19-4-19 EUROPA LEAGUE


UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE
CHELSEA 4-3 SLAVIA PRAGUE agg 3-5
PERFECT PEDRO
 Pedro cut infield from the right and played two one-twos, the first with Azpilicueta and the second with Giroud, before lifting the ball gently over Kolar. That was sheer delightful football
It was made by Hazard, who scampered into the area, beat Ngadeu and slid the ball across to give Pedro an open goal from two yards. Somehow he managed to slap it onto the post, a quite ridiculous miss, but the ball rebounded off the face of Deli and into the net.
This is so easy. Kante slides a fine angled pass to put Pedro through on goal. He could probably score himself but instead squares it for Giroud to slide into an empty net from 12 yards.
Tomas Soucek gets an early consolation goal. It was a nice corner routine actually. Sevcik curled it out towards the penalty spot, where Soucek made a late run and planted an excellent header into the net
Dear lord, another goal. Hazard releases Emerson, who slides a lovely low cross towards the near post. Giroud’s close-range shot is saved by Kolar, but Pedro shovels it in from six yards with his left foot.
It was a mistake from Kepa, who left too big a gap at the near post, but it was still a beautiful strike from Sevcik.
Sevcik has scored an even better goal, a right-footed shot from 20 yards that roared across Kepa and into the far corner.
MY OPINION
Chelsea were deadly scoring their goals at the early stage of the match but do know this might be their only way into next seasons Champions League. Slavia had their place in the Champions League qualifiers already assured or they would want to think so but Chelsea had more quality
FRANKFURT 2-0 BENFICA agg 4-4 Frankfurt won on away goals
RODE INTO RAPTURES
Filip Kostic  left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal.
Sebastian Rode  right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ante Rebic.
MY OPINION
Benfica have got their target to win the Portuguese league while Frankfurt are playing for Champions League football which shows that there was more on the line for the German side. I think there was a sense that they had to push for the big win and they knew they might need it
NAPOLI 0-1 ARSENAL agg 0-3
LOVELY LACAZETTE
 Lacazette gets up and takes it himself. And what a hit! He whips it round the wall and into the top right. But what was Meret doing? His feet were planted, he made no effort whatsoever to dive for the ball. Completely flummoxed! He was leaning the other way, and couldn’t check his momentum. Arsenal have their away goal, and now Napoli need four!
MY OPINION
Naopoli were not playing with a sense of worry as they knew that they would be playing Champions League football while Arsenal were playing in the hope that they could reach that point so that to me is again what made the difference
VALENCIA 2-0 VILAREAL agg 5-1
LOVELY LATO
Toni Lato left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gonçalo Guedes.
Daniel Parejo from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
MY OPINION
Valencia have proven all season with such a cap in the league how much better they are but their position even in Europa is not safe so this draw and the way they were able to kill off the tie I consider to be incredible


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