2012/13 Europa League thread

[GoN_]

Another Chelsea/Benfica quarter final tie would be mildly surreal.

Don't want to see us a lose to a Benitez team. We have been doing rotation for this competition, as our main target is the Portuguese league which has been amazingly close between us and Porto... I would also hate if our coach thought it would be good to get "revenge" from last year. He is that kind of guy. :/

[Adam]

Come on foreign teams, get it done and knock Chelsea and Newcastle out in the Quarter Finals!

[Lineker]

Fuck me we made a meal of that. Still, we are through and Chelsea have an extra two games to play. Excellent.

[Jimmy]

oooh, we've got Basel.

[Lineker]

Chelsea v Rubin Kazan
Spurs v Basel

Fenerbahce v Lazio

Benfica v Newcastle

[Dan]

Some interesting games. On paper Newcastle have the toughest game. Wasn't it Basel that Spurs had to play in the CL play-off a few years ago?

[TCO]

Thought that was Young Boys, wasn't that the tie with all the jokes?

[ZJ Penn]

It was Liverpool who played them.

[Jimmy]

Na, it was Spurs as well.

[Lineker]

Yeah we were 3-0 down to Young Boys at one point on their horrid astroturf pitch.

Home leg at WHL is on April 4th.

[Jimmy]

Hopefully tickets go on sale to general public this time, I wanna go to a game and this seems like the easiest and probably cheapest option.

[Lineker]

Bar me having a spare ticket

[Jimmy]

Well...do you?

[Lineker]

Don't know yet, it's weeks away!

[9 to 5]

No, neither of you can go to the game. Sorry.

[stokeriño]

Eh. At least the leg immediately after the United FA Cup replay is the home one...

[HailtotheYo]

I'm actually glad Spurs/Chelsea advanced .... fun games to watch, and now they have even more fixtures to play.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Chelsea and Spurs SHOULD go through. Newcastle will struggle. The Fenerbahce/Lazio game is probably the most evenly matched and could go either way.

[stokeriño]

Good thing that Chelsea v Spurs was (for now) avoided. The only winners in that tie would be Arsenal.

[Lineker]

I'm just glad that we avoided trips back to Rome, or hell (Turkey), or bloody miles away Russia.