Dooodooodrooo
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I hope other SPFL clubs were watching tbh. We need others to take points off them.
We played a better Spanish team and got a better result away and at home with 10men.
Spanish football journalist I follow wasn't impressed.
How much did Valencia spend in the summer?They (valencia) are a better side than villareal.
How much did Valencia spend in the summer?
Look at their European campaigns in recent years versus ours, Villarreal was a much larger task than them vs Valencia.Valencia are sitting 11 points clear of Villarreal in the league table and just pumped them 3-0 the other week.
Would still much rather take our results than theirs tonight, but don't see how you can claim that Villarreal are the better side.
Spending more doesn't make you a better team.
an abyss between him and smith and yet the media here derides smith history n europe but suck rodgers boabieThis just shows how hopeless Rodgers is as a tactician.
You can't play against a team that is technically better than you with the same approach that you use against teams that are a lot weaker (i.e. SPL teams).
In addition, a high pressing approach is asking for trouble against a team that has real pace and can pass the ball behind the defence.
Stevie G. take note. Rodgers only has one tactical approach.
You mean like December 29th?I hope Stevie G had the squad watching that lot.Valencia without being brilliant totally outclassed them with simple crisp passing and pressing them all over the park.If we can continue our recent run and other teams show a bit of bottle against them this league is there to be won.
100% correct.an abyss between him and smith and yet the media here derides smith history n europe but suck rodgers boabie
Look at their European campaigns in recent years versus ours, Villarreal was a much larger task than them vs Valencia.
Yet we stood tall with 10 men, unfairly by the way, for 60 odd minutes.
Maybe they’re not better this year, but they spent more, and have a European pedigree, and we went toe to toe.
Maybe some just enjoy making excuses for ceptic mind you
an abyss between him and smith and yet the media here derides smith history n europe but suck rodgers boabie
It's obvious and I cannot believe nobody in Scotland seems to pick up on it. They sit off them, give them time for the defenders that cannot pass under pressure to come out and give the ball to an incredibly slow defensive midfielder to distribute, then they build momentum and get two in quick succession and coast to a win.
I find it ever so curious that they bring the financial gap into it when they persistently get brought down to earth in europe, but never mention it in the league.
Love to rub it in to them when they lose, but let’s not exaggerate.We played a better Spanish team and got a better result away and at home with 10men.
Spanish football journalist I follow wasn't impressed.
I'm not saying they are a top side. Just saying they are streets ahead of the mentally challengeds.n my opinion
Valencia are well down their league and we're without 4 of their best players tonight, not a top class side In my opinion.
We got better results of course but Valencia are better than Villareal mate, still the fact we got a draw with 10 men against any team from la liga is a brilliant result.We played a better Spanish team and got a better result away and at home with 10men.
What? So Burkes pace didn' terrorise them like I read in the week? And Sinclair the vanquisher of St Johnstone is actually bang average?. Edouard, Boyata & now even Weah. This team is so over hyped in Scotland it is embarrassing.
European refs obviously don’t follow the domestic mantra.Saw the goals on STV, Raman said at the first goal their defence stopped looking for an offside - wrongly !
My wife came home last night asking are rangers in liquidation as she was training a new guy and it's all he was talking about
She knows nothing about football he was obviously talking about it being 7 years since it happened
On his first day in a new job
To a woman training him
On the day of their euro game
Spanish football journalist I follow wasn't impressed.
I think they are pretty well fu@ked especially if they don't get a ref whose is favouring them, like what they get in the republic of Scotland.I noticed at Valencia's second goal ,Brown was in a similar situation to the one last week against hibs where he had a 50/50 ball and lost it but to retrieve the situation he made a two footed tackle on the hibs player ,but managed to escape punishment .Tonight however it was almost as if he realised , oh wait a minute this isn't a Scottish referee and I won't get away with what I did last week and as a result the Valencia player easily won the ball and played the ball forward for the second goal.
Strangely in the post match interview Brown was talking about the return game and if I heard correctly he said that next week they would have a chance as they would be playing on a better pitch , strange kind of logic as they were outclassed on their own pitch by a team who had never played on it before and yet he expects to beat them on their own pitch .AYE RIGHT
Spanish football journalist I follow wasn't impressed.
Unfortunately, that is correct.Problem is our passing and ball retention is hopeless.
They also don't have the same refs or compliance officer to help them or a media that is able to influence refs and compliant people either, a level playing field fu@ks them every time.Had a wee look on the dark side to see the reaction - my favourite so far:
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The difference in quality in opposition in our domestic league and this level of European competition really hurts us more than most other teams.
It's so difficult to maintain a certain level of composure and skill with what we face most weeks.
I know you can still point to the schoolboy defending that we exhibited for both goals, but if you are only put under that kind of pressure a certain number of times over a 12 month period, it's hard to build up those levels of concentration and competency required on the training pitch or in our league.
Fire the prick he's not concentrating on the job.My wife came home last night asking are rangers in liquidation as she was training a new guy and it's all he was talking about
She knows nothing about football he was obviously talking about it being 7 years since it happened
On his first day in a new job
To a woman training him
On the day of their euro game
So much pish about their great form since the break, scoring loads, not conceded etc.
Their games were
Airdrie H
St Mirren H
Hamilton H
St Johnstone A
St Johnstone H
Hibs H
St Johnstone H
First game against a good side and made to look like a bloody pub team.
Hope they continue to buy into their own hype.
Would have preferred they still had a chance for the away leg so they put more into it but cant have it all I suppose.