Europa League 2018/19

Hopefully Inter-Sevilla and Napoli-Chelsea next round

Surprised about Leverkusen Krasnodar and Betis Rennes

Draw this.

Eintracht Frankfurt - Inter

Thoughts on them @ Hans @VivaSaintPauli

Napoli, Valencia, Sevilla and Arsenal should be progressing.

Robespierre wrote:Eintracht Frankfurt - Inter

Thoughts on them @ Hans @VivaSaintPauli

Eintracht will win the whole thing. Adolf H. will conquer all of Europe

Hapless_Hans wrote:

Robespierre wrote:Eintracht Frankfurt - Inter

Thoughts on them @ Hans @VivaSaintPauli

Eintracht will win the whole thing. Adolf H. will conquer all of Europe

That name could be appreciated from old Eintracht F. ultras in 80s, not those current ffs

Anyway I predict Eintracht to pass too,  Icardi is out of the team

Sevilla have a tricky tie vs Sparta but based on how they have fielded, clearly are going for their all in Europa League and should make it through.

Napoli have a team whom are top of their league by a distance in Salzburg and given their historical choking in the competition I would not expect them to blow through.

Eintracht-Inter
Eintracht for sure here.


Inter have no identity. Lack their best player in his usual silly drama. Seem shot of confidence and quite frankly nowhere near the team they were amounting to at Spalletti's best with them.


Hütter on the other hand has created a well-drilled machine in Eintracht and with a rather piss poor squad, and the club seem to produce sizeable results year in year out in the competition and if anyone knows how Italian teams fare against specific teams like Eintracht, we know this one isn't going Inter's way.

Inter are carried from defence
Central CB Is great and the only reason to not be collapsed so far
But we lack of quality and of Icardi now

About Eintracht I was thinking about a comparison

Are they the German Atalanta ?

Is this correct for you ? @Arq

Inter indeed are built around from the back with a ridiculously good CB spine in de Vrij and Skriniar who is just...unreal. Yet the rest lack any cohesion let alone faith in themselves and the PSV match confirmed it for me that this season will remain a struggle.

Gasp's Atalanta is way more meticulous in their approach if not entertaining but have a similar idea to Hütter's Eintracht who do not have any particular yet their counter attacking relays are absolutely lethal and prefer early crosses in the box and oddly find a way to create chances despite a rudimentary style of play.

Players to watch out for are Jovic, their prime goal scorer but more so Haller who is adept in creating chances and scoring when needed.

Likely they'll be content in letting Inter concede possession of the ball as the game will indeed rely on your CB pairing to clean up their haphazard balls and tricky entrances into the box. And I do feel if Inter can stifle their creative presence in Rebic, they wont face as much of a threat as it seems.

If we know this season's Inter, I do not see it a win.

Inter gonna get destroyed tonight

Absolutely massive game, easily the most interesting tie in any European 1/16 this season

Also, you're welcome @Robespierre

"Tedesco" means " German " in Italian? Interesting last name for German-Italian coach Domenico Tedesco.

farfan wrote:"Tedesco" means " German " in Italian? Interesting last name for German-Italian coach Domenico Tedesco.

Yes , I already said it

It's on

Eintracht Frankfurt: Trapp - da Costa, Hasebe, Hinteregger, N'Dicka - Gacinovic, Rode, Fernandes, Kostic - Haller, Jovic

Inter Mailand: Handanovic - D'Ambrosio, de Vrij, Skriniar, Asamoah - Vecino, Brozovic - Borja Valero - Politano, Martinez, Perisic

What a start!

Iwobi 1-0

Unreal atmosphere at Frankfurt
It looks like playing in Turkey

sorry WHAT?

Brozovic misses penalty :

one of the worst penalty decision I've ever seen

Trapp saves

no VAR in Europa League apparently. Absolutely disgusting referee.

Scottish ref what a joke. Clearly not up to top level.

Mustafi is awful