Well, half the games are heading into the final half-hour, but when has gross tardiness ever stopped us?
Fixtures — with some scores — after the jump, for those of you who like that sort of thing.
70 Minutes In
Fulham 3, Juventus 1 (4-4 agg)
Marseille 0, Benfica 0 (1-1 agg)
Standard Liege 1, Panathanaikos 0 (4-1 agg)
Werder Bremen 3, Valencia 4 (4-5 agg)
Games Kicking Off at 4pm-ish
Anderlecht v. Hamburg SV (1-3 agg)
Liverpool v. Lille (0-1 agg)
Sporting Lisbon v. Atletico Madrid (0-0 agg)
Wolfsburg v. Rubin Kazan (1-1 agg)
Holy f**k @ the Fulham and Valencia games.
yeah…i just peeped these scores on Soccernet. holy f**k indeed.
Nice ruined counter attack by poor man’s Adebesi Sissoko there.
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW DEMPSEY
Seriously that is one of the better goals of the season. This game is nuts.
And Werder makes it 4-4. one more goal and they win.
OOSAH!!! OOSAH!!! OOSAH!!!
DEUCE FOR PRESIDENT!
is fulham really going to over turn a 3-1 deficit and beat juventus?
Wow we suspended Riera. Good, f**k him.
Didi dropped the hammer on him, love that guy.
I love that Rafa was called out by his own player. Notice no players have refuted Riera to this point.
Well Didi certainly backed him up. Rafa may be an idiot, but Riera hasn’t justified a first team place in a long time.
I’m sick of Rafa but players coming out with s**t like this is never a good thing. Whatever, we’ll get three million pounds for him this summer.
Sooooon oooooofff aaaaaa bitch. Of course. Stevie Me from the damned spot.
Good call, Lucas caught the guys leg.
Jesus Christ what a run from Space Coyote.
Is Didi a current player? No…he’s not. Not a peep from his current charges.
Well he’s a current employee, he’s about as close to a spot in the team as Riera was.
I’m not supporting Benitez, but for him to say that after a big win and on the verge of a United game is ridiculously tacky.
Oh…so a current employee that probably reports to Rafa is a good, unbiased source? I don’t think so. He even admits that Rafa is different.
Actually he reports to the youth coaches.
Reina, who actually is an important player, signing his new deal today is a better indicator I would hope of how the players feel. Rafa makes some questionable personnel decisions, and that’s being generous, but benching Riera is not one of them.
The ref has gotten two dribble out of bounds call wrong so far. Good work.
Put it this way. If losing to Pompey and Wigan, getting bounced from every meaningful tournament in the early stages, and running off Alonso doesn’t get him fired, do you really think Riera throwing a hissy fit is going to do any good?
If Rafa is here to stay, God help us, scrubs making statements that make the club look bad are a bad thing. This team needs to bring players in, current players blasting the system doesn’t help that.
Still, not an unbiased source that comes from the club management. A person that likely has designs on coaching in the future not wanting to burn a potential contact…nope…not biased one iota. Reina signing a new deal is great but a new deal that pays you more for more years isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement of the manager.
I am still waiting for the players to support Rafa.
Well Riera has a mustache, he can’t really be trusted either.
Man as bad as Riise was at defending at least he was one hell of an athlete. Fatty fat fat fat Emiliano is driving me nuts.
We’ve replaced Lucas Leiva with a guy who doesn’t suck at soccer and drinks Colombian decaffeinated coffee crystals.
dammit! Marseille already crapped out today to Benfica, we can’t lose Lille too.
The rare zero stoppage time decision.
coyote el espacio!
Hey Lille have a Toure too!
But do they have a Traore?
/no, really, I don’t know. Since someone didn’t let us know all Traores
Nope. No Diarra either.
Anderlecht/Hamburg is 5-5 agg as well. This round of Europa has been infinitely more entertaining than this round of the Champions League.
6-5 Hamburg now.
3-0, you just can’t keep a good Space Coyote down.
HSV went through two rounds in a row losing their second game but winning it on agg. thats pretty impressive in a way
I didn’t realize Ruud wasn’t cup tied. Man I want to avoid them.
I hope we didn’t blow our load and leave nothing left for ManU on Sunday. Great result, good to see the confidence a little bit again.
NYK, you happen to catch how Ben Arfa comes on in stoppage time then gets a red?
33 goals in Europa action tonight.
“Rafa Benitez is the manager and he is allowed to criticise the team”
EAT IT THAT COUNTS AS BACKING THE MANAGER!!!!!!!!!!!
… kinda
Kazan and Wolfsburg are in the second frame of extra time, Kazan just had a defender sent off.
Wolfsburg score with a minute left, think I heard a “Juden” from the German announcer.
hmm, that means no more Eastern european teams left in this competition. Theyve been very succesfull in it lately.
I wonder if this is what Platini and co wanted. Lots of big teams still in it. A Valencia/Liverpool matchup would be phenomenal.
if this is, in fact, what Platini and co wanted, which I believe it is, its working. its bringing more credibility to the tournament.
HSV, Benfica, Atletico, Liverpool, Valencia, Wolfsburg, Liege and Fullham.
Not bad at all, although Juve of course would have looked better, name-wise.