Even Capello thinks Inter are up for the double...something doesn't sound right...

Happy news.

Benfica lead FC Copenhagen 1-0. Screamer of a goal from midfield by Rui Costa in the 25th.

Oh dear. Copenhagen have equalized, with Luisao (first game back after a long injury) getting hurt in the process.

Luisao out, replaced by Freddy Adu in the 37th.

heh heh...who's ur daddy...

Benfica 1-1 Copenhagen

Lazio 1-1 Dinamo Bucharest


Adu for Luisao? Adu isn't a defender

You don't need any defenders against Cpopenhagen.

They've apparently moved Katsouranis back into defense. Second half just started with Coentrao replacing Bergessio (striker for striker).

The Biancocelesti are being naughty. It's 1-1 at the Olimpico, but Behrami got a straight red for a bad foul and Mutarelli a yellow for protesting the red.

Rangers and Red Star are still scoreless at Ibrox (Red Star has 3 yellows as of the 60th min).

Valencia leads Elfsborg 1-0 (goal by Vicente- I think, my Spanish sucks - in the 6th).

EDIT:

The Biancocelesti are VERY naughty. Mutarelli red-carded in the 86th.

Now ur being NAUGHTY

at R7.

Lazio 1 - 1 Dinamo Bucharest, FT. Lazio ended the game with 9 guys, Dinamo with 10.

Novo goal for Rangers in the 90th gave them the win over Red Star Belgrade

Benfica and Copenhagen are 1-1 as of the 79th and Valencia still have the 1 goal lead over Elfsborg at the half.

And now I'm going to a work meeting. Hasta!

Rui scored 2?

Rui 1st

Rui 2nd

Thanks ari. Rui is such an incredible player. It's just a pity he never really got going for us like he did for Fiorentina and he is doing now for Benfica, but he was still an assist King for us. Forza Rui!

Rui, yesss!!!!!

Thanks for the vids but... what's this Star Trek guy doing in Copenhagen's bench?



Bad reel!??

Nice match report article on Benfica's game on Uefa.com (link).

Best quote: Rui Costa's genius also earned praise from København coach Ståle Solbakken. "I think he is even too clever for his own team-mates," Solbakken said.

In today's early 3d round game, Scousers defeated Toulouse 1-0, Voronin goal in the first half.

Sparta Prague 0-2 Arsenal.

1st. goal by Fabregas after a fantastic run by Clichy.
2. goal by Hleb, pass from Sagna.

2 great goals by Rui but Benfica sucked yesterday. They need something more after selling M.Fernandes to Everton.

Liverpool did what they know best. Defend well and a stunner by Voronin.

Arsenal solved their problems in 10 minutes. Very good result.

Lippi says Barca and Milan are the faves for this CL

a couple of weeks ago though he said Inter and Barca were the faves

That was Capello, I think.

Im pretty sure it was Lippi, but let me double check

Its also possible that the names were mixed up

I think too that that was Capello...

No, it was George Edwards

It's AEK vs Sevilla tonight and I don't know what's going to happen... AEK's player are devastated by the deaths of people here in Greece caused by the fires and now Sevilla lost a member of theirs...

I think UEFA should show their human face and let the players decide if they want to play or not...


... It's so sad...


edit: it's almost official now, UEFA has postponed the game...

Agreed.

Both tradgedies are much more important than scheduling trouble that it may cause. I'd sy postpone it without question. This really isn't a time where you can play football properly.

A classy gesture from the Scousers in honor of the local boy (an Everton fan) who was shot last week:

Liverpool Football Club will tonight pay Rhys Jones the ultimate tribute by playing his beloved Everton anthem at Anfield before the clash with Toulouse.

The Z-Cars theme tune 'Johnny Todd' - the song which traditionally greets the arrival of the Everton team onto the Goodison Park pitch - will be played prior to 'You'll Never Walk Alone' ahead of this evening's 8.05pm kick-off.

Following a suggestion from Liverpool Echo feature writer Tony Barrett to mark the youngster's tragic death in such an unprecedented way, the newspaper was inundated with requests for the unique tribute to be staged.

Anfield chief executive Rick Parry spoke with Rhys's family who agreed they would be delighted if the Reds paid tribute to their son's memory in such a fitting way.

After the two songs there will then be a minute's applause and the Liverpool players will show their respect by wearing black armbands during the game.

Rhys's parents Stephen and Melanie will also be at Anfield for the game.

The youngster's uncle Neil Jones admits the family have been overwhelmed by such a show of support from the Blues' city rivals.

He said: "When I told them about the proposed tribute at Anfield, Melanie said playing Johnny Todd at Anfield would be a unique event, a complete one-off, just like Rhys, and a fitting tribute to him as it was his favourite tune.

"She's also pretty sure he'll have a little mischievous grin on his face at the thought of being the cause of it."

link

Now that is classy.

If I was to pick one stadium on earth that I've never hear that theme, it's Anfield. A really top gesture from RedScouse FC

A great gesture!!

That was a tragic incident... our world truly sucks...

Dinamo Bucuresti 1 - 0 Lazio 44 minutes gone.
27' [1 - 0] F. Bratu

Liverpool 1 - 0 Toulouse 40 minutes gone.
19' [1 - 0] P. Crouch

Red Star Belgrade 0 - 0 Rangers 88 minutes gone.

Lazio are in Champions League!!! They beat Dinamo 1-3 at Bucharest (1st Leg: 1-1)!!!

Great news !!!!

So we have 4 Italian teams now

And Liverpool join them with a 4-0 (5-0) win over Toulouse. Rangers also make it with a 0-0 in Belgrade, putting them through 1-0 on aggregate.

happy to see lazio in, happy to see rangers in, not happy to see livercesspool in

DINAMOOOOOOOO i hope werder gets stunt today

I would like to see Lazio make it to the quarters at least and as for Roma, I would love for them to reach the semis this time .. It would be interesting if we had two Italian derby's in the semis

Dynamo Kiev qualified for another CL (10 times in the last 11 years)

BTW Milan will play against Dynamo on September 6 in honor of 80th birthday of the Ukrainian team.

dinamo-werder 2-2 HT, damn hauge, he just doesn't know to judge equal...

HT: Copenhagen 0-1 Benfica, Katsouranis (dst doing his little dance right now)

1-3 agg. until now.

Arsenal 1-0 Sparta Prague.
Rosicky on assist from Walcott.

Celtic 1-1 Spartak Moscow (2-2 Agg.)
Spartak have also missed a penalty.
Spartak are down to 10 men.

Sorry Alberto. Zagreb 2-3 Bremen. Diego from the penalty spot. Looks like the Germans are through.

Ajax are out. AGAIN.

And Benfica did it again. For the 2nd consecutive time in history... 3 portuguese teams in the Champions.

DRAW TOMORROW AT 17:00 GMT

Shame! with squad like this failing aginst Slavia

At least a second Ukrainian club ,Shakhtar, with Lucarelli is also got through.

Celtic and Spartak goes to penalties.

Celtic and Sparta have both scored one and missed one penalty

3-2

Hoops are through. So both Scottish teams go through in addition to both Ukrainian teams and both Turkish teams. And..correct me if I'm wrong, but there aren't any Dutch teams at all going through, are there?

Boruc owns! Celtic are in the Champions Legaue!

Spartak lost Two Ukrainian teams but only one Russian in the CL and the last penalty for Spartak was missed by Ukrainian player

The Dutch champion goes directly to the group stage.

Ah. Thanks, Mishale. I'd forgotten that. Seems a bit odd to only see one Dutch team in.

Sounds like Kiev has a good team this year. And yay for the 3 Portuguese teams.