Europa League Final Thread

It will be interesting to see how Liverpool cope with the extra football next season. Ultimately the volume of games meant Mourinho had to prioritise a route into the CL and the reality is he treated the last few weeks of the season as a training exercise to get his fittest, freshest team available for the final. It worked,

 

That's the main thing to think about aye.

 

BTW, Mata and Herrera's words after the game about winning it for Manchester = absolute class.

 

Didn't hear what they said but what else were they going to say? Unless you mean they were unusually eloquent they'd have been ****s to say anything else?

 

Mata said this trophy meant more than any other he's won as they won it for the people of Manchester. The guy's won the World Cup.

 

Disappointing final, Ajax never got going, in fairness that's because United never allowed them to, a comfortable win that was never in doubt once the 2nd went in.

Lovely stadium btw

 

Herrera:

"I’m very happy but I want to dedicate the trophy to the victims. This is just football but what happened the other day was horrible. We want peace in the world.

"We are just footballers but we have an audience and I just want to say we should work together for a normal world. This happened in Manchester but everywhere you have to be united to fight for peace and respect. No more attacks and no more deaths, please.

"Yesterday [Tuesday] morning we were devastated. We were really sad because when you think about life and football, you have no voice. It was difficult to train but the manager told us the only thing we could do was to win it for them, and that’s what we’ve done. It’s just a football game, just a trophy, but if we can support them [the people who were affected] with this just one per cent, it’s enough for us."

 

Mata:

"Today was I would say more special than any other trophy because of that [Monday's terror attack]," Mata said.

"We felt the suffering and the sadness of the city of Manchester and today we tried to give this trophy for them, that's how we felt before the game, that's how we feel now.

"We feel a bit proud we have done that. Hopefully, they can be happy for at least some hours."

 

You got a link to what Jose said ??

 

Great response, **** all to do with what I wrote and as I don't support Liverpool, totally irrelevant.

 

I always thought you were a kopite mate, who do you support then?

 

Charlton I think?

 

More than Spurs will cherish finishing 2nd once too, if you want to look at it like that

 

Fair enough. Both struck the right note.

 

Charlton fan, man and boy!!!

 

I must have confused you with someone else mate, I thought you were a kopite from Blackpool

 

Again totally irrelevant to the question, so I will repeat the answer. For the big clubs, champions league is what it is all about.
Getting there is all what matters. Maureen targeted the Europey and it worked. For the fans another pot to there already impressive tally, for Maureen I guess it has less relevance.
The othe clubs you mention have also got there, I'm sure Pep, Klopp and the spurs governor at Texas particularly bothered this morning.

 

Charlton fan, born in the sound of Bow bells and bought up in Kent!
I will admit to looking at the Liverpool results as my late father was originally from Warrington and a lifelong 'pool fan

 

Not sure where "at Texas" came from, should have been aren't

 

I was sat there looking at that part puzzled....