Archive for the ‘Champions League’ Category

UEFA Super Cup: Is Porto going to make it against Barcelona?

Today in Monaco Porto will try to stop Barcelona’s domination in recent European football inthis year’s UEFA Super Cup. Considered by many (including me) the best team in the world at the moment, Barcelona got even stronger after the arrivals of Fabregas from Arsenal and Sanchez from Udinese. But Barca won’t be able to use [...]

UEFA Champions League group draw

Trabzonspor found themselves in the draw for the Champions League groups after Fenerbahce got kicked out of the competition on grounds of accusations of match-fixing. BATE Borisov and Viktoria Plzeň face no chance in Group H agains Barcelona and Milan, while the other groups seem a little bit more even, leaving more chance for the [...]

UEFA Champions League play-offs, 2nd leg results

As expected, Bayern made it to the group stage after a second win against Zürich. Villareal struggled for 50 minutes to score against Odense and confirmed their status as favourites with a 3-0 win (3-1 agg). Malmö were one goal short of overturning their 1st leg result (1-4) and lost the place in the groups [...]

Barcelona – Real Madrid 3:2

The 2nd leg of UEFA Champions League is going to take place today and tomorrow. You might have missed the first leg if you were watching the 6th (I think) El Clasico of 2011 last week. In case you missed it though, here are the scorers: Andres Iniesta goal (15′),  Cristiano Ronaldo (20′),  Lionel Messi [...]

UCL play-offs 1st leg results

Tuesday’s matches: Arsenal 1-0 Udinese København 1-3 Plzeň Twente 2-2 Benfica Lyon 3-1 Rubin BATE 1-1 Sturm Arsenal struggled against Udinese and will have to do a much better job next week if they wish to advance to the next stage of UEFA Champions League. Meanwhile, Plzeň continued their series of good games and is [...]