Champions League
Worst Penalty Decision Ever?
By: Laurie |
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This may not be the worst penalty decision ever in history, but it’s certainly gotta be up there. Does anybody (besides the referee) see anything other than a collision in the box, with Liverpool’s Gerrard as the instigator? Worst of all for Atletico Matrid, this happened in the 94th minute when [...]
Champions League Matchday 4 Tuesday LiveBlog
By: Daryl | 75 Comments
Anyone feeling a bit of déjà vu? That’s because Matchday 4 is the flipside of Matchday 3, with home and away reversed.
And just like last time, we’ll be LiveBlogging all the action as the goals go in. All comments very welcome, especially to let me know about any goals I’ve missed. We’ll also be [...]
Category: Champions LeagueLiverpool - Atletico: People Loving People
By: chris | 6 Comments
It was UEFA Senior Advisor William Gaillard who once said “we know what happened in Athens and Liverpool fans were the cause of most of the trouble there”, and implied they were the worst fans in Europe. He was a jackass then and he’s a bigger jackass now. Hats off to both of these fandoms [...]
Category: Champions LeaguePhoto of the Day: Happy X 5
By: Laurie | 3 Comments
This kind of smile is what happens when your team scores five goals in a single Champions League game, as Bojan Krkic’s Barcelona did today against FC Basel.
Or maybe it was the fact that two of those goals were his?
Photo: FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP/Getty Images
Champions League Matchday 3 Wednesday LiveBlog
By: Daryl | 39 Comments
Here we go again, with the all-eight-games-at-once Champions League LiveBlogagtacular.
So congrats to mele419, whose prediction of 17 goals was spot on. And thanks to every for reading/commenting. We’ll do this again for Matchday 4 when things start getting serious.
Full-Time:
PSV 2-0 Marseille
Chelsea 1-0 Roma
Atletico 1-1 Liverpool
Basel 0-5 Barcelona
Inter 1-0 Anorthosis
Bordeaux 1-0 Cluj
Shakhtar 0-1 Sporting
Panathinaikos 2-2 Bremen
Category: Champions LeagueChampions League Matchday 3 Tuesday LiveBlog
By: chris | 32 Comments
Back at it again with the Liveblog covering all the happenings of today’s Champions League games.
FT Scores
Zenit 1 - BATE 1
Juventus 2-1 Real Madrid
Villareal 6-3 Aalborg
Manchester United 3-0 Celtic
Bayern Munich 3-0 Fiorentina
Steaua 3-5 Lyon
Fenerbahce 2-5 Arsenal
Porto 0-1 Dynamo Kyiv
And this is the part where somebody checks the record for most goals on a CL matchday. [...]
Card Rejected! The Credit Crunch Hits Home for Marseille
By: Laurie | No Comments
Poor Marseille. Last week was not a good week for them. First they lost their Champions League game against Atletico Madrid, 2-1, giving them a grand total of 0 points in two matches. But worse than that?
They got back to the airport, only to discover that they couldn’t get home. [...]
Chelsea Players “Too Rich and Too Soft”
By: Daryl | 4 Comments
Chelsea visited Transylvania to play CFR Cluj in the Champions League this week, and didn’t make a particularly good impression on their Romanian hosts. Apparently they were way too picky about what goes on their plates.
Much as it pains me to quote anything from The Daily Mail:
The players, who flew into the famous Dracula country [...]
Category: Champions League10 Things We Learned From Champions League Matchday 2
By: chris | 4 Comments
4 seeds are the new 3 seeds; or, Transylvanians, Cypriots & Belarusians are legit.
BATE were very fortunate to be eying a blonde Austrian rather than a turban-sporting Italian in net, but they were never predicted to sneak a deserved point. Cluj proved their Roma win was no fluke, even if they used a vastly different [...]
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By: chris | 1 Comment
From the Curious Statistic Department: Roma beat Bordeaux 3-1 in France on the back of second half goals from Mirko Vucinic and Julio Baptista (brace), who both happened to be celebrating their birthdays (25th & 27th, respectively).
Has that ever happened before? Is there any way to even check that? Multiple players scoring on the [...]
Tags: birthdays, Bordeaux, Champions League, Group A, Julio Baptista, Mirko Vucinic, Roma, World FootballThis is Why They Call Him The Messiah…
By: Daryl | 2 Comments
Barcelona were trailing Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 in the Champions League today, but that was with Leo Messi on the bench. The little man came on with about 30 minutes to go (replacing Thierry Henry) and saved the day for Barca.
The tap-in equalizer (above) came in the 87th minute and the deft chip to win [...]
Category: Champions LeagueChampions League Matchday Two (Wednesday) LiveBlogaganza
By: Daryl | 57 Comments
Another eight Champions League games today, and I’m going to try and cover them all here in one big LiveBlog. Personally, I think today’s games look a bit more interesting than yesterday’s. Inter vs Bremen promises excitement and we’ll see if Cluj’s win at Roma was just a fluke when they host Chelsea in Romania.
All [...]
Category: Champions LeagueBATE and Cluj Show No Fear in the Champions League
By: Daryl | 1 Comment
There’s no getting away from the fact that some team names are a little less familiar than others in the Champions League this season. But if we were expecting the likes of Romania’s CFR Cluj and Belarus’s FC BATE Borisov to roll out the welcome mat and let the more famous teams trample all over [...]
Category: Champions LeagueDimitar Berbatov Finally Does it for ManYoo — Twice
By: Laurie | 5 Comments
The cost per goal figure for Manchester United’s new purchase Dimitar Berbatov is now a real number after he scored today in the Champions League in ManU’s 3-0 win over hapless Aalborg. And not just once, but twice. The above goal took him from zero to one — an opportunistic delivery in [...]
Photo of the Day: Juergen Smiles Again
By: Laurie | 4 Comments
Okay, so a draw isn’t exactly a win. But it’s also not a 5-2 loss of the type that Bayern Munich saw against Werder Bremen a couple of weeks ago, or a 1-0 loss like they suffered to Hannover last weekend.
And given that Lyon’s Champions League goal today was actually a Demichelis [...]
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