Traveling to Far, Desolate, and Inhospitable Places: The 2021/2022 Europa League Thread

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Angry Pissbum
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Both teams look real leggy. Gonna be a slog of extra time I’d guess.

Anyone got a moment of individual brilliance in them?
 

Kliq

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The Rangers fans look shell-shocked. Just accepting they will have to sweat it out until penalties.
 

Jimy Hendrix

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US and Canadian internationals on the pitch for Rangers right now, how many European competition matches has that happened in?
 

Kliq

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All the penalty kicks were fantastic except for Ramsey. Perfect kicks from Frankfurt.
 

Joe D Reid

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Rangers could pull a converse Liverpool. They will have played all possible games but one this season (they lost in the semis of the League Cup), but if they lose the Scottish Cup final next week they will end the season with nothing.
 
Rangers could pull a converse Liverpool. They will have played all possible games but one this season (they lost in the semis of the League Cup), but if they lose the Scottish Cup final next week they will end the season with nothing.
I was watching the Final with my wife and was telling her about Arsenal's 1979/80 season, in which they reached both the Cup Winner's Cup Final (losing to Valencia) and the FA Cup Final (losing to West Ham after taking three replays - four matches in total - to defeat Liverpool in the semifinal, after needing several other replays as well earlier in the competition) but came away with nothing. Those were the days, man...
 

coremiller

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I was watching the Final with my wife and was telling her about Arsenal's 1979/80 season, in which they reached both the Cup Winner's Cup Final (losing to Valencia) and the FA Cup Final (losing to West Ham after taking three replays - four matches in total - to defeat Liverpool in the semifinal, after needing several other replays as well earlier in the competition) but came away with nothing. Those were the days, man...
This post prompted me to look up that Arsenal season. Arsenal played 70 matches that season, and amazingly, Brian Talbot, who scored the winner in the third semi replay against Liverpool, started all 70 matches. Legend is that he fainted on the bus home after the last game of the season.
 

the1andonly3003

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I was watching the Final with my wife and was telling her about Arsenal's 1979/80 season, in which they reached both the Cup Winner's Cup Final (losing to Valencia) and the FA Cup Final (losing to West Ham after taking three replays - four matches in total - to defeat Liverpool in the semifinal, after needing several other replays as well earlier in the competition) but came away with nothing. Those were the days, man...
argument to bring back endless replays...think about the gate revenues!
 

fletcherpost

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Gutted for Rangers. It's weird. They're doing building work on my street, and there was a load of scaffolding poles coredened off by mesh fencing. And in each corner, on Wednesday was a Union Jack. It bothered me. I watched a lot of the pre match on the streets of Seville, didn't see a single saltire, saw hundreds of Union Jacks. That stuff gets to me.

I thought this was one of Rangers' worst performances in Europe. It was like they didn't know if they were at home or away. They played scared. Frankfurt were there for the taking. There was one bit in the first half when Scott Wright, a fringe player for Rangers turned and went at them (Frankfurt), took on a man beat him and, i dunno i cannnae remember if he passed and a player shot over the bar or whatever, but it was the aggressive, confident aproach that got them there. Aribo had a similar moment a few minutes before that.

Tav had his worst game in Europe that i can remember, Goldson was way off with those long cross balls out wide...i get it as a tactic but find your range. What was the point of getting Ramsay on loan, making him the highest paid member of the squad, and only using him for penalties. Ramsay had played well in Europe for Rangers. He doesn't get the whole match, I presume for fitness reasons, but he can do a job over 120 beyond taking a penalty. Or, if he can't, then why the fuck is he in the squad, why go and get him in the first place?

This is Gerrard's team and it will now fragment. Players will go their separate ways...few of them will play in a bigger match, but i hope they all do and they learn from this.