UEFA Champions League, 2008-09

[Pangur Bán]

Qualification Thread
It all starts tonight. Predictions anyone? There's always a few surprises, and always a few disappointments. Can you pick 'em this time? And winners? (posted a poll for this)

UEFA Champions League : Group A
1 Bordeaux (FRA)
2 CFR Cluj-Napoca (ROM)
3 Chelsea (ENG)
4 Roma (ITA)

UEFA Champions League : Group B
1 Anorthosis Famagusta (KYP)
2 Inter Milan (ITA)
3 Panathinaikos (HEL)
4 Werder Bremen (DEU)

UEFA Champions League : Group C

1 Barcelona (ESP)
2 Basel (SCH)
3 Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR)
4 Sporting Lisbon (POR)

UEFA Champions League : Group D

1 Atletico Madrid (ESP)
2 Liverpool (ENG)
3 Marseille (FRA)
4 PSV Eindhoven (NED)

UEFA Champions League : Group E

1 AaB Aalborg (DAN)
2 Celtic (SCO)
3 Manchester Utd (ENG)
4 Villarreal (ESP)

UEFA Champions League : Group F

1 Bayern Munich (DEU)
2 Fiorentina (ITA)
3 Lyon (FRA)
4 Steaua Bucharest (ROM)

UEFA Champions League : Group G

1 Arsenal (ENG)
2 Dynamo Kiev (UKR)
3 FC Porto (POR)
4 Fenerbahce (TUR)

UEFA Champions League : Group H
1 BATE Borisov (BEL)
2 Juventus (ITA)
3 Real Madrid (ESP)
4 Zenit St Petersburg (ROS)

 

[Pangur Bán]

DP - delete

 

[Pangur Bán]

I'll have a go at predicting. Here's mine:

A: Chelsea, Roma
B: Inter, Werder Bremen
C: Barcelona, Shakhtar
D: Liverpool, Marseille
E: Manchester, Villarreal
F: Lyon, Fiorentina
G: Arsenal, Kiev
H: Zenit, Real

And for the games this week, let's try these:

Barcelona 2 v 1 Sporting
Basel 0 v 2 Shakhtar Donetsk
Chelsea 2 v 0 Bordeaux
Marseille 0 v 1 Liverpool
Panathinaikos 0 v 0 Inter Milan
PSV 2 v 1 Atletico Madrid
Roma 0 v 0 CFR Cluj-Napoca
Werder Bremen 2 v 0 Anorthosis Famagusta

Celtic 1 v 0 AaB
Dynamo Kiev 1 v 2 Arsenal
FC Porto 3 v 2 Fenerbahce
Juventus 1 v 0 Zenit St Petersburg
Lyon 1 v 0 Fiorentina
Man Utd 1 v 0 Villarreal
Real Madrid 4 v 0 BATE
Steaua Bucuresti 1 v 1 Bayern Munich

Usually get most wrong, but we'll see how it goes.

 

[holy king]

A Chelsea 4-0 Bordeaux
A Roma 1-2 CFR

B Panathinaikos 0-2 Internazionale
B Bremen 0-0 Anorthosis

C Basel 1-2 Shakhtar
C Barcelona 3-1 Sporting

D PSV 0-3 Atlético
D Marseille 1-2 Liverpool

 

[Riffraff]

The new teams did great I must say!

Draw for Famagusta vs Bremen and Cluj win in Rome

 

[azzaman333]

Chelsea looked very good this morning.

Effectively a training drill for 4-0.

 

[Grisu]

a clear loss for Basel (don't be fooled by the result the 1-2 was scored in the 93rd minute...)

strange thing is, in the first half Shaktar had exactly 2 chances...which they used...in the second half they had a few more (and better ones than those in the first) and missed them

and Basel utterly missed its chances

 

[Scratcher]

Liverpool can count themselves lucky to come away with that victory. Marseille had some very good chances late on to score. But.....the three away points are most welcome.

 

[holy king]

Liverpool can count themselves lucky to come away with that victory. Marseille had some very good chances late on to score. But.....the three away points are most welcome.

second half was awful. what where they saving their power for? stoke? crewe?
anyway, if a bad performance means a 2-1 victory there really isnt that much to complain about.

 

[holy king]

E Man. United 0-0 Villarreal
E Celtic 0-0 AaB

F FC Steaua Bucureşti 0-1 Bayern
F Lyon 2-2 Fiorentina

G Porto 3-1 Fenerbahçe
G Dynamo Kyiv 1-1 Arsenal

H Juventus 1-0 Zenit
H Real Madrid 2-0 BATE

 

[holy king]

borrisov ahead of juve by 2:1 at halftime
dont think they can hold on to this lead or even gather a point in the end though...

edit: late equalizer... 2:2 ...

 

[holy king]

Aalborg 0 - 3 Manchester Utd (0 - 1)
Villarreal 1 - 0 Celtic (0 - 0)

Arsenal 4 - 0 FC Porto (2 - 0)
Fenerbahce 0 - 0 D. Kiev (0 - 0)

BATE 2 - 2 Juventus (2 - 2)
Zenit 1 - 2 Real Madrid (1 - 2)

Bayern 1 - 1 Lyon (0 - 1)
Fiorentina 0 - 0 Steaua Bucharest (0 - 0)

 

[Echse]

Some very nice matches even the ties were exciting.

 

[holy king]

A CFR Cluj 0-0 Chelsea
A Bordeaux 1-3 Roma

B Anorthosis 3-1 Panathinaikos
B Internazionale 1-1 Bremen

C Sporting 2-0 Basel
C Shakhtar 1-2 Barcelona ......poor shakhtar...

D Liverpool 3-1 PSV .........walk in the park
D Atlético 2-1 Marseille

 

[Fadan80]

Arsenal will win "La Orejona"

Carlitos Vela will be the star sub

 

[Grisu]

yeah, that was pretty tough on the ukrainians

Basel lost again but at least they played a lot better than against Shakhtar...

 

[holy king]

Arsenal will win "La Orejona"

Carlitos Vela will be the star sub

wtf?

 

[Fadan80]

wtf?

The star substitution (reserve) player I mean. He is doing pretty well


And "La Orejona" is the way we called the cup in spanish (Orejona = Big ears)

 

[Joe Harker]

Liverpool 3-1 against PSV and importantly, Keanes first goal plus Kuyt, who can't seem to score in any other competition and Gerrards 100th goal for liverpool, not a bad night at all!

 

[Fadan80]

Liverpool 3-1 against PSV and importantly, Keanes first goal plus Kuyt, who can't seem to score in any other competition and Gerrards 100th goal for liverpool, not a bad night at all!

Gerrard is on fire!!!