The Europa League Quarterfinals kick off today with four quality match-ups that should offer up a nice follow up to the excitement generated by the mid-week UEFA Champions League slate.
Clint Dempsey will look to ride the momentum of his magical series-winner vs. Juventus as Fulham faces German champions Wolfsburg, while Liverpool travels to Benfica in what is arguably the most highly-anticipated match-up of the round.
Here is a rundown of today's matches (all matches are being shown on DirecTV at 3pm):
Benfica vs. Liverpool
Fulham vs. Wolfsburg
Hamburg vs. Standard Liege
Valencia vs. Atletico Madrid (live on GolTV)
If you will be watching today's action, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action.
Liverpool were hosed as usual. What is with Portuguese teams either cheating or getting referees to cheat for them?
Think Porto Celtic years ago…
Glad to hear that Clint played well.
They definitely need an away goal now.
It really was. He looked class. A lot of the passes were daring balls not many players would play. I love the creativity he’s been showing lately. While he’s producing on the wing, I really think he’s more of a forward or even attacking mid. I wouldnt mind seeing this from our national team:
—howard—
cherundolo—onyewu/boca & demerit—spector
holden/beasley—bradley—dempsey—donovan
———-gomez——-
———-altidore—–
Just guessing, but I bet you haven’t either.
Brede hasn’t been on his best form the past couple months, he was fantastic in 09 but ever since he was injured hes had trouble
sorry won’t happen, Dempsey wants to stay at Fulham and there’s no point in him moving to a bigger club
Dempsey’s passing was fantastic tonight.
Would you mind posting one of them? thanks
Objectively, have to say advantage Wolfsburg for the 2nd leg. Fulham are almost certainly going to need to score now. They’ve come up big a few tiems already this year though, so i hope they’ve got another great performance in them.
i gotta say hangeland looked very mistake prone today. very uncharacteristic.
Makes the away leg a little tricky…
Well there’s the away goal, they just couldn’t hold on
Zlatan Ibrahimovich has never scored at a World Cup.
Yeah a clean sheet at home is really important. cuz then if they just scor one at Wolfsburg that would be a nail in the coffin.
Zamora is Fulham’s Player of the Year. T&T need to call him ASAP. His form as of now might actually win them the Gold Cup and get them to the next WC.
Fulham really looking like they want to go for the kill here, though in reality keeping a clean sheet should be there priority now. 2-0 at home is an excellent result if they can pull it off. 2-1 or even 3-1, less so.
come on Duece, you know you want to get in on the action. But honestly, I just don’t want Fulham to give up an away goal. 2-0 would be fine by me.
In fairness, it took a slight deflection off the defender who was streaking across the box. The defender both shielded the ball from view for the keeper, and pushed it well wide of his possible range to save it. Still, nice work by Zamora.
GOOOOOOOOOLLLLLL!!!!!!!!! Duff! Go Fulham
Duff gets another, Wow, Wolfsburg is falling apart.
Duff makes it 2-0!
Poor defending by Wolfsburg, plenty of space for Zamora to strike it cleanly, 1-0 to the cottagers.
Assist by Duece!
Goal Zamora.. Fulham leads 1-0!
My feeds (atdhe and p2p4u) are proving unreliable. Does someone have on that doesn’t freeze?
Man, Babel is a stupid, worthless soccer player. I’m thankful he got himself off because once again he’s done absolutely nothing except lose the ball in one-on-one situations on the left. What a pathetic professional.
Score Clint!
Very ho hum first half in the Fulham vs Wolfsburg match, hopefully the second half will be more entertaining. Wolfsburg is playing very defensive, Fulham needs to push forward and attack or else they’ll be heading to Germany tied at 0’s
From Eurosport:
A ball aimed at Zamora takes a flick off the Wolfsburg defender battling him for the ball, Duff runs on to the ball and dribbles towards the centre of the area, tries to make space for a shot but prods the ball to Dempsey when he is closed out… Dempsey has time and space but drags his shot wide of the left hand post! That’s the best chance of the half!
If Dempsey had a left foot it might have been 1-0 there.
Sure. Here ya go: http://video.uefa.com/Video/Live/Competitions/UefaCup/
Anyone have a link to the Fulham match???
anybody have a Fulham link?!?!?
Babel direct red for arguing with Luisao after Luisao fouled Torres hard…
Seems a little harsh but Babel is dumb for putting his hand on Luisao’s face…
Excluding goalkeepers of course. Donovan, McBride. Dempsey could eclipse both. He is bound for greater things. Scored at the WC, Scored to keep his team from being relegation, Consistent goal-scorer at a small club, Scored a brillant Europa League goal.
If he does well at this WC and scores a goal or 2, expect him to get a transfer to a AV or Tottenham.
Dempsey could just be the best American footballer ever-
Liverpool for the win. Agger has them up by 1 and it’s away so that’s great. I’m hoping for a Torres hat trick.
also gooo Dempsey 😀 Score for Fulham
If anyone has an english feed for Fulham, hook me up.
Slow start….dicey London weather….
Thanks guys. I know Clint is starting!!! That’s why I cleared my afternoon of reading 🙂
online feeds are working nicely, for now anyway…
Channel 463 and Clint is starting…:)
I don’t know that channel, but I sure could use a trip to the bar.
463
Anyone know what channel on Direct TV? I might have missed an earlier Ives post, so I will go check. I need to know the channel cause I gotta go down to a bar and tell them the channel.
Boo ‘pool. C’mon Deuce!
Is Dempsey starting?
Liverpool is going to lose, at least the first away game.
Let’s go Deuce!!! Let’s go Liverpool!!!
Come on Dempsey. Do it for the Cottage faithful.