⚽UEFA Europa League Discussion Thread -- 2025/26 | Last 16

[Sandra_hakeem]

I really thought that after winning 1st leg away 0:2, Ajax advantage is safe and they won't  choke. But they did - conceding 2 goals in first half and red card which forced them to play 10 vs 11 for more than hour. We are heading to extra time, let's see what will happen there
Galatasaray had no illusion to make comeback. They were down 0:2 at home too and there is only a bit positive thing that they managed to achieve draw in this game.
After disaster of Italian clubs in Champions league, at least Roma didn't ended their journey jn Europa league early.

Ajax were lucky to have scored one goal in the 3' of the extra time making the aggregate 3-2. They would have had it very hot from their fans, imagine  winning their first leg with a 0-2 clean sheet and losing although the 90' of play. Everyone expected the should have full control of the second leg based on home advantage.
The  red card even make the whole scenario worse and kept them in a tight corner. They were lucky to have scored in the extra time. I won't blame Galatasaray for tonight's performance my issue with them is the outcome of their first leg. They would have tried harder not to have conceded that many goals.

[nelson4lov]

Watching this Ajax vs Union Saint-Gilloise game is intensive. That red card did Ajax team a number and destroyed their 2-0  lead from the first leg. It's now over 110' — I don't know how much longer Ajax can hold off SG attacks but it's been a very interesting match so far and I'd love to see how it ends (preferably in Ajax favour).

[LTU_btc]

Can someone explain what happened to Fenerbahche today? They were quite big favorites and they lost to Rangers at home 1:3. Usually I'm sceptical about Scottish football, but this time I have very big doubts about Fener comeback.
About MU - I think that away draw with Sociedad away is great result for them. Not really sure how many people here counted on MU win today...
Athletic scores in 2nd half, but Roma responnds with a goal in few minutes. Something expected, fight of very similar level teams.

[Adiljutt156]

Can someone explain what happened to Fenerbahche today? They were quite big favorites and they lost to Rangers at home 1:3. Usually I'm sceptical about Scottish football, but this time I have very big doubts about Fener comeback.
About MU - I think that away draw with Sociedad away is great result for them. Not really sure how many people here counted on MU win today...
Athletic scores in 2nd half, but Roma responnds with a goal in few minutes. Something expected, fight of very similar level teams.

Fenerbahçe football team underestimate the players of Rangers football team which is not good and Rangers players did excellent effort in this match which is natural,the team will win which will play well in any match and they won in the end. If we will talk about Fenerbahçe football team,they could not do second goal at a time and they thought that match will be draw but result was different and one person changed the side of match. I am taking about the Černý who did 2 goals in this match and he did his first goal at 42 minutes of the match when it was big requirement of team and after this score of both teams was 2-1 and after he did one more goal and won the match by 3-1 .Congratulations to the players of Rangers football team due to win against Fenerbahçe team.

[buwaytress]

Can someone explain what happened to Fenerbahche today? They were quite big favorites and they lost to Rangers at home 1:3. Usually I'm sceptical about Scottish football, but this time I have very big doubts about Fener comeback.
About MU - I think that away draw with Sociedad away is great result for them. Not really sure how many people here counted on MU win today...
Athletic scores in 2nd half, but Roma responnds with a goal in few minutes. Something expected, fight of very similar level teams.

I lost here too. Seems like my curse is working in overtime this season. I stayed off betting a bit, decided to dip my toes in recently, and my latest victims are Liverpool, Fene, Brugge. It will be legendary, though, if Mou makes it back from the brink of elimination, won't it CLS63?

Re United? Not touching that game with the world's longest stick.

[LTU_btc]

I lost here too. Seems like my curse is working in overtime this season. I stayed off betting a bit, decided to dip my toes in recently, and my latest victims are Liverpool, Fene, Brugge. It will be legendary, though, if Mou makes it back from the brink of elimination, won't it CLS63?

Re United? Not touching that game with the world's longest stick.

I don't believe in Fenerbahche comeback. I'll put some money on their ML, but I don't think that win will be enough. From early games, I think that Athletic - Roma have huge potential to go to extra time and penalties. Iwould prefer to see Basque club to go through.
Spurs - AZ is another pair which will be very interesting to watch. I put BTTS and over 2.5 on this game, but no way that I would back one of these teams. I'll stay away from MU - Sociedad too, but I would love to see MU eliminated.

[CLS63]

Can someone explain what happened to Fenerbahche today? They were quite big favorites and they lost to Rangers at home 1:3. Usually I'm sceptical about Scottish football, but this time I have very big doubts about Fener comeback.
About MU - I think that away draw with Sociedad away is great result for them. Not really sure how many people here counted on MU win today...
Athletic scores in 2nd half, but Roma responnds with a goal in few minutes. Something expected, fight of very similar level teams.

I lost here too. Seems like my curse is working in overtime this season. I stayed off betting a bit, decided to dip my toes in recently, and my latest victims are Liverpool, Fene, Brugge. It will be legendary, though, if Mou makes it back from the brink of elimination, won't it CLS63?

Re United? Not touching that game with the world's longest stick.

I still think that Fenerbahçe have a chance to get past this round. I'm aware that our job tonight is very difficult. Especially Scottish fans at Ibrox would fire up their team. However if we manage to get ahead in the first half we can get our chance back in the round again.

[Marykeller]

Historically, Rangers haven't scored a single goal to Man U... Yesterday they were able to rectify that statistic but couldn't win, although Man U are playing like rubbish this season... I wanted to take a risk and add a Rangers goal to my multi bet, but then I looked at their game stats and didn't do it... I guess we can congratulate those who managed to make money on this event...

I don't know where you watch your football match, but I want to tell you that Manchester United didn't play against Rangers. Rangers and Manchester United played against different teams yesterday. Manchester United played against Real Sociedad, and the score was 5-2 in aggregate, while Rangers was up against Fenerbahce, and the score was 2-2 in aggregate, but the deciding factor of the match was on penalty; Rangers won Fenerbahce by 6-5.

In the next round of Europa, Manchester United will be away against Lyon, Rangers will play against Athletic Club

[LTU_btc]

Fenerbahche won the game, but they haven't made it to the next round as they lost in penalties. 3 missed penalties, that's a lot. I regret that I watched MU - Sociedad game instead of this one. Didn't expected that United will win so comfortable. In 1st half Sociedad were able to resist, but 2nd half, especially after Aramburu red card was one-sided action.
Athletic task become much easier after very early Hummels red card. While Olympiacos didn't managed to make a coemabck after Bodo/Glimt, they lost too much in 1st leg (0:3)

[buwaytress]

Guess we lost another avid follower of Europa in CLS63, sorry my brother, but it was never meant to be. Still got a good shout in the Turkish league though, maybe? Shame, as I really wanted them to win. Now it's Manure who appear to have the best chance. All European routes from the league are closed off to them, so they'll want to sneak in UCL via this trophy. Would be quite an incredible success for Amorim if he made that happen.

[slaman29]

Would be quite an incredible success for Amorim if he made that happen.

Lol at MANU and Onana, he said they were way better than Lyon and then fulfilled the words of Matic by being the worst keeper in their history. Everybody makes mistakes, for sure, keepers also get high profiled when they do but Onana is on another level, consistently making at least 5 mistakes every season and giving away goals that shouldn't be. Lyon deserved to lose, but are now level and go to Manchester, where the home fans will be booing their own team.

[LTU_btc]

Lol at MANU and Onana, he said they were way better than Lyon and then fulfilled the words of Matic by being the worst keeper in their history. Everybody makes mistakes, for sure, keepers also get high profiled when they do but Onana is on another level, consistently making at least 5 mistakes every season and giving away goals that shouldn't be. Lyon deserved to lose, but are now level and go to Manchester, where the home fans will be booing their own team.

Onanana, what a clown. Someone who can't do his job properly should be more humble with his statements. But I expected similar outcome for MU. Athletic was much bigger disappointment for me. Rangers got red card very early and you can't even score a goal against 10 men in almost whole game. I'm still sure that  they will solve things at San Mames, but yesterday's perfromance was really poor.

[Lida93]

Would be quite an incredible success for Amorim if he made that happen.

Lol at MANU and Onana, he said they were way better than Lyon and then fulfilled the words of Matic by being the worst keeper in their history. Everybody makes mistakes, for sure, keepers also get high profiled when they do but Onana is on another level, consistently making at least 5 mistakes every season and giving away goals that shouldn't be. Lyon deserved to lose, but are now level and go to Manchester, where the home fans will be booing their own team.

I think the Manchester United goalkeeper was careless with his choice of words and shouldn't have openly talked down on the Olympique Lyonnais side during the pre match press conference, Andre Onana had said that Manchester United was way better than Lyon which sparked criticism from former Manchester United and Lyon defensive midfielder who replied Onana by saying he is the worse goalkeeper in the history of Manchester United and I think that statement was justified by Andre Onana 's performance during the clash between Manchester United and Olympique Lyonnais yesterday.

[slaman29]

Lol at MANU and Onana, he said they were way better than Lyon and then fulfilled the words of Matic by being the worst keeper in their history. Everybody makes mistakes, for sure, keepers also get high profiled when they do but Onana is on another level, consistently making at least 5 mistakes every season and giving away goals that shouldn't be. Lyon deserved to lose, but are now level and go to Manchester, where the home fans will be booing their own team.

I think the Manchester United goalkeeper was careless with his choice of words and shouldn't have openly talked down on the Olympique Lyonnais side during the pre match press conference, Andre Onana had said that Manchester United was way better than Lyon which sparked criticism from former Manchester United and Lyon defensive midfielder who replied Onana by saying he is the worse goalkeeper in the history of Manchester United and I think that statement was justified by Andre Onana 's performance during the clash between Manchester United and Olympique Lyonnais yesterday.

Ya think? You just reworded what I said lol, you are like Onana, saying a lot of nonsense that doesn't bring more to what is already said, and who the heck says Olympique Lyonnais and Andre Onana twice in the same line, only guys like you.

But anyway, I like when players and posters open their mouths like that, and get show up. Its the era of social media and visibility, and I think the best people are just silent, let their games show who they are. This way, we all know who the crap are and Onana sorry to say, showed it to us. You too

[Oluwa-btc]

Ya think? You just reworded what I said lol, you are like Onana, saying a lot of nonsense that doesn't bring more to what is already said, and who the heck says Olympique Lyonnais and Andre Onana twice in the same line, only guys like you.

But anyway, I like when players and posters open their mouths like that, and get show up. Its the era of social media and visibility, and I think the best people are just silent, let their games show who they are. This way, we all know who the crap are and Onana sorry to say, showed it to us. You too

Stop it man 
I'm one of these Manchester United fans backing players but Onana? He will forever remain a bloody wanker in my books. I have no love for him and Garnacho because they add nothing to this sqaud finally. He should be amongst the list of players parting ways with Manchester United at the end of the season. It was sad to see that the error from him denied and robbed Joshua Zirkzee off his beautiful match header and winner. Hopefully Amorim do not hesitate dumping him for the rest of season.

[reefsea]

Lol at MANU and Onana, he said they were way better than Lyon and then fulfilled the words of Matic by being the worst keeper in their history. Everybody makes mistakes, for sure, keepers also get high profiled when they do but Onana is on another level, consistently making at least 5 mistakes every season and giving away goals that shouldn't be. Lyon deserved to lose, but are now level and go to Manchester, where the home fans will be booing their own team.

Onanana, what a clown. Someone who can't do his job properly should be more humble with his statements. But I expected similar outcome for MU. Athletic was much bigger disappointment for me. Rangers got red card very early and you can't even score a goal against 10 men in almost whole game. I'm still sure that  they will solve things at San Mames, but yesterday's perfromance was really poor.

I don't want to say this actually, but can we say Onana is one of the causes of Manchester United's results? Lol

I don't think why they always trust Onana who often makes defeats. Maybe I say this is normal when the mistakes he makes only happen once or twice. But what happens is he keeps making mistakes over and over again. AMorim should think about benching Onana in the second leg later. Because it would be risky if he played again, and with his record of making mistakes, it is feared that it will happen again.

[Zaguru12]

I don't want to say this actually, but can we say Onana is one of the causes of Manchester United's results? Lol

I don't think why they always trust Onana who often makes defeats. Maybe I say this is normal when the mistakes he makes only happen once or twice. But what happens is he keeps making mistakes over and over again. AMorim should think about benching Onana in the second leg later. Because it would be risky if he played again, and with his record of making mistakes, it is feared that it will happen again.

He is definitely got to be blame for most of his mistakes. I can’t deny the fact that yes he is the goalkeeper that faces most shots but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t turn up when the team needs him. There are many games this season where I think Manchester United defense have done so well and Onana hardly faces any threat only for him to concede a goal on his first shot this things weakens the team morale. As a goalkeeper you should be able to carry your teammates in even some matches.

I think he deserved to be bench but the second goalkeeper isn’t providing much of a threat to his position in my opinion he regularly gets injured and stays outta the team than one will have actually wanted, Bayinda himself makes mistakes but with the shift he puts on in the Arsenal game he can actually make a good impression too. But for me they need a world class goalkeeper to take Onana out of the team

[Jegileman]

I don't want to say this actually, but can we say Onana is one of the causes of Manchester United's results? Lol

I don't think why they always trust Onana who often makes defeats. Maybe I say this is normal when the mistakes he makes only happen once or twice. But what happens is he keeps making mistakes over and over again. AMorim should think about benching Onana in the second leg later. Because it would be risky if he played again, and with his record of making mistakes, it is feared that it will happen again.

This is not the first time Onana is making mistake in a game, he has been doing it more often than it should have happened. He happened to be their first choice goalkeeper and they gave him most of their trust to always field him ahead of all other goalkeepers in the team. I think it is time they consider replacing him or better still, try another goalkeeper in the team in this crucial competition he’s trying to get their team eliminated from with his silly mistakes. Gone are those days I use to see Onana as a very great goalkeeper but his errors now are not even commendable at all and needs to be looked into before it gets too late.

[Lida93]

Would be quite an incredible success for Amorim if he made that happen.

Lol at MANU and Onana, he said they were way better than Lyon and then fulfilled the words of Matic by being the worst keeper in their history. Everybody makes mistakes, for sure, keepers also get high profiled when they do but Onana is on another level, consistently making at least 5 mistakes every season and giving away goals that shouldn't be. Lyon deserved to lose, but are now level and go to Manchester, where the home fans will be booing their own team.

Am earnestly not really concerned about the mistakes Andre Onana makes whenever he's on goal for Manchester United but I was really concerned about his remarks against Olympique Lyonnais during the build up to the first leg of their Europa League match, I think it was uncalled for and a goalkeeper of his calibre ought to know better than talking down on another club, it is totally disrespectful and I think he should  have tendered an apology to the Lyon side after the match.

[slaman29]

So many posters going on about Onana, and nobody gave a shit until after the fact. AI really helping all you guys a lot huh

Anyway, Manchester United, bye bye. If they win Europa, it will be the biggest shit to happen in football this season.

Would be quite an incredible success for Amorim if he made that happen.

Lol at MANU and Onana, he said they were way better than Lyon and then fulfilled the words of Matic by being the worst keeper in their history. Everybody makes mistakes, for sure, keepers also get high profiled when they do but Onana is on another level, consistently making at least 5 mistakes every season and giving away goals that shouldn't be. Lyon deserved to lose, but are now level and go to Manchester, where the home fans will be booing their own team.

Am earnestly not really concerned about the mistakes Andre Onana makes whenever he's on goal for Manchester United but I was really concerned about his remarks against Olympique Lyonnais during the build up to the first leg of their Europa League match, I think it was uncalled for and a goalkeeper of his calibre ought to know better than talking down on another club, it is totally disrespectful and I think he should  have tendered an apology to the Lyon side after the match.

Did you just requote my post which you ALREADY replied to and rewrote your answer, totally ignoring that I called you out as a spam poster? Yes you did, why didn't you quote that post and respond anyway? Probably because you really are a spam poster

Can't delete either because I've quoted you