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Fuck the haters, this is a cracking competition. Shame it has so little prestige in England & Italy, even with the Villas & Spurs' (a couple seasons ago) of this world.

AZ 2-1 Valencia
Schalke 04 2-4 Athletic Bilbao
Sporting CP 2-1 Metalist Kharkiv
Atlético Madrid 2-1 Hannover 96

Athletic in particular is so fun to watch. And what about that winner for Atletico, some peach that.

Great competition indeed. Athletic Bilbao is such a pleasure to watch, their movement off the ball is lovely to watch. And the way the fought back from 2-1 into taking the lead is another thing, against a well organized and experienced side in Schalke.

Add to that, Raul still has it after all.

I should also add that I'm talking about the knock out stages here. The endless qualifiers & group stages can be tiresome, but the same could be said of the Champions League.

If they'd fuck off the CL dropouts & thin out the early stages a bit, it would be bang on.

its been much better then the CL this year

Id like to see A. Madrid vs. A. Bilbao

word on the street is that we're after Falcao (AM) and Martinez (AB).
interesting.