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Chelsea and Atletico Impress; Roma Get Shocked

September 17th, 2008 · Comments · Anorthosis Famagusta FC, Roma, as roma, atletico madrid, bordeaux, cfr 1907 cluj, champions league, champions league group stage, chelsea, fc basel, fc basel 1893, fc girondins de bordeaux, inter milan, internazionale, jose mourinho, shakhtar donetsk, sporting club de portugal, sporting lisbon, werder bremen

Champions League debutants CFR 1907 Cluj came from behind to beat Roma and record a stunning 2-1 victory at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. Beyond the absence of Totti, Roma had a strong squad out on the field and will be disappointed with their performance. There has been a bit of turmoil off the field […]

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Champions League Group Stage Draw Results

August 28th, 2008 · Comments · arsenal, as roma, atletico madrid, barcelona, bayern munich, champions league, champions league group stage, chelsea

I’ll have more analysis and comments later but for now just a quick update on the results of today’s drawing. Some of the groupings, as in past seasons, was almost a bit too predictable but there are some interesting matchups ahead (Real Madrid - Juventus springs to mind as does Manchester United - Celtic and […]

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Schalke Shocked In Third Qualifying Round

August 28th, 2008 · Comments · arsenal, atletico madrid, champions league qualifying, liverpool, schalke

After leading 1-0 from the first leg, Schalke had to have had some confidence going into Madrid for the second leg. A strong performance from Atletico saw them thump the German team 4-0 to advance to the group stage for the first time since 1996-97. I had picked Atletico as my ‘dark-horse’ team in the […]

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Roundup of European Domestic League action

May 6th, 2008 · Comments · Stuttgart, Valencia, ac milan, arsenal, as roma, atletico madrid, barcelona, bayern munich, champions league, champions league group stage, champions league qualifying, chelsea, hamburger sv, inter milan, internazionale, liverpool, manchester united, ronaldinho, uefa cup, villareal, werder bremen

As we wait for the Champions League final, it’s a good time to look at the leagues around Europe and see who will be part of next season’s competition. In this first report, we look at what I would call the “bigger” leagues in Europe — England, Italy, Spain and Germany. In part two, we’ll […]

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Laying down the law….sort of..

March 21st, 2008 · Comments · Brann Bergen, UEFA, atletico madrid, bolton, everton, fc zenit st petersburg, marseille

On Thursday, UEFA’s Control and Disciplinary Committee imposed fines on several clubs for incidents from recent matchdays in both the Champions League and UEFA Cup.
+ Lyon were fined 3,200 Euros for what has been noted as “incidents of an unsporting nature” in the first leg of their knockout tie against Manchester United. This relates […]

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UEFA Cup Round of 32 First leg Preview

February 12th, 2008 · Comments · atletico madrid, bayern munich, bolton, everton, slavia prague, tottenham, uefa cup

After a nice long break from the action both the Champions League and UEFA Cup competitions will kick off their knockout rounds. We’ll first look at the UEFA Cup as their Round of 32 first leg fixtures take place this week.
Spanish clubs have dominated this competition in recent years but Germany, with 5 clubs, and […]

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