I’ve had some time now to reflect on yesterday’s final and despite my initial displeasure with it, I have to credit Walter Smith for not tinkering with had been a winning formula. He stuck to his tried and tested 4-1-4-1 formation and had his team play a conservative first half, soaking up the pressure Zenit […]
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Just a quick post to congratulate FC Zenit St. Petersburg on their first ever European title. Second-half strikes from Igor Denisov and Konstantin Zyrianov gave FC Zenit a 2-0 win over Rangers FC in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup final, Russia’s second triumph in four years.
A more detailed recap of the game will be posted later.
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With the final upon us, I decided to name an all-star XI from this season’s UEFA Cup competition. I will name a Champions League all-star XI on the eve of that final. So, here are my picks:
GK - Sébastien Frey (Fiorentina)
D - Leandro Grimi (Sporting Lisbon)
D - Manuel Friedrich (Bayer Leverkusen)
D - Carlos Cuéllar (Rangers)
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The Times of London has published a PDF version of a special supplement (It’s a 27 MB download so be warned if you’re on a slow connection!) they had included in today’s print version of their newspaper. Enjoy !
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Today’s the big day out for FC Zenit St Petersburg and Rangers FC as they will contest the UEFA Cup final in the City of Manchester Stadium. Rangers, whose European campaign began back on 31 July in the Champions League second qualifying round, can expect noisy backing in the City of Manchester Stadium given their […]
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Let me start this by saying that I expected Bayern to progress but not without a fight. My reasoning was that Zenit St Petersburg would be missing a number of key personnel including the suspended Andrei Arshavin, Radek Šírl and Fernando Ricksen, as well as Nicolas Lombaerts and Kim Dong Jin through injury. This left […]
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FC Zenit St. Petersburg will look to reach their first major European final as they take on FC Bayern München at home next week. They now hold an all important away goal from the first leg in Germany played on Thursday. Zenit are the only side left in the UEFA Cup never to have won […]
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Luca Toni continued to justify his massive transfer fee as his brace in extra-time rescued FC Bayern München’s UEFA Cup campaign from being derailed by Spanish club Getafe on Thursday. His 120th minute header allowed Bayern to steal the tie on away goals after an action packed 3-3 second leg draw.
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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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Benfica’s struggles continued as they failed to make any impression in Spain, as Getafe progressed to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup with a 1-0 (Agg. 3-1) win thanks to Albin’s gorgeous lob. Getafe’s reward is a quarter-final matchup against my favourites to win FC Bayern Munich. Bayern had for all intents and purposes sealed […]
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