Dull games all round last night. Here is the BBC’s round up of all the action: Wednesday’s Champions League review GROUP A Chelsea drew in Bordeaux and know that a win over lowly Cluj at Stamford Bridge in the final round of games will secure qualification. However, a draw will be enough for the Blues [...]
Man Utd huffed and puffed to a stalemate with Villareal at the Madrigal – the fourth consecutive Champions League 0-0 between the two clubs. With both sides needing just a draw – bar freak results – to qualify, this was never going to be one for the purists. Utd had the best of it, with [...]
Chelsea 1-0 Roma Roma were desperately disappointing – coach Loopyold Spaghetti adopted tremendously negative tactics, often with 10 men behind the ball – Roma didn’t have a single shot on target in the entire 90 minutes. I just don’t know what he was hoping to achieve. Yes, they were disciplined, and only lost because of [...]
Manchester Utd 3-0 Celtic – Men against Bhoys Wee Gordon Strachan said after this game that Utd were the best team he had ever played as a manager – the best of a group including Inter, Juve, and Barcelona. They were dominant throughout against Celtic, who had little or nothing to offer. Admittedly, Berbatov’s two [...]
Last night saw wins for Man Utd – 3-0 away to Aalborg, and Arsenal – 4-0 at home to Porto, and a brave defeat for Celtic, going down to a Marcos Senna inspired Villareal 1-0 in Spain. Utd and Arsenal both missed a hatful of chances – for Utd, Berbatov got two but should have [...]
Man Utd 0-0 Villareal Dynamo Kiev 1-1 Arsenal Celtic 0-0 Aab Aalborg Goals and excitement in the Tuesday games – torpor and boredom in the Wednesday ones. The highlight fro mthe games s above was Ronaldo making his long awaited and desperately needed comeback for Utd – they have lacked penetration and imagination in his [...]
Two good wins for the English teams last night – a Gerrard inspired Liverpool won 2-1 in Marseille, and Chelsea were ominously efficient in a 4-0 destruction of Bordeaux. Scolari revealed the first signs of pressure in his pre-match interview, reacting nervously to the suggestion that he had to win the Champions League to avoid [...]
