The Official Champions League Thread

[Luís]

Celtic 0-0 Milan
Predicted a draw - Correct
Not very good for any of the teams, but Milan has the advantage, playing at home the 2nd leg. The only problem is that Milan needs to win, while a draw with goals is enough for Celtic.

PSV 1-0 Arsenal
Predicted a draw - Wrong
Good result for PSV, winning at home without conceding any goal is always the best result.

Lille 0-1 Man Utd
Predicted a win for Man Utd - Correct
The expected. Man Utd will have an easy task going into the next phase, I guess.

Real Madrid 3-2 Bayern
Although winning is always the better result, this turns out to be not so bad for Bayern Munich: a 1-0, or 2-1 win at home is enough to go through this stage.

[Snow]

Sky Sports News STREAM

Fox Soccer Channel STREAM

For those of you that want to be able to watch Premiership football on Saturday afternoons When it should be watched!
The quality isn't the best but its good enough on this heap of shit PC so I won't complain too much

I watched the Lille - Man Utd game, disappointed with Utd's overall performance though. Lille's disallowed goal was right to be disallowed as Peter Odemwingie clearly pushed Vidic in the back to reach the ball, if he hadn't then he simply wouldn't have reached it, simple desicion for the ref and he got it spot on. Ryan Giggs's freekick was very quick thinking on his part and if you watch the replays you see he is clearly talking to the ref, asking if he can take it quickly or not, and he nailed it
The french club should be disciplined by UEFA though for inciting the fans and causing the whole atmosphere to deteriorate at the end when their own coach called the players off, just like a spoilt schoolboy...."It's my ball and I say what the rules are!" what a tosser.
The fact that there was crowd trouble after 10 minutes and was dealt with by French riot police using their batons to full effect just proves my point about the game in general and other countries views of english fans. The trouble started when there were more fans than seats and the staff at Lens were about to open the top tier of the stand that the Utd fans were in, but the ensuing crowd surges reminded people there, and at home of the Hillsborough disaster and the French police just waded in with their sticks out, I have to wonder if that would have happened at the other end of the ground?

Arsenal have it all to do against a PSV side that play pretty much the same way as they do themseleves, boring and wait for counter attack oppotunities, although being 1 down and then returning home they should be able to turn that around.

Celtic had a pretty good first 45 minutes against AC Milan and didn't really do too badly in the second half either, to be honest I can see them getting wiped in Italy though.

Real & Bayern...hmm I really would like to see both of these get dumped out as they have played dreadfully in the CL this season. I think that Bayern may play for the 1-0 but I really don't see either of them doing anything in this season's competition.

Tomorrow sees more good action:
Barcelona v Liverpool (Barca 3-1)
FC Porto v Chelsea (Chelski 1-0)
Inter Milan v Valencia (Inter 1-0)
Roma v Lyon (Lyon 2-1)

[Invaders]

Snow, does the site have a stream for sky sports one?

Anyway my predictions was right for 3 of the 4. About the disallowed goal, in football its always the attacking team who have the advantage according to the rules as long as its not the goalie who gets the shit. A little hit like that would never made it to a freekick on the centerhalf or blown as penalty. But lille had their chanses and should have scored atleast one more goal.

[Snow]

Snow, does the site have a stream for sky sports one?

That was a link a friend sent me, I will ask him later if he knows of any others.
The F.S.C. link shows Italian football as well, I am not sure what else they show as I only watch it when the Premiership sides are on to get the chance of seeing live football and its cheaper than another satellite reciever! (ART Sports on Hotbird show live football btw )

[Mr.Metal]

Can Barcelona play more shittier than that?!
Horrible game and Liverpool deservely won 2-1...

[Snow]

Barcelona v Liverpool (Barca 3-1)
FC Porto v Chelsea (Chelski 1-0)
Inter Milan v Valencia (Inter 1-0)
Roma v Lyon (Lyon 2-1)

Wow, now I know why I don't bet on football matches!

[Invaders]

I saw most of the liverpool stealers against barca match and I`m pretty impressed that both Bellamy and Riise scored when they had been in trouble some nights before. Too bad that chelski got 1-1 against porto

[Breadfan_GER]

BAYERN! BAYERN! BAYERN!

[Luís]

Today's games:

Lyon - Roma (0-0)
Liverpool - Barcelona (2-1)
Chelsea - Porto (1-1)
Valencia - Inter Milan (2-2)

[Mr.Metal]

I am hoping for Barça to pull out a miracle out of their ass!
Porto has it difficult, but I would love to see them win
Valencia vs Inter should be a great game
Lyon vs Roma will be close!

Lyon 2 - Roma 1
Chelsea 2 - Porto 0
Valencia 1 - Inter 2
Liverpool 0 - Barça 2 (ok, I am dreaming)