Champions league and Europa league thread (General)

Gonna be a great week for watching Dutchies play in Europe.

Tomorrow we got Barca-Ferencvaros and PSG-United.
Wednesday we got Ajax-Liverpoop and Midtland-Atalanta.
And thursday we got Napoli-AZ, PSV-Granada and Zagreb-Feyenooit.

I wont be leaving the house all week

 

You're not supposed to leave your house. You're grounded by Rutte.

 

Does anybody understand Solksjaer?? He benches Pogba and vdBeek in one of their biggest CL games against PSG

 

It worked out for him because they won the game and Fernandes was excellent, but the score could have gone either way.

I watched both games on split screen and Frenkie was good as well. But its Ferencvaros so its not a good barometer

 

Van de Beek has done well each time he comes from the bench and often turned games around. It almost feels like Pogba has to play because of his price tag and wages, and Fernandes has of course Mendes working on his behalf. Fernandes is great too, though.

 

Incredible victory for AZ at Napoli. Without lots of players due to COVID and they win!

On the other end of the spectrum-- another total zero performance from PSV in Europe.

 

Berghuis just missed a PK

 

Derksen and co are loading their gun, again, to fire some bullets at Roger Schmidt...

 

PSV hasnot been expressing expectations for the first few months, as what Schmidt and PSV as playstyle want (covid interrupted a dedicated preparation) cannot be achieved within short time. I don't think they take Derksen very seriously in Eindhoven.

 

Feyenooit too. Dont forget about their suckage

 

What club has the last European silverware in the cupboard

 

Not very good though. He should be starting easily over Mauro Junior though. That kid is awful

 

The Napoli-AZ match was really strange, a very boring performance by AZ that had only few occasions, but won.
Concerning the players i was following: Koopmeiners was good, Wijndal was so so, Stengs was awful.

 

I'm not going to make judgements on the play of AZ or the players in this match. AZ had 13 players out because of covid, so any cohesian in the team is gone.
I really think the gouvernments should call a ban on across boarder matches this and maybe even next month.
It's stupid and only serves the wallet of the UEFA.

 

From what I watched, Stengs was playing as a 9 which really isn't his strength. He looked really tired (I watched the 2nd half).

Someone said it in another thread but really AZ might be the key for the NT. Boadu, Stengs, Wijndal all could be really key players in the Euros then WC. I really like Koopmeiners too. I think a midfield of him and Frenkie could be awesome.

 

Bayern Munchen

 

Shakthar Donetsk in 1st place. Would you believe it??!!

 

Two ridiculous penalties against Feyenoord...

 

Shades of the Zenit vs AZ match of a few years back. Total lunacy this.