I was banking on Villa going far in this competition to keep Spurs top 4 hopes alive (I don’t see Spurs winning more than 2 more games) If Villa go out then they can concentrate on finishing top 4
Villa score and the tie is level. Twatty Cash, unfortunately. Hopefully this'll go into extra-time and hurt them on the weekend.
Are we about to have a repeat of what felt like every Saltypool European campaign in the 90s: lose 3-0 in the first leg to the first decent opponents they faced, scored early in the second leg but still lost 3-2 on aggregate?
Martinez cheats, puts off Bentaleb, saves his penalty and then shushes the crowd. There's no way that he should've been allowed to stay on the pitch to save that, let alone after it. Edit: And he's off. Twat. Wait, no he isn't. What? Ref's lost it.
Bentaleb doing his best to keep Villa in the comp in hopes of fatiguing them to help us out. Proper Spurs.
He got two yellows. There's some weird rule in the EL about them not carrying into penalties. He got one in normal time and one in the shootout, yet no red. Very strange.
I've never heard of it before. Not normally an issue, so I wonder where else it applies? Champions League? No idea.
Liverpool are very poor at the moment. 3 1 down on aggregate and they can barely create a chance. Salah utterly out of form.
Really flat, uninspired half from the Scouse. Atalanta worked hard and shut them down all over the pitch. Created virtually nothing and the subs made them worse, if anything.
