UEFA Champions league draw
 

Porto v Chelsea
Celtic v AC Milan
PSV Eindhoven v Arsenal
Lille v Manchester United
Roma v Lyon
Barcelona v Liverpool
Real Madrid v Bayern Munich
Inter Milan v Valencia

(Ties to be played on 21/22 February and 6/7 March)


There are some exciting-looking ties in there. Chelsea will, of course, annihilate Porto, but I don't fancy ManUre's chances against Lille.

Barcelona Vs. Liverpool looks to be one of the better matches, PSV vs. Arsenal and Real Madrid vs. Bayern Munchen

we'll see.:)

Real Madrid v Bayern Munich

and

Roma v Lyon

By far the most exciting looking. In my eyes anyway, and I'm from America, so what do I know?

Course the REAL Euro football news is Spurs being drawn against Feyenoord, one of the hardest teams in the Uefa, and if we win THAT we have Parma (probably). Damn. Mind you if wed lost last night we'dve got Sevilla the holders. If youre gonna win youve got to beat the best teams.

Sadly Feyenoord's been pretty much crap most of this season. And the previous two seasons they were mostly relying on goals from Kuyt and Kalou, who now have left for Liverpool and Chelsea... Spurs are definitely favourites... The current Feyenoord team is pretty poor compared to the team that won the Uefa Cup in 2002. They still have the same fighting spirit though, so who knows what could happen. That is, when UEFA doesn't take them out of competition for the misbehaviour of their "supporters" in Nancy last month.

I only wish I had more chances to watch Feyenoord and other Dutch clubs more often. Fox Soccer Channel, which is essential if you follow soccer in the States, is obsessed with showing EPL, Ligue 1, and AC Milan matches. Saturdays feature ONE Bundesliga game, and the occasional Argentine League match. I should add, watching the Argentine games can be very entertaining.

The only dutch teams that can be playing really good sometimes are PSV and AZ at the moment. But AZ is a pretty small club and PSV often choose for the score-one-goal-and-then-keep-it-locked-at-the-back approach in European games which is seen to often in CL games nowadays... I wouldn't mind seeing some of the South American leagues, but they're not showing those here.

I assume we've got a larger number of ex pats from Argentina.

The Mexican league can be fun at times too. Thank you Telemundo!

damn straight! tottenham tottenham, no ones gonna stop them.

as for the champ league draw, liv v barca looks a cracker and come on the ac milan (sorry sonicl)

Liverpool just beat Chelsea and Drogba is the goat.


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The Violinist Niccolò Paganini, 1819.
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique.
Pencil, 298 x 218 mm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Paganini, 1832.
Delacroix, Eugène.
Oil on Cardboard
Completed in 1832
30.2cm x 43.8cm
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

Overtime!

(jinx) I wrote too soon. (aggregate score)

Kuyt can't catch a break here.

Yes, go AC Milan tomorrow! (no jinx)

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The Violinist Niccolò Paganini, 1819.
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique.
Pencil, 298 x 218 mm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Paganini, 1832.
Delacroix, Eugène.
Oil on Cardboard
Completed in 1832
30.2cm x 43.8cm
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

Please don't let this go to penalties...

hahahahahahahaha!!!!

Wha-a-a-t?

Penalties? - uarghhh-

Nobody told me there was football on.

And I've been listening to The Organist Entertains on the radio:( .

LIVEEERPOOOOOL!
hi five danny himself!
sorry :):(:) sonicl!!!

sonicl, would this be a bad time for me to say: the lads done good?

go on the pool!!!

total neutral here, well as neutral as a spurs fan can be regarding chelski.....
now we ned ac milan to pick up the pace a bit!

fuck

thats exactly what a chelski mate of mine just txted me!!!!
shame because it was a good match and chelsea certainly didnt deserve to out on penos. but why does a player of the calibre of drogba resort to diving sooo much?

Bump-o-rama
Place your bets for tonight's game!
My two cents: if Dida won't play like a muppet and MU does not score in the first half, Milan can win and get the ticket to Greece.
By the way, I'll still support Liverpool for the final victory.

I'm pulling for AC Milan. Whether or not they win is another matter. They lost last week, so it's a must-win, right?

Isn't Milan's Kaká still the champions league leader in goals?
Man Utd's C. Ranaldo is a capable defender and offensive threat as well.


Both tend to facilitate control of the football for their respective teams with their outstanding midfielder abilities.

Maybe it takes a Red-Black D to halt a bulldog Rooney Red Devil.

hmm, here's the handicap (so to speak)
http://www.readabet.com/index.php/home/article/10525

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...pe/6603095.stm

Are we talking soccer?

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/default.stm

Yep to both, Ronaldo (milan's Ronaldo) can't play in champions league's matches coz he already played with real madrid in this league and it's not permitted to play for different teams in the same CL.
The second goal scored by kakà last week was amazing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWXLE...related&search=

Rooney is a great and fast player, but imo kakà has a superior elegance (maybe he's the player with the most beautiful style, and i'm not speaking of ronaldinho's amazing tricks, just of pure useful playing style).

As an italian team, Milan will try to score only one goal and defend all the rest of the match. And they've got too maany oldies in this team.
I hate Italians footballers, they're all deceitful like Materazzi !!!
And I know I'm spiteful, don't blame me.

Milan's Ronaldo (the legend) has scored 7 goals in 11 starts this year for the Red-Black. Not to shabby for an old guy. It'd be nice to have him as a striker substitute towards the end of the match today.

If his legs don't let go during the match.

milan to scrape it by sticking in an early goal.. paul scholes gets 2 yellows in the space of 5 minutes at the end of the first half. man u loose the plot but pull a goal back only to have milan respond immediatly. ronaldo (c) falls over a lot and finally ends up carded for diving and having the ability to fool the entire world that he is a great footballer. man u get 2 dodgy penalty desicions (ranaldo dives probably) turned away and in the final throws of the match, milan seals it with a goal stemming from a poor linesman call, missing a blatant handball....................

go on milan, make work tomorrow a quiet and peaceful place with no man u fans shouting stupid things like "ranaldo is a star and championees, championees la la la la la la la la la ........."

the pool to win the final in athens by the way...

what about sunderland??? what an achievement. 2nd from bottom not too long ago, roy keane (irish boy of course) takes over as manager and blam, they are promoted to premiership footy for next season!!! amazing achievement!!! sunderland v man u will beone to watch next year!!!!!

and spurs for the european place!!!!


for sonicl....

^^^ ranaldo? Lapsus!

I'm hoping for a Milan victory this evening, purely because I don't want either Liverpool or Man Utd to win the Champions League.

Yes, I really am that petty.

Like nicfit explained, he (Ronaldo - AC Milan -S) isn't allowed to play.

Typical ridiculously petty Chelsea wanker. Are you José Mourinho in disguise?

Perfect weather for Rooney to do one of his little celebratory slides; but alas, Wayne has no goals.

Kaká really drilled that one in with his left...Van Der Saar is under attack today!

Looking like a 2005 rematch...

yep, now it is for sure...

Manchester just had too many players in foul trouble, I suppose. Christiano Ronaldo couldn't get it done either.

Dida played okay at goal for Milan and Van Der Saar played well also, as always. It's just that his team didn't offer the needed support.

Ha! Now I'll be happy no matters who will win the final, but I'll be HAPPIER if Liverpool will win. Yay! Kakà is a monster.