The mid-week games hosted one of the biggest competitions in European Football. UEFA Champions League, where the best of the best compete to see who are the European champions.
This competitions holds utmost important for the players and their respected clubs. This is how the competition goes, 2 matches are played between the team and their scores are taken on aggregate, and if a certain team scores on its opponents ground then that goal is counted as 2 goals. This competitions shows who is the true conqueror of European Football.
Here are how the matches were layed out :
Real Madrid(Spain) vs Liverpool(England)
Manchester United(England) vs Inter Milan(Italy)
Arsenal(England) vs Roma (Italy)
Atlethico Madrid(Spain) vs F.C Porto(Portugal)
Barcelona(Spain) vs Olympic Lyon(France)
Juventus(Italy) vs Chelsea(England)
Villareal(Spain) vs Panathinaikos(Greece)
Bayern Munich(Germany) vs Sporting Lisbon(Portugal)
3 of the matches were Italy vs England, and history repeated itself, in club football, Italy have not been successful against England.
Manchester United vs Inter Milan in the first game was 0-0, but in the 2nd Leg, goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and Nemanja Vidic sealed the result for Manchester United.
Arsenal vs Roma was a close encounter as in the first game, Arsenal scored a goal, and in the 2nd game Roma scored a goal. So it was 1-0 and 1-0 in both games, tieing the 2 teams up. The game went on into penalties and a mistake from Max tonneto for Roma destroyed their hopes of being champions this year.
Juventus vs Chelsea was a huge disappointment for Juventus fans, as their were really high expectations for the Italian outfit. Chelsea won the first game 1-0. And in the 2nd game, their scores were tied up to 2-2, therefor on aggregate the score was 3-2 for chelsea advancing them into the quarter finals.
Real madrid vs Liverpool was a pretty much disgrace for the Spanish Giants. They lost the first game 1-0 and instead of making a comeback they lost the 2nd game 4-0 , making the most successful team in Europe, Real Madrid, a huge disappointment for all their fans. 9 champions league trophies for Real Madrid did not help them this time.
Bayern Munich vs Sporting Lisbon was like a practice session for the German Outfit. Bayern Munich won the first game 5-0 and the second game 7-1 so on aggregate they won 12- 1.
Olympic Lyon vs Barcelona had a close first game but the second game was a walk in the park for Barcelona. The first game was 1-1 between the two sides and in the 2nd game, Barcelona won 2-0.
Villareal vs Panathinaikos was an easy game for Villareal as they won their games 3-2 on aggregate.
Atlethico Madrid vs F.C Porto was unlucky for the Spanish team. Their first games score was 2-2 where Atlethicos Performance was noted as one of the best, but due to the 2nd games score 0-0, Athletico lost on the away goal rule, where f.C Portos score was doubled as they had scored 2 goals on Atlethico Madrids home ground. Unlucky.
Their were alot of disappointments but the competition has to continue and their has to be a champion. The next games are in April, and hopefully those results don't have alot of disappointments.
Tune in and Enjoy.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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I havent been paying that much attention to soccer lately but I must say Manchester United is the best team ever! im sure the champion league trophy is theirs this year as it has been for a number of years
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