Europa league

[SilentDave]

I think L'pool tonight with no Gerrard (injury) & Suarez (cup-tied) are a nailed on lay.
Braga have a good home record in Europe (including wins against Sevilla and Arsenal) and are coming off a victory against Benfica.

[CaerMyrddin]

Braga is not the same team that beat Arsenal and Sevilla, many players have left the club since that wonderful Sevilla match.

The win against Benfica was a joke. Benfica was winning 0-1 and then Javi Garcia was sent off because of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZM48EAooC8

You might be somewhat confused by now, but Javi is the player in the yellow shirt.

Unfortunately I wasn't here (or fortunately, cause I was in London) to tell if the match was a fix, but I would say it was.

I really can't see Liverpool not winning, but you know, it's football

[Euler]

Was hoping you would give us an opinion!

I definitely can't see Rangers winning against PSV.

[SilentDave]

Agree with you on that one!

[CaerMyrddin]

Please don't take this as an advice and yes this is a disclaimer.

I never gamble or leave open positions into the game, (although I open them inplay now) so I wouln't like to know that someone lost money because of me.

[Euler]

HT 1-0 Braga, penalty. Pretty even match so far.

[SilentDave]

I think Braga deserve their lead and have looked more comfortable as the half has progressed (unlucky not be 2 up with that effort that hot the bar with Reina beaten). L'pool need to up their game significantly if they are going to get anything out of this.
I won't be trading out yet so I hope this doesn't come back to bite me!

[CaerMyrddin]

I put part of my profits against Braga now, as Liverpool looked more concentrated now. They weren't very ambitious in the first half imho.

[SilentDave]

Have traded out - Carroll substitution has lifted L'pool.

[petardo]

Benfica is now 36 matches without draw in row

[Euler]

That's impressive, fairly quiet evening for me on the Europa league.

[CaerMyrddin]

I didn't trade Benfica's game, just enjoyed it but we have some impressive stats. Since Sept 2009 there was only one home match were we didn't score and yes we are the perfect ltd team

[CaerMyrddin]

How often do you get 50% of the attendence on a UEFA match from the away team, given the fact that the teams aren't from the same country and how do you account that into the market?

[Euler]

Some pretty interesting matches this evening I thought. Dabbled so far but not got anything special out of it. No real big shocks so far.

[misimiki]

43% of Liverpool goals are scored between 80-90 minutes.