UEFA Cup
Who Needs An Off-Season? Welcome to the Last Intertoto Cup
By: Ian Rose |
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There are lots of firsts in professional football tournaments. Real Madrid will always be the first winners of the European Cup. Tottenham can claim the first UEFA Cup. But aside from the old Cup Winners’ Cup (won first by Fiorentina and last by Lazio), there aren’t many teams that can claim to [...]
Manchester City 0-1 Bon Jovi
By: Ian Rose | 4 Comments
That’s right, after being slaughtered 8-1 on the final day of the season, Manchester City fans have to absorb yet another embarrassing defeat, this time to an aging New Jersey rock star. When things started to go bad for City this season, or at least started to go worse, there was little hope for [...]
Category: UEFA CupUEFA Cup Final: It’s Zenit vs. Rangers
By: Laurie | 15 Comments
The thing I love most about the UEFA cup is its diversity. Because there are so many routes to qualification, you never know who’s going to end up on top.
Unlike Champions League. (No all-EPL final here. And hurray for that!)
Who would have guessed, at the beginning of the season, that [...]
Insanity: Liveblogging and Tracking Two UEFA Cup Matches at Once. Only at The Offside
By: Laurie | 4 Comments
UEFA Cup. The Champions League’s neglected little sibling. So neglected that our preview post is going up at halftime.
Oops. Sorry. Try to forgive us.
Today we have both games of the semifinals, going on simultaneously.
Bayern Munich vs. Zenit St. Petersburg and
Rangers vs. Fiorentina
And we’re guessing that [...]
Category: UEFA CupLuca Toni Defines Late Game Heroics
By: chris | 9 Comments
Getafe 3 - Bayern 3
What an amazing finish to an amazing game. Getafe deserves a standing ovation - aside from Robert Abbondanzieri - for a sensational performance down a man for 115 of 120 minutes. However, all their extra time heroics were canceled out in the final ten minutes as Luca Toni scored two, and [...]
Photo of the Day: The View From Down Here Stinks
By: Laurie | No Comments
And here we have Zenit’s Anatoliy Tymoschuk, enjoying a southerly view of Leverkusen’s Bernd Schneider’s nose hairs in today’s UEFA Cup quarterfinals match.
Leverkusen won the game, but Zenit went through to the next round on aggregate score.
(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
UEFA Cup Time, Baby
By: chris | 5 Comments
With apologies to PSV v Fiorentina (more) and Bayer v Zenit (less), there are two games today deserving of nearly the entire spotlight, for vastly different reasons. Getafe because of its chance to not even win a trophy but simply cause a massive upset, and Rangers with the opportunity to win so many.
Despite the obvious [...]
Cardiff Might Get UEFA Cup Spot After All
By: Laurie | 2 Comments
A few weeks back, when Cardiff City was in the middle of its rise to the FA Cup final, Daryl reported that even if they won they competition they would not be able to play in the UEFA Cup. The issue being that the English FA rules say that the UEFA Cup spot for [...]
Cinderella Finds Her Other Shoe
By: chris | 5 Comments
What has easily become the story of the European campaign on both fronts (Fenerbahce is still a Turkish powerhouse) is only getting sweeter by the day, as little Getafe took an unexpected draw away from Bavaria in the 90th minute against what is, at least on paper, the best team in the UEFA Cup. In [...]
UEFA Cup Draw: The Ignored Little Brother
By: chris | 4 Comments
UEFA Cup gets pushed down the ladder enough. Today it was going up against the Champions League draw anyway. Then some dude in Britain went and leaked the draw and pure madness has broken out, with the mass media and Interpol getting involved into what will surely be a massive investigation stealing too much time [...]
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Tags: Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern, Bong, draw, Fiorentina, Getafe, Manchester Stadium, PSV, Rangers, Sporting, UEFA Cup, Zenit St. PetersburgDiego Getting His Highlight Reel Ready
By: chris | 2 Comments
Werder Bremen 1-0 Glasgow Rangers.DiegoUploaded by lebordeauxlais
There is just a lot going on with Werder Bremen right now, isn’t there? The northerners crashed out of the UEFA Cup, but Diego was able to remind everyone that he is just that good. With all the drama, impending turnover and likelihood of a lengthy Bayern run at [...]
The Little Club That Could Fights On
By: chris | 6 Comments
The UEFA Cup takes a backseat to the marketing behemoth that is the Champions League in terms of coverage. Often times, feel good stories get swept by the wayside in lieu of 10,000 word essays on Lionel Messi being the best thing since sliced bananas or how in the world will [insert random EPL big [...]
The English Penalty Curse Strikes Again
By: Daryl | 4 Comments
Seems the crippling penalty shootout phobia of the England national team also extends to club sides. Both Everton and Spurs made impressive comebacks in their UEFA Cup second leg matches last night, only to blow it from the spot. Everton pulled back a 2-0 first leg deficit with an impressive 2-0 win over Fiorentina, but [...]
Category: UEFA CupGilberto Doesn’t Have “The Rhythm”
By: chris | 2 Comments
Tottenham paid a decent sum for Gilberto in January considering his contract was up in six months and he was still injured at the time. After spending all of February on the pine, he was given his debut against PSV on Thursday in UEFA Cup action. Blunder which resulted in a goal? Yup. And then [...]
Tim Wiese Doesn’t Like European Nights
By: chris | 3 Comments
Tim Weise knows a little something about gaffs in European competition, unfortunately. On Wednesday it was a little more of the same, though this one a little more excusable than the first (and on a smaller stage). Daniel Cousin took a shot from way out and Tim knocked it up, only he knocked it up [...]
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