The UEFA Champions League Thread

[$teauA]

Shaktar will beat AC Milan 4-0 at home 5-0 away then they will beat Barca 11-0 away and 7-0 at home and then they will lose both games to Celtic 12-0 and 25-3 and fail to qualify .

 

[rony31]

Milan and Shakhtar will make it from the group

 

[hpakel]

Originally posted by Emre_5
WOW, and u guys say Galatasaray fans, should get over winning the Super Cup and UEFA Cup cause its 4 year ago, while this Fener beating Man U happened over 40 years ago

yea but we dont print it on our jerseys

 

[Groogster]

Originally posted by ottawaguy
As a #2 seed Chelsea probablly got the easiest of the #1's (Porto) While the #1 seeds Arsenal and Manchester Untied got Panathanikos and Lyon instead of other possibilities like Inter or Juve.
So ya, I'd say that the english teams got a good draw.

I don´t think that FC Porto is the weakest of the number 1 seeded teams, but let´s wait for the games to begin. BTW we are the European champions baby!

 

[ganengjdead]

Originally posted by Bonzi
don't forget about CSKA

True Playing russian teams is never easy, of course because of the weather, but also because only a few people follow the russian league here in Europe, so it's always a surprise to see how good are the russian teams ^^ Can you tell us more about CSKA please?

 

[IceBlu]

Originally posted by Emre_5
WOW, and u guys say Galatasaray fans, should get over winning the Super Cup and UEFA Cup cause its 4 year ago, while this Fener beating Man U happened over 40 years ago

It happened 8 years ago... not 40..

 

[aytacyolas]

Originally posted by Shevchenko-[7]
The English teams got the easiest draws!

Its been rigged!

dont be so sure dude ! Fenerbahçe will be the champions

 

[Punkt]

finally the CL will start

this week games:

all games start at 8.45pm CET

Tuesday:
Group E
Panathinaikos vs Rosenborg
Apostolos Nikolaidis, Athens
REF: Paul Allaerts (Belgium)

Arsenal vs PSV
Highbury, London
REF: Domenico Messina (Italy)

Group F
Shakhtar vs Milan
Shakhtar Central Stadium, Donetsk
REF: Herbert Fandel (Germany)

Celtic vs Barcelona
Celtic Park, Glasgow
REF: Markus Merk (Germany)

Group G
Valencia vs Anderlecht
Mestalla, Valencia
REF: Bertrand Layec (France)

Inter vs Werder Bremen
Giuseppe Meazza, Milan
REF: Lubos Michel (Slovakia)

Group H
Paris SG vs Chelsea
Parc des Princes, Paris
REF: Manuel Mejuto González (Spain)

Porto vs CSKA Moscow
Estádio do Dragão, Porto
REF: Kim-Milton Nielsen (Denmark)

WEDNESDAY

Group A
Liverpool vs Monaco
Anfield, Liverpool
REF: Terje Hauge (Norway)

Deportivo vs Olympiacos
Riazor, La Coruña
REF: Frank de Bleeckere (Belgium)

Group B
Leverkusen vs Real Madrid
BayArena, Leverkusen
REF: Graham Poll (England)

Roma vs Dynamo Kiev
Olimpico, Rome
REF: Anders Frisk (Sweden)

Group C
Ajax vs Juventus
Amesterdam ArenA, Amsterdam
REF: Urs Meier (Switzerland)

Maccabi Tel-Aviv vs Bayern
Bloomfield, Tel-Aviv
REF: Stephen Bennett (England)

Group D
Fenerbahçe vs Sparta Prague
Sukru Saraçoglu, Istanbul
REF: Lucilio Batista (Portugal)

Lyon vs Manchester Utd
Gerland, Lyon
REF: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)

 

[Voltaic Borusse]

Group A and B are the groups I find the most attractive. I think Deportivo and Monaco will make it out alive, whilst Liverpool get relegated to the UEFA Cup.

 

[arsenal_boi]

i think Arsenal will win the champions league and Real will get knocked out by Millwall even though they arent in the champions league

 

[akeel]

Real won't get as far as everyone thinks. They are severely overrated.

I am hoping Juve wins it, they have the team and they have Capello, so who knows.

I also hope that Arsenal fail to make the 1/4 finals, i lost all respect from pires' cheating against valencia 2 years ago, a game that they lost 2-1, and i am still seething at their dirty tactics at villa park last year (even though mark halsey, the b****** was to blame).

I want to see a Juve-Chelsea final, with Capello's team to win.

 

[[dfm]]

Can't wait to see this competition begin, we have a title to defend...

 

[[dfm]]

Porto will be the first team in CL to use a new logo in the right sleeve(it's in dark blue and it says "Champions 03/04") instead of the logo of the competition. Here's an image that shows how it will look:

 

[Punkt]

Group E

Arsenal 1-0 PSV
1-0 Alex 43'(own goal)

Panathinaikos 2-1 Rosenborg
1-0 Gonzalez 43'
2-0 Gonzalez 59'
2-1 F.Johnsen 90'

Group F

Shakhtar 0-1 Milan
0-1 Seedorf 84'

Celtic 1-3 Barcelona
0-1 Deco 20'
1-1 Sutton 59'
1-2 Giuly 78'
1-3 Larsson 89'

Group G

Inter 2-0 Werder Bremen
1-0 Adriano 34'
2-0 Adriani 89'

Valencia 2-0 Anderlecht
1-0 Vicente 16'
2-0 Baraja 45'

Group H

Porto 0-0 CSKA Moscow

Paris SG 0-3 Chelsea
0-1 Terry 29'
0-2 Drogba 45'
0-3 Drogba 75'

 

[faceNside]

There werent many surprises this first day...

Oporto tie could have been one, but Oporto is not the same team than last year one.

And Milan won in the last 5 minutes as ever Seedorf is on fire

 

[joni84]

wow, Drogba scores two and just against PSG, it seems like Chelsea is better than the previous edition

 

[Atlas]

Seedorf 3 goals in 2 games when was the last time that happen

 

[Lonestarr022]

sometimes they come in many sometimes they dont come for a while, take then when you can

 

[faceNside]

Today most interesting matches IMO:

- AJAX - JUVE: Zlatan comes home again

- LIVERPOOL - MONACO: We will see if Monaco is near to last year´s team performance, and the new hispanicize liverpool. Is Gerrard playing or is he injured?

- LEVERKUSSEN - MADRID: It will be a though match for both sides.

- LYON - MANCHESTER: In normal conditions Manchester should pass over Lyon easily, but Manchester seems to be in a weak form.

 

[flabber]

i'd love to watch ajax vs juve, but over here in aust without pay tv i only get delayed coverage of liverpool vs monaco hope gerrard does play, since he is my captain for the fantasy league competition