Magic Lamps

benfica do have some extremely ugly players in their ranks

why can't our players not take the ball better? benfica are vulnerable on the flanks and on the channels

Can we pls one fuckin time get a fair ref in an important game?

we are obviously too tired to get a grip to this game

the ref is so biased

Torres is so useless once facing opposition like garay and luisao

mata u dick

it is a joke matic did not get booked but oscar did, exact same tactical foul. Fuck you refs

far too easy for benfica. they outplay us every time they got to the box

oh Torres and once again teh ptich is far too wet

oh fuck oscar really can control that

matic should have been booked there

wow... i am really nervous, not as nervous as may 19 of last year, but still. Accodring to German TV we play 4-3-3...

amazing work by the guys from the German TV Network Sat1 who televise the game. They donated tickets to the loudest Benfica and Chelsea fans in Amsterdam. Also on the German stream instead of ads we got a really nice football webshow. so if anyone understands German http://www.ran.de/de/fussball/europa-league/video/2012-13/benfica-lissabon-fc-chelsea-ranon-webshow-livestream-europa-league-finale.html

He is not only our top scorer but also the English player with most league goals. Also he has the best minues per goal record in the league.

You are right, but don't feed the troll.

U DON'T SAY

I always buy de Rossi on FIFA but he does not commit those crazy antics there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4cA0EngrhA this is just disgraceful

yeah, that is really likely^^

Cardozo is nowhere near the class of Falcao and Benfica are not able to play the same way Atletico did. Cardozo is extremely slow, slower than Luiz or Cahill and not as strong as Ivanovic. Despite his height, his major strength is his extremely cool finishing, given space and time, we can't afford to give him this and I am sure Rafa won't.

Lampard staying would be a huge boost for the entire team. There has been no one at Chelsea who does not profit from playing with Lamps.

Last time: He is there cos all of the team travel to Amsterdam. the whole squad win and lose together, the teammates that are out support the one who are playing. Also Ba and Romeu have travelled. . Surely not because of the vague hope that they will play

LOLZ. Why don't take the direct encounters like in the European competition? I remember one year in an east-european league two teams where equal on point and goals on no1 with the direct encounters both draws. So they had a play off, which was 0-0 and ended 18 to 17 in penalty shoot out.

Rafa won't be such an idiot to actually start benayoun, but it is a guarantee that he will come on at some stage. Benayoun is simply compeltely useless. he will never contribute anything a 15 year old amateur player can't do, too. With marin it is a different case. He is not only completely useless but also so über-motivated he is always likely to get a red card or so. On the other hand, Marin can - in one try out of 10 - fool the entire backline and create something out of nowhere. It is unlikely to happen, but when you are loosing, Marin has a 20% chance to ruin the game completely and maybe a 3-5% chance to change the game. With Benayoun you always can be 100% sure to lose. It is impossible that we still are favourites now. Lima, cardozo, john (who is out hopefully), rodrigo, urreta, gaitan, are all better attackers than everything we got except Lamps, mata and oscar. If we do not go 2 or 3 up before the 70th minute there is no way we can win this, unless of course they completely fuck it up.

He was still decent in Europe, vs Rubin and Basel. He out is a massive loss, esp considering that we now probably have to play Benayoun at some stage