⚽UEFA Europa Conference League Discussion Thread -- 2021/22 Winner: Roma!

[leea-1334]

Sigh guys you all are right, Spurs is the biggest achiever in this league (UCL finalists 2 years ago) and yet they are the ones who may not even progress to the last 16.

This loss was worse than the first one, and worse even than Roma to Bodo/Glimt,,, we have Kane and we have Conte, and Alli, and Sessegnon red card was proof he is not mature enough for world class football.

It is hard to be a Spurs fan now.  

[tyz]

Sigh guys you all are right, Spurs is the biggest achiever in this league (UCL finalists 2 years ago) and yet they are the ones who may not even progress to the last 16.

It shows that money doesn't score goals. Tottenham should dominate the Cup, if you only consider the value of the club and the financial resources available. As a more traditional football fan, I welcome such clubs being eliminated early. I hope that football will soon change its way of thinking.

[kro55]

Sigh guys you all are right, Spurs is the biggest achiever in this league (UCL finalists 2 years ago) and yet they are the ones who may not even progress to the last 16.

It shows that money doesn't score goals. Tottenham should dominate the Cup, if you only consider the value of the club and the financial resources available. As a more traditional football fan, I welcome such clubs being eliminated early. I hope that football will soon change its way of thinking.

We know that Tottenham is not in good form. But I did not think they will be defeated by Mura. I lost the bet in this match. Tottenham's misfortune. They have lost their form very badly. But I'm glad we saw Harry Kane score after a long time. With Kane and Son back in form, Tottenham will be able to get back on track very quickly.

[snipie]

Sigh guys you all are right, Spurs is the biggest achiever in this league (UCL finalists 2 years ago) and yet they are the ones who may not even progress to the last 16.

It shows that money doesn't score goals. Tottenham should dominate the Cup, if you only consider the value of the club and the financial resources available. As a more traditional football fan, I welcome such clubs being eliminated early. I hope that football will soon change its way of thinking.

Spurs aren't stable even in EPL so I wouldn't expect them to be in this one although we saw some exceptions in CL/EL of teams doing good there while struggling in their local leagues. I saw people blaming the red card for that but honestly Spurs in this level compared to a Slovenian team sitting in the 6th place / 10 is just an embarrassment and we shouldn't try to find an excuse for that.
So I agree with you about preferring to see them eliminated and may the best proceed and win.

[Daniel91]

Sigh guys you all are right, Spurs is the biggest achiever in this league (UCL finalists 2 years ago) and yet they are the ones who may not even progress to the last 16.

It shows that money doesn't score goals. Tottenham should dominate the Cup, if you only consider the value of the club and the financial resources available. As a more traditional football fan, I welcome such clubs being eliminated early. I hope that football will soon change its way of thinking.

It's interesting that something similar happened to them last season, when they shockingly lost to Dinamo in Zagreb and dropped out of the EL competition.
They don't seem to have learned anything from that defeat and history has repeated itself, this time not in Croatia but in Slovenia.
Mura were without points until this game and obviously the Tottenham players underestimated them.
The Europa Conference League is quite a strong competition and I don't agree with the comments that Tottenham is the favorite of this competition.
After games like this and results, I'm even more convinced of that.

[buwaytress]

So dittoup alerted me yesterday to an ongoing situation with Rennes. Apparently, the odds for them to win was almost 10/1, and then Spurs got hit with some Covid situation, taking odds down to 7/1 and below. Seems it's just gotten from bad to worse though, six players and 2 staff already positive. They're now writing to postpone Sunday's premleague game so I guess Conte will have to try and rescue their Conference season with B team? And we all know they suck badly haha.

Rennes is now at 36/10. Well done all you who got it at super odds.

[LTU_btc]

So dittoup alerted me yesterday to an ongoing situation with Rennes. Apparently, the odds for them to win was almost 10/1, and then Spurs got hit with some Covid situation, taking odds down to 7/1 and below. Seems it's just gotten from bad to worse though, six players and 2 staff already positive. They're now writing to postpone Sunday's premleague game so I guess Conte will have to try and rescue their Conference season with B team? And we all know they suck badly haha.

Rennes is now at 36/10. Well done all you who got it at super odds.

And game is posptoned. Interesting what new date of game will be because this game should be played before end of 2021 and in upcoming weeks Spurs have very intensive calendar. Fact that Spurs asked to posptone this game probably shows that this tournament matters for them. Otherwise they would agree to play with their youngsters.

[jakdanyel]

The competition for the first place is still on in the Group C. Now, Bodo/Glimt are the leader having 11 points and Roma follow them with 10 points. And I feel like that the places of first two teams won't change after the last matches. Bodo/Glimt can beat Zorya easily despite playing away. And the CSKA Sofia match is a very easy one for Roma. In short, both of them should be able to win.

[buwaytress]

Rennes is now at 36/10. Well done all you who got it at super odds.

And game is posptoned. Interesting what new date of game will be because this game should be played before end of 2021 and in upcoming weeks Spurs have very intensive calendar. Fact that Spurs asked to posptone this game probably shows that this tournament matters for them. Otherwise they would agree to play with their youngsters.

Poor Spurs. Bad luck and possibly bad planning/management (the Burnley snow game that was luck, but not sure if they could have avoided the Covid thing as training is a contagion risk with positive people). The Burnley game would have relied on whether or not they would progress in FA Cup but this Conference League game throws a heavy spanner into the works.

You're right though, they do seem to want to win this -- prize money isn't too shabby actually and they have a very real chance of a trophy if they actually try to win this competition.

[Expecto]

We were going to see a critical game for Tottenham today against Rennes. But it has been postponed due to covid-19. I mean that there are too many players who got covid-19 at Tottenham. As a result, they are going to play their game later. If the players don't get better quickly, they will be under the threat of being eliminated from the tournament directly I guess.

[Juggy777]

Rennes is now at 36/10. Well done all you who got it at super odds.

And game is posptoned. Interesting what new date of game will be because this game should be played before end of 2021 and in upcoming weeks Spurs have very intensive calendar. Fact that Spurs asked to posptone this game probably shows that this tournament matters for them. Otherwise they would agree to play with their youngsters.

Poor Spurs. Bad luck and possibly bad planning/management (the Burnley snow game that was luck, but not sure if they could have avoided the Covid thing as training is a contagion risk with positive people). The Burnley game would have relied on whether or not they would progress in FA Cup but this Conference League game throws a heavy spanner into the works.

You're right though, they do seem to want to win this -- prize money isn't too shabby actually and they have a very real chance of a trophy if they actually try to win this competition.

@buwaytress I personally feel that Tottenham should have played this game, because their fixture list is horribly cramped up and I’m not sure how they’ll play this fixture now. Also UEFA too has confirmed this game is off, but Tottenham will need a miracle to keep their star player’s fit game after game during this hectic period.

[joker_josue]

Braga today receives the Red Star. For Braga to be able to go directly to the 16th of the Europa League, they have to win. It won't be easy, but I believe Braga have the capacity to win this game.

[hahay]

I'm not really sure about betting on the Europa Conference League because even the big teams that are there like Roma and Tottenham even though they are ranked second but don't seem to have the enthusiasm to advance to the final. About Tottenham the match was postponed and the information I got was because of covid19, but about Roma playing today I'm personally not sure. But indeed, it is very possible for Roma to win to be the group winners because the opponents they face are the teams that are at the bottom of the group standings. but unfortunately, just winning is not enough because we know the difference in points is like making pessimism for Roma if Bodo/Glimt win too, then in the end it will remain the same Roma will still be runner up.

[snipie]

The competition for the first place is still on in the Group C. Now, Bodo/Glimt are the leader having 11 points and Roma follow them with 10 points. And I feel like that the places of first two teams won't change after the last matches. Bodo/Glimt can beat Zorya easily despite playing away. And the CSKA Sofia match is a very easy one for Roma. In short, both of them should be able to win.

Roma finished the race first in Group C since Glimt failed to secure the 3 points from Luhansk. Roma scored 3 goals and received 2, meh that wasn't good nor reassuring. I won't be surprised if they get kicked from the league at some point.
Spurs game postponed se we won't see if they could finish 2nd or not.

[Smartvirus]

~snipe~

It might seem so but not very much as, for me, I think the top teams often come out to play especially when they are at the verge of being kicked out of the league. Not affording to get kicked out means some serious game becuase, the Rruopa at that point becomes some trophy for a worthy compensation from the UCL. Napoli vs Leicester City had a good game, Leicester on the other hand played a much better game for me but, Napoli used experience to beat them. Celtic is hot on Real Betis right now, expecting a lot of goals in this match.

[casperBGD]

Vitesse is trying to score as much as they can against Mura, to make job difficult for Tottenham
Roma ended up as top placed, Partizan almost lost second position, but 1:1 in Belgrade against Anorthosis is enough for next round

did not quite catch that in the beginning, but top team is going directly to 1/8 stage, and second placed are going through 1/16 phase with teams from Europa league

[LTU_btc]

So, as expected Vitesse won easy against Mura and it means that Spurs must win against Rennes in postponed game.
My favourite underdog in Europe Slavia ended their match with Union 1:1 andwent to next round.

did not quite catch that in the beginning, but top team is going directly to 1/8 stage, and second placed are going through 1/16 phase with teams from Europa league

Good point, I also wasn't aware about this thing. I think it makes big difference, especially if 2nd place team will get strong opponent from Europa league.

[DatKing]

Roma took some kind of a revenge on Bodo/Glimt today. Roma needed to win vs CSKA Sofia today to have a chance for the lead and they made it with a 3-2 advantage. They were leading by 3-0 already but CSKA Sofia were nearly making a historical comeback by scoring two goals in the last moments. And Bodo/Glimt drew with Zorya with a 1-1 result. This caused them to lose their lead to Roma.

[Joca97]

Roma took some kind of a revenge on Bodo/Glimt today. Roma needed to win vs CSKA Sofia today to have a chance for the lead and they made it with a 3-2 advantage. They were leading by 3-0 already but CSKA Sofia were nearly making a historical comeback by scoring two goals in the last moments. And Bodo/Glimt drew with Zorya with a 1-1 result. This caused them to lose their lead to Roma.

Some expected wins in the europe conference cup. But my Partizan sadly just drawed against Anarthosis and that is just dissapointing but thank god we just need that 1 point to go to the next stage even tho we had so many injured players. Roma with an expected an easy win today

[snipie]

did not quite catch that in the beginning, but top team is going directly to 1/8 stage, and second placed are going through 1/16 phase with teams from Europa league

Good point, I also wasn't aware about this thing. I think it makes big difference, especially if 2nd place team will get strong opponent from Europa league.

Some of them might get a chance to pass to 1/8 stage but most will leave imo.
Spurs made the mission very hard for them.. Rennes isn't that easy team, their last game in the first leg ended with a draw and they might try to tackle Spurs although they secured the first place to avoid seeing them at a later stage. Better to get ride of them from group stage.