Europa League Draw Midday

mike65

Yes its the League they are all talking about, goal crazy, crazy goals.
Little teams acting big, big teams acting little. Its all here.

The runners and riders

Liverpool
Fulham
Atletico Madrid
Valencia
Wolfsburg
Hamburg
Benfica
Standard Liege

LuckyLloyd

That's a pretty solid final eight for such a maligned competition. Last night was just pure entertainment, bunch of great, great games.

From a Liverpool perspective, Standard Liege please. Anyone else, give us the home leg last.

Gone Drinking

Hope Fulham get a good draw, i've been following them in Europa and they've been fantastic. Really hope they do well.

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Yep, I hope Fulham get Liege.

And Liverpool get Valencia, and play at home first.

mike65

Get on with it!

LuckyLloyd

Good Christ these things are boring.

8-10

Would like Liverpool to get Fulham, I don't rate them as highly as some people on here do. I know they beat them at the cottage earlier in the season but there's tougher opponents than Fulham in the draw.

CR 7

Someone who won't stop talking: "I've always been a hamburger through and through."
:pac::pac::pac::D

IvySlayer

Will they be showing this on Sky Sport News?

mike65

http://www.justin.tv/vip__tv#r=ix7BqBQ~

Fulham v Wolfsburg

Hamburg v Standard Liege

Valencia v Atletico Madrid :eek:

Benfica v Liverpool

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It's on Eurosport.

Not bad for Fulham, but home first will be tricky

Pepe LeFrits

The Europa League has been quite the success this season, imo.

IvySlayer

Hamburg vs Standerd Liege

Valenceia vs Athletico Madrid

redout

Fulham -v- Wolfsburg
Hamburg -v- Liege
Valencia -v- Atleti
Benfica -v- Liverpool

LuckyLloyd

Fulham FC (ENG) vs VfL Wolfsburg (GER)

Hamburger SV (GER) vs R. Standard De Liege (BEL)

Valencia CF (ESP) vs Club Athletico De Madrid (SPA)

SL Benfica (POR) vs Liverpool FC (ENG)

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Easy draw for Liverpool :rolleyes:

mike65

Des why do you care so much?

and now the semi finals draw

Semi Final 1
Fulham -v- Wolfsburg
Hamburg -v- Liege

Semi Final 2
Valencia -v- Atletico
Benfica -v- Liverpool

LuckyLloyd

Hamburger SV (GER) vs R. Standard De Liege (BEL) // Fulham FC (ENG) vs VfL Wolfsburg (GER)


Valencia CF (ESP) vs Club Athletico De Madrid (SPA) // SL Benfica (POR) vs Liverpool FC (ENG)

DubDani

Final of Hamburg vs. Pool would be great...

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Can't see Liverpool beating either Spanish team tbh.

Hoki

Liverpool have to do it the hard way to make the final , possible reunions with Athletico for Torres & Maxi ( Cup Tied)

kryogen

typical

handy draw for Liverpool as always

rabble rabble rabble

K-9

Should be an easy enough final I suppose, seeing as Liverpool have to play the best teams on the way! :rolleyes:

LuckyLloyd

Des wrote: »

Easy draw for Liverpool :rolleyes:

I dunno, Benfica will be tough opponents. For reference, check out what they did to Everton earlier in the season + their display away at the Velodromme last night. Nasty place to play also, rabid crowd.

Then the semi draw will be extremely tough either way.

The bonus is bringing both ties back to Anfield (assuming we get to the Semis that is).

Could have been worse, could have been better.

yom 1

Benfica will be tricky enough........as will the winners of Valencia Athletico should we make it to the semi's

Interesting few games lie ahead

Ush1

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

I dunno, Benfica will be tough opponents. For reference, check out what they did to Everton earlier in the season + their display away at the Velodromme last night. Nasty place to play also, rabid crowd.

Then the semi draw will be extremely tough either way.

The bonus is bringing both ties back to Anfield (assuming we get to the Semis that is).

Could have been worse, could have been better.

Only thing is 2nd leg at Anfield.
Benfica would have aspirations of winning the comp., not easy tie at all.

Dearg81

Bad draw for Liverpool, Benfica are the best team in it. They destroyed Everton and have lots of tricky players who will expose liverpools defence, especially insua and carragher.

Delighted with that draw.

Tbh, I don't think there's much between any of the teams left and anyone can beat any of the teams on their day.

The 2nd leg at Anfield is key though and will be key also should we make the semis.

eZe^

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Fulham FC (ENG) vs VfL Wolfsburg (GER)

Hamburger SV (GER) vs R. Standard De Liege (BEL)

Valencia CF (ESP) vs Club Athletico De Madrid (SPA)

SL Benfica (POR) vs Liverpool FC (ENG)

That's a little harsh isn't it?


Very very strong final 8 to be honest. I'd love to see Atletico play Liverpool in the final, and for Aguero to nutmeg Torres on his game winning goal scoring run.

eZe^

eZe^ wrote: »

That's a little harsh isn't it?


Very very strong final 8 to be honest. I'd love to see Atletico play Liverpool in the final, and for Aguero to nutmeg Torres on his game winning goal scoring run.

They can't meet in the final.

They can meet in the semis however.

eZe^

My bad!

DanR

The positive for Liverpool is that we get the second leg at home for the quarter and the semi (if we get through!).

Benfica will be a tough nut to crack though. They've only lost one league game all season and currently sit on top of the league.:eek:

Pro. F

G'wan Fulham!
A not the worst, not the best type of draw for them. Lot of handy teams in it at this stage. Tough draw for Liverpool especially when you consider their semi-final, if they get there.

Ferris_Bueller

Benfica are a strong team, one of the ones I would have wanted to avoid. Can't see Liverpool making the final, whether they lose out to Benfica or one of the Spanish sides.

JP Liz V1

Des wrote: »

Easy draw for Liverpool :rolleyes:

I dont think so tbh if they can draw in Portugal and get the win at the Kop they will be lucky

leninbenjamin

Tough enough draw for the English teams, but then again there are no real weak teams in there. All are well capable of beating the rest in it on their day.

All ties should be well worth watching imo.

Gillington

Is it weird to say I'm actually looking forward to these games more then the Champs league!!?

Never liked Champs League :mad:

until city are in it next year!

GLaDOS

There's no such thing as an easy game for Liverpool this season

LuckyLloyd

ScienceNerd wrote: »

There's no such thing as an easy game for Liverpool this season

Liverpool 4 - 0 Stoke City
Liverpool 4 - 0 Burnley
Liverpool 6 - 1 Hull City
Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool
Liverpool 2 - 0 Wolves
Liverpool 2 - 0 Bolton
Unirea Urziceni 1 - 3 Liverpool
Liverpool 4 - 1 Portsmouth
Liverpool 3 - 0 Lille

GLaDOS

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Liverpool 4 - 0 Stoke City
Liverpool 4 - 0 Burnley
Liverpool 6 - 1 Hull City
Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool
Liverpool 2 - 0 Wolves
Liverpool 2 - 0 Bolton
Unirea Urziceni 1 - 3 Liverpool
Liverpool 4 - 1 Portsmouth
Liverpool 3 - 0 Lille

Sunderland 1 - 0 Liverpool
Fulham 3 - 1 Liverpool
Birmingham 2 - 2 Liverpool
Blackburn 0 - 0 Liverpool
Portsmouth 2 - 0 Liverpool
Reading 1 - 1 Liverpool
Wigan 1 - 0 Liverpool

I meant in terms of predicting

spockety

I thought such a rubbish competition would only attract interest from Liverpool and Fulham fans. Sure are a lot of people eager to get their opinion in on the likelihood of a Liverpool exit this next round.

LuckyLloyd

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Liverpool 4 - 0 Stoke City
Liverpool 4 - 0 Burnley
Liverpool 6 - 1 Hull City
Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool
Liverpool 2 - 0 Wolves
Liverpool 2 - 0 Bolton
Unirea Urziceni 1 - 3 Liverpool
Liverpool 4 - 1 Portsmouth
Liverpool 3 - 0 Lille

Liverpool 2 - 0 United

LuckyLloyd

rarnes1 wrote: »

Liverpool 2 - 0 United

That wasn't easy, neither was the Spurs game - they hung in the balance for a long time...