2011/12 UEFA Europa League

[MJB]

Raimond Van Der Gouw

Oh and our last goal in this competition was scored by Peter Schmeichel. Fantastic.

[Lineker]

Stoke: Begovic, Wilkinson, Shawcross, Huth, Wilson, Pennant, Palacios, Delap, Etherington, Walters, Crouch.

Subs: Sorensen, Whelan, Jones, Fuller, Whitehead, Shotton, Jerome.

Valencia: Guaita, Bruno, Rami, Dealbert, Mathieu, Feghouli, Topal, Tino Costa, Piatti, Jonas, Aduriz.

Subs: Diego Alves, Albelda, Soldado, Ever, Victor Ruiz, Miguel, Bernat.

Referee: Peter Rasmussen (Denmark)

[MDK]

I never thought I'd say this but I think I'd prefer to watch Stoke.

[Matt]

Are Man City playing tonight?

[Lineker]

Yeah, on ITV at 8ish.

[MDK]

About damn time.

[Lineker]

In fact, the teams are now in:

FC Porto: Helton, Danilo, Rolando, Maicon, Pereira, Gonzalez, Fernando, Joao Moutinho, Varela, Hulk, James Rodriguez.

Subs: Bracali, Cristian Rodriguez, Kleber, Djalma, Mangala, Alex Sandro, Defour.

Man City: Hart, Richards, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Barry, de Jong, Nasri, Toure Yaya, Silva, Balotelli.

Subs: Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Pizarro, Dzeko, Kolarov, Savic, Aguero.

Referee: Cuneyt Cakir (Turkey)

Ashely Young gives Utd the lead in Amsterdam.

[Matt]

You'd think one of the 5 defenders or the goalkeeper would've got in the way of that.

Cleverley off, never noticed him all game.

[MJB]

1-0 Ashley Young.

Fully deserved since half time. Scholes on for Cleverley, who I think has done well considering he's only played about 20 minutes before this since September.

[Summers]

Well done Ash!

[The Future]

Ashley Young working really hard defensively and it was a good finish too. Could do with him hitting form around this time!

[MJB]

Valencia on for Young, makes sense again, another who has only just come back after injury.

Valencia has been in great form as of late and I was surprised to see him left out tonight in favour of Nani.

[Lineker]

2-0; Little Pea.

[MJB]

Hernandez 2-0.

Great move, but far from a great performance by our lot. Nani has been fucking dreadful, Valencia has now gone back off and Welbeck has replaced him. Now just hope to keep a clean sheet in the next eight or so minutes to give us the best chance of going through.

[The Future]

Ajax are getting way too many chances from distance

[Lineker]

Ajax's finishing is fucking shite.

[Matt]

Hernandez 2-0.

Great move, but far from a great performance by our lot. Nani has been fucking dreadful, Valencia has now gone back off and Welbeck has replaced him. Now just hope to keep a clean sheet in the next eight or so minutes to give us the best chance of going through.

Missed that, injured?

[Liam]

Hernandez 2-0.

Great move, but far from a great performance by our lot. Nani has been fucking dreadful, Valencia has now gone back off and Welbeck has replaced him. Now just hope to keep a clean sheet in the next eight or so minutes to give us the best chance of going through.

Missed that, injured?

Yeah, got caught in setting up the 2nd goal, went off straight away.

[Starvinho]

Not been our best performance tonight but we got the win and a couple away goals so that's all that matters. Hopefully Valencia is ok because we'll need him in the next couple of weeks, we've got a couple of tricky away games in the league coming up.

Edit:

Fergie has confirmed Valencia has a hamstring injury and could be out for upto 4 weeks. Gutted.

Edited February 16, 2012 by Starvinho

[MDK]

I missed the Porto goal, what happened?