Wafer Cup ties

therecklessone

Spurs currently 0-0 with 40 mins gone away to Famagusta. Defoe missed a sitter...:(

Other fixtures:

Dnipro v Aberdeen (0-0), 1800 BST
Blackburn v Larissa (0-2), 2000 BST
Bolton v Rabotnicki Kometa (1-1), 2000 BST
Metalist Kharkiv v Everton (1-1), 1945 BST

therecklessone

Defoe's hit the post after great work by Steed.

Pighead

You watching this therecklessone? Following it on the BBC match tracker thingy and they're saying Boateng is having a great game. The player rating thing has him at 9.33. Whats the story with him, why hasn't he played much of this season?

therecklessone

1-0 to Famagusta, striker virtually caught the ball before hammering home.

Shocking decision by the ref.

therecklessone

Pighead wrote:

You watching this therecklessone? Following it on the BBC match tracker thingy and they're saying Boateng is having a great game. The player rating thing has him at 9.33. Whats the story with him, why hasn't he played much of this season?

Watching on Spurs online TV station.

Boateng looks lively but I wouldn't be having him anywhere near 9.33. Had no pre-season, so has been playing for the reserves rather than the first team. I believe he was bought with a view to bringing him on for future seasons. Lot of money for potential if you ask me, can't be worse than some of the donkeys we've seen in the middle.

Third_Echelon

Sweet Jebus! Everton better win tonight!!! :eek:

therecklessone

therecklessone wrote:

1-0 to Famagusta, striker virtually caught the ball before hammering home.

Shocking decision by the ref.

Sorry, meant to read "striker virtually caught the ball before laying off to his strike partner to hammer home"

therecklessone

Big guns on (well, Bale and Keane) now 1-1, Bale cross Bent stepover Keane finish.

therecklessone

Keane gets on the end of a superb move and ends up nearly putting the ball out for a throw...:D

eirebhoy

0-1 Aberdeen. Mackie header. Dnipro need 2 now.

Badabing

Henrik Larrson still scoring goals in europe with Helsinborg:D They winning 5-0

eirebhoy

eirebhoy wrote:

0-1 Aberdeen. Mackie header. Dnipro need 2 now.

Dnipro are actually a point ahead of Dinamo Kiev in the league. What a result this would be for Aberdeen but there's still another 45 minutes to go.

Exit

Setanta are showing a game tonight. I presume it's the Everton one?

Pighead

And Aberdeen go through. Fair play to them.
All hail Scotland, the latest super power of World Soccer.

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Badabing wrote:

Henrik Larrson still scoring goals in europe with Helsinborg:D They winning 5-0

Yep, a lot of Irish people went to see him and his team playing against an Irish side recently. In the UEFA Cup. Cheered for his team too.

eirebhoy

Nah, it might have worked for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, maybe 4th time but it's getting old now...

Thanx 4 The Fish

Jees, bolton could have had a pen there, is still 0-0 as it stands. (Setanta game BTW)

And joy of joys blackburn are losing, need four now to go through (concentrating on the league maybe ??)

DesF wrote:

Yep, a lot of Irish people went to see him and his team playing against an Irish side recently. In the UEFA Cup. Cheered for his team too.

Fair play to them Des, they are fans of the player and support him. They are entitled to support whoever they want against whatever team they chose (or is there some kind of new restriction in place ?

Rikand

I hope not, I would love them to do well in the uefa

KdjaCL

Thanx 4 The Fish wrote:

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Fair play to them Des, they are fans of the player and support him. They are entitled to support whoever they want against whatever team they chose (or is there some kind of new restriction in place ?

I think the thing is: (bear with me here)

Irish people went to a UEFA cup game with an irish side playing a swedish side who had a swedish player who played for a scottish team who all the irish fans supported, they cheered the swedish player on vs the irish team. :eek:


Something like that.


kdjac

DSB

I think another factor of the argument is if you told most of these same people you were a Catholic Rangers fan they'd look at you like you had 2 heads.

KdjaCL

Odense game gone to penos vs Sparta prague, hope they win



kdjac

herbieflowers

Everton behind again...

Thanx 4 The Fish

KdjaCL wrote:

I think the thing is: (bear with me here)

Irish people went to a UEFA cup game with an irish side playing a swedish side who had a swedish player who played for a scottish team who all the irish fans supported, they cheered the swedish player on vs the irish team. :eek:


Something like that.


kdjac

Unbelievably, I understood that, and still could not give a carp. Does that mean then that if for example Kev Doyle came back against any team in Dublin for a waffa cup game and some cork lads came along and started cheering for him against said Dublin team that they're not as good a supporter as Des because they are cheering for any other team against an Irish one ?

Arrah makes bugger all difference anyhow. Blackburn need two goals in ten minutes to stay in the comp.

Guy:Incognito

DesF wrote:

Yep, a lot of Irish people went to see him and his team playing against an Irish side recently. In the UEFA Cup. Cheered for his team too.

Boo, down with your sef loathing.

I didnt appreciate being psychologically raped in my own home last night either. Lets not start kickign people when their down or I'll have to bring up the position your team finds themsleves in.

Third_Echelon

Woohoo! Everton through! Thank Jebus.... At least that'll be a few more games in Europe this season...

therecklessone

In the other ties:

Ajax went out to Zagreb
Lens went out to Copenhagen
Real Zaragoza went out to Aris Thessaloniki
Rapid Bucharest lost to Nuremburg
Dinamo Bucharest went out to Elfsborg
Sampdoria went out to Aalborg
Empoli went out to FC Zurich

Third_Echelon

therecklessone wrote:

In the other ties:

Ajax went out to Zagreb
Lens went out to Copenhagen
Real Zaragoza went out to Aris Thessaloniki
Rapid Bucharest lost to Nuremburg
Dinamo Bucharest went out to Elfsborg
Sampdoria went out to Aalborg
Empoli went out to FC Zurich

A lot of big times getting dumped out there... Zaragoza sticks out like a sore thumb... Ajax as well!

therecklessone

Palermo also out on penos, only Fiorentina through from Italy.

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Stekelly wrote:

I didnt appreciate being psychologically raped in my own home last night either. Lets not start kickign people when their down or I'll have to bring up the position your team finds themsleves in.

You're the only staunchly scouse fan I have in my phone.

Expect more.

therecklessone

Pots for the draw which takes place 12 CET on Tues:

POT 1

1. villareal (spain)
2. bayern munich (germany)
3. az alkmaar (holland)
4. panathinaikos (greece)
5. fc basel (switz)
6. bordeaux (france)
7. bayer leverkusen (germany)
8. Anderlecht (belgium)

POT 2

9. Tottenham (england)
10. lokomotiv moscow (russia)
11. zenit st petersburg (russia)
12. sparta prague (czech)
13. aek athens (greece)
14. hamburg (germany)
15. bolton (england)
16. austria vienna (austria)

POT 3

17. spartak moscow (russia)
18. sporting braga (portugal)
19. galatasaray (turkey)
20. getafe (spain)
21. athletico madrid (spain)
22. everton (england)
23. fiorentina (italy)
24. stade rennais (france)

POT 4

25. hapoel tel aviv (israel)
26. red star belgrade (serbia)
27. fc copenhagen (denmark)
28. toulouse (france)
29. dinamo zagreb (croatia)
30. panionios (greece)
31. nuremburg (germany)
32. Mlada Boleslav


POT 5

33. aris thessaloniki (greece)
34. aberdeen (scotland)
35. fc zurich (switz)
36. ae larissa (greece)
37. aab aalborg (denmark)
38. brann bergen (norway)
39. elfsborg (sweden)
40. Helsingborg (sweden)

KdjaCL

therecklessone wrote:

POT 5

33. aris thessaloniki (greece)
34. aberdeen (scotland)
35. fc zurich (switz)
36. ae larissa (greece)
37. aab aalborg (denmark)
38. brann bergen (norway)
39. elfsborg (sweden)
40. Helsingborg (sweden)

The holy grail for EL clubs.



kdjac

Third_Echelon

Some quality sides in the first 3 pots there

kinaldo

I presume Bayern Munich are the favourites for this competition, they really look quite formidable this year.

eirebhoy

therecklessone wrote:

Palermo also out on penos, only Fiorentina through from Italy.

Italian clubs never take this cup seriously. Palermo rested 5 or 6 players.

kinaldo

eirebhoy wrote:

Italian clubs never take this cup seriously.

they did in the 90s!

88/89 Napoli bt Stuttgart
89/90 Juve bt Fiorentina
90/91 Inter bt Roma
91/92 Ajax bt Torino
92/93 Juve bt Dortmund
93/94 Inter bt Salzburg
94/95 Parma bt Juve
96/97 Schalke bt Inter
97/98 Inter bt Lazio
98/99 Parma bt Marseille

Although no Italian side has made the final since!

KdjaCL

kinaldo wrote:

I presume Bayern Munich are the favourites for this competition, they really look quite formidable this year.

have been since pats were in it way back in the summer see no reason for that to change.


kdjac

Guy:Incognito

It was a decent competition then. The cup winners cup was the dregs and really good teams were in the UEFA cup because only the winners and later the runners up in the domestic leagues were in the CL/EC . Its the "best of the rest" comp now that the CL has been reformatted and the cwc is gone.

eirebhoy

kinaldo wrote:

they did in the 90s!

There's no money in it now though. In fact, Italian clubs would probably make a loss from playing in it.

kinaldo

Stekelly wrote:

It was a decent competition then. The cup winners cup was the dregs and really good teams were in the UEFA cup because only the winners and later the runners up in the domestic leagues were in the CL/EC . Its the "best of the rest" comp now that the CL has been reformatted and the cwc is gone.

Yeah I know, I just thought it was a funny stat and wanted to put it up there!