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Great fightback from Villa. Emi Martinez is probably the best penalty shootout keeper in the world.

And West Ham.

Lille dominating against Villa. They were the better side in the first leg too and were a bit unlucky not to come away with a draw at least. Eta. Villa fought their way back into this game after a dreadful hour or so. They've been the better side ever since Lille's second goal.

FA Cup replays to be scrapped from the first round onwards starting next season. The Premier League will also be removing the mid-season break from the calendar. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68844583

Spurs have a very difficult run in so it is pretty unlikely that they can overhaul Villa. It would be great if Villa can hold on and finish 4th. I'm happy that England is now extremely unlikely to get a 5th CL spot - it would've been utter bullshit for Spurs to get CL football for finishing 5th, bombing out early of both domestic cups while contributing sweet fuck all to the coefficient.

Another sting.

It was always the danger for Arsenal that the Bayern players would stir themselves enough to actually put in the effort in a big QF tie and that proved to be the case. Bayern have had a rough season by their standards and there are gaps in the squad but that squad is still full of top class players. Nice to see Man City 115 getting dumped out as well. Unfortunately it's starting to look like both Arsenal and Liverpool are fading so the cheaters are probably going to win another farmer's league title.

Barca in trouble now. Great strike from Vitinha to level it up on aggregate.

Inter will be kicking themselves for bottling it against this Atleti side. Should've won that tie with room to spare.

Think Frimpong will definitely be sold. IIRC, he has a low(ish) release clause too (around €40m).

Another boost for Leverkusen. Their CEO has confirmed that Wirtz will be staying at the club next season.

Bremen have announced that Keita will be suspended until the end of the season. Also seen some reports saying that the club will be looking into terminating his contract.

He wouldn't have been a starter this season had Timber not gotten injured. Eta. I am surprised that Tomiyasu hasn't been starting more in that position. Has he dropped off or what?