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Arsene Wenger was very upbeat and had high hopes before the Tuesday’s night Champions League game, but Bayern did show at the Emirates Stadium and won 3-1. At end of the match, the Londoners’ tactician could not hide his disappointment, but said that his team will try to return the result in the return leg at the Allianz Arena.

“We played against a very good team that took advantage of all the opportunities they had in the first half. Then we were a little nervous. At 0-2, we fought and we were pretty close to equal. The goal for 3-1 was a hard blow and last ten minutes were difficult.” Read the rest of this entry »

Before the UEFA Champions League debut against Arsenal, Montpellier’s players are mentally tear down by poor start to the season. The joy of winning the title in Ligue 1 last season was too short for the French team. In less than three months, the euphoria has been replaced by fear and despair after Rene Girard’s players have won a single match in the first five stages of the season, and their 16th current spot in the rankings not give them too much hope. President Louis Nicollin reacted harshly, criticizing his players by his already familiar style: “They’re bastards, they have not played anything since they won the title.” Thus, champion’s morale is becoming less before the start in the Champions League, which will take place this evening, against the team led by Arsene Wenger. Read the rest of this entry »

Fight for the Ligue 1 title, but until then faces tonight on the “Stade de France in the last act of the League Cup, broadcast live from 21:50 pm to Boom Sport Two. Marseille play in the first final, while Bordeaux is the holder of the trophy and wants to win for the fourth time, after previous successes in 2002, 2007 and 2009.
Will be a very interesting duel between two young French engineers. Didier Deschamps and Laurent Blanc were European champions in 1994 and in 2000 and retired with even the arena where the grand final takes place tonight. If Blanc thinks to spare some owners to duel with Lyon in the round “quarters” Champions League, Deschamps will count on the best formula to bring the Marseille first trophy after a break of 17 years Luga, ie from won the European Cup final against AC Milan.

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Samuel Eto’o and Lionel Messi scored for FC Barcelona to win the Champions League trophy.

Barcelona won the Champions League for the second time in four years.

Eto’o scored his fourth goal in this year’s Champions League in the 10th minute and Messi scored again in the 70th.

Also Barcelona won the La Liga title, Copa del Rey and Champions League this season.

English football hopes that the four Premier League clubs Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea or Arsenal who have made it to the quarterfinal draw will avoid each other on Friday and maybe all make it to the semifinals.

Defending champion Manchester United and Barcelona go into the draw as the bookmakers’ joint favorites at 5-2.

Both teams are in first rank of Premier League and respectively in Primera Division.

Steven Gerrard said.”We are not running scared of anybody. We will take who we get, and believe that we are going to go through,”, “If you are asking me about a fear factor in the Champions League, then I think it is the other seven teams in the draw who are going to have concerns about coming up against us after that Real Madrid result.”

Manchester United ousted Italian champion Inter Milan in the previous round and Chelsea knocked out Juventus which means there are no Italian sides left in the competition.

Porto and Villarreal are the outsiders of the eight, who are made up of five winners, two runners up and a semifinalist.

The first legs of the quarterfinals on Champions League are April 7-8 and the returns are April 14-15.

Real Madrid – Liverpool 0:1 (0-0)

Youssi Benayoun header helped Liverpool defeat Real Madrid 1-0 in the first leg of their last 16 Champions League duel at the Real Madrid.

Youssi Benayoun headed in a Fabio Aurelio cross in the 82nd minute for a vital away goal and Liverpool now hold the advantage ahead of the return leg at Liverpool home on 10.03.2009.

Rafa Benitez said:  ‘We worked very hard and we scored a very good goal,’

Arsenal was the only victorious team, beating AS Roma 1-0 on Robin van Persie’s 37th-minute penalty.

Van Persie scored from the spot in the 37th after he had been tripped by defender Philippe Mexes.

Arsene Wenger said :”There was room for more goals, that’s the only regret from tonight,”, “We kept a clean sheet, that’s important, and I felt every time we got the ball we used it well.”

Thierry Henry’s headed goal salvaged for Barcelona a 1-1 draw at Lyon.

Atletico Madrid twice threw away its lead and allowed FC Porto to claim a valuable 2-2 draw.

Inter Milan - Manchester United 0-0.

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Jose Mourinho claims that he was happy to play against Manchester United in the Round of 16.

Jose Mourinho while it has been the coach of Chelsea had a lot of success against Manchester United, defeating them five times in 9 career meetings in Premier League, including a 1-0 triumph in the 2007 F.A. Cup Final.

Manchester United will probably start the match 4-5-1 that served them well last season.