By AVI CREDITOR
The Europa League field will be down to 16 teams Thursday, as a slate of 15 second-leg matches will determine who moves on to the next round of the knockout stage.
Benfica took care of business by eliminating Hertha Berlin 4-0 (5-1 aggregate) on Tuesday.
Landon Donovan, Tim Howard and the rest of Everton will look to hold on to their 2-1 edge at Sporting Lisbon at 3:05 p.m. EST (DirecTV channel 462), hoping that a late penalty that yielded an away goal last week won't make the difference in their tie.
The other matches that kick off at 3:05 are:
- Fenerbahce vs. Lille (DirecTV 467, Lille leads 2-1)
- Hapoel Tel Aviv vs. Rubin Kazan (DirecTV 464, Rubin Kazan leads 3-0)
- Juventus vs. Ajax (GOLTV, Juventus leads 2-1)
- SV Salzburg vs. Standard Liege (DirecTV 468, Standard Liege leads 3-2)
- Valencia vs. Club Brugge (DirecTV 465, Club Brugge leads 1-0)
- VfL Wolfsburg vs. Villarreal (DirecTV 463, teams tied 2-2)
- Werder Bremen vs. Twente Enschede (DirecTV 466, Twente leads 1-0)
Earlier Thursday, the following teams advanced to the Round of 16:
- Anderlecht (defeated Athletic Bilbao 4-0, 5-1 aggregate)
- Panathinaikos (defeated AS Roma 3-2, 6-4 aggregate)
- Marseille (defeated FC Copenhagen 3-1, 6-2 aggregate)
- Liverpool (defeated Unirea Uziceni 3-1, 4-1 aggregate)
- Atletico Madrid (defeated Galatasaray 2-1, 3-2 aggregate)
- Fulham (drew 1-1 with Shakhtar Donetsk, 3-2 aggregate)
- Hamburg SV (lost to PSV Eindhoven 3-2, 3-3 aggregate, advanced on away goals)
If you will be watching any or all of these games on TV or via live Internet feed, please share your thoughts and any play-by-play in the comments section below.
FULHAM!!!!! COYW!!!!! Final 16.
For someone who does not have direct tv can you who do clarify something for me. Are those channels for free or are they par per view?
Lets do it #9
COYW!!!!
Ruined my TIVO, but Great news anyway!
Can’t wait to watch Dempsey take on the sweet 16, elite 8, or whenever he returns.
I hope Jack Rodwell gets sometime for the Toffees in today, for no other reason that he has the greatest Porno name ever.
atdhe not working. need stream for everton. please help if possible. do people have any luck w myp2p? it never seems to work for me.
Fulham advances!
@tdhe is up
translate red direct in spanish and see if you can’t find a feed there
nice save howard, could have gone down early. Feed is pretty low quality though
Bad start for Everton, their defense is like a sieve early on
Ha, I can top that. The goalkeeper of Independiente in Argentina is named Fabian Assmann. No Joke.
appreciate it.
they need to hold that defense
free if you have directtv
yes indeed. you did beat me. there is certain subletly in Jack Rodwell though.
Donovan on the left.
damn at55dhe went out…bah!
both everton and the feed aren’t doing well today
yeah all the feeds are horrible today.
that was a really light fall
oh I don’t think Howard would have had that if not for the bar
Iraq golz down
justin tv down
atdhe down
Can anybody hook a brutha up? Otherwise, I’ll be sleeping through Wigan/Spurs on FSC.
Thanks,
BBB
translate red direct to spanish and try your luck there.
try justin.tv for the game.
just went out too. is it true that when you type the full address an epl bot takes it down?
feeds getting pulled
and Landon switched and all of a sudden the play goes up the left side
Guys,
I never have much luck with good Internet feeds but this one seems o.k. for the Everton match:
link to vexcast.com
yes
neither osman or landon has really been in the game
Landon hasnt touched the ball . . . maybe once
feed seems to be back for now…
This is a BAD game.
well defensively Landon has been there, they haven’t made a run up the side he has been on. Oh Landon earned the corner there
I thought he did…
not surprising that Saha can’t do much with that, i think that is the first time he has even had a chance to do something
you da man, senor
Off topic, because this game is really NOT exciting . . . does anyone know when Bradley will post the roster for the Netherlands game?
well Sporting is clearly winning even though they are getting the calls.
i’m sitting in a webinar, wish i could watch
ouch town population you bro
there not just bots at this point…there are companies that hire actual human beings to come on websites just like this to ask for links just so they can shut them down…so people need to stop being so liberal with sharing the links even if they switch a and i for @ and !
is everton just playing poorly or is sporting holding them back
and this is why some people complain soccer is boring.
everton just made it to final 16 in agg.
both and the sporting is failing in the final third
oh close. looked like Landon was going off with it. already he is more in the game
that guy really likes to go down light
can we please pick up the commentary for those of us that are stuck at work? thanks
howard saves everton’s ass again
TIM HOWARD! Save
i’m with scott, i can’t stream from in here
k but it will not have correct grammer (grammar?)
Rodwell on for Bily. Hasn’t really done much
Try this:
link to uk.eurosport.yahoo.com
And landon has space to saha who handles it off to pienaar who pushes it wide. Great work by landon terrible aim by Pienaar had all the time in the world cause the CBs were on the backfoot from chasing Saha
im tracking on bbc but i like getting the info here more
Everton gets scored on. They’re done
and Sporting comes back the other way and score. Thought he was offside. Ope no. Nobody picked him up. Tragedy for Everton. That being said, Sporting has earned it
nobody even stuck out a foot on the pass to (whoever scored).
Now Everton has picked it up. Pienaar and Baines work down the left but there cross is to Sporting
Time for Landy to take matters into his own hands. Or feet.
Miguel Veloso scored, assisted by Yanick Djalo.
finally they are pushing and osman earns a corner off the throw by kicking it on the defender’s knees. Corner is a bit too long and the header to send it back to the middle is too high and gets picked off by the keeper. Waste
is it me or is Everton very left handed?
cheap free kick given away by Everton and the header off of it goes straight to Howard comfortable.
and Evertopn lost their fire a bit
Everton*
boo
donovan off.
landon subbed off . . .
beautiful cross by Landon and saha gets pushed down. Landon off right after that. Quiet night for him. Baines gives it up easy and Sporting goes on a run
Landon off…
heads back the other way and a couple of crosses go in Saha ends up with the ball 2 yards from goal but it ends up saved. not Everton’s night so far. Nice to see some urgency though, there best run of the game
Donovan got caught ball watching on the goal. The guy he should have marked on the return pass scored
Sporting scores again. The dream is over
the better team definitely moves on
It is hard for me to become a fan of Everton. It does not seem like they want to win. Donvan should be taking the corner kicks and the past few games they are not giving him the chance. The only few opportunities they have had to score have come from Donvan. I think he is going to be happy to be going back to the Galaxy. He should not have been taken out.
Everton down now… 2-0
as the game is now, i would be shocked if Everton scored. They have looked slow and out of their league
GOOOOLLLLLLOOOO SPORTING!!! They’re finally playing well… and Bill, Miguel Veloso scored (you can stop calling him “that guy”) because he’s a pretty talented player that most football followers know of.
Not over just yet if Everton can put one in.
Landon had poor outing, little energy, as did most of the team.
wow…real lazy by LD not chasing his man. Rookie move to stand still with your hand up. He wasn’t even watching the defensive line as the 2 center-backs were clearly not playing the trap.
well good game for Howard. had some bad luck on the goals.
I hope they don’t. I’d hate to see that display again. The one team that came to play should win the game
nice run by Arteta, he (like the rest of the midfield) has been quiet
Agree about being happy to return to the Galaxy.
Who wants to play in the best league in the world when you can play in a mostly empty stadium against old men and second rate footballers.
my apologies, haha
Time for Tim Howard to come up
That was just bad.
that’s all folks!
sure if they follow Portugal… but I think most here are following Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
I watched the entire match and Landon was not bad…just not good either… he played the line right…the CBs should have held their line…
Oh and Landons sub… Jags GOT OWNED HARDCORE at the end.
I think Everton’s biggest problem was letting Sporting get into the game. They should have taken it to them earlier, and maybe would have got something to stem their onslaught.
LD played a beautiful ball to Saha that should have resulted in a goal (miss by Pienaar)
Was it just me… or did Sporting get some great no calls and Everton got shafted?
What happened with LD? Sounds like it was bad all around if he was subbed out at 63 min.
I hope that Dempsey is healthy when Fulham plays Juventus in the next round
The whole team was bad. The 3-0 result is pretty fair. Sporting was that much better.
FULHAM ADVANCED! YESSSSSSSS!!! COYW!!!
thanks buddy, this saved me…until my wife made me leave for a bar that didn’t have the game…
I really wanted to see Donovan’s second half.
then it was calinick’s fault! argh
whoever does that for their job is a nuttsack douche and we should string up and cyber kill them from this site.
I didn’t watch the game but all the reports I’ve read are saying the same thing, the whole team was horrible. Sky Sports fan ranking gave Donovan a 5.4 which was second best behind Timmy’s 6.4.
link to skysports.com
I wonder why Moyes pulled LD out so early?