Liverpool vs Sevilla - Europa League Final - Basel - May 18th

[Pagnell]

Good luck Liverpool.

Win this, and you'll be crowned the 17th best club in Europe.

And yet we'd still have more chance than Arsenal of progressing past the last 16.

 

[Whitechapel]

And yet we'd still have more chance than Arsenal of progressing past the last 16.

Like last time?

 

[Pagnell]

Which is sort of the joke.

 

[mente captus]

i expect Liverpool to win it

 

[Ablur]

Not too familiar with how Seville look as an outfit player for player since they lost Bacca. Obviously Gameiro is their main threat, but looking at their squad, on paper they have quite a lot of useful players.

Big performances from Can and Milner are needed tonight.

 

[JimJams]

Konoplyanka mate. And Vitolo if they both start. If the Ukranian has a good game you'll be bang in trouble. They've got good wide players at Sevilla but obviously their issue is getting them all on the pitch as I think that's their only real standout area. Krychowiak and N'Zonzi offers a very defensive setup if they play together so it's on Banega as the only man in the middle to really create. A pressing system could really pay off if they don't have time to get the ball to the wingers or they have an off day.

 

[smat]

Quite excited by the prospect of 5 English teams in the CL (thus proving beyond doubt our superiority to the German game, Mente) but I'm not sure I can resist Saltire being disappointed. So let's go with Sevilla.

 

[johnnytodd]

With all the Liverpool plastics over confidence i think it could end in rivers of tears......LOL

 

[Pagnell]

Doesn't matter though, does it johhny? After all, you don't care about this small fry competition. Or at least whilst you're not in it and we have a chance of lifting the trophy.

 

[ProfessorGreen]

Go on then Liverpool. No affiliation to the club at all, but good to see English teams doing well in Europe. We need to keep hold of that 4th CL place!

 

[johnnytodd]

 

[epic73]

Quite excited by the prospect of 5 English teams in the CL.

None of them would make it to the quarter-finals.

 

[Oliver]

I hope that BT will show this game for free.

 

[Pagnell]

I hope that BT will show this game for free.

They are.

Go to https://www.youtube.com/user/BTSportOfficial at kickoff.

Direct link to the match -

 

[JimJams]

None of them would make it to the quarter-finals.

I bet you're wrong.

 

[Bilo]

just imagine what you would be like if you had some sort of affinity with the city.....LOL

I suspect I've supported Liverpool for longer than you have been alive mate. I'd even go as far as claiming that I saw the city of Liverpool before you did, but that would mean you're younger than ten which is 50/50 really.

Like last time?

Counting on your support tonight mate.

 

[epic73]

I bet you're wrong.

That was a joke, only 1 English team has made it to the quarter-finals in the last 2 seasons

 

[johnnytodd]

I suspect I've supported Liverpool for longer than you have been alive mate. I'd even go as far as claiming that I saw the city of Liverpool before you did, but that would mean you're younger than ten which is 50/50 really.


Counting on your support tonight mate.

Please define support ( Pagnell style in front of telly i bet)

First game for me was mid 70s btw LOL

 

[Pagnell]

I might be an ex-season ticket holder, but I freely admit I'm a 100% bona fide armchair fan these days. And proud of it.

 

[G-Dragon]

Looking good so far

 

[Bilo]

He bites,
he harms,
his chair's the kind with arms
Pagger-pags ... Pagger-pags ...

I'm still at work. This is what I do.

 

[Ablur]

Konoplyanka mate. And Vitolo if they both start. If the Ukranian has a good game you'll be bang in trouble. They've got good wide players at Sevilla but obviously their issue is getting them all on the pitch as I think that's their only real standout area. Krychowiak and N'Zonzi offers a very defensive setup if they play together so it's on Banega as the only man in the middle to really create. A pressing system could really pay off if they don't have time to get the ball to the wingers or they have an off day.

It will be typical if Konoplyanka nets the winner after being so heavily linked with us a couple of seasons back on the verge of signing before the director of Dnipro decides it'd be a good idea to just call it off last minute.

 

[G-Dragon]

I thought Konoplyanka was no more than a bench player at Sevilla? Its Gameiro and Banega that we should be worried about imo.

 

[JimJams]

He's not a guaranteed starter as I said Vitolo might be in instead or as well as. Then there's Krohn Delhi as well. Reyes is generally the definite sub winger. You should be able to contain Banega quite easily I'd have thought if you're going to press.

 

[JimJams]

I would imagine they'd start with the same lineup that played the first game against Shaktar which featured Konoplyanka and Vitolo on opposite sides.

 

[G-Dragon]

UEFA Europa League

✔‎@EuropaLeague

Unai Emery #UEL record

Played: 42
Won: 26
Drawn: 10
Lost: 6
Win percentage: 62%#UELfinal

 

[G-Dragon]

richard askam ‎@richaskam
Conflicting reports about whether Konoplyanka is fit to start. Spanish journo close to team told me he won't #lfc#EuropaLeagueFinal

4:33 AM - 18 May 2016

 

[Stevencc]

The time has come then.

Was Salty right all those months ago when he predicted that Liverpool would win the Europa League and head straight back into the Champions League or was I right to laugh in his face at the suggestion?

Big stakes.

 

[Liam_SWFC]

Looking forward to this one, think people are underestimating Sevilla a little bit most pundits seem to be saying a Liverpool win and some comfortably. Sevilla have some serious tournament experience and this competition brings the best out of them, huge for Liverpool to win this though could speed up their development under Klopp being in the Champions League. What happens if Liverpool do win? Will it be 5 English clubs next season or will City miss out?

 

[Madglover]

5 Clubs, and then United, Southampton in the Europe league. Plus Palace if they win the FA cup

I think if United win the FA cup I believe West Ham get the 3rd Europa league place

I;m sure there was at some point a permutation where we could end up with 5 and 2?