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Gibbs-White is another weird one.

Watkins as well natural number 9 who can stretch the defence. Solanke is basically a poor mans Kane and won't run in behind defences. 

Jose team was very poor on those penalties.

Europa League Quarter finals

Tottenham v Eintracht Frankfurt
Bodo/Glimt v Lazio
Rangers v Athletic Bilbao
Lyon v Manchester United

Semi finals
Rangers or Athletic Bilbao v  Lyon or Manchester United
Bodo/Glimt or Lazio v  Tottenham or Eintracht Frankfurt


Athletic Bilbao I'd fancy to win it out.  They are 4th in La Liga and the final in their pitch.

It's Man Uniteds to lose.

Will give Amorim a stay of execution similar to ETH last year with the Fa cup. 

He's gonna get next season anyway regardless.

You can see something resembling performances coming together, but the squad is paper thin.

He probably should but if they finish this season poorly/ start next year poorly he could be gone, Jimmy R  brought in Ashworth and had him gone sharpish and has not been shy of making big decisions while upsetting key stakeholders along the way. 

I see Thomas Tuchel has decided to tread the same path as every England manager in recent memory, and make the job more difficult than it should be.

4 goalkeepers. A burnt out Kyle Walker. A recall for Jordan Henderson, was wasn't good enough 3 years ago. A recall for Marcus Rashford, currently and properly rejected from the worst Man Utd team since the 1980s.

Why do they do this to themselves?

Jordan Henderson and Kyle Walker Jesus wept. Eric Dier must be fuming.   

Jose team was very poor on those penalties.

Europa League Quarter finals

Tottenham v Eintracht Frankfurt
Bodo/Glimt v Lazio
Rangers v Athletic Bilbao
Lyon v Manchester United

Semi finals
Rangers or Athletic Bilbao v  Lyon or Manchester United
Bodo/Glimt or Lazio v  Tottenham or Eintracht Frankfurt


Athletic Bilbao I'd fancy to win it out.  They are 4th in La Liga and the final in their pitch.

It's Man Uniteds to lose.

Will give Amorim a stay of execution similar to ETH last year with the Fa cup. 

Slot has them as really pretty ruthlessly efficient rather than being a great team. You need to be great to win in europe really. Part of that maybe is the age demograpc as a few I think maybe not quite at that top level pace but I am not sure the midfield is strong enough either for a crack at the CL.

Like someone said could be a big rebuilding job next year but you have to credit Slot as he has done some job. The Carabao cup will be interesting now.

You weren't in Istanbul in 2005 I take it lol

In the age of social media, podcasts and phone-ins it's funny to see some of the meltdown and over-reactions to Liverpool going out of the champions league.  I don't imagine most Liverpool supporters are that bothered really. The joy of winning the league will put that to bed. Man U and Man City who dominated the Pl for years routinely year in year out got knocked out of Europe and there wasn't much said about it.   

Being knocked out obviously disappointing but can accept they were second best over the tie. Strangely being knocked out of Europe last year probably annoyed me more as Atalanta a lesser team and would have been great to see Klopp win trophy in Dublin. 

The annoying thing is that Arsenal and City have fallen off a cliff meaning they would have been well placed give CL a real go and rest players here and there in league with others so far back a luxury likely won't have next year.   

Arteta the miserable p***k couldn't even give Tierney 90mins

Why would he give a token 90 minutes to a player clearly not in his plans?

No complaints over the two legs the better side won. Actually thought Nunez would have started last night but even when he came on his decision making wasn't great. Think that was the final nail in Liverpool coffin and be gone in summer. Could be a back 4 of Quansah, Endo, Virgil and Robbo for Sunday. Strange move taking MacAllister off who would have fancied score penalty Nunez and Jones not so much.

Excellent second half. Much, much better from Liverpool. Still impossible to call though.

Diaz has been really good. As has Salah.

Hope Trent's injury isn't too bad. Did not look good. Honestly doubt if we'll see him again this season.

Or again...

PSG have looked most dangerous when turning Liverpool over and getting a counter on.Excellent side.

Liverpool priority is red cards for QF. PSG are poor outfit. Handy winning French league every year. Would be mid table if in PL.

What you know about football could be written on a postage stamp.

[A player who claims a kick-out mark can play on immediately and not be challenged for four metres. If the player is challenged in that space, a free kick shall be awarded 50 metres more advantageous to that player up to the opposition's 13m line. The player can also bring it back to outside the 40m arc for a two-point score.An advantage has accrued if a point or a goal is scored. If no advantage has accrued to the team of the player awarded the mark, the referee will signal "no advantage gained" and the ball will be taken back to the points of the mark.]

A player who claims a kick-out mark can play on immediately and not be challenged for four metres. If the player is challenged in that space, a free kick shall be awarded 50 metres more advantageous to that player up to the opposition's 13m line. The player can also bring it back to outside the 40m arc for a two-point score.

An advantage has accrued if a point or a goal is scored. If no advantage has accrued to the team of the player awarded the mark, the referee will signal "no advantage gained" and the ball will be taken back to the points of the mark.

Not sure how this is worked out

With the Mark, a player was always given 4 steps or meters before being tackled IF  he didn't claim the mark..

If he was challenged (impeded) before the 4 steps the originally the play would have been brought forward 13m, now its 50m or free from the 40m arc or 13 meters.

Now is the advantage still just when arm up for 5 seconds (unless its an advantage Mark, from ball played outside the 45 into the 21 then its unlimited?   stay with me ) on anywhere on the pitch or is it now unlimited time?   

This rule will cause alot of frustration I would expect.  With the short kickout off the table, there will be alot of bodies around the kickout round the middle particularly on smaller club fields and the natural instinct won't be to retreat 4 yards. Punishment doesn't fit the crime as can cost the team two points.  I really don't like the being able to take a free out for 2 points rule. 

When you are relying on the ref to signal when times up the mentality would be to try and get the ball back to front as quick as can to get the winning score as the time left is at ref discretion. 

With the hooter if the game is level and the teams wins a kickout they will invariably hold the ball until the dying few seconds to try and get the shot off then.(Armagh v Mayo game was an example of this)  I thought the hooter would be good but would ditch it after seeing it in action.  Bit of a farce that it is not in play in D3 and D4 also.

First goal going to be huge in second leg, if Liverpool get it makes things more difficult for PSG to come through if PSG score first could be a very nervy night and wouldn't rule out penalty shootout.  This version of PSG certainly easier to like more than the version with the three galacticos upfront. 

Heard a debate that Allison best keeper the league has ever had, I personally would put Schemeichel and Cech (pre head injury) ahead of him.