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 3rd team in each group to advance to the round of 16. Groups A and F seem the most even.

 

 

Group A
FC Bayern München (GER)
Villarreal CF (ESP)
Manchester City FC (ENG)
SSC Napoli (ITA)

Group B
FC Internazionale Milano (ITA)
PFC CSKA Moskva (RUS)
LOSC Lille Métropole (FRA)
Trabzonspor AŞ (TUR)

Group C
Manchester United FC (ENG)
SL Benfica (POR)
FC Basel 1893 (SUI)
FC Oţelul Galaţi (ROU)

Group D
Real Madrid CF (ESP)
Olympique Lyonnais (FRA)
AFC Ajax (NED)
GNK Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)

Group E
Chelsea FC (ENG)
Valencia CF (ESP)
Bayer 04 Leverkusen (GER)
KRC Genk (BEL)

Group F
Arsenal FC (ENG)
Olympique de Marseille (FRA)
Olympiacos FC (GRE)
Borussia Dortmund (GER)

Group G
FC Porto (POR)
FC Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR)
FC Zenit St Petersburg (RUS)
APOEL FC (CYP)

Group H
FC Barcelona (ESP)
AC Milan (ITA)
FC BATE Borisov (BLR)
FC Viktoria Plzeň (CZE)

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 to Dinamo Zagreb.

It only took 6 minutes to score all three goals in Genk – Maccabi Haifa and the match advanced to the penalties. Genk won 4-1.

Aílton scored twice and togheter with Pareiko’s own goal it was enough for APOEL to get past Wisła.

Genk Genk
2-1
(4-1p)
M. Haifa M. Haifa Report Replay
Malmö Malmö
2-0
Dinamo Zagreb Dinamo Zagreb Report Replay
Villarreal Villarreal
3-0
OB OB Report Replay
Zürich Zürich
0-1
Bayern Bayern Report Replay
APOEL APOEL
3-1
Wisła Kraków Wisła Kraków Report Replay

Update 24/08/2011

Arsenal made it to the group stage after a 2-1 away win even with Fabregas gone to Barcelona. BATE Borisov took Sturm by storm and surprised everyone by winning 2-0 in Austria.

Rubin Rubin
1-1
Lyon Lyon Report Replay
Plzeň Plzeň
2-1
København København Report Replay
Sturm Sturm
0-2
BATE BATE Report Replay
Udinese Udinese
1-2
Arsenal Arsenal Report Replay
Benfica Benfica
3-1
Twente Twente Report Replay

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 (45′, 88′),  Karim Benzema (81′). It was the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup (first leg happened the week before and it ended 2-2).

Below you can watch the match highlights:


Which was your favourite goal?

Broken Hearts: 0-5 vs. Tottenham – Match Highlights

Tottenham is on their way to the Europa League’s groups, with nothing to worry about next week’s match.


Europa League play-offs 1st leg

While Lazio, PSG, Tottenham and Fulham have a very easy job in next week’s game, other favourites didn’t perform just as well. It is the case of Sparta Praha (which lost 2-0 to Vaslui), Roma (lost 1-0 against Slovan) and maybe Panathinaikos (lost 3-0 to Maccabi Tel-Aviv). Sevilla and Rosenborg were also expectd to do much better.

Razvan Lucescu’s Rapid is the clear favourite after their away win (1-3) against Śląsk. Altough they won the same 3-1 against Gaz Metan Medias, Austria Wien should be wary of the Romanians that knocked out Mainz in the previous round.

These are today’s results in the Europa League’s play-offs:

Vaslui Vaslui
2-0
Sparta Praha Sparta Praha
Legia Legia
2-2
Spartak Moskva Spartak Moskva
Ekranas Ekranas
1-0
H. Tel-Aviv H. Tel-Aviv
Lokomotiv Moskva Lokomotiv Moskva
2-0
Spartak Trnava Spartak Trnava
Zestafoni Zestafoni
3-3
Club Brugge Club Brugge
HJK HJK
2-0
Schalke Schalke
Litex Litex
1-2
Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv
Omonia Omonia
2-1
Salzburg Salzburg
Vorskla Vorskla
2-1
Dinamo Bucureşti Dinamo Bucureşti
Aalesund Aalesund
2-1
AZ AZ
Austria Wien Austria Wien
3-1
Gaz Metan Gaz Metan
M. Tel-Aviv M. Tel-Aviv
3-0
Panathinaikos Panathinaikos
Steaua Steaua
2-0
CSKA Sofia CSKA Sofia
Thun Thun
0-1
Stoke Stoke
Nordsjælland Nordsjælland
0-0
Sporting Sporting
Śląsk Śląsk
1-3
Rapid Bucureşti Rapid Bucureşti
PAOK PAOK
2-0
Karpaty Karpaty
Beşiktaş Beşiktaş
3-0
Alania Alania
Bursaspor Bursaspor
1-2
Anderlecht Anderlecht
Standard Standard
1-0
Helsingborg Helsingborg
Metalist Metalist
0-0
Sochaux Sochaux
Fulham Fulham
3-0
Dnipro Dnipro
Hannover Hannover
2-1
Sevilla Sevilla
Crvena zvezda Crvena zvezda
1-2
Rennes Rennes
Nacional Nacional
0-0
Birmingham Birmingham
Shamrock Rovers Shamrock Rovers
1-1
Partizan Partizan
Hearts Hearts
0-5
Tottenham Tottenham
AEK AEK
1-0
Dinamo Tbilisi Dinamo Tbilisi
Rosenborg Rosenborg
0-0
AEK Larnaca AEK Larnaca
Slovan Bratislava Slovan Bratislava
1-0
Roma Roma
Differdange Differdange
0-4
PSG PSG
Maribor Maribor
2-1
Rangers Rangers
Athletic Athletic
0-0
Trabzonspor Trabzonspor
Lazio Lazio
6-0
Rabotnicki Rabotnicki
Ried Ried
0-0
PSV PSV
Celtic Celtic
0-0
Sion Sion
Braga Braga
0-0
Young Boys Young Boys
Atlético Atlético
2-0
Vitória SC Vitória SC