Champions League thread
 

Seeing as it starts tonight, I thought that I'd start a thread. I can honestly say that this year I have no idea who will win. I hope Liverpool do well but it will be tough to come out of our group.

I'd like to believe we're going to do well this season. I'm not sure how it's going to pan out, but we have a strong defense and attack when everyone is fit. I'm just hoping the midfield put more effort in. :'(

I shall be rooting for Arsenal because of my man crush on Thierry Henry

I really have a feeling that this is going to be Barcelona's year in Spain and in Europe

:mad: stupid ESPN showing us Barca v Celtic instead of Arsenal :mad:

http://www.mtv3.fi/mn_kuvat/32910/53204.jpg

:love:

Yeah, i ain't a Arsenal fan...but i'm hoping they will win this one.

Larrson scored against Celtic:(. Didn't even crack a smile after his goal and all I've a feeling that ripped him up on the inside somewhat.

I thought the same thing too, what were the fans chanting when he came on, I couldn't hear it properly.

His name I think then of course some absouloute tools actually booed him after his goal. After everything that Henrik did for Celtic that was a disgrace, I'd undertand if he'd rubbed the goal in their face but Jesus he just ran off after scoring. The people that booed him really had me pissed off

He showed like no emotion when the others were celebrating the goal, too

Hope the Greek teams in the Champions League do well. Panathinaikos opened with a 2-1 win last night. :y:

They got Arsenal in like a month :$

Leverkusen and Real Madrid are on ESPN 2 now and its 1-0 Leverkusen

Krzynowek's goal was so cool

2-0

3-0

wow this is a mugging

Doesn't surprise me at all.

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com.../872987967.jpg

http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/040915/7/27aj.html

A night of drama in the Champions League ended with AS Roma's abandoned match against Dynamo Kiev overshadowing Bayer Leverkusen's stunning 3-0 upset of tournament favourites Real Madrid.


The Group B match between Roma and Kiev at the Olympic Stadium was called off 40 minutes after Swedish referee Anders Frisk was felled by an object thrown from the crowd as the first half ended.

Moments earlier Frisk had sent off Roma's French defender Philippe Mexes after he had kicked out at Kiev striker Maris Verpakovskis.

Frisk judged the action to be intentional and showed him a red card on the stroke of half-time with Kiev leading 1-0.

As players and officials remonstrated, Frisk was hit as he left the pitch. A gash opened in his forehead and he left the field with blood pouring from the wound. UEFA spokesman William Gaillard, speaking from Sofia where the UEFA executive committee meets on Thursday, told Reuters by telephone: "We deplore what has happened and will wait for the match delegate's report as well as the referee's own report of the incident.

"This is the first time in many years that a European match has been stopped for such an incident -- sometimes there have been electrical failures with floodlights of course, but this is something far worse."


Rome's Olympic Stadium already held unpleasant memories for the Swede.

In March 2002 he refereed Roma's Champions League match against Galatasaray, which degenerated into a brawl involving players and officials from both sides shortly after the final whistle.

Elswehere Bayer Leverkusen scored one of the biggest upsets in Champions League history crushing Real Madrid 3-0 to end a seven-match losing streak in the competition.

Manchester United, like Real Madrid, a possible title contender, also looked like capitulating to a shock defeat but pulled back from 0-2 down to draw 2-2 at Olympique Lyon.

Turkey's Fenerbache ended their seven-match losing streak in the competition with a 1-0 win over Sparta Prague and Juventus won the battle of former champions by beating Ajax 1-0 in Amsterdam. Liverpool also enjoyed a good start with a 2-0 win over last season's beaten finalists AS Monaco at Anfield while Bayern Munich won 1-0 at Maccabi Tel Aviv. Deportivo Coruna drew 0-0 with Olympiakos.

This shit has to be stopped. :nono:

On a side note, well done to Olympiakos holding Deportivo to 0-0 away from home. :y:

There's not much need be said, but imagine if it was British fans, not Italians :nono:.

Baros goal against Monaco was quality. The team is starting to show signs that its gelling together. Looks like it could be a good season, keep my fingers cross.

So why have this thread when there's already a football one?

I thought we could have a thread just for the Champions League so to not complicate things. There's a thread for the World Cup qualifiers so why not one for the Champions League.

Thats why I didn't like this thread, that theres no point on the one for world cup qualifiers as it should be in the main talk.

Anyway Dazz, great result the other day. Drogba really impressed me and Joe Cole.

Week 2 starts tonight with the following games:

Bayern Munich v Ajax
Dynamo Kiev v B Leverkusen
Juventus v Maccabi Tel - Aviv
Man Utd v Fenerbahce
Monaco v Dep La Coruna
Olympiakos v Liverpool
Real Madrid v Roma
Sparta Prague v Lyon

We've got Real vs Roma on ESPN here, its a pretty tight game through the first half, three goals..Raul's goal was sick. You guys should turn it on it you're not.

Ronaldo seems to be working his arse off.

The ManYoo game's on delay...you bastards are probably gonna spoil it for me though

I suppose you English bastards aren't getting this ESPN coverage?

Derek Rae :mad:

rooney has just scored an absolute stunning hat-trick

Christ, seems like just before kick off I was asking Mask why he was getting excited at the debut of a greedy cunt that has played one good tournament and everyone makes a big fuss about him, :$.

4 - 2 what a game this is turning out to be!

ARGH WADKAJDFAKJFDA FUCKING DOINK :mad:

hang on arnt you australian so with you being all them hours in front of us surly you watched this game yesterday and already know the result?

nah, because the arseholes decided to give us Roma-Madrid.

Terrible.

That Roberto Carlos insurance goal was amazing. Rauls go ahead go was pretty good too. That game was better than Man U and HKJHJKHKJHKJHK FC or whoever they were playing

6-2. Not a bad match to watch

£80 :D

LOL Olympiakos beat Liverpool. :D

Greek teams are doing well so far in the Champions League (for once :|)

WAYNE FUCKING ROONEY

me in pub: :D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Traianos Dellas for AS Roma, too

:love:

Rayne Wooney

Why did I just know I'd read someone (Kirk or Dazz) saying they'd win money.

Dellas = Mr Hellas.

Roma are complete balls.

If you start selling dodgy Russian alarm clocks. I'm going to believe it too.

There'll be some down Stamford Bridge way before you know it :D

Roman's office is already full of them.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

WHO LET THE DROG OUT?

P.S SMERTIN IS THE MAN :COOL: AS IS JOHN TERRY. I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING LUIS FABIANO AND DEIGO BUT THEY WERE PISS POOR.



WHATS THIS CAPS LOCK BUTTON PEOPLE SPEAK OF?

So what were the scores tonight???

Chelsea Won 3-1 against Porto, all you need to know.

Arsenal won 2-1 away to Rosenberg.

Someone in the Werder Bremnen Vs Valencia is a disgrace and should get a three match ban for his dive. Not that I am saying Drogba doesn't dive, but anyone who say it knows what I mean.

Celtic lost :(

Arsenal drew, Dazz.

I blame Mike Riley for the Valencia game, the diving was bad but he's got to do better. We've got problems if he's our best ref.

Milan 3-1 Celtic
Anderlecht 1-3 Inter
PSV 1-0 Panathinaikos
Rosenborg 1-1 Arsenal
Werder Bremen 2-1 Valencia
Chelsea 3-1 Porto
CSKA 2-0 PSG
Barcelona 3-0 Shakhtar (I think)

Charisteas scored for Werder :love: even though it was a tap-in. :D

Can't believe Celtic lost. They absolutely dominated that match. I went to take a leak and they were 3-1 down when I came back.

*bump*

Last night's results:

Sparta Prague 0-0 Man Utd
Liverpool 0-0 Deportivo La Coruna
Juventus 1-0 Bayern Munich
Bayer Leverkusen 3-1 Roma (Roque Junior, Leeds reject, scored for Bayer :$ )
Ajax 3-0 Maccabi Tel Aviv
Fenerbahce 1-2 Lyon
Real Madrid 1-0 Dynamo Kiev (little Mickey Owen :love: )
Monaco 2-1 Olympiakos

Tonight's games (and boy are there two fucking great looking ones)

Panathinaikos vs Arsenal
Rosenborg vs PSV
Shakhtar Donetsk vs Celtic
Milan vs Barcelona
Anderlecht vs Werder Bremen
Valencia vs Inter
Chelsea vs CSKA Moscow
PSG vs Porto

wow i wish i had sky sports xtra - milan v barca and valencia v inter look pretty tasty.

be interesting to see what sort of team wegner puts out against panathinaikos compared to the team fergie put out last night.

Lehmann
Cole
Campbell
Toure
Lauren
Pires
Fabregas
Edu
Ljungberg
Reyes
Henry

PS Fuck...what a flick from Reyes :eek:

Fucking arse cunt Lehmann :mad:

"Another error in Europe by Lehmann. He didn't need to come out, his header was picked up by Gonzalez on the right touchline and he produced an outstanding first-time looping effort to fire the ball back over Lehmann. David Seaman would be proud"

Shitting arse Lehmann did it again :mad:

valencia 1 inter 5...........wtf!?!!

and skahtar 3 celtic 0 .....thats the end of them for this season then.

THey were never getting through with Milan and Barca there anyway

yeah, but it'd be good if they like actually got a point at some stage

Not holding out much hope of anything apart from Shaktar at home

Gudjohnsen scored for us...:$

John Terry and Alexei Smertin are still the man.

Shit last 20 minutes though.

Does anybody from the US know when we get another Champions League game?

I heard Henry was a bit of a smart arse cunt when he scored against Panathinaikos.

He should feel lucky he wasn't hit by something.

yeah...nice if they'd actually show the game here instead of some random arse chelski v some russian team

SBS will have highlights of it tonight.

Yeah good

Arsenal had like 3 shots on target, so I'm not really disappointed, given that they scored 2 goals and were away in Greece without their captain. Plus we're still in a strong position to qualify and are yet to play Panathinaikos and Rosenborg at Highbury which should translate into points, and away at PSV which if I remember correctly is where Gilberto (?) scored that goal inside 20 seconds of the kickoff a few years back.

So I'm not concerned.

Yet.

Yeah you cunts are in a good position. Away draws against Rosenborg and PAO are solid, you should comfortably beat Rosenborg at home. PAO might cause a few problems but you should beat them too and that'd be enough to progress to the next stage.

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We've got Panathinaikos, PSV then Rosenborg coming up.

I reckon we're pretty set if on Matchday 4, we can beat Panathinaikos and Rosenborg can fuck PSV for us. That way, we'd be 2 ahead of PSV and 4 ahead of both Panathinaikos and Rosenborg.

Then we're set provided we take a point from PSV, unless some maths guy can prove me wrong.

Yeah, everyone's going on about how Arsenal are poor in Europe but if they continue to pick up these results, win at home and draw away, then they'll be through easily. That's accounting for mistakes in both away games and poor finishing in Rosenborg.

Chelsea should be through, Porto are struggling though :o

Barca and Milan should be through easily enough, just hoping Celtic over react and sack O'Neill, when they inevitably go out. Speaking of which, i've heard their board won't give MoN anymore money so i don't know whether he'll be staying around anyway, he's realistically achieved all he can there.

Well, it's that time again. Tonight's matches:

CSKA Moscow 0-1 Chelsea (full time)
Porto - PSG
Arsenal - Panathinaikos
PSV - Rosenborg
Celtic - Shakhtar Donetsk
Barcelona - Milan
Inter - Valencia
Werder Bremen - Anderlecht

We're getting Milan and Barcalona, I'm going to go down to the big screen and catch the finish

The second half of the game I just watched was real good. Barca was more aggressive the whole time and Ronaldinho scored on a beautiful move in the 89th minute to win.

I really wish I could get more games. Last time I really checked Henrik Larsson was on Celtic and really good, now he is a sub on Barcalona. I also didn't know Kaka was signed by Milan, and I didn't know Seedorf came off the bench, I thought he was better? Also, when did Milan get Cafu? Last I knew he was with Roma.

:lol: @ Arsenal

Uhhh k lemme see if I can get those:

Larsson is still the man, he's only 32 and still scoring loads for Sweden...I haven't caught much La Liga this year but as far as I'm aware he normally starts for Barca, him being on the bench tonight was an exception to the rule.

Kaka was signed for Milan summer of '03 I believe, he played for them in the Champions League last year. I think Seedorf swaps places with Pirlo in the Milan midfield though I could be wrong.

Cafu has been at Milan 2 and a bit seasons now, he signed on a free transfer from Roma in summer 02, he was in the team when they beat Juventus in the final last year.

Tonight's full times:

CSKA Moscow 0-1 Chelsea
Porto 0-0 PSG
Arsenal 1-1 Panathinaikos
PSV 1-0 Rosenborg
Celtic 1-0 Shakhtar Donetsk
Barcelona 2-1 Milan
Inter 0-0 Valencia
Werder Bremen 5-1 Anderlecht

A f****** great goal by Ronaldhino.

What..we really should have lost. Our attack couldn't cut butter.

Also we'll most likely go through as long as we take something from PSV.

Actually, I figured out that if we take a point away at PSV and then beat Rosenborg at home, we'll definitely go through.

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Uh no, Panathinaikos could win both their remaining games and finish above you in that situation.

-edit- wait I see what you mean, cause you beat PSV at home. Should still decide tie-breaks on goal difference first :mad:

Adriano is my favourite player ever. His punch was great.

Actually we'd beat them on goal difference too.

But what would really be awesome is if Rosenborg and Arsenal won on matchday 5, because then we'd definitely go through and so would PSV, and we'd be leading the group.

How can Arsenal complain about getting bad penalty decisions against them (like against Man Utd) when they received that penalty against Panathinaikos for nothing? Lucky for them Basinas missed PAO's penalty otherwise PAO may have grabbed all three points. I still think PSV and Arsenal will progress from the group but PAO will give Arsenal a run for their money.

Olympiakos beat Monaco 1-0 before, great week for Greek football. Olympiakos next travel to Liverpool (I think) and can hopefully get a result to set themselves up for progress into the next round. PAO must win away to Rosenborg and hope Arsenal slip up away to PSV. Come on the Greek teams! :yes:

If Liverpool play like they did last night, Olympiakos won't have a chance

I wouldn't say for nothing.

Vieira was held and went to ground. If that happened on the halfway line the ref would have given a free kick.

But it didn't happen on the halfway line, it happened in the area. Therefore, penalty.

Unlike the Rooney affair which should have been a booking for simulation and an Arsenal free kick.

:roll: very iffy decision.

What pissed me off also was Henry AGAIN arrogantly staring at the travelling fans after scoring from the spot. This cunt and all of the French froggy tarts at Arsenal must really have it in for the Greeks cos of Euro 2004. Let's hope that once more we can fuck the French cunts over. :D

Blame Zidane.

Euro was all his fault.

Not Henry's in the slightest :mad:

RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUD

Who needs strikers when the other teams players can score for you.

Yeah that's right. France failed because of Zidane. English fans can testify to that. :roll: