Who is through and who is in Trouble
Week 4 provided celebrations for some and left some others looking over their shoulders, seriously staring the UEFA Cup in the face. So who is happy and in the the knockout round, and who has alot of work to do?
Here is your group by group guide.
Group A
Bordeaux, who many people thought would be third best in this group, have waltzed away into the distance, and have qualified for the knockout stage in the New Year. Which means one of the giants, Bayern or Juventus will be in the UEFA Cup at best. At the moment, it seriously looks like its Bayern. The German side have 4 points, to Juve’s 8. The two still have to play, but if Juve beat an already through Bordeaux its all over and The Old Lady are through. If not, it could well come down to that one game. Which would be awesome.
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What to Watch as the Champions League gets Interesting
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Matchday 4 then, and it’s going to be an interesting one. At the half way stage of the Champions League groups, and alot of the big teams are not in the comfortable positions we might have expected.
So which are the picks of the next two days? [...]
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Tuesdays Clips or And You Thought The Group Stage was dull?
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And there you were, just going around in your daily life, thinking that the Champions League group stage was basically meaningless, pointless, and entirely predictable. Well, last night showed you, didn’t it? What an incredible set of results. Liverpool falling into further turmoil. The European Champions beaten by Rubin Kazan. 7 Goals between Fiorentina and Debrecen. [...]
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What To Watch on Matchday 3
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So here we are again, on another Champions League Tuesday. And here are my pick of the games that are worth watching this evening, and as a fun bonus, tomorrow night as well. The groups are beginning to take shape now, and some of the bigger teams [...]
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Highlights from Week 2 in the CL
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So a big week of Champions League has been and gone, and it threw up a few surprises. And a few games went as expected. So here are the most interesting highlights, that I could find. The two biggest upsets came from Italy. Above, misfiring Milan suffered a shock defeat [...]
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What To Watch In This Weeks Champions League
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So, its another round of Champions League group games, and again you’ll be feeling that one day is a touch better than the other, I think. Still both days give you more than enough to watch, and here is a rough guide [...]
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The Highlights From This Weeks Champions League Action
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God bless Footytube. Honestly, its up there with the wheel in terms of Brilliant Human Inventions. Thanks to that website, I can bring you all the best bits from this weeks Champions League, cunningly divided into to Tuesday and Wednesday, and with my reaction to each underneath. So you can see Gila’s elbow against Lyon, [...]
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Champions League Wednesday Liveblog
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Come back here – or head to the main page – to follow all the action, including that Inter/Barca match here with me, as all the goals go in. Champions League Week One Part 2 Liveblog
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Champions League Wednesday Preview
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So after yesterday’s excitements, we move onwards and one game dominates the landscape today – La Liga Champions taking on Serie A Champions, in what could be an absolute classic. There is plenty to watch elsewhere though if that doesn’t tickle your fancy and here [...]
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Tuesday’s Champions League Preview
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Finally the Champions League returns to our screens tomorrow, and there are some brilliant games to kick us off in the first week. And while we have to wait till Wednesday for the really big one this week, Tuesday is still crammed with more quality matches than you can shake a stick at. So here [...]
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Team News
After the exciting win (again) at Bayern with both Gourcuff AND Chamakh scoring (<--love), I think it's time we take a good break and relax with some pretty calendar photos. Martha (once of the Nice blog) managed to dig up some lovely photos of the new calendar which I am ...
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Foto: South American Threesome
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For those of you are brave enough to describe the above picture with words, it's caption time!
Bonus points if you can find Lisandro in this picture.
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Atlético vs. Real Mandril: el Derbi Returns
I know that it has been about 10 years since Atletico win against Real Madrid, but who cares. It’s the damn Derbi Madrileño. Be excited.
It’s one of those bottom vs. top fixtures (we’re in 17th, they’re in 2nd) but we’re still expecting the upset, despite a ten year hex in the way. Derbies are always special and when you play matches like these, you forget about everything else, such as table position and the fact that you’re eliminated from the Champions League (grrr). Just sit back, grab a cold one, and enjoy. And yell loudly at the television set.
Wolves Preview
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Position: 17th, 2-4-5 (10 points, -7 goal differential)
Recent Form: LLDDD
Home Form: 1-2-2
Away to the midlands tomorrow to face Wolves at the Molineaux.
La Liga Preview: FC Barcelona vs Real Mallorca
Even thought everyone seems to have forgotten in the face of the catastrophe that is our coming to a draw in our last two matches, we have an important match to play on Saturday. We need to re-establish our superiority over the whole wide world after having stumbled over Osasuna and Rubin Kazan. RM is one measly point behind, so we can’t afford anything less than a victory. The fans are getting surly and some of us wake up screaming in the night after having flashbacks to the 07/08 season. Leo Messi seems to have lost his magic, Xavi is showing signs of exhaustion after dragging the whole team forwards match after match, and the spare pieces that ought to hold up our defence when Puyol, Piqué or Alves aren’t available aren’t quite fitting together as well as they should.
We need another Zaragoza victory. We need to watch our team play and marvel at the pretty (and I don’t just mean Piqué), instead of seething over missed chances, wasted passes, and crosses that a few someones ought to be nailed to. We need to gather our wits, regroup, set a new plan and shake off the memory of the recent unfavourable results.
And Real Mallorca are coming for a visit. Tsk, tsk…
Our Deki did WHAT?
Ok, so everyone who follows Inter Milan knows that Dejan Stankovic is, well... for lack of a better term, a muppet. He is goofy, wears his heart on his sleeve, and has large sticky-outy ears. In other words, he is just about the last person on the team that I would have expected to be accused of "mimicking a rude, unmistakably sexual gesture" but that is just what has happened.
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Europa League: Werder Bremen 2 - 0 Austria Wien
I was prepared to sit and enjoy the match - really, I was. I'm sure it's frustrating to come here and see me continually saying "I wasn't able to watch the match," but it happened once again. I could not find a stream to watch Werder, so for the second ...
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Poll: 2 CL titles in 5 years?
The bald one, Peter Kenyon, set a goal of winning two Champions League crowns within a decade when he took over as Chelsea chief executive in 2004. Our new chief, Ron Gourlay is upping the stakes.
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Getting to know our new chief executive
Via the official Web site...
Tell us your background as a player in Scotland.
My footballing background goes back many years. I was a player in my younger days and I had a number of trials around some of the local teams, but never really made it onto the big stage. I was a big fan of football as well. I spent many seasons following Dundee with my dad. Charlie Cooke was my dad's hero and was at Dundee before he was Tommy Docherty's big Chelsea signing.
FC Bayern vs Schalke 04: The Search For a Non-Stereotypical Storyline
This is a terrific match for a lazy writer. So many storylines fall right into your lap. For this occasion, I could: a) Talk about how how Felix Magath's dismissal from Bayern looks like a terrible mistake in retrospect and b) make a very negative indictment of Louis van Gaal by some statistical comparison. Or c) How and why (or why not) Neuer and Rafinha will be taking up residence in Munich sooner rather than later and lead into a broader critique of transfer policy or d) how last year's match at home against Schalke ended the Klinsmann era, and how a loss Saturday could signal the end of the Van Gaal era. I could even just take path e) continuing to complain about Tuesday's match without really elaborating much about this match. But in the end, we're going to try to touch on a few different points than all those.
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