I mean rangers could just play keep ball for 15 minutes. Look for overlaps and 2 v 1s - it's not rocket science.
Traveling to Far, Desolate, and Inhospitable Places: The 2021/2022 Europa League Thread
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Arfield misses a fuckin sitter. Jeezo get another goal and put this game to bed.
The commentator says 101 times out of 100 he scores that...that's not the kind of hyyperbole i can fuck with.
The commentator says 101 times out of 100 he scores that...that's not the kind of hyyperbole i can fuck with.
Dunno who it was but some Rangers player hit the bar from about a yard out in first half. That’s a very nuanced skill set I wouldn’t want to have. Harder not to score.
Celtic are going to be licking their chops on Sunday. But well done Rangers .. it’s been a hell of a ride. Good for them. Seriously .
The commentator said as much. But I'm chuffed to see a Scottish team in a Euro Semi final. Not bad for a farmers league.
Really good 85 minutes of determined defending, even the goal took exquisite technique to pull off. Just need to survive the last 5+ min and they'll have a job to do at Ibrox, but not an impossible job.
It's all to play for in each of the Europa and Conference League ties.
These are good tournaments right now. Winning would mean a lot to each of the eight clubs left.
These are good tournaments right now. Winning would mean a lot to each of the eight clubs left.
I was out all night so missed the game, but my dad was texting me updates. I had a feeling they'd concede. But well in the tie going back to Ibrox. It's a cliche but if you'd offered them this at the start of the tourney they'd bite yer hand off. Ibrox will be bouncing next week.
I can't even imagine this happening to me:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61268852
Very poor security if West Ham fans were able to physically reach the German TV commentators to do this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61268852
Very poor security if West Ham fans were able to physically reach the German TV commentators to do this.
I'm not a big Rangers fan but their home atmosphere is genuinely amazing and its kind of great to see them slapping around FCEnergyDrink.
I’ve come around to respecting what Rangers have achieved this season. I thought they were being fluky in Europe. But as the rounds have progressed I’ve changed my mind. If Aribo hadn’t missed that sitter they would be sitting on a 3:0 lead at the half.
Mon the Gers.
Great to have Scottish team in a European final. It doesn't happen often. Rangers have been great in Europe. My block of flats shook when the final whistle went.
Great to have Scottish team in a European final. It doesn't happen often. Rangers have been great in Europe. My block of flats shook when the final whistle went.
feel for West Ham. They kinda sunk their premier league chances by going for this, only to see it thrown away by a red card so early in the match. Just a dumb decision by Cresswell. Even if EF score, there’s plenty of time to get two goals.
They weren't going to finish high enough in the PL honestly, no depth in the squad at all. Moyes has been great, but the one exception has been that he's been happy to not only have a razor thin squad, but also to just run the same 11-12 players into the ground over 2 years. The Owners need to spend money this summer, Moyes needs to use that money to actually buy players (reportedly he had money in the Winter he didn't use), and when he gets them he needs to do real rotation. If you want to make the CL you can't treat your squad the same way you do for a relegation battle.
It kinda makes me feel icky for even thinking it, but I wouldn’t have been devastated if RB Leipzig had won and possibly opened up another CL (and possibly EL) slot in the Bundesliga.
Right. I guess the big question for next year is what happens with Rice. He’s a fantastic player and does so much for them. I hope he stays.
I love RBL--they play exciting football with good players, and have a sustainable model. It's a bummer that they've done so by circumventing ownership rules in the Bundesliga, but from a pure entertainment standpoint, sign me up to watch any of their games. Not to mention Angelino is one of my favorite players, and I'd love to see him at Barca or Spurs.
Yeah, I don’t disagree with any of that. And I’m actually feel like they’re somewhat unfairly demonized in Germany, and had a pretty interesting debate with my Union friends about them when we were down there. And their counterargument to me, when I said essentially, “how are they worse than Bayern?” boiled down to a) it’s a German thing, you wouldn’t understand and b ) “but they broke the rules!” (And while there is no love lost for Bayern among these people, they’d probably accept 20 Bayern championships if it prevented one from RB Leipzig)
I wouldn’t express that opinion out loud at alten Försterei though
I’m not hugely impressed with RB Leipzig’s fan base, though it probably exceeded my very low expectations.
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Leverkusen and Wolfsburg were grandfathered in and I think Hofferhiem has some sketchy ownership situation too. So Leipzig isn't alone, yet they do get singled out. I'm sure part of it is that they're the only former GDR club in the top flight, they're a club with a recent corporate rebranding, and their club is really a new club- I think they bought the license to field a team from some 4th tier German team and turned them into soulless corporate FC...
Dayum, the bolded blows my mind.Yeah, I don’t disagree with any of that. And I’m actually feel like they’re somewhat unfairly demonized in Germany, and had a pretty interesting debate with my Union friends about them when we were down there. And their counterargument to me, when I said essentially, “how are they worse than Bayern?” boiled down to a) it’s a German thing, you wouldn’t understand and b ) “but they broke the rules!” (And while there is no love lost for Bayern among these people, they’d probably accept 20 Bayern championships if it prevented one from RB Leipzig)
I wouldn’t express that opinion out loud at alten Försterei though
I’m not hugely impressed with RB Leipzig’s fan base, though it probably exceeded my very low expectations.
Seriously…the amount of hate for RB Leipzig in Germany (especially from Union Berlin fans - I get into it a bit in my trip report from the Pokal semifinal), is really hard to believe until you actually experience it.
If I was going to summarize the reaction to the Bayern vs RBL question, it basically boils down to, “Bayern at least didn’t cheat.”
Edit: actually a better translation for Bayern’s behavior (rather than “cheat”) would be that they didn’t break the rules.
To actually take it even a step further, I asked them (hypothetically, since they're now in the Regionalliga, but about to be promoted to the 3rd division), who they'd prefer in a match between RBL and Dynamo Berlin (if you don't want to read the history, imagine the New York Yankees, owned by Donald Trump and supported by I dunno, a murderous Stephen Miller, who also could threaten the families of the umpires, and maybe you get an idea), and other than "can we just have the meteor instead?", it wasn't unequivocal that RBL was the preferred outcome in such a match.
Dynamo Berlin is a totally repellent club, currently and historically, to the point that on the rare occasion that I see someone wearing its gear, I actively avoid that person. Like, I'll cross the street to avoid potentially accidentally bumping into him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1._FC_Union_Berlin
https://goo.gl/maps/GLGUxXgWuwwYHkiu7
I mean, we're still alive even for the Champions League in the third season in the top-flight. I won't shut up about them here either haha.
I was trying to find a good English article about BFC Dynamo's Nazi problem, but most of what I found was in German. Here are some relevant passages (translated by Google)
Here are some numbers: Union and Hertha have about 40,000 active members each. RBL has 750. I can't find any actual figures for BFC Dynamo, but I'd be shocked if it's more than 2-3,000, and probably quite a bit less. I mean, they averaged 1,591 fans a game, for a team that won their league and plays in a stadium with a capacity of over 12,000.
Edit: I thought from the first time I read that article, I thought there was some context for the number of "Category C" fans. I can't find the exact numbers at the moment, but Union and Hertha have a club supporter membership that is many, many times what Dynamo has. But with a fraction of the supporters, they have more than triple the number of dangerous supporters.
Here are some numbers: Union and Hertha have about 40,000 active members each. RBL has 750
. I can't find any actual figures for BFC Dynamo, but I'd be shocked if it's more than 2-3,000, and probably quite a bit less. I mean, they averaged 1,591 fans a game, for a team that won their league and plays in a stadium with a capacity of over 12,000.
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Some terrific writing from the usually bland ESPNFC pages:
https://www.espn.com/soccer/uefa-europa-league/story/4668145/police-chiefs-warning-ahead-of-europa-league-final-too-many-peopletoo-much-alcohol
The first was clearer than the second to me, but Frankfurt has a legitimate complaint about both non-calls. VAR shit the bed again.
I didn’t see him do it. The first was a trip in the box and the Rangers player did not even come close to the ball. The second was the potential handball.
1-1 now!
Hydration breaks in southern Spain in May make sense. Rangers players wearing long sleeves, less so.