Bring on Nasri

F me. This is world-class: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=L2SO1N8S

El Nino or as they call now... "The Kid".

3-0, Madrid. Robinho.

Lazio? What a joke.

Madrid would give 10-0 if they needed. What a show they're giving in Bernabeu.

Dirk Kuyt, 3-0.

Real 3 : 1 Lazio [Pandev]

Canizares is giving a world class performance at Stamford Bridge.

Olympiakos wasting Werder 3-0

Marcelo looks very very promising. at the age of just 19, he is doing great imo. he CAN be the next Roberto Carlos.

Werder are just too stupid....after 2 losses against Olympiakos they don't deserve to be among the last 16 while the greeks played unspectular but effective football.
Now Schalke will be the only german team in the CL next...can't say I'm full of hopes that they make it to the quarterfinals...

I was really expecting Werder to do better than this. Schalke most probably wont challenge past the first knockout. The German challenge will have to wait a year

Darn. The Scousers won, and convincingly too.

My poor fantasy team is going to really tank this round.

At least they actually play some football now, nasty Scousers...


Yeah against a team that are barely above the relegation zone. Let's see if they can make it to the quarterfinals this time!

It had the potential to be such a great evening...

Milan's possible opponents: Liverpool, Schalke, Olympiacos, Rangers, Fenerbahçe and Arsenal.

I think I'd prefer Schalke. They are not the weakest of the above teams but for some reason I think they suit us better.

The draw is this coming Friday I believe.

edit: which team would you prefer we faced?

I think I'd prefer Schalke too. I wonder if the footballing gods would laugh and pair us with the Scousers this early, though.

Rangers and Fenerbache haven't "qualified" just yet, but they seem likely to.
I don't care who we get as long as it's not an English team.

who needs that when you can get an fat overpaid brazilian media hog that is already on the decline for the low low price 80m

^^^
Who Adriano?

R10 isn't Brazillian, he belongs to Planet Nike.

hehe

Our potential opponents would be:

Liverpool
Schalke
Olympiacos
Lyon/Rangers
Arsenal
Fenerbahce



Out of the lot, I want Arsenal.

^^^ me too , but the easiest would be Olympiacos

I don't want Arsenal. Either Liverpool or Rangers. Would be a huge boost, to beat Liverpool.

You are right. Big game tonight, Rangers vs Lyon... I hope it will be a thrilling encounter! If Lyon go through I'd like to face them instead.


Hmm... I don't think so. They are much better than Fener while everyone considers them to be on the same level. It wouldn't be easy cause we'd underestimate them. I don't want weird teams like this one they have nothing to lose and they have enough power to create damage. It's Lyon or Schalke for me.

Shalke or Fenerbahce for me.

I dunno about Schalke....they're very strong at home they have a great defense and an amazing GK. They're attack hasn't much class though. In the OM Özil and Rakitic are too young and unexperienced and the only good striker they have is Kuranyi. Altintop (or as the call him in Gelsenkirchen: Altinflop), Lövenkrand and Asamoah are no good.

I would go for for Fener or the Rangers, though L'Arsenal would be a nice challenge.

hurm, I'd like Milan to play Arsenal but they still could win the group
It will literally be men against boys ...

Usually we are not in our top for in February yet, so a 'small' team like Fenerbahce/Rangers/Olympiacos would be great for 1/8 before we meet the big guns in 1/4 and 1/2. Just like Celtic last year and Sparta few years back.

3 United fans have been stabbed in Rome city centre. The injuries are not serious, though.

I hate to say this as a Milan fan, but Italian clubs need to be kicked out of Europe. When English fans cause trouble, we get punished, it seems everyone else can do what they want, it's getting quite ridiculous.

Italian fans have caused alot of trouble in football related matters, during and outside of matches, in recent years. It's about time something is done.

That's what I was thinking.

I don't think there's special treatment for Italian teams. In any case, it's wrong to punish a club for what their fans are doing unless they encourage them to do it or neglect to restrain them inside the stadium. You truly believe Roma should face a penalty because of what some idiots did 10 miles away from the stadium?

There's been enough incidents in recent years inside the stadium also.

I completely agree with this. Which is why I want to know why English teams were kicked out of Europe after Heysel. I could maybe understand if the game was in England, but it wasn't so it's not like Liverpool were in charge of controlling their own fans. The biggest joke to me is why other English teams got punished for doing nothing.

I think it's only fair the same kind of punishment is handed out. UEFA need to be consistant with these sorts of things, otherwise it's completely unfair.

You can't equate what happened at Heysel (INSIDE the stadium) with stabbings miles from the stadium. It's not the same thing.

And at the risk of really alienating a lot of people, I will point out that English traveling support - at least the traveling support I've seen (MU actually) are a scary group of people. In other words, they're no angels. In any event until the facts are known, it's perhaps a little harsh to blame the Roma fans for the stabbing.

There's been enough incidents inside stadiums in recent years, I'm not saying this is the only thing Italian fans have done. Anders Frisk being hit by a coin thrown by a Roma fan, the ridiculous flare incident in the Inter-Milan CL game. There's been a few games postponed due to crowns problems in Serie A this season, also.

(P.S. My point in Heysel was not the incident, but the punishment. I don't see how any English teams, besides Liverpools fans, had anything to do with that, yet were still punished.)

I'm not saying United fans are angels, but it does seem that English fans are automatically presumed to be hooligans by everyone. Even when we're the victims the first thing people always jump to is that we start the violence.

Blame Margaret Thatcher... (Seriously!)

In my view that's totally unfair. You said you agree that it was a mistake right? Then do you think another mistake would depreciate the previous one?


Yeah hooligans!! You're one of 'em too!!!!!

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I haven't been unleashed on Europe yet. You just wait until Villa draw a team from Athens in the UEFA Cup!

Rangers 0-1 Lyon. A very nice move.

Can't wait!!!!!

Ouch! Hutton with a terrible tackle.

It's great there's some problem with the commentary so all I can listen is the stadium noise!! Goodbye Greek commentators!!

Barca 0-1 Stuttgart

and

Arsenal 1-0 Steaua

Sevilla need to score, or else we wont meet Arsenal in the last-16

Roma 0-1 United. Pique.

DP.

Manchester with its kids is beating Roma [with its sexy football] at Stadio Olimpico. I expected more from Roma...

Oh now I get it! Roma's revenge plan is to make United's reserve team look better than their starters! That's clever, isn't it!??

Fabiano scores for Sevilla !!

Fabiano's been on fire of late!

Julio Cruz has given Inter the lead.
Mancini has equlised for Roma.
Arsenal have conceeded, they still lead 2-1.

Even if they win, they still will finish 2nd ... ust as long as Sevilla get the 3 points

Yep. Though I'm not hoping to play Arsenal, I never 'hope' for anything in football, it can only come back to haunt you!

EDIT: Benzema took it round the keeper, was cleared off the line. The next chance was saved by the keeper.

Rangers go straight down the other end and from 5 yards out Darchville missed an open goal!

Benzema through the keepers legs, shocking defending. 'Gers 0-2 Lyon.

The poor Huns.

Goal Benzema.

Rangers 0 - 2 Lyon