Champions league and Europa league thread (General)

Or have the team plane blown up by a BUK missile

 

Norwegians are honorable people:
http://www.espnfc.com/russian-premi...der-erik-hagen-makes-match-fixing-allegations

It's also disturbing to read about how UEFA dealt with the 2008 UEFA Cup semi final vs Bayern Munich. I'm actually not so sure whether that was 'fixed', but how UEFA dealt with it was a mixture of amateurism, borderline criminal behavior and negligence (they hired a matchfixer to research it), and sabotage. Bayern themselves openly pressed to see a German investigator fired, and got their way.

But it is also well-known that Russia and Spain can get along well, at the least (regardless of whether the thing below is true). Mutko and Villar are known allies.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-of-planning-to-bribe-World-Cup-referees.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...a-after-making-bribe-allegations-1975077.html

 

More or less, but maybe less so narrow. A deservered loss, they throw n huge amount of energy into the game and pressured high which screwed up the build up and lead to turnovers which lead to the goal and could have been more.

Second half they started running out of steam, and we saw a better feyenoord. Got some chances but didnt finish, and Kuyt was very poor all game long funnily enough. Probably more a credit to them that it is a discredit to Kuyt though.

Thats football-related though, and obviously they were expertly milking every challenge and timewasting with every foul, be it a foul or not.


One step away from this game and into the overal european games ive watched these weeks and I watched alot, please lets finally get some god********ingdamn video-referee's.

 

I donot know if it is true, but I heared people complain about the ref giving a goal kick while the one heading the ball over the back line was a Fenerbace player. One even claimed the Fener player almost headed the ball in the face of assistent ref right, if true a nice peace of instruction taping

 

http://www.volkskrant.nl/sport/russ...hash=5288941e33b69160d799650d3502f9a790592d01

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UEFA is just as corrupt and criminal as the FIFA. No doubt about it.

 

Uhmm Puck...according to my information we werenot punished for the plastic banana. If I recall correctly we were cleared on that point.

But it is possible that my memory isnot functioning properly the last two months and especially the last few weeks because my mind is spinning as my friend I posted about had a serious drop back in her health and because she was terrifyed of the pain she had in the hospital she this week gave up the battle and decided to take no more food or drink. It will be a matter of days before her suffering ends.

 

Two good games today, Ajax-Celta and United-Fener.

I'll be watching both games

 

Stroot was on bench the entire game against Vienna

 

Feyenoord was in total control, but in a minute let things turn around.
The red card ment we had to go down deeper into the reserve energy sources, which already had a bang after the un-Dutch like power match against Heerenveen.
Wonder how much this is going to count against Go Ahead this sunday. We need to play smart in that match and be very efficient in the spending of our energy.
It was good to see that even with 10 man we didnot have much trouble to keep control of the match. Only at crucial break outs the final pass was not good enough, so the goal to win it didnot come.
For Ajax and PSV it must be depressing to see how strong we operate.
Good to see Ajax did win, in contrast to AZ that hasnot cope well with the selling of key players.
Well, AZ can learn a thing or two about the defensive collaps in the final 15 minutes.

 

gonna link em next to eachother and lets see you reavulate hopefully. Very very different.
Robben-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZXUse86r1g
Ozil-

 

If they also sell him this winter it will be good for Feyenoord, as we than again get a percentage of the transfer sum as compensation.

 

Rostov beating Bayern...

PSV will have to draw tonight at least, otherwise no EL.

 

PSV having a good game in Madrid.

Pereiro had the biggest chance after a nice work by Bergwijn but he was too slow to score. The midfield is too slow and limited technically, sometimes they need 5 passes to spread the ball on the wing while it could be only one if there was Pirlo.

The defence is shaky as usual but we can't demand too much...At least the game is going both ways, Atletico isn't dominating PSV in the same way they did last year.

 

Hope this won't reduce his game time to near zero. I don't care about his goal scoring in the EPL as long as his allround game doesn't suffer. He is currently the only complete striker available to the NT.

Van Persie had an amazing goal scoring record but Wenger had transformed him in to something the NT couldn't use.

 

I never know if it's head to head or goals difference

 

Champions League 2018-2021 reform ... full details of the access list have been shared with FAs (maybe EPFL can tweak it a little before the March deadline) ... it's along the lines of the leaks but hasn't been made public yet ... Holland will lose a direct CL berth and the cut-off moves to top 10 (instead of top 12) ... in the 2018/19 Champions League the 2018 Eredivisie champions will have to go through qualifiers with all the other champions without a direct berth (45 clubs and only 4 CL berths).

http://www.knvb.nl/nieuws/themas/fi...peelt-vanaf-201819-vrijwel-zeker-voorronde-cl


Europa League 2018-2021 ... still 27 direct berths (total of 48 teams in group phase)

Cup winner + 5th placed team countries 1-4
Cup winner + 4th placed team country 5
Cup winner countries 6-12
4 losers CR play-offs
4 losers LR Qs
2 losers LR play-offs

8 Champions will have CR Qs (3 rounds)
13 teams via other Qs (4 rounds + preliminary round)

http://www.uefa.org/mediaservices/newsid=2430054.html#lyon+host+2018+uefa+europa+league+final
https://apnews.com/84651f7ce7604955...-about-FIFA's-proposals-on-expanded-World-Cup