ELGS 6th round, Dec. 14. 2023

[Bulgarian]

They've won!

Yes! A perfect night! Even Rangers advance. They flew under my radar tonight. I always have a soft spot for them when it comes to Europe. Time to relax for the rest of the night

What were the odds on that bet?

Around 4.50. I thought it would be less before checking ngl.

[BurningStorm]

So Ajax and Betis are new possible opponents for Eintracht. Against Betis they've played in their fabulous EL winning season. Sturm Graz also possible, Austrians are always 10000% motivated against Germans, but after their group stage performance I don't think they are able to shock big league teams in KO stage games. I expect better games from Eintracht in the KO stage and with at least one new striker.

Back to EL, Rangers are always able to surprise in this competition. Congrats.
The three French teams against CL teams, will one of them get Milan?

[Lorric]

So Ajax and Betis are new possible opponents for Eintracht. Against Betis they've played in their fabulous EL winning season. Sturm Graz also possible, Austrians are always 10000% motivated against Germans, but after their group stage performance I don't think they are able to shock big league teams in KO stage games. I expect better games from Eintracht in the KO stage and with at least one new striker.

Back to EL, Rangers are always able to surprise in this competition. Congrats.
The three French teams against CL teams, will one of them get Milan?

Especially this season's group, it went both ways with their Aris results. Beat Betis twice, only got 1pt from Aris.

[Dragonite]

Some Sturm Graz players celebrating after the final whistle

First time that they overwinter in over two decades! They should celebrate! Hopefully they won't have to wait another two decades for it to happen again.

[Mufi315]

Most Royale Union SG - Liverpool 2-1

• Liverpool had 1st place ​ensured before match, but I do not expect its losing.

Real Betis - Rangers 2-3

• Ranger had to turn the game around twice. In the end, Betis will had to only settle for the Conference League. By the way, the final ranking 1. Rangers > 2. Sparta Prague > 3. Real Betis > 4. Aris Limassol was not predicted by any discussant in the Group Topic.

Panathinaikos - Maccabi Haifa 1-2

• A home draw was enough for Panathinaikos. The loss is quite a shock. An unpleasant way out for the Greeks. After the 4th round, it looked like all four clubs would meet in the Conference League, but in the end there were only two left. Even Ajax finally won promotion over AEK Athens (although they are not doing well in the Dutch League).

[Overgame]

The three French teams against CL teams, will one of them get Milan?

And Lens could get AS Roma.
4 out of the 6 french teams are in the EL knock-out rounds.

[EarlofBug]

After a crappy day for me, at least I saw some nice results in the EL (and ECL)
I didn't think that there would be much excitement on this day, but there was!

I really liked Rangers win. I don't know why I like them, but I do.
Maybe because I still see the Scottish teams as ones that keeps running and playing all the time, even after the players fall, they get up and don't do immitations of being hurt, unlike Spanish teams for example.

[Juliusz]

MD6 attendances

Ajax - AEK Athens 53,926
West Ham - Freiburg 48,876
Real Betis - Rangers 48,380
Roma - Sheriff 47,803
Brighton - Marseille 30,214
Qarabağ - Häcken 28,515
Leverkusen - Molde 28,504
Rennes - Villarreal 27,761
Sporting CP - Sturm Graz 24,733
Slavia Praha - Servette 18,380
Union SG - Liverpool 16,959
LASK - Toulouse 16,100
Panathinaikos - Maccabi Haifa 13,121
Raków - Atalanta 10,386
Aris Limassol - Sparta Praha 2,859
Olympiacos - TSC Bačka Topola 20 (behind closed doors)

[Laudrup1]

Rangers with the shock of the night, they beat Betis away and send them down to the Conference League.

I never understood how Rangers is performing so much better than Celtic in Europe usually, while domestically they're on the backfoot and it's Celtic dominating.

We've got no idea, either.

To consistently perform against better teams but make a rip roaring mess of domestic league games against weaker teams is confusing.

It's not just better players or mentality alone. Something needs fixed by a manager to get us winning domestic trophies regularly.

[amenina]

[Sillu1991]

My question is where was the offside in the Rennes game in that 3 goal? Daylight robbery?

No offside... But the taker of the free kicked touched the ball twice (once by taking the free kick, 2nd time when it came back off the crossbar... No one else had touched it)

Yes, i read that in the news. Some strange rule that i wasnt familiar before. But thank you for also explaining .

[Sillu1991]

So Ajax and Betis are new possible opponents for Eintracht. Against Betis they've played in their fabulous EL winning season. Sturm Graz also possible, Austrians are always 10000% motivated against Germans, but after their group stage performance I don't think they are able to shock big league teams in KO stage games. I expect better games from Eintracht in the KO stage and with at least one new striker.

Back to EL, Rangers are always able to surprise in this competition. Congrats.
The three French teams against CL teams, will one of them get Milan?

Toulouse and AC Milan have the same owner so i think UEFA gonna try to separate those two in the draw?

[Greyn]

Utter disgrace. Even if Raków were through somehow, it will be totally against their performance.

That is correct and let's stick with it. Raków fully deserved to be out after such a disgraceful performance on MD6. There is no place in the European Cups in Spring for such an immature team who can't even prepare correct tactic for a match according to the standings in the group and a result they need. I am pretty sure that with Papszun on the bench it would have never happened and his decision to divorce with Raków was harmful for both sides since he can't find any job abroad since then. It was an understandable decision, he was looking for a new challenge, but he was not aware that Polish coaches have 0 reputation in Europe. At the end both Papszun and Raków lost.

[paddymcp]

Rangers with the shock of the night, they beat Betis away and send them down to the Conference League.

I never understood how Rangers is performing so much better than Celtic in Europe usually, while domestically they're on the backfoot and it's Celtic dominating.

We've got no idea, either.

To consistently perform against better teams but make a rip roaring mess of domestic league games against weaker teams is confusing.

It's not just better players or mentality alone. Something needs fixed by a manager to get us winning domestic trophies regularly.

I think the difference is Celtic are poor when asked to defend but are better attacking (they don’t have to defend in Scotland) while Rangers have a solid defensive structure in Europe the last few years but perhaps lack the attacking prowess to turn some games from 1 point into 3 which leads to Celtic eventually winning the league

[Overgame]

My question is where was the offside in the Rennes game in that 3 goal? Daylight robbery?

No offside... But the taker of the free kicked touched the ball twice (once by taking the free kick, 2nd time when it came back off the crossbar... No one else had touched it)

Yes, i read that in the news. Some strange rule that i wasnt familiar before. But thank you for also explaining .

Not strange, this rule is the same for:
-PK (a special kind of free kick)
-Throw-ins
-Goal kick
-Corner
-Kick-off

The only (re)start of the play without this rule is a dropped ball (for obvious reasons) and you cannot score until somebody else has touched the ball.