Smug alert!

And both of Fiorentina's centerbacks have yellows. So does Zanetti. That game's a bit rough -- or the ref is really cardhappy.

Aaaaaaaaaaand, in the 'brain? what brain?' category, we have Sporting's Vukcevic, who scored the equalizing goal for his team and took off his jersey to celebrate. Only problem with that is that he'd already picked up a yellow. So...Sporting have drawn even but now they're down to ten guys.

Eh?

Sporting 1-1 Fiorentina. Vukcevic. He was sent off right after scoring, silly celebration by the sounds of it. Now it's 2-1 Sporting.

EDIT: Celtic 0-2 Arsenal. Gary Caldwell OG. This tie is over.

This post has been edited by kurtsimonw: Aug 18 2009, 09:12 PM

This is not Gary Caldwell's season. First the red card v Norway and now the OG. Someone put the mal'occhio on him.

Goal Gilardino, so it's Sporting 2 - 2 Fiorentina.

Celtic 0-2 Arsenal
Timisoara 0-2 Stuttgart
Sporting 2-2 Fiorentina

the fiorentina match was pretty intense, it doesn't seem that fio had the speed necessary for Sporting, but hey Gila poached a goal against the current of gameplay for a 4-2 agg

4-2? I didn't realise this was a 2nd leg game.

Gallas is as smug as they get. It gets worse when he scores.

Um. Neither did i?

It's not. Il Diavolo either made a typo or is confused with the away goal rule.

Watching the Sporting-Fiorentina highlights now. Vukcevic's sending off was very harsh. The 2nd yellow card obviously correct, but the first was a poor decision. Gamberini grabbed hold of him, shoved him in the face and should have been sent off, but only got a yellow, while Vukcevic was also given a yellow for nothing. Poor officiating. But what else do you expect from a ref?

Okay, I've just seen the Gamberini-Vukcevic thing. That was an ugly little incident. Looked to me like one of the other Sporting players got in Gamberini's face, he reacted, then Vukcevic got in the way. Bad form.

Really shocked at how nasty some of the Viola players were. It was a rough game. Still, they've got 2 away goals going into the home leg so probably have the advantage.

I think Fiorentina will go through. They looked pretty good from the highlights. GILA! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I'm still really surprised the Gobbi sold Cristiano Zanetti to Fiorentina, especially given the reported cost (1.5 mln). He's a better player than that -- must've been a massive bust up between him and Ciro or somesuch.