UEFA Europa League

What's that scrubs name again that we had from Fulham? That fake Vinicius, bro.

When he did that Mbappe thing against them scrubs in the Europa League, you, man, had me on toast, bro.

Yeah, that's true.

You shouldn't be surfing against Saba.

Spurs have been pretty terrible for a number of years.

I know they won a Europa League a few years ago, but still Chelsea have been bad for many

years now.

United have been a dumpster fire for 13 years.

Celtic didn't make it.

Rangers weren't near it because they went to the Europa League, then the Conference League, and Haas dropped down as well.

But they're still in the Conference League.

Celtic's still in the Europa League.

And, of course, it's Ferencváros next week coming to town.

But do you know what I mean? It's just not a good look in general.

Absolutely.

And I think Mark Lanier would have found out a lot about two or three of his players when it came to big game scenarios that we're talking about, which is going to apply.

And then Maitland Nile strikes it right from 30 yards outside the box and it's still quiet and it hits the net and the stadium erupts and the announcer's going crazy, right? Like, That's missing, I think, today in a lot of video games and could be something special that we could focus on and differentiate ourselves from the market.

Yeah, and if anyone's listening who wants to know what football does to a live crowd, UEFA have stated that the United-Leon game in the Europa League a few years ago is one of the greatest in terms of atmosphere.

And even though United weren't in Europe last year, they just kept tweeting out the United-Leon highlights because they knew it was going to get engagement and people were going to like it.

But that would show you a crowd... that is a static because we're tuned a lot and then goes quiet to a pin drop.

It's a bit, it's tight at the top after a good week for the chasing pack last week, I think.

Those that were in the kind of Champions League, Europa League places caught up on the leaders.

The leaders didn't have a great week, but Perseverance FC, Christopher Lepisto still leads the way.

He stays in top spot.

to hope.

Yeah, they did lose at home to Liverpool as well in the Europa League season where you did the stadium announcing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's not good after an opening defeat against AEK Athens, one of the most winnable games.

But they're going to be outsiders for every match, except maybe Slovan Bratislava at home.

It's going to be pretty tough, isn't it? Europa League, that hasn't started yet.

Champions League started first.

And I, I thought it was a really good selection from Maresca in the sense that took Elliot Anderson out but put Bouadi in.

Now, Bouadi hadn't started a game, but has started far more Champions League games and far more Euro- Hmm, well, he's played in the Europa League as well, so he's more experienced at this level than Anderson is, so take him out.

And Anderson was brilliant.

Uh, Bouadi was brilliant.

Yeah

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Europa League game, um, or Conference League game, can't remember now.

Shows how well I've researched into this-

So I wish he'd done that a few more times, if I'm honest.

but it was a good performance Marco Rosa sounded very pleased with it anyway and was praising him and his attitude obviously after being omitted from the Europa League squad so yeah it was a decent performance not the best I've ever seen but enough to be pleased about

Yeah, no, I'm giving my opinion based on a three minutes highlight package.

So I only saw him give the assist to Ryan.

Like I say, my household has a different opinion from me and Thor played very well.

And he didn't play badly, did he? No, of course not.

It's just that the focus was on him because of the Europa League squad and because we've been speaking about him quite a bit recently.

Yeah, a little bit more from him.

It's mad because he was the top goal scorer at Tottenham.

He scored the winning goal in the Europa League final and then six months later they jacked him off to Palace.

So I think he could have a major point to prove to that club tomorrow.

The way he was talking, I think Grealish is going to start.