If someone told me after the draw for the groups that our chances of qualifying would come down to beating Udinese in Italy I would have taken it. We have done well in a group that is officially too good, when nobody thought we had a chance.
Everything that could go wrong did go wrong for Birmingham tonight.
Should have beaten Braga. But if Maribor didnt let a 3-0 lead slip to a 4-3 loss in the last 15 mins we would have been grand anyway. Probably going to go out now.
Sporting to play against Zurich tomorrow, to guarantee 1st place of the group. Have 5 injured players +1 that is cup tied to Atletico de Madrid. I just hope we scrape a 1-0 win and be able to go play at Olimpico at Rome with 1st place in the pocket.
Dynamo Kiev are really ******* me off right now. The amount of times a player rolls around feigning injury is ridiculous. 22 minutes in and I can count on two hands how many times they've done it. Huth literally grazed Schevchenko on the side of the foot and went down like he'd been shot. They're really making it a **** game to watch. C'me on Stoke
Twente outclassed us tonight, great pressers and great retainers of the ball, we really struggled against them. I can see them going quite far in the competition, as for us, we were very meh. Didn't know how to deal with the 4-3-3
Sporting eased past Zurich 2-0. van Wolfswinkel scored one, and Bozhinov another one. 1st place in the group guaranteed, gotta play at Rome now, knowing that they absolutely have to win, and we can go in with the reserves, 1st place is ours already.
I would just like to extend a warm welcome to all the Arabs and Londoners who will increase the activity in this thread. Thursday night football is so much better than Wednesday night.
Well look at it this way. There's always a point when the biggest clubs get upstaged, this year was Utds turn unfortunately. Even the biggest clubs in the world get embarassed at some point.