2022-23 UEFA Europa League/Europa Conference League Discussion Thread

Post #1 » by **Baphomet** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 6:51 pm

Discuss the Europa League and Europa Conference League here.

Current holders are Eintracht Frankfurt (Europa League) and AS Roma (Conference League).

Post #2 » by **Shaazzam** » Thu Sep 8, 2022 7:49 pm

forgot how much fun it is to watch mcguire and lindelof together

and fred as like a 10 is bananas
Ronaldo is not looking good this year either, lost his pace, and his touch is starting to lose him a bit... hopefully he gets it going

Post #3 » by **Baphomet** » Thu Sep 8, 2022 8:19 pm

Joke penalty in the United game.

Post #4 » by **Shaazzam** » Thu Sep 8, 2022 8:51 pm

Baphomet wrote:Joke penalty in the United game.

Like really bad. I completely assumed VAR would reverse it. I was 100% not worried it would hold up. And then it was.

Post #5 » by **Shaazzam** » Thu Sep 8, 2022 8:57 pm

Ugh. Not good enough. Vintage Fred today too. Useless.

Post #6 » by **Baphomet** » Thu Sep 8, 2022 9:01 pm

Shaazzam wrote:
Baphomet wrote:Joke penalty in the United game.

Like really bad. I completely assumed VAR would reverse it. I was 100% not worried it would hold up. And then it was.

Spurs had one disallowed against West Ham because it hit Cresswell's head first, then the arm. So I expected the same to happen here, but nope. This one was much less of a penalty. The referees had a very poor game, I thought.

Sedale Threatt · Post #7 » by **Sedale Threatt** » Thu Sep 8, 2022 10:39 pm

That one just about took the proverbial cake, but handball penalties are never not cheesy, regardless of the circumstances. Easily my most hated call in all of sports. 99.9 percent of them are totally inadvertent and goals are hard to come by, so they always feel ridiculously cheap to me.

AK47MVP · Post #8 » by **AK47MVP** » Sat Sep 10, 2022 3:41 pm

That penalty against Martinez was as clear as a not penalty by rule book as it can be.... and yet VAR gave it? Fire that VAR ref. That is all I can say.

HIF · Post #9 » by **HIF** » Sat Sep 10, 2022 6:41 pm

AK47MVP wrote:That penalty against Martinez was as clear as a not penalty by rule book as it can be.... and yet VAR gave it? Fire that VAR ref. That is all I can say.

so blatant this year that you'd think the refs were trying to sabotage VAR.

Young Stapler · Post #10 » by **Young Stapler** » Sat Sep 10, 2022 9:14 pm

A friend of mine along with many others was attacked by Nice supporters and it was completely unprovoked. All the evidence is being sent to the authorities. Disgraceful behavior.

HIF · Post #11 » by **HIF** » Sun Sep 11, 2022 7:47 am

Young Stapler wrote:A friend of mine along with many others was attacked by Nice supporters and it was completely unprovoked. All the evidence is being sent to the authorities. Disgraceful behavior.

I'm very sorry to hear that. Why is football afflicted with these morons who use it for violence? It has been getting worse in France over the last few seasons.

Foye · Post #12 » by **Foye** » Tue Sep 13, 2022 6:39 pm

HIF wrote:
Young Stapler wrote:A friend of mine along with many others was attacked by Nice supporters and it was completely unprovoked. All the evidence is being sent to the authorities. Disgraceful behavior.

I'm very sorry to hear that. Why is football afflicted with these morons who use it for violence? It has been getting worse in France over the last few seasons.

Same situation today in Marseille. Marseille „fans“ hunting Frankfurt fans in small groups.
Also french speaking „Eintracht fans“ showing forbidden nazi salute.
Eintracht fans haven‘t been known for that last year so I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt once.
France got some serious problems to solve.

AK47MVP · Post #13 » by **AK47MVP** » Thu Sep 15, 2022 7:42 pm

Another boring Man U game. Yes - they won, controlled the game, but excitement and entertainment was missing. Just feels for the talent they have they should be more dominant vs teams like that.

HIF · Post #14 » by **HIF** » Fri Sep 16, 2022 6:43 am

AK47MVP wrote:Another boring Man U game. Yes - they won, controlled the game, but excitement and entertainment was missing. Just feels for the talent they have they should be more dominant vs teams like that.

Yeah, They'll be celebrating that victory. Hopefully Roy tells them the truth.

Post #15 » by **Shaazzam** » Fri Sep 16, 2022 2:16 pm

Hopefully we get to point where getting points is BAU. Not there yet.

Post #16 » by **Baphomet** » Thu Oct 6, 2022 5:27 pm

United disasterclass in progress against Omonia

Post #17 » by **Shaazzam** » Thu Oct 6, 2022 5:58 pm

nice movement by Ronaldo to get Rashford the space to score

Post #18 » by **Baphomet** » Thu Oct 6, 2022 6:08 pm

Yeah two good goals there, Martial actually smiling looks bizarre

Post #19 » by **Baphomet** » Thu Oct 6, 2022 6:41 pm

How Ronaldo didn't score there, I'll never know, should have had 5

Post #20 » by **Shaazzam** » Thu Oct 6, 2022 7:02 pm

Baphomet wrote:Yeah two good goals there, Martial actually smiling looks bizarre

Heh, if Martial actually gets back to being like he is for me in Fifa he's a stud lol.

CR7 is completely snakebitten right now, and I think he's about done as a world class player. That said, he doesn't get the best service.

He'll still destroy lesser leagues, but he's not up to snuff for the EPL chase.