Tottenham Hotspur have one leg in the Europa League quarter-finals after an impressive 3-0 dismantling of Inter Milan at White Hart Lane tonight. Gareth Bale with his 21st of the season, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Jan Vertonghen were all on target in a one-sided match. It was not a good night for Spurs’ London rivals Chelsea, […]
Europa League
It was a very mixed night for Premier League clubs on Thursday in the Europa LEague, with Spurs beating Maribor, Newcastle drawing at Club Bruges while Liverpool lost at Anzhi. At White Hart Lane, responded to not being included in the latest England squad by scoring a brilliant hat-trick as Tottenham got its Europa League […]
Uefa have fined Lazio the paltry amount of 40,000 euros (£32,500) following racist chanting by their fans during a Europa League game at Tottenham last month. Jermain Defoe, Aaron Lennon and Andros Townsend were reportedly subjected to monkey chants during the match. In a whitewashing campaign Uefa is planning on using the Champions League and […]
They may have been without Falcao, but Atlético Madrid got their UEFA Europa League title defence off to a successful start while Liverpool also opened with victory on Thursday. Diego Simeone opted to rest his star forward, who has been the top scorer in this competition for the past two seasons. It did nothing to […]
Andy Carroll has not made the trip to Belarus for Thursday’s Europa League qualifier against FC Gomel, despite being named in the squad. The news comes amid persistent rumours linking him with a move to West Ham or Newcastle. West Ham had a loan bid accepted for Carroll, but he was unwilling to join the […]
Another night and another lose for Premier League sides in Europe. Manchester City and United might be dominating in the Premier League, but neither side has been able to transfer that domestic supremacy into Europe success. And tonight, both sides lost in their Europa League match-ups as Athletic Bilbao stunned Manchester United at Old Trafford […]
For fans looking for close, exciting ties, this weeks Champions League ties were a bit of a disappointment with three of the four quarter-finals essentially over after the first leg. Unfortunately, the Europa League quarter-finals tonight followed a similar path as Villarreal, Porto and Benfica all enjoyed impressive first-leg leads, while Braga secured an away […]
A penalty from Alan enabled Braga to end Liverpool’s unbeaten Europa League run this season, earning the Portuguese club a narrow lead when the round of 16 tie concludes next week. Alan punished Sotiris Kyrgiakos’s trip on Mossoró after 18 minutes of an encounter which the hosts controlled before the break. Although Liverpool perked up […]
Neither Aris Salonikai and Manchester City were able to take a significant stride towards the Europa League round of 16 as the first leg of their last-32 tie finished 0-0. Both teams had their chances in an even game in Greece, but neither was able to make the decisive breakthrough and they will reconvene at […]