AC Milan v Real Madrid Apoel Nicosia v FC Porto Atletico Madrid v Chelsea Bayern Munich v Bordeaux Besiktas v Wolfsburg Maccabi Haifa v Juventus Man Utd v CSKA Moscow Marseille v FC Zurich Some pretty good games tonight, notably Milan Madrid, Atletico Chelsea, Munich Bordeaux.
- New dad Rooney starts on the bench for United. - Drogba returns to the Chelsea squad after a three-game ban.
1918: TEAMS Atletico Madrid v Chelsea Atletico Madrid: Sergio Asenjo, Perea, Pablo, Juanito, Antonio Lopez, Reyes, Paulo Assuncao, Cleber Santana, Simao, Sinama Pongolle, Forlan. Subs: De Gea, Raul Garcia, Jurado, Aguero, Maxi, Ujfalusi, Dominguez. Chelsea: Cech, Belletti, Alex, Terry, Ashley Cole, Malouda, Essien, Joe Cole, Lampard, Drogba, Kalou. Subs: Hilario, Ivanovic, Carvalho, Ballack, Deco, Sturridge, Anelka. 1916: TEAMS Man Utd v CSKA Moscow Man Utd: Van der Sar, Neville, Brown, Evans, Fabio Da Silva, Valencia, Fletcher, Scholes, Nani, Macheda, Owen. Subs: Kuszczak, Evra, Anderson, Rooney, O'Shea, Obertan, Gibson. CSKA Moscow: Akinfeev, Alexei Berezutsky, Vasili Berezutsky, Ignashevich, Shchennikov, Krasic, Semberas, Aldonin, Mamaev, Necid, Dzagoev. Subs: Pomazan, Daniel Carvalho, Maazou, Odiah, Piliev, Rahimic, Grigoriev.
Realize that this is BBC so they only tend to focus on the English teams (WHAT THE FUCK?!) 1921: TEAM NEWS Atletico Madrid v Chelsea Chelsea striker Didier Drogba returns after a three-game European ban for his first taste of Champions League football this season. The Blues make six changes including left-back Ashley Cole returning after missing the win over Bolton last Saturday, centre-back Alex replacing Ricardo Carvalho and Juliano Belletti coming in for right-back Branislav Ivanovic. Joe Cole also starts. Atletico Madrid striker Sergio Aguero is on the bench as Diego Forlan and Florent Sinama-Pongolle lead the Spanish side's attack. Right-sided midfielder Maxi Rodriguez is also a substitute as Jose Antonio Reyes starts.
My predictions. AC Milan v Real Madrid (1-2) Apoel Nicosia v FC Porto (0-2) Atletico Madrid v Chelsea (1-0) Bayern Munich v Bordeaux (2-0) Besiktas v Wolfsburg (0-0) Maccabi Haifa v Juventus (0-1) Man Utd v CSKA Moscow (2-0) Marseille v FC Zurich (1-0)
Don't forget, Liverpool take on Lyon tomorrow. - CSKA Moscow have never won in England. Ever! All games are underway.
- CSKA get the first shot at Old Trafford as Deividas Semberas shoots just wide of van der Sar's right-hand post.
- Goal for Marseille. A Aegerter own-goal puts Marseille 1-0 up against Zenit. - Chelsea have started strong against Atletico as Drogba shoots inches wide. Diego Forlan also shoots just-wide from 25-yards. - Nani and Valencia make a nice one-two but the whole move is scuffed after a Michael Owen miss-hit (I lol'd). AC Milan 0-0 Real Madrid Apoel Nicosia 0-0 FC Porto Atletico Madrid 0-0 Chelsea Bayern Munich 0-0 Bordeaux Besiktas 0-0 Wolfsburg Maccabi Haifa 0-0 Juventus Man Utd 0-0 CSKA Moscow Marseille 1-0 FC Zurich (8' Aegerter OG)
- Goal for Marseille. Abriel curls a beautiful freekick in to the top-right corner. 2-0, game over? - United come close again as Darren Fletcher's right-foot effort goes wide. AC Milan 0-0 Real Madrid Apoel Nicosia 0-0 FC Porto Atletico Madrid 0-0 Chelsea Bayern Munich 0-0 Bordeaux Besiktas 0-0 Wolfsburg Maccabi Haifa 0-0 Juventus Man Utd 0-0 CSKA Moscow Marseille 2-0 FC Zurich (11' Abriel)
- Goal for Wolfsburg scored by none other than Dže-- Wait, Misimovic. - Owen screws up another chance for United as he scuffs a shot right at Akinfeev. With Wolfsburg ahead, United only need a point to advance to the knockout stage -- They're making it hard for themselves with Owen's current performance. - Atletico have the best chance of the game at Vicente Calderon as Reyes curls a sublime left-footed shot which forces Cech to make a diving save. Great shot, and great save. AC Milan 0-0 Real Madrid Apoel Nicosia 0-0 FC Porto Atletico Madrid 0-0 Chelsea Bayern Munich 0-0 Bordeaux Besiktas 0-1 Wolfsburg (14' Misimovic) Maccabi Haifa 0-0 Juventus Man Utd 0-0 CSKA Moscow Marseille 2-0 FC Zurich
I am listening the Real Madrid and Milan on the radio, and the announcer said that Real Madrid never won against Milan playing in San Siro.
Damn, I know that Real have a fantastic record at San Siro which makes our win against them a couple of seasons ago all the better! We gotta pull some crazy shit like that again this year!
Wow. CSKA just scored a goal. Edit: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/champions-league/2009-2010/manchester-united-cska-moskva-343870.html
You'd be right, 123. - Goal for CSKA scored by Dzagoev -- A god among men. What a way to take the lead. Necid chests a balls for Dzagoev who flies past Evans and smashes the ball into the roof of the net from a tight angle. AC Milan 0-0 Real Madrid Apoel Nicosia 0-0 FC Porto Atletico Madrid 0-0 Chelsea Bayern Munich 0-0 Bordeaux Besiktas 0-1 Wolfsburg Maccabi Haifa 0-0 Juventus Man Utd 0-1 CSKA Moscow (25' Dzagoev) Marseille 2-0 FC Zurich
- Goal for United scored by Owen. That didn't last long did it? Third time lucky. Looks like offsides to me... AC Milan 0-0 Real Madrid Apoel Nicosia 0-0 FC Porto Atletico Madrid 0-0 Chelsea Bayern Munich 0-0 Bordeaux Besiktas 0-1 Wolfsburg Maccabi Haifa 0-0 Juventus Man Utd 1-1 CSKA Moscow (29' Owen) Marseille 2-0 FC Zurich
Benzema. Edit: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/champions-league/2009-2010/ac-milan-real-madrid-343875.html
