaray - Dinamo Bucuresti
Steaua Bucuresti - Fenerbahce

Bucuresti vs Istanbul

Squad
1 BOGDAN LOBONT
2 CICERO JOAO DE CESARE (CICINHO)
3 MARCO ANDREOLLI
5 PHILIPPE MEXES
7 DAVID MARCELO CORTES PIZARRO
9 MIRKO VUCINIC
11 RODRIGO FERRANTE TADDEI
16 DANIELE DE ROSSI
17 JOHN ARNE RIISE
19 JULIO CESAR BAPTISTA
20 SIMONE PERROTTA
21 STEFANO GUBERTI
23 LEANDRO GRECO
25 ARTUR GUILHERME GUSMAO MORAES
29 NICOLAS BURDISSO
32 DONIEBER ALEXANDER MARANGON (DONI
33 MATTEO BRIGHI
77 MARCO CASSETTI
89 OKAKA CHUKA STEFANO
94 JEREMY MENEZ

I'd be happy with a draw, Fulham are REALLY looking forward to this.

are you going Midget? Fulham is a lovely ground, I may stroll along if I can find my trousers.

Yes, I go to 2-3 games at Craven Cottage a season anyway. Short walk for me.

A must win game for the contes tonight, would laugh my ass off if they fail against Zagreb again!

i like the way the itv pundits aren't talking about the lazio villareal game.

Everton playing at road to Benfica with this horrible line-up:

Howard
Gosling Hibbert Distin Coleman
Cahill Rodwell Fellaini Billy Boy
Yakubu Jo

Can see a 2goals defeat.

stinger wrote:Everton playing at road to Benfica with this horrible line-up:

Howard
Gosling Hibbert Distin Coleman
Cahill Rodwell Fellaini Billy Boy
Yakubu Jo

Can see a 2goals defeat.

Its not that horrible a lineup. Think you can get a result with those personnel at least.

Never pay attention to the uefa cup/Europa league format, is this a group stage or what?

Tweedle wrote:

stinger wrote:Everton playing at road to Benfica with this horrible line-up:

Howard
Gosling Hibbert Distin Coleman
Cahill Rodwell Fellaini Billy Boy
Yakubu Jo

Can see a 2goals defeat.

Its not that horrible a lineup. Think you can get a result with those personnel at least.

Terrible midfield to play well in 4-4-2, not mentioning only 1 defender being a starter under normal circumstances.
Maybe we will score after a set piece, but that's about it.
Hopefully we will be smarter with our hoofing then usual and Yakubu/Jo will find some space behind opposite's full backs, drifting wide

Luis wrote:Never pay attention to the uefa cup/Europa league format, is this a group stage or what?

You will after your trip from Lyon.

Coleman does a "Marcelo" and Saviola scores with a nice volley, 1-0 for Benfica.

zarateeeee!

dam 1-1 now

Athletic 0 - 1 Nacional, Ruben Michael 42'

BoBo Vieri 32 wrote:dam 1-1 now

Haven't seen the game so far, how are Lazio playing?? That looks like an attacking lineup, at least in the final third... not a very strong midfield tho.

Villareal are shocking.

bluenine wrote:

BoBo Vieri 32 wrote:dam 1-1 now

Haven't seen the game so far, how are Lazio playing?? That looked like an attacking lineup, at least in the final third...

Pretty poor, villareal have dominated possesion and had almost all the chances. Our midfield is too static with none of them willing to support the forwards, while our defence has been sloppy.

Cardozo scores twice in less than 60 seconds, 3-0 for Benfica. Should bet on them after I saw Everton's line-up

Heard 6,000 Evertonians made the trip to Portugal for this?

The Rural Juror wrote:Heard 6,000 Evertonians made the trip to Portugal for this?

Didn't look as many when they showed the crowd, but it's still a big group. Or was a big group, some of them just left...

Would love to switch to Lazio-Villarreal, but can't find a working stream. Damm it.

zarate hits the post

BoBo Vieri 32 wrote:zarate hits the post

Foggia and Zarate need to work on their combination... both of them are guilty of being too selfish sometimes...

matuzalem is off, 2nd yellow

The ref gives a poor second yellow... that was actually a penalty for Lazio, instead Matuzalem gets sent off... poor poor call by the ref.

bluenine wrote:The ref gives a poor second yellow... that was actually a penalty for Lazio, instead Matuzalem gets sent off... poor poor call by the ref.

that's what i thought. Before that there was a foul on Foggia aswell.

Cruz misses a sitter from 2 meters!

BoBo Vieri 32 wrote:

bluenine wrote:The ref gives a poor second yellow... that was actually a penalty for Lazio, instead Matuzalem gets sent off... poor poor call by the ref.

that's what i thought. Before that there was a foul on Foggia aswell.

The foul on Foggia was a 50-50, the foul on matuzalem in the penalty area was clear... dunno how the ref got that so wrong, and sent him off for diving. Also, it seemed like the ref himself didn't remember that Matuzalem was already on a yellow - he only showed the red card as an afterthought when Matuzalem walked off the pitch.

Tho it must be said, Zarate & Foggia are guilty of diving a bit too much... that might have gone against them.

However, Lazio are playing quite well with 10 men...