Topic: Europa League 2023/24

[Samie]

Good Quarter Final draw and the better Semi Final draw.  Happy with that.

Xabi in the final will be tough. 

[Statto Red]

Shame they don’t move it to Croke Park and give the final clubs a bigger allocation. Seems wrong that you’ve got a massive stadium around the corner from the Aviva which has 30,000 seats less.

Allocations are gonna be very low. The Stade de France is massive in comparison and we only got 20,000 (including players, corporates, sponsors et al).

So we’ll probably get about 25+% allocation of the Aviva (50,000 approx) would give you a measly 13,000-14,000 tickets (for all).. Odds for Paris was 29.5% of being successful so I’d say less than 20%

Probably odds of 1 in 5 of getting a ticket for the final especially with the even bigger capacity at Anfield now!

Well UEFA have made contingency plans that should we reach the final, that Croke Park will be available for a watch party.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2024/03/13/croke-park-officials-confirm-uefa-arrangement-to-host-europa-league-final-watch-party/

[West Cork Red]

Well UEFA have made contingency plans that should we reach the final, that Croke Park will be available for a watch party.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2024/03/13/croke-park-officials-confirm-uefa-arrangement-to-host-europa-league-final-watch-party/

I'm not sure it's quite as straightforward as that, UEFA have no ties whatsoever to Croke Park as  it's owned by the GAA and as far as I know any other events held there other than GAA games are subject to council  approval and the local community can be fairly knobbish  when it comes to extra events

[Realgman]

I'm not sure it's quite as straightforward as that, UEFA have no ties whatsoever to Croke Park as  it's owned by the GAA and as far as I know any other events held there other than GAA games are subject to council  approval and the local community can be fairly knobbish  when it comes to extra events

Its true, Croker will be a fanzone for the final

[Redbonnie]

I'm not sure it's quite as straightforward as that, UEFA have no ties whatsoever to Croke Park as  it's owned by the GAA and as far as I know any other events held there other than GAA games are subject to council  approval and the local community can be fairly knobbish  when it comes to extra events

Jurgen Klopps potential last game in Dublin and you think we will have issues getting Croke park from the locals? I can’t think of a country we would have a better chance including our own of course.

[newterp]

Jurgen Klopps potential last game in Dublin and you think we will have issues getting Croke park from the locals? I can’t think of a country we would have a better chance including our own of course.

Hopefully Klopp has 1 more game to manage after the Europa Final too!

[Samie]

Xabi Alonso:



“For me it’s clear, We are the favourites, by " We" I mean Liverpool. I really see Liverpool as the favourites to win the Europa League.”

[diegoLFC7]

82000 reds in Croke Park. 

[Redbonnie]

Hopefully Klopp has 1 more game to manage after the Europa Final too!

A cork man will know more  than me but I would expect the govt will see an amazing opportunity for a huge sporting event.  And Connor Bradley will be playing so that’s on our side as well. The place would explode if he scored the winner.

[Samie]

She'sa beauty. 

[Bobinhood]

Oh - I looked it up and I'm embarrassed for them. I say that sincerely:

"We won the league at Anfield,
We won it at the lane,
Stamford Bridge, Old Trafford,
No one can say the same,
Mikel Arteta’s army,
We’re Arsenal through and through,
We’ll sing it in the North Bank,
And in the Clock End too.
Allez Allez Allez,
Allez Allez Allez,
Allez Allez Allez,
Allez Allez Allez..."

We lost the cup to Barca
Barely made the semis in 09
Lost that one to Sir Red Nose
the shame still breaks our minds
Mikel Artetas Barmy
He's always been a loon
and even although weve never won it
we'll steal this fucking tune
(Are- we - ever gonna win it? -everybody now!!)
no way no way no way
no way no way no way
no way no way no way
no way no way no way

[Fitzy.]

Huge favourites now to get to the final. Over two legs I’m struggling to see how these lesser sides will outplay Liverpool who are playing at an incredible standard at the moment.

[ScubaSteve]

82000 reds in Croke Park. 

First dibs for those who miss out in the ballot 🙏🏻

[Egyptian36]

We are huge favourites to win this competition especially with this draw and no corrupt English referees to deal with.

[WhereAngelsPlay]

The perfect draw.

[Zlen]

82000 reds in Croke Park. 

Shame it’s played in Aviva.

[Kalito]

At this point I'd take Madrid all day long. They have won it so much that you can't be upset by it.

Arsenals European misery is great. Which makes their singing Allez Allez Allez even more odd (yes they have different lyrics of course).

They've conquered all of North London ...

[Zimagic]

Shame they don’t move it to Croke Park and give the final clubs a bigger allocation. Seems wrong that you’ve got a massive stadium around the corner from the Aviva which has 30,000 seats less.

Allocations are gonna be very low. The Stade de France is massive in comparison and we only got 20,000 (including players, corporates, sponsors et al).

So we’ll probably get about 25+% allocation of the Aviva (50,000 approx) would give you a measly 13,000-14,000 tickets (for all).. Odds for Paris was 29.5% of being successful so I’d say less than 20%

Probably odds of 1 in 5 of getting a ticket for the final especially with the even bigger capacity at Anfield now!

On the up-side, there's a 100% better chance of not being treated like cattle or attacked by the cops Vs Paris regardless of the stadium they have the game in.

[Kalito]

Oh - I looked it up and I'm embarrassed for them. I say that sincerely:

"We won the league at Anfield,
We won it at the lane,
Stamford Bridge, Old Trafford,
No one can say the same,
Mikel Arteta’s army,
We’re Arsenal through and through,
We’ll sing it in the North Bank,
And in the Clock End too.
Allez Allez Allez,
Allez Allez Allez,
Allez Allez Allez,
Allez Allez Allez..."


EMBARRASSING

Wow. 

[Redley]

They've conquered all of North London ...

We've conquered all of Youtube
We're never gonna stop
From Robbie down to DT
Bludfammed the fucking lot
A Lego headed dickhead
He thinks he's Jurgen Klopp
We think we're fucking special....
cos we copy Liverpooooool
Allez, Allez, Allez
Allez, Allez, Allez

[Anfield Kopite]

Shame it’s played in Aviva.

Yes we know. Rumour is if we get the final Croke Park will be used as a fanzone with screens because of our huge travelling support.

[Jacob Ian]

I really wanted Marseille in the quarters, but either them or Benfica in the semi's would be fantastic. And if we really do end up meeting Leverkusen in the final, with each side carrying along their league trophies, UEFA might as well swap venues and dates with the CL final because it will definitely upstage it.

[killer-heels]

I really wanted Marseille in the quarters, but either them or Benfica in the semi's would be fantastic. And if we really do end up meeting Leverkusen in the final, with each side carrying along their league trophies, UEFA might as well swap venues and dates with the CL final because it will definitely upstage it.

Are the Marseille fans not a gang of c*nts?

[FlashingBlade]

Oh - I looked it up and I'm embarrassed for them. I say that sincerely:

"We won the league at Anfield,
We won it at the lane,
Stamford Bridge, Old Trafford,
No one can say the same,
Mikel Arteta’s army,
We’re Arsenal through and through,
We’ll sing it in the North Bank,
And in the Clock End too.
Allez Allez Allez,
Allez Allez Allez,
Allez Allez Allez,
Allez Allez Allez..."


EMBARRASSING

Swear one day, them ,Villa, Wolves etc..gonna break out with ' Story of a Poor Boy' or FOAR

[WhereAngelsPlay]

They've conquered all of North London ...

Comical, the fucking tryhards that they are.

We've won 19 Leagues
Can't sing about them all 

[terry_macss_perm]

Yes we know. Rumour is if we get the final Croke Park will be used as a fanzone with screens because of our huge travelling support.

Travelling support is only half of it. There’ll be a couple of hundred thousand Irish reds who want to be in on the party.

I can see Anfield having a big screen too.

[SouthDerryLaggo]

God help anyone other than reds looking a hotel for this. Me and my mates booked it as soon as we finished 5th last year.

[thaddeus]

Cracking draw, that.  Atalanta have plenty to play for domestically as well as they're in the race for 4th/5th and CL qualification.  On form I'd expect Benfica to beat Marseille but they didn't look all that great against Rangers.

A Man City vs. Arsenal CL semi-final would be good for us as well.  Realistically they're the best two sides in it so it would be two tough games.

We've had a couple of tough draws in the FA Cup but generally the draws have favoured us this season.

[Oh Jimmy Jimmy]

Are the Marseille fans not a gang of c*nts?

Yes, what happened post match in Paris is what they were doing back in 07 - cosy up to you and then pickpocket and if you try to resist , there’s the threat of a blade.  Back in 07, they did it to people who wondered from the main crowd in the old port - now it’s advised any euro away fans not to go to the old port so think it has got worst.

[Zlen]

Yes we know. Rumour is if we get the final Croke Park will be used as a fanzone with screens because of our huge travelling support.

That would be mad.
It would be both stadiums full of red.

[Red1976]

Atalanta will not be as easy a game as some think. They are not doing that bad in Serie A (only 4 points from champions league qualification) and hammered Everton in 2017 and beat us at Anfield in 2020.  I think that will give them confidence.

[Samie]

We battered them 5-0 too.   

[Crosby Nick]

Atalanta will not be as easy a game as some think. They are not doing that bad in Serie A (only 4 points from champions league qualification) and hammered Everton in 2017 and beat us at Anfield in 2020.  I think that will give them confidence.

From memory we put a very weak side out in that home game. Was during the Covid season wasn’t it so games came thick and fast, Klopp took a calculated gamble that backfired (to a point, we qualified from the group fairly comfortably).

[Hazell]

Atalanta will not be as easy a game as some think. They are not doing that bad in Serie A (only 4 points from champions league qualification) and hammered Everton in 2017 and beat us at Anfield in 2020.  I think that will give them confidence.

I'm not sure hammering Everton is such an achievement.

They did beat us at Anfield but by the same token, we thumped them in Bergamo. Plus it was a long time ago, I don't think it'll have that much relevance this season. Not saying it'll be easy though, got to go treat every game seriously from here on in.

[rob1966]

Oh - I looked it up and I'm embarrassed for them. I say that sincerely:

"We won the league at Anfield,
We won it at the lane,
Stamford Bridge, Old Trafford,
No one can say the same,
Mikel Arteta’s army,
We’re Arsenal through and through,
We’ll sing it in the North Bank,
And in the Clock End too.
Allez Allez Allez,
Allez Allez Allez,
Allez Allez Allez,
Allez Allez Allez..."


EMBARRASSING

Fuck me, if you're gonna rob a song, write some fucking good lyrics

[Crosby Nick]

I'm not sure hammering Everton is such an achievement.

They did beat us at Anfield but by the same token, we thumped them in Bergamo. Plus it was a long time ago, I don't think it'll have that much relevance this season. Not saying it'll be easy though, got to go treat every game seriously from here on in.

Just looked it up, we had a back four of Tsimikas, Rhys Williams, Matip and Neco Williams!

Was the first time in 137 home games under Klopp that we lost a game by more than one goal. Wouldn’t be the last time that season.

But hard to read too much into that oddball of a season.

[Boston Bosox]

Just looked it up, we had a back four of Tsimikas, Rhys Williams, Matip and Neco Williams!

Was the first time in 137 home games under Klopp that we lost a game by more than one goal. Wouldn’t be the last time that season.

But hard to read too much into that oddball of a season.

I have bad memories of that 2-0 loss my best friend passed away during that game so not really looking forward to it

[newterp]

Fuck me, if you're gonna rob a song, write some fucking good lyrics

Let's start with at least .... passable!!!!

These are horrific.

[Hazell]

Just looked it up, we had a back four of Tsimikas, Rhys Williams, Matip and Neco Williams!

Was the first time in 137 home games under Klopp that we lost a game by more than one goal. Wouldn’t be the last time that season.

But hard to read too much into that oddball of a season.

Wow, remember the game but didn't realise we had that back four.

With the likes of Alexander-Arnold, Jones and Jota coming back, we'll be a lot stronger by the time this tie comes around, if we don't get any further injuries (big if I know).

[Boston Bosox]

2020 Atalanta BC(Champions League Matchday 4 ) Anfield 0-2
LIVERPOOL LINE UP
Alisson Becker , Kostas Tsimikas , Joël Matip , Rhys Williams , Neco Williams , Georginio Wijnaldum , James Milner (Captain), Curtis Jones , Sadio Mané , Mohamed Salah , Divock Origi
LIVERPOOL SUBSTITUTIONS
Kostas Tsimikas out for Andy Robertson 61' , Georginio Wijnaldum out for Fabinho Tavarez 61' , Mohamed Salah out for Roberto Firmino 61' , Divock Origi out for Diogo Jota 61', Joël Matip out for Takumi Minamino 84'
ATALANTA B.C. LINE UP
Pierluigi Gollini , Rafael Tolói , Cristian Romero , Hans Hateboer , Marten de Roon , Remo Freuler , Robin Gosens , Berat Djimsiti , Matteo Pessina , Josip Ilicic , Papu Gómez
ATALANTA B.C. GOALS
Josip Ilicic 60' , Robin Gosens 64'
ATALANTA B . C. SUBSTITUTIONS
Josip Ilicic out for Duván Zapata 70' , Robin Gosens out for Johan Mojica 75' , Matteo Pessina out for Aleksei Miranchuk 85'
Liverpool Manager: Jürgen Klopp
Atalanta B.C manager: Gian Piero Gasperini
Referee: del Cerro Grande C (Spain)
Attendance: Game played behind closed doors due to COVID-19
Half-time score: 0 - 0
Game number: 5758
Europe game number: 404
LFC played towards Kop: Second half