I had the chance to see the extended highlights of the champions league 2nd round first leg matches...Here's a brief review of the games...
1.Ajax 2-2 Inter
Ajax had the match won but threw it away....they were leading 2-0 at half time and it was some pretty slack defending that screwed up everything. I think Adriano and co will murder them at the san siro..
2.Chelsea 1-2 Barcelona
Man this was a really exciting match.Even though i think chelsea really suck and there are many around better then mourinho they were really hard done by when del-horno was sent off....but honestly...barca just raped them.....they hardly had a shot on target during the entire game...and as the home team they lacked any enterprise....even when they had 11 men...Also lionel messi was awesome ....man people talk about rooney and fabregas and all but this fellow is way ahead of them...as for chelsea they'll get raped all over again at the Camp Nou
3.Rangers 2-2 Villareal
Didn't watch this one properly...just saw the goals ......woeful defending from ranges... Villareal will do enough to go through
4.Wereder Bremen 3-2 Juventus
This was the game of the night.Bremen were a goal down with 5 minutes to go and they scored 2 goals in those five minutes to win 3-2. I saw the entire replay of the game and it looked like juve were playing casually....not something italian teams do...but they'll do enough in the second leg to go through
5.Bayern Munich 1-1 AC Milan
Hmmmmmm......apart from Michael Ballacks goal this game was boring......ands that all you can expect when germen team plays a italian team...But i think(some people are gonna be angry) milan have lost it this season. Not just in the champions league but in all competitions.....and the surprising thing is that they have all their major players fit. Maybe a time for a change of coach in milan....??
6.Benfica 1-0 Liverpool
Ok....this is the important one.....I think Liverpool didn't deserve to lose but they didn't deserve to win either. As for benfica.....Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooring.....I can't understand how they got to this stage......absolutely amzing....i mean they just kept kicking liverpool players....and btw no gerrard,no crouch and no cisse for liverpool....won't be a pleasent night for benfica at anfield
7.PSV Eindhoven 0-1 Lyon
for the uninformed Lyon are(belive it or not!!) the bookmakers third favourite to win the champions league just behind barca and juventus. Didn't watch this one in any detail....but i read that psv were pretty dull.
8.Real Madrid 0-1 Arsenal
Grrrrrrrr........madrid suks.....henry confirmed that with a awesome goal.....and if real madrid think they can go to highbury and win they are joking......k.o. for madrid..
looking forward to barca chelsea
So who will win it??? i think barcelona will win this tie but screw up somewhere else in the competition. They play attacking stuff only and you cant win the CL just attacking. As for Chelski...they may spend a lot of money....but they will never be able to win in europe. Chelski are like a group of mercenaries.......and they may be consistent in the long run but for europe you need to have passion. If you see the chelski line up against barca not a single player in the sixteen has come throught the youth system at chelsea. They were all purchased. All good teams(those that play natural football...) have a lot of players in the squad who are groomed at the club. Even real Madrid are facing the same problem hardly anyone from originally from madrid. But look at barca....in their starting 11 valdes,puyol,oleguer,messi,motta,iniesta and belletti are from the youth system in barca. It's the same for every team...the best players come through the youth system. at liverpool it's owen, gerrard and carragher, at real it was raul and hierro, in the man united team of the nineties the entire sqauad was a youth team,it's del piero at juve, it's maldini at milan,kahn in bayern munich and the list is endless....You can't completely buy success.
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