Poor Valencia. They have 11 players injured Their fans think that they team is cursed

err... am I the only one who thinks Ronaldinho's free-kick shot was a miss-kick?? He certainly wasn't going to do what he actually did... that's how it looks to me at least!!

I think it was intentionally.

^Same here. I watched that game only 3 feet away rom the tv (lost my glasses ). The referee seemed to be favoring barca a bit, but my bro (a barca and ronnie fan ) wudn't let me say that.

OK guys. Group phase is over.



CL draw - 15/12.

Predictions:

Chelsea - Inter; Bayern - PSV; Liverpool - Roma; Valencia - Lille;
Lyon - Barcelona; Manchester United - Real Madrid; Arsenal - Porto; Milan - Celtic;

Arsenal can't play vs. Porto. Same group.

Here my predictions:

Milan-Barcelona
Manchester-Porto
Liverpool-Lille
Bayern-Real Madrid
Valencia-Inter
Lyon-Roma

nah, UEFA will fix this and we will end up with Real. Who I think are one of the few big teams we can beat easily

Chelsea - Inter
Milan - Real Madrid
Lyon - Barcelona
Bayern - PSV
Man. United - Roma
Valencia - Porto
Liverpool - Celtic
Arsenal - Lille

Oh yeah...

LOL. People want Real Madrid... well, OK. Barcelona or Real will kick our *** easily. Even if it is Porto or PSV... we'll have big problems.

Chelsea - Inter
Bayern - PSV
Arsenal - Lille
Valencia - Porto
Liverpool - Roma
Lyon - Barcelona
Manchester United - Real Madrid
Milan - Celtic

Oh yes. He exactly knew what he was doing. Bremen's defnders are very big, and he intentionally shot like that. He said in the postmatch interview, that they practised this in training a lot

As I see Ronaldo is back to his form What happened?

Chelsea FC v Lille LOSC
Bayern Munchen v Celtic Glasgow
Liverpool FC v Inter
Valencia CF v PSV
Olympique Lyonnais v FC Porto
Manchester United v Real Madrid
Arsenal FC v AS Roma
AC Milan v FC Barcelona

my bet ^^

He scored 2 goals in 2 minutes.

But he's not yet on "R9" form. He's playing 70% of what he knows. He needs 2-3 more months playing at the highest level.

If he doesn't get injuries... and playing like this, I guess some teams will have problems against Real in March/April... when the decisions are made.

Nelson...

What a goal! But mediocre performance as a whole...

Ronaldo isn't too old yet, and if Inzaghi is in form sometimes, then Ronaldo can and must be in form more often.

Nelson sucked yesterday, Benfica sucked at all. MU was too powerful.

Imo Real are the most easy target for us, PSV will give us a problem, no doubt. I think we would suffer the most against Barca and Lyon.

Ancelotti has mastered the art of stifling Cappello

what?

i hope we get him in june

I think Real would be the easiest opposition for us.

And I'm even daring you to mark this post and if we get them you'll see that we will be able to beat them.

And I'm very confident of this.

PSV, Lyon and Barca are the only teams that scare me.

We can do nothing but wait and see... I think they would knock us out quite easily!

You've got to take into consideration the fact of how we will be playing. Right now it's hit and miss sometimes we come out for a win and sometimes we come out and play like we did last night.

I'm pretty sure that against Real we will come all out for a win. And you also have to consider the fact that be February we will hopefully be in better shape and a bit stronger.

Real play the sort of football that would suit us. ie the Cappello style football, we have always outplayed Cappello's Juve and Real Madrid is a replica of that Juve. But with a worse defence

So will they...


and much better offence... against a bad Milan defence!

We'll see...


On another note I hope we get Nelson... now that Benfica's out of the CL ( )he might be tempted if we make a good offer! (I know, I know... it won't happen)

I doubt. Maybe in 2-3 years. He needs to learn a lot and he's still too young.

Nelson scored a great goal. But what "killed" Benfica was that goal by Vidic (1-1) at the 45'+1.

That simply killed all the hopes. Oh... and Simao had a very good match. Just like Quaresma vs. Arsenal.

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About Real v Milan... I can't see Kaladze and co stopping Ronaldo, Nistelrooy, Robinho, Raul, Reyes... that would be a humiliation just like it was against Inter.

No that's when Cappello's teams usually start their decline.



We'll have Nesta and Dida back by then also Rino.

Our defence is looking so bad right now because we haven't established a regular starting pair because of the injury, by the time the CL kicks off again, we'll hopefully have Nesta and he will start playing with either Paolo or Kaladze on a regualr basis



Apart from the goal he didn't impress me much last night. I know I shouldn't judge on just one game but I don't see him play that often.

And you're right, his transfer most probably won't happen

Yes... that goal was a killer!!

Rocha was the best player from Benfica's side I think!

Quaresma was trying but it was clear everyone else wanted a draw...

That's not true... Last season for example it wasn't a decline... they were on top with a great advantage and they just fixed some games more to bet on...

Last night Nelson was bad because all the pressure was on Benfica's defence... he's not used to it! Benfica shouldn't have played that way in the first place...

and... Kaladze=Bad Defence!!

If you don't think what Juve where going through last season was a decline then I can't even imagine what you think is actually a decline

I just don't think they would have slipped up if they hadn't previously managed to get 14 points away from second place...

I gues we'll never know...

But for the record, I think they would have still slipped up

Yup. In the Portuguese League is the other way around. I mean, Benfica attacking all the match and the other team defending. That's when Nelson appears...

Haha...Man Utd won Benifica!!Yea!Haha

It's Benfica. B-e-n-f-i-c-a. Why many English people say Benifica? Bennyfica?

Just like the Patrick Vieira situation. People love to call him "Viera". IT'S NOT VIERA. IT'S V-I-E-I-R-A.

About the win. I don't know why you're so happy. After all you just beat, at home, a team which value is what? 7 times less ManUtd? (BTW: Rooney is a fckin' diver. People talk about Ronaldo but what about Moooooney?)

Anyway, ManUtd will be kicked out sooner or later. Lyon, Barcelona and Real will take care of it.

Ooops....sorry wrong spelling...haha...well,anyway,Ronaldo dives thats that...i have to admit...but Rooney?Well...sometimes...yeah...but Ronaldo more...

ok so i think these are the teams to go through to quater-finals

Chelsea
Celtic (Milan)
Arsenal
Man United
Lyon
Liverpool
Real Madrid
Valencia

Milan
Chelsea
Real Madrid
Inter
ManUtd
Lyon
Barcelona
Arsenal

Hushhh .. We have Pippo, I don't think anyone dives as much as him

Milan’s Balde boost

Milan have been handed a boost ahead of their Champions League meeting with Celtic in the new year, following the news that the Glaswegians dominating central defender Bobo Balde has suffered a broken leg and is expected to be out for several months. The Guinea international picked up the injury during the SPL meeting with Dundee United. With Scotland international Gary Caldwell and Mark Wilson also out it means the Hoops will need to strengthen their defensive line in January.

Football Italia

This is sad ... I wanted an even confrentation .. A healthy Milan against a healthy Celtic

Well we will still be missing Dida and Nesta most probably (Nesta is a definate, especially for the first leg) so this will even things out

Isn't Nesta supposed to be fit by that time!?

I'm not entirely sure but Dida is the most likely to be returning after the winter break.

The last thing I heard about Nesta is that he will probably return early in fabruary. But I'm not entirely sure about this. Ask X-Offender about this, I think he has some insiders at Milanello

Galliani is his father...

crystal 'bald' ball

Dida is getting back with the group around 9-10 January, he might be available for the return match against Arezzo, or even eariler. As for Nesta, I highly doubt he'll be ready for the away match in Scotland, but he will definitely be for the San Siro return... At least that's what Tassoti told me



Damn you spoiler!

So.. it's true!! Do you have hair!!?

I've never checked.

Well...there is this thing called mirror....might help you out

Mirror?