UEFA Cup 23.11.2006 discussion thread

borocooper wrote:wooooooooooah..

Luck??

We pissed the early stages...and were just messing about in the QF and SF

Dnipro, Grasshopers & Litex WTF? Of course I expect you to piss all over them.

Exactly, no luck involved there.

We beat Roma fair and square aswell.

the QF and SF werent luck, we just battered them for 90 minutes and got the goals we needed.

borocooper wrote:
We beat Roma fair and square aswell.

Was that the match where Perotta was running you ragged?

Samba De Baiano wrote:

borocooper wrote:
We beat Roma fair and square aswell.

Was that the match where Perotta was running you ragged?

The match where we beat them 1-0 at home and they offered no threat.

Then the match where they only managed to beat us 2-1 at their place, hence us going through.

No lucky involved, just good goal keeping from Schwarzer and a quality goal from a Downing cross to a Jimmy header.

Shite, only a draw v Crapburn. Undeserved too (for Crapburn), think we should have had a penalty for that foul on Huysegems. Anyone saw my beer?

jonathan de guzman wrote:Shite, only a draw v Crapburn. Undeserved too (for Crapburn), think we should have had a penalty for that foul on Huysegems. Anyone saw my beer?

It was you ..

.. Luckily Pedersen didn't punish Feyenoord with one of his trademark half volleys

jonathan de guzman wrote:Shite, only a draw v Crapburn. Undeserved too (for Crapburn), think we should have had a penalty for that foul on Huysegems. Anyone saw my beer?

rai de Hunter wrote:

jonathan de guzman wrote:Shite, only a draw v Crapburn. Undeserved too (for Crapburn), think we should have had a penalty for that foul on Huysegems. Anyone saw my beer?

It was you ..

.. Luckily Pedersen didn't punish Feyenoord with one of his trademark half volleys

your fault, you told me Gamst was dangerous, so I tried to take him out asap.

By the way they really suck blackburn, especially up front. nonda and benni used to be decent strikers, they're incredibly pants (did you see it?)
was it a ooijer handball 2nd half?

we really lacked de guzman, we depended too much on opportunism, anyway they must have given charisteas something before the match, he even did some things right.

Luck.

ONE STEVEN TAYLOR, THERE'S ONLY ONE STEVEN TAAAAAYYLOOOOOOOOR!!!! What a celebration, best of the season(including Martins). You could see it meant ALOT to him.

Always pleasing to win without playing well, and without so many key players. Lovely assist from Milner for Sibs goal aswell.

Roeder got the formation(4-5-1/4-3-3) right today but unfortunately we didn't have the personel available for it so it ended up looking disjointed and a bit scrappy. Hopefully he'll keep it for the pompey game when we'll have Dyer, Parker, and Martins on the field. Solano played well at right back, he can stay there. Emre and Luque were shite though.

For Pompey...

-----------------Given------------------
Solano--Taylor--Bramble*--Ramage
------------------Butt-------------------
----------Parker---N'Zogbia-----------
Dyer-----------Martins----------Milner

*lack of options.

were you there Kimbo?

borocooper wrote:were you there Kimbo?

its about time.

Where were the rest of them?

@ jonathan de guzman

Gamst is dangerous, just this season he hasn't turned up ... Maybe its me or has Blackburn not picked up from last season ..

Feyenoord should have won (Hofs should have had a brace ..)

what did you make of the 'Greek Kuijt'? .. Fey was 'impressed' or 'shocked' with his 'new found skills'

rai de Hunter wrote:@ jonathan de guzman

Gamst is dangerous, just this season he hasn't turned up ... Maybe its me or has Blackburn not picked up from last season ..

Feyenoord should have won (Hofs should have had a brace ..)

what did you make of the 'Greek Kuijt'? .. Fey was 'impressed' or 'shocked' with his 'new found skills'

hofs wasn't playing well, same goes for greene. couldn't really see that well how charisteas created that chance the 1st half (was on the other side) was it luck or skill?

borocooper wrote:its about time.

Where were the rest of them?

It's on TV and we have a home game on sunday, plus it's Celta... not one of the big boys. People aren't made of money. They really should lower the prices for these games to fill the place up.

Poor.

I BBC:

"2106: Feyenoord's De Kuip stadium is one of Europe's great grounds - atmospheric with superb acoustics. As Feyenoord move forward for each attack the noise level goes up several notches. "

It really looks like the glorious nation of Romania is going to get more CL spots soon. And well deserved.

Today Dinamo Bukarest managed a fantastic 1-1 at home against a team that goes by the name of Mlada Boleslav. No idea where that is, but I'm sure we can all agree that Uefa Cup matches should count just as much as Champions League games. I mean when some Bukarest team beats Hapoel Nikosia that is surely worth as many points as when Sporting beats Inter or Bremen beats Chelsea. Right?

As of today Romania have collected 10.0 points for this season, with England in second spot with 9.2. Spain and Italy follow way behind with 7.8 and 7.2.

Okay, sarcasm over. What the fuck, Uefa?

For the current rankings go here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/data/method3/crank2007.html

Romanian teams are on the up. Steaua did well last year in the UEFA cup so are Dinamo and Rapid. Feeling threatened Effenberg?

borocooper wrote:up the Vigo

Obispo wrote:Hala Celta!

Care to celebrate with me chaps?

I know they're doing well in the Uefa Cup. I just think beating a crap team in the Uefa cup shouldn't be worth the same number of points as a win in the CL.

Of course, it's only a problem for Germany, Portugal, and Holland. We or at least the German top teams depend on the Champions League. If we lose spots our clubs are in more danger of losing that money (even if only for a season). It's a problem for us because we don't get the same TV money as other countries. Bayern with all their accolades don't even have (or spend) the money a mid-table team from England is spending.

When the Romanian teams actually play in the CL they'll probably go down fairly quickly. But in the meantime German teams (for example) will keep losing money they need to compete and to make up for it they'll keep losing players.

Do you think Leverkusen sold Berbatov because they didn't like him scoring twenty goals a season?

@ Effenberg

That's why I hope Platini wins the UEFA election. I want to see teams from smaller nations take part in the CL and become better. What we have now is small teams from big nations - Valencia, Inter and Arsenal- taking the berths of these smaller nations.

@ Kimbo
So incredibly lucky, wait til someone does a Sevilla on you.

Marca:
El equipo de Glenn Roedor recurrió al pelotazo como recurso para sorprender a su rival.
Glen Roeder's team resorted to the long-ball to surprise their opponents.

Kind of say's it all.

It will water down the competition though. And they won't reach the top 3 so it really won't make a difference to Italy/Spain/England.

It's not going to happen overnight. Eventually things will start to change.

Samba De Baiano wrote:
@ Kimbo
So incredibly lucky, wait til someone does a Sevilla on you.

We would play our big guns against a team like Sevilla.

And there was nothing lucky about that header, it was a beautiful thing.

God Glenn Roeder is the dullest man ever. Not just *boring* but incredibly dull.

Always sounds like he's waking from a coma.

jonathan de guzman wrote:Acccording to the BBC Vlaar and Castelen are among the players too be watched in Blackburn's away match v Feyenoord. LMFAO Both have been injured for a while and will certainly watch from the stands.

They also say Royston Drenthe is an Edgar Davids look-a-like. Well imo he resembles Davids as much as Scholes resembles Roy Keane.

Well more blind people around

the Guardian:

"Royston Drenthe, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Edgar Davids"

just because they both are black and small doesn't mean they're look-a-likes. this is like saying whoopy goldberg and haile berry are look-a-likes.

Davids:

http://football-players.ru/img/players/Davids_Edgar_1.jpg

Drenthe:

http://www.feyenoord.nl/domains/feyenoord/content/contentimages/spelers/A1/2005_drenthe_royston.jpg


BTW Royston's pic must have been taken when he was sick & in a lot of light; he's 3 times as dark as Davids. Not at all similar in their face or their build either. drenthe wears no glasses either. stupid motherfuckers!

@Leo,

It is not strange to compare both players... I was quite impressed about Drenthe. Most of the times when youth players from Feyenoord break through they are not good enough for the top...

But this Drenthe was quite good last night!

Taylors celebration was pretty damn good, was a reasonably interesting game in fact.

Watched the highlights of the Spurs game and it looked like a reasonably good second half too.

Anyway, great to see all three EPL teams progressing

English teams did indeed very well but Blackburn was extremely lucky...!

They are the first English team to go out in the UEFA Cup