UEFA CUP - Q/FINAL

redout

Thursday, 8 April 2010
Atletico Madrid v Valencia, (agg 2-2) 20:05
Liverpool v Benfica, (agg 1-2) 20:05
Standard Liege v Hamburg, (agg 1-2) 20:05
Wolfsburg v Fulham, (agg 1-2) 20:05

CSF

Atleti-Liverpool semi.

Oat23

I'll take Fulham over Wolfsburg in the semis. But I'm getting ahead of myself, still a lot to do in Belgium to make sure we'll be in the semis(Hamburg).

Should be a good night of football round Europe.

Hamburg - Standard
Liverpool - Benfica
Wolfsburg - Fulham
Athletico - Valencia

Guy:Incognito

Gwan Fulham. 1 up.

Oat23

Great start for them!

redout

Atleti the only team in it thus far.

Oat23

Hamburg 1-0 Standard - Petric after 19 mins.

Get in!!

kinaldo

Any streams for Atleti?

redout

kinaldo wrote: »

Any streams for Atleti?

http://www.p2p4u.net/

kinaldo

redout wrote: »

http://www.p2p4u.net/

Nice, thanks!

Come on Atleti, bring some European pride back to Madrid!

Oat23

Hamburg 2-1 Standard - Petric again.

What a beauty of a goal, bicycle kick. Standard need 3 now.

Helix

what was the semi final draw?

Oat23

Wolfsburg/Fulham v Hamburg/Standard
Liverpool/Benfica v Athletico/Valencia

Helix

jaysus, thats lovely for fulham

thats the only one id think they MIGHT have a chance with. i know youre a hamburg fan, but what ive seen of them i think fulham have the beating of them IF they play as well as they can

mike65

I'm trhirlled thrilled for Fulham, really hope they go through and loose on Saturday.

Stevecw

Great stuff Fulham.

Bring on a Fulham/Liverpool final

Oat23

Happy for them too, if they were playing any other team in the next round I'd be supporting them.

redout

Forlans effort knocked onto the post by Cesar

Headshot

what a ****ing save by De Gea

class act

Headshot

so much for those ****ing refs behind the goal line

fifa ****ness strikes again

RasTa

What game you watching? Have Valencia looked like winning?

Headshot

RasTa wrote: »

What game you watching? Have Valencia looked like winning?

valenica's villa hit the top bar and zigic was denied a blatant peno

Oat23

Full time in the Fulham match.

Fulham v Hamburg confirmed now.

RasTa

Headshot wrote: »

valenica's villa hit the top bar and zigic was denied a blatant peno

Bah, got on Valencia @ 21/10

cruiserweight

RasTa wrote: »

What game you watching? Have Valencia looked like winning?

Headshot wrote: »

valenica's villa hit the top bar and zigic was denied a blatant peno

Earlier in the half Forlan had a couple of very good chances. I do not get how this game is 0-0

Aguero banned for the first game against Liverpool for not leaving the pitch quickly enough when substituted

ShamoBuc

the semis should be very interesting, both of them !

DubDani

Hamburg might be the worst team for fulham imo, as they will have two reasons to be 100% up for it.

They failed in the Semis last year to Bremen and want to erase that memory, but more importantly they are looking to set up the perfect final on their home turf, as the final will be in their own stadium.

For most team that would be the ultimate motivation to give the extra 10%, and I don't think Hamburg will be any different.

me-skywalker

Damn Valenica were very unlucky!! That giant tosser will prbably be bought by Mick McCarthy hahaha

Oat23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifF2EqF2PSI

Lovely goal, 2 great strikes in the last 2 nights. Robben and Petric.

Mr.Nice Guy

Looks like a Hamburg/Liverpool final to me.

Oat23

I'd take Liverpool over Atletico in the final. Don't think it will happen though.

Hamburg v Atletico for me.

Helix

Oatesy23 wrote: »

I'd take Liverpool over Atletico in the final. Don't think it will happen though.

Hamburg v Atletico for me.

fulham v liverpool it is so:P

HalloweenJack

Atleti deserved to get through on last night's performance, they were the better side and had much better chances.

I still can't believe how Forlan wasted his chance and Villa struck the bar from inside the box. It seems odd that two of the world's best finishers could miss relatively easy chances in the same game.

Also, I think the ref was a bit **** in that game. He made a few odd decisions and there should have been a pen for Zigic towards the end.

Atleti will be tough for Liverpool. They don't have a great squad, take out Forlan, Kun, Simao, Reyes, Ujfa and De Gea and they're very average. However, they can be very tough to break down sometimes and they can attack when they want.

AFAIK, they've only won one game in the knockout rounds, away to Galatasaray. They've drawn the other five. Actually, just had a look there: they've only won three games in Europe all year.

Boskowski

HalloweenJack wrote: »

They don't have a great squad, take out Forlan, Kun, Simao, Reyes, Ujfa and De Gea and they're very average.

sorry I don't want to stir and I have no agenda just find that statement bit strange. How many Liverpool players would you have to discard before they are beginning to look 'very average'?Two? Three?

CSF

Also Assuncao, Lopez, Jurado and Garcia are far from average. Just because the non-flair players (with the exception of Jurado of course) from Spain don't get the same media coverage and notability as similar players from the Premiership doesn't make them any less good.

HalloweenJack

CSF wrote: »

Also Assuncao, Lopez, Jurado and Garcia are far from average. Just because the non-flair players (with the exception of Jurado of course) from Spain don't get the same media coverage and notability as similar players from the Premiership doesn't make them any less good.

I've never been overly impressed with Jurado in any one game. He does some things right but then he goes missing. Garcia is average. I fall asleep watching him. Lopez is solid but not outstanding. Assuncao is very hit and miss.

Boskowski wrote:

sorry I don't want to stir and I have no agenda just find that statement bit strange. How many Liverpool players would you have to discard before they are beginning to look 'very average'?Two? Three?

You're right. What I should have said was their star players aside, the Atleti squad is a lot weaker than Liverpool's without their stars.

CSF

Can't agree with you on any of that. Think the players you mentioned are much better than you've given them credit for. I think its evenly matched at present, and only because Aguero is suspended for the first leg. If both sides were full-strength I'd have to fancy Atletico.