2021-22 UEFA Europa League

ShamoBuc

Glad they won !!

tanko

Let the rioting begin, it’s going to be epic.

Mr.Nice Guy

Atta Borre!

Eintracht Frankfurt are Europa League champions.

awec

Think the best team won that.

sligeach

Lovely! All is right with the world once more.

y0ssar1an22

and frankfurt win it

McDermotX

Tears

Nice

citytillidie

Final Result

Rangers FC (SCO) 1 V 1 Eintracht Frankfurt (GER) AET Eintracht Frankfurt (GER) win on pens 5-4 

2021-22 UEFA Europa League Winners

Eintracht Frankfurt (GER)

Dr. Bre

Rangers fell into a trapp

castletownman

You can take the man out of Arsenal....

Terrible peno from Ramsey.

gimli2112

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119083180#Comment_119083180

it was the exact same penalty as Ramsey's which they said lacked both the power and the elevation

breezy1985

Gutted 🤣

Mr.Nice Guy

Ramsey's signing turned out to be a disaster.

Loafing Oaf

Probably more like 150 minutes on a night like this when you add it up but hard to argue with the rest...

chopperbyrne

Why is the Europa League Final on before the Conference League Final anyway?

Surely it should go in order with Champions League being last.

recyclops

Pray for seville

awec

I am never a fan of fresh players taking penalties in a shootout, they always seem to have a higher rate of missing than normal.

Two things I can't stand, subbing a player on for a penalty, and left footed penalty takers.

tanko

The winning pen was some strike.

When Rangers signed Ramsay you’d think they had signed Mbappe, they don’t think that now.

thebaz

well done Frankfurt , van Bronkhurst has done some job, but couldn't take it if they had triumphed.

y0ssar1an22

nice celebration there from the frankfurt manager with the klinsmann slide

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119083221#Comment_119083221

We will be setting up evacuation corridors and putting the Sevillanos up in hotels by the morning time.

Tilikum17

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119083223#Comment_119083223

Puskas, messi, Maradona, Salah, Giggs, Cruff, di stefano, maldini, Raul, Rivaldo, best

makes sense you don’t like left footed footballers

awec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119083281#Comment_119083281

It was a light hearted comment, you can relax, though I did say left footed penalty takers and not left footed footballers.

Tilikum17

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119083292#Comment_119083292

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLobzbLxuY

Three left footed players took 3 pens. How did the fair out. How did the right footed players fair out? If history has thought us anything, left footed players have always been more gifted.

giveitholly

In fairness Ramsey hadn't a chance,what with him been an ex Arsenal player....

Francie Barrett

I thought Rangers actually played quite well. Frankfurt are a very decent team and while I would say they were marginally the better side on the night, Rangers certainly made them work for it. Rangers manager fcuked them over in the end though. What was he thinking bringing Ramsey on for?

StringerBell

Rangers losing is nice. Tonight we are all Frankfurters.

Loafing Oaf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119083279#Comment_119083279

They'll be brandishing their famous oranges in a desperate bid to pacify the marauding hordes...

trashcan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119083180#Comment_119083180

Yep, it the keepers foot had blocked that it would have looked every bit as bad as Ramsey’s pen. Sometimes you get away with them. Remember Cascarino in Italia 90 ? That almost went horrendously wrong, but he got the break and it went in.

AllGunsBlazing

I remember Cas catching more of the pitch than he did the ball. Thank fck that Romanian goalie was utter shite.

TheCitizen

Ich bin ein Frankfurter

Worztron

Well do to Eintracht Frankfurt! :-)

Fattybojangles

All is right with the world this morning.

Hammer Archer

I actually thought it was an enjoyable game. While Frankfurt were the better side, Rangers had by far the best chance apart from the goals (Kent's chance late in ET). People complaining about the quality, well obviously it's not going to be Champions League quality because it's the Europa League. Also, Frankfurt are a team that thrive on counter attacks which Rangers weren't allowing them to do really so both teams cancelled each other out. Also, it was 30 degrees there yesterday.

Didn't hear of any major trouble before or afterwards. The only thing I saw mention of was Frankfurt fans attacking Rangers fans which wouldn't surprise me given they have had form for that this season already.

NIMAN

The fact that Rangers fans haven't trashed Seville like they did to Manchester will have annoyed many here.

FluffPiece

There was reports of fighting in Seville, both sets of fans to be fair. There was also apparently fans fighting each other last night in Glasgow.

I'm sure it goes on everywhere with all clubs, but football tries to hide this as much as possible and downplay it. You usually don't hear of it at all.

Weepsie

Frankfurt fans were the ones causing trouble in the semis too after all and should've had their match stopped til it was sorted

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119084691#Comment_119084691

There are usually a few isolated fights but the likes of what happened in Wembley for the Euros is rare enough.

Can anyone remember was it Frankfurt went to Arsenal a few years back but no fans were allowed at the stadium. Whoever it was I went unawares to my local German pub in London that night and the unexpectedly packed pub and German crowd had me on edge. It was a very large, bald tattooed sort of evening.

Weepsie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119084187#Comment_119084187

On the quality issue and champions League. There was a period were the Europa was a much better competition for entertainment as teams seemed to play a lot of attacking football and you'd get great high scoring games.

Since the automatic CL qualification came in, Ive found it a lot cagier.

Hammer Archer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119084909#Comment_119084909

When West Ham were playing in Seville, fans in pubs were attacked by Frankfurt fans who were playing Betis in the same city.

In the videos I've seen it appears that an large, organized group of Frankfurt fans with masks and balaclavas descended on a pub hosting Rangers fans. I genuinely do think that some people are disappointed that there wasn't carnage from Rangers fans.

Coillte_Bhoy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119083196#Comment_119083196

What is the point of this post exactly?

citytillidie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119085016#Comment_119085016

OCD since I was keeping the scores from the qualifying round and people may not have watched the game 🤷‍♂️

Coillte_Bhoy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119085038#Comment_119085038

👍️

jacool

Don't you ever stop citytillidie! Just make sure that your final EPL table has the teams in the order I want!

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119085553#Comment_119085553

And when you are typing up the game next Sat night, make sure you have Madrid as winners.

_NAGDEFY

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119085003#Comment_119085003

The masks were probably a covid measure by the Germans 😉

Brewster

Incredible effort by Rangers to be pipped at the post. My friend was at the game and he said conditions were horrendous. Stadium had no water after 30 mins which made it a long night in 30 degree heat. There was a rush at the end of game for fans to get some liquids into them. It wasn’t a great match but Kent should have won the game for Rangers, no question about this. Penalties are a lottery and someone had to miss. Rangers run has given some credibility back to Scottish football after Celtic and other SPL teams performed so poorly in Europe this year. They can be incredibly proud of their efforts, Scotland has won back and automatic CL place on the back of their efforts. As for the Rangers fans, incredible, estimates from the police chief of 100k Rangers fans in the city and they had bulk of support in stadium and not one solitary arrest. In some weird way, some people are almost disappointed with this. I will just never understand this logic. Frankfurt and Rangers have strong traditional fan bases and it was lovely to hear how they got along so well. The way football should be.

augustus gloop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119088835#Comment_119088835

No trouble was great news and everyone involved should be commended. To be fair though. The game should have been over in normal time. The Germans were far better than the scots all across the field

Brewster

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119089024#Comment_119089024

Yeah Eintracht created more changes in 90 mins, Rangers had better of extra time. No issue here.

Dr. Bre

Penalties aren’t a lottery tho are they ?