UEFA Champions' League 2006/07

[kane]

we usually have one of these, so hope its ok. champions league 3rd round of qualifying was drawn today.

Champions League Third Round Draw in full:
FC Sheriff/Spartak Moscow v Slovan Liberec
Shakhtar Donetsk v Hafnarfjordur/Legia Warsaw
FC Zurich/Salzburg v Valencia
Levski Sofia/Sioni v Chievo Verona
Hearts/Siroki Brijeg v AEK Athens
CSKA Moscow v Djurgardens/Ruzomborek
Milan v Cork City/Crvena Zvezda
Galatasaray v Mlada Boleslav/Valerenga
Standard Liege v Gorica/Steaua Bucharest
Austria Vienna v Benfica
Ekranas/Dinamo Zagreb v Arsenal
Copenhagen/My-Pa v Ajax
Hamburg v Osasuna
Metalurgs/Dynamo Kiev v Fenerbahce/Torshavn
Liverpool v Maccabi Haifa
Lille v Debrecen/Rabotnicki

liverpool are apparently unlikely to play Maccabi in the away leg, what with the current situation in israel, so its meant to now be played in cyprus.

[:bang:]

ok, i have been trying to figure this out and i cant find anything about written in american english, so how likely is cork city to make it to the next round?

[smyce]

Is there a schedule somewhere as to when these games are gonna be played? I fucking love Champions League!!

[Spartan]

oh shi- aww shit nigga!

[smyce]

HELLFIRE IT'S SIROKI BRIJEG!!!

[:bang:]

http://www.uefa.com/index.html
of course i'm more interested in the uefa cup
aug 10 :bang:
hope its on either fc fox or goaltv

[Stephen McTowelie]

Is there a schedule somewhere as to when these games are gonna be played? I fucking love Champions League!!

same here fella, last years owned :D

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UCL/news/Kind=1/newsId=440121.html

2006/07 UEFA Champions League
Third qualifying round draw
First leg: 8/9 August
Second leg: 22/23 August

[smyce]

http://www.uefa.com/index.html
of course i'm more interested in the uefa cup
aug 10 :bang:
hope its on either fc fox or goaltv

Why would you be more interested in a less prestigious cup?

Edit: Nevermind. Magpies. Got it.

[smyce]

First Legs of the second round are in the books.


Ekranas 1-4 Dinamo Zagreb
Fenerbahçe 4-0 B36
Hearts 3-0 Široki Brijeg
Metalurgs 1-4 Dynamo Kyiv
Cork 0-1 Crvena Zvezda
Levski 2-0 Sioni
Sheriff 1-1 Spartak
Debrecen 1-1 Rabotnicki
Gorica 0-2 Steaua
København 2-0 MyPa
Mladá Boleslav 3-1 Vålerenga
Djurgården 1- 0 Ružomberok
Hafnarfjördur 0-1 Legia
Zürich 2 - 1 Salzburg

Second legs are Tuesday and Wednesday.

[smyce]

Second Legs completed today. Scores shown are aggregate with second leg score in parentheses

Ekranas 3-9 Dinamo Zagreb (2-5)
Fenerbahçe 9-0 B36 (5-0)
Hafnarfjördur 0-3 Legia (0-2)
Gorica 0-5 Steaua (0-3)
Debrecen 2-5 Rabotnicki (1-4)
Metalurgs 1-8 Dynamo Kyiv (0-4)
Hearts 3-0 Široki Brijeg (0-0)
Cork 0-4 Crvena Zvezda (0-3)
Djurgården 2-3 Ružomberok (1-3)
Sheriff 1-1 Spartak Moskva (0-0) (Spartak advances on away goals)
Zürich 2-3 Salzburg (0-2)
København 4-2 MyPa (2-2)
Mladá Boleslav 5-3 Vålerenga (2-2)
Levski 4-0 Sioni 2-0 (2-0)

Third Round set to begin Tuesday, 08.08 with second legs on Wednesday 08.23

Spartak Moscow v Slovan Liberec
Shakhtar Donetsk v Legia Warsaw
Salzburg v Valencia
Levski Sofia v Chievo Verona
Hearts v AEK Athens
CSKA Moscow v Ružomberok
AC Milan/Crvena Zvezda
Galatasaray v Mladá Boleslav
Standard Liege v Steaua Bucharest
Austria Vienna v Benfica
Dinamo Zagreb v Arsenal
Copenhagen v Ajax
Hamburg v Osasuna
Dynamo Kiev v Fenerbahçe
Liverpool v Maccabi Haifa
Lille v Rabotnicki

[smyce]

Group draw happening in a few hours. Mourinho cant stop bitching about where they are in pot's. He gets grouped with either Barca, Madrid, Valencia, Inter or Milan. I mean, this is the Champion's League. You are going to playing excellent sides. I wish Mourinho would realize he does not walk on water and the only reason his team is worth a shit is deep pockets. He is a terrible manager. He couldnt carry Rafa's jockstrap.

[Stephen McTowelie]

sadly thats the mentality of Mourinho (and indeed the chelsea squad): if its not remotely perfect then he'll critisise just for the hell of it. he should be grateful for the opporunity to have the chance to knock one of the "big" teams out. if he's that confident of his squad and shelling out 30 million for shevchenko (who btw i'm gonna go out of my way to get to a chelsea match to see the fucker in the flesh- class forward) for the purpose of "winning europe" then he can't complain
the only teams there chelsea probably can't beat anyway are barca (as proven last year), and inter (who, if gel together well can become the dominant italian side for the first time in aaaaages)

Madrid are a fucking joke, they buy and buy and churn out others (figo, anyone?). too unpredictable when it comes to consistency, although "van da man" could be crucial in europe. Valencia are always unpredictable and Milan are gonna be interesting to watch having lost 3-4 of their key players

i'd kill for chelsea vs inter :D getting so pumped for serieA but the champions league is clearly the daddy

[smyce]

Here we go. Liverpool v. PSV on ESPN 2. Champions League is so fucking great!!

[smyce]

Rafa made a lot of fucking changes. Im not questioning it, but Gerard, Crouch Alonso and Garcia all benched....guess we'll see.

0-0 15'

[:bang:]

Gerard...benched
kane disstoked

[smyce]

Well it became obvious late in the first half that Liverpool were playing for the draw. Other than Gerard's curl off the far post they played very cautiously. Draw the road matches, win the home matches and we should be set. I really didnt understand Rafa's decision to bench all of the class from the squad. Perhaps punishment from the Merseyside derby fiasco over the weekend.

I'll take a draw into the second leg at home. PSV did show signs of brilliance and Koné should have had a sure goal in the 24' but he didnt.

Chelsea rolled as expected and I wouldnt be surprised if Celtic lose by 2 or more tomorrow. They seem to be scared of United.

[Kuje]

Liverpool game was pretty entertaining last night, I was surprised as everyone was with Gerrard benched. They'll handle the second leg no problems.

Chelsea, game was fairly by-the-numbers. Chelsea aren't fun to watch.

Can't wait for United/Celtic tonight, my brother will be there :( I'd be a lot happier if Ronaldo weren't suspended, but Rooney returning and Saha and Giggs should be enough for us to win.

[:bang:]

i actually might kinda root for manure in this one. celtic were dicks when they played dc united here. got the tivo going, hope i get some time to watch it

[smyce]

Celtic were dicks today again too and were incredibly outclassed. If thats the best Scotland has they may never win a European tournament again.

[Kuje]

What a great game! Fast paced, plenty of goals, Solskjaer, and a united win :D

Unfortunately Giggs is going to be out for 3 weeks with a hamstring, which is terrible news as he was having an excellent season and really making a difference in our games. Park is also injured and will be out for 3 months (!!), meaning most of our pace and crosses lie with Ronaldo for the time being, and his crossing still needs improvement I reckon.

[:bang:]

yeah, missed it :(

had it taped, then this morning i turn on espn, first score at the bottom was celtic 2 man u 3

:( :(

[729]

Group A

Chelsea (England) 2-0 Werder Bremen (Germany)
Barcelona (Spain) 5-0 Levski Sofia

Group B

Sporting (Portugal) 1-0 Inter (Italy)
Bayern München (Germany) 4-0 Spartak Moskva (Russia)

Group C

Galatasaray (Turkey) 0-0 Bordeaux (France)
PSV (Netherlands) 0-0 Liverpool (England)

Group D

Olympiacos (Greece) 2-4 Valencia (Spain)
Roma (Italy) 4-0 Shakhtar(Ukraine)

Group E

Dynamo Kyiv (Ukraine) 1-4 Steaua Bucureşti(Romania)
Lyon (France) 2-0 Real Madrid (Spain)

Group F

Manchester United (England) 3-2 Celtic (Scotland)
København (Denmark) 0-0 Benfica (Portugal)

Group G

Porto (Portugal) 0-0 CSKA Moskva (Russia)
Hamburger SV (Germany) 1-2 Arsenal (England)

Group H

Anderlecht (Belgium) 1-1 Lille (France)
Milan (Italy) 3-0 AEK (Greece)

[Spartan]

yeah, missed it :(

had it taped, then this morning i turn on espn, first score at the bottom was celtic 2 man u 3

:( :(

i love espn for that. i'll oversleep and have an F1 GP taped and they give away the result of a sport they couldn't care less about.

[:bang:]

usually that's the good thing about footy, can tape it and espn wont spoil stuff

[Spartan]

they're an equal opportunity spoiler.

[smyce]

HENRY!!!!!

1-0 Gunners!

[smyce]

Wow. Raul sitting on a hatty and RVN takes the PK. Interesting.

[smyce]

Damn Gallas out for Arsenal.

[Spartan]

well FUCK barca and fucking Puyol...

[smyce]

At least Liverpool won but I do agree. Fuck Puyol.

[Spartan]

well yeah but liverpool's match with Galatasaray should have been a guarantee.

it nearly wasn't.

[smyce]

They were up 3-0 and slacked off. Shouldnt have slacked off and better teams will make em pay, but the game was never in question.

[Spartan]

things aren't a guarantee when all it takes is a goal to equalise. i don't care how big of a start they were off to, which i'm well aware of.

Bremen outplayed barca by all accounts, and should have won, but they didn't. so what does it matter?

[Stephen McTowelie]

can't get enough of that crouch goal :D

[smyce]

What an incredible game. I dont think Chelsea will be stopped this season. They looked fucking great against Barça today. Too strong in the defense with the addition of Sheva and Ballack...goodness they just have too much. I think if any team can beat them its Barcelona but no one else has a shot.

Crouch last second header gave the Reds the win today. Given my previous paragraph I dont really give em much chance to win, but at least make a run.

[Spartan]

remind me again why i put money on barca.

[:bang:]

how does that work? odds wise

[Spartan]

euro betting...you bet on either team to win or the draw. for this weekend.

man u - 1.92 (favourite)
draw - 3.23
liverpool - 4.16 (underdog)

a ten dollar bet on either, you win, you get ten times that figure. o/u works in largely the same way.