Champions League - Matchday 5

MrJoeSoap

E Real Madrid v Lyon more »
E Steaua v Dynamo Kyiv more »
F Benfica v København more »
F Celtic v Man. United more »
G Arsenal v Hamburg more »
G CSKA v Porto more » (17.30)
H AEK v Milan more »
H Lille v Anderlecht more »

Big night ahead, I'm torn between watching Real-Lyon and Celtic-United.

Mitch Connor

I'm hoping for a good performance from United tonight, but i fear fergie may make more then the stated 2 changes, and completely unbalance the side. As long as Silvestre and O'Shea don't play, we should be ok, but if O'Shea plays midfield its gonna make things a lot harder. Hopefully he doesn't come in for Gary at RB either, Brown should play there if Gary doesn't start.

As for the other games, i'm going for:

Lyon win.
draw
Benfica
draw (celtic vs united)
Arsenal
CSKA
Milan
Lille.

Nalz

draw
draw
draw
Celtic
Arsenal
draw
Milan
Lille

A Dub in Glasgo

I will be at Celtic Park tonight, hopefully we can get a result.

Nalz

The United Celtic game will be a big one. A very tough one to call. United could run out 2 or 3 nil winners but Im gonna say Celtic because of the home crowd and the importance the game is for them.

Celtic 2 - 1 Manchester United.

Wouldnt touch it with Bill Gates money though

gustavo

Real
Steaua
Draw
Man. United
Arsenal
CSKA
Milan
Lille

Kojak

E Real Madrid v Lyon - Draw
E Steaua v Dynamo Kyiv - Kiev
F Benfica v København - Benfica
F Celtic v Man. United - Draw
G Arsenal v Hamburg - Arsenal
G CSKA v Porto - Porto
H AEK v Milan - Milan
H Lille v Anderlecht - Lille

tdv

E Real Madrid v Lyon - lYON
E Steaua v Dynamo Kyiv - Kiev
F Benfica v København - Benfica
F Celtic v Man. United - Celtic
G Arsenal v Hamburg - Arsenal
G CSKA v Porto - Porto
H AEK v Milan - Milan
H Lille v Anderlecht - Lille

Pepe LeFrits

Porto are beating CSKA at the moment so anything less than a win tonight for Arsenal could leave them on the edge of a UEFA cup-shaped precipice, which would be a disaster. But then again if that were to happen, at least there'd be the chance to do over Spurs.

Mad Dog

Real Madrid v Lyon ...........Home

Steaua v Dynamo Kyiv .....Draw

Benfica v København ........Home

Celtic v Man. United ........Draw

Arsenal v Hamburg ...........Home

CSKA v Porto .................Draw

AEK v Milan ....................Away

Lille v Anderlecht .............Home

eirebhoy

I wouldn't say Porto will get the 3 points. In fact, I might put a couple of euro on CSKA at 11/1.

Can't believe everyone has gone for Milan. They've a few injuries and will rest a few. Their minds are now completely on the league while AEK will have their home crowd to spur them on. They're a decent team. I'd say a draw or AEK to win.

eirebhoy

Arsenal lineup:

Lehmann
Eboue
Toure
Senderos
Clichy
Hleb
Fabregas
Flamini
Van Persie
Ljunbery
Henry

evad_lhorg

Real Madrid v Lyon ...........Draw
Steaua v Dynamo Kyiv .....Home

Benfica v København ........Home

Celtic v Man. United ........Away by 10 or15

Arsenal v Hamburg ...........Home

CSKA v Porto .................Draw

AEK v Milan ....................Away

Lille v Anderlecht .............Home

Pepe LeFrits

eirebhoy wrote:

Arsenal lineup:

Lehmann
Eboue
Toure
Senderos
Clichy
Hleb
Fabregas
Flamini
Van Persie
Ljunbery
Henry

Oh god, if that's a 4-5-1 setup again I'll cry. Though it's rather impossible to tell.

It is a team of short-arses though, hopefully Hamburg can't do set pieces.

eirebhoy

Celtic v Man Utd:
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/9996/lineupsik5.jpg

eirebhoy

0-2 Porto. Impressive. Arsenal will surely have to win tonight and then probably get something in Porto as CSKA will be playing a Hamburg team with nothing but pride and money to play for.

Royale with Cheese

Oh dear, I'm hoping Arsenal can actually manage to score tonight.

mike65

G'wan Lyon (and Celtic just the the hell of it).

Mike.

homerjay2005

well bar evra, that more or less is the full united team, hopefully that is it. id settle for a draw tonight, however we can sneak this 1-0. ideally, united and celtic will both go through.

Pepe LeFrits

Evra over Heinze?

Mossin

Arsenal 0 - 1 Hamburg
Rafael van der Vaart

Pighead

WTF, Hamburg still 5-1 betting in Running with Paddy Power. Somebodys gonna be in trouble. Note to self, open up a fcuking Paddy Power account Pighead!

Mossin

Real Madrid 1-2 Lyon

Benfica 3-0 Copenhagen

Bucharest 0-1 Dynamo Kiev

Lille 1-1 Anderlect

AEK 1-0 Milan

Xavi6

Anyone else p***ed off with annoying phone that keeps ringing on Setanta for the Arsenal coverage? Doing my head in.

Mossin

Damn Ronaldo!!!

Should have scored.

gandalf

FFS its going to be another one of those nights for Arsenal !!! Seem to be devoid of any ideas tonight !!

Pepe LeFrits

The 4-5-1 is a ridiculous setup to play for matches like this. No goal threats at all. I can't understand why Wenger keeps persisting with it.

Mossin

HT: Celtic 0-0 Man Utd

Hard to make anything of that first half.
Celtic are too defensive, United have dominated possession thus far.
Scholes is running midfield, with Lennon and Graveson trying hard for Celtic.
Carrick is his usual anonymous self.
Ronaldo is just frustrating, although it must be said that Naylor is playing him very well, and is probably the best player on the pitch at the minute.

Lets hope the second half will produce a more open game.

tdv

John Carew is a big pacey animal of a player, he's causing Madrid all sorts of problems

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Pepe LeFrits wrote:

The 4-5-1 is a ridiculous setup to play for matches like this. No goal threats at all. I can't understand why Wenger keeps persisting with it.

Does this remind anyone of what people were saying about Alex Ferguson for the past few seasons?

Kingp35

Celtic 0-0 Man Utd

Awful match, both teams are plying so poor with Celtic being nothing short of terribe. They have such a negative attitude. Paying Sno, Lennon and Graveson together just doesnt work. Sno and Lennon are so deep meaning that there is a huge gap between midfield and forwards giving Celtic no chance and keeping the ball. There passing has been terrible though and they just keep giving it away. Just terrible stuff.

bucks73

Mossin wrote:

HT: Celtic 0-0 Man Utd

Hard to make anything of that first half.
Celtic are too defensive, United have dominated possession thus far.
Scholes is running midfield, with Lennon and Graveson trying hard for Celtic.
Carrick is his usual anonymous self.
Ronaldo is just frustrating, although it must be said that Naylor is playing him very well, and is probably the best player on the pitch at the minute.

Lets hope the second half will produce a more open game.

Nothing new there. What is up with the formation? They should be tearing into Celtic with the usual 4-4-2 that they use every week. Fergie listens to Ronaldos da waaay too much. Better change in the second half or Im turning over to Real v Lyon.

MrJoeSoap

Fabio Cannavaro, Ballon d'Or? Please...

gandalf

Thank god Van Persie 1-1 lovely goal !!

bucks73

Hurray!! Fergie has changed back to the 4-4-2 with Rooney down the middle as usual. About time.

Royale with Cheese

Van Persie off for Adebayor? Why? Just why?

Mossin

Celtic 1-0 United

What a goal by Nakamura..
Superb Free-Kick

bucks73

Goal. Jarosik dives and Nakamura scores direct free kick.

el rabitos

lol @ utd

Royale with Cheese

Eboue 2-1. YESSSSS

Maybe that will shut these moronic commentators up now.

gandalf

Eboue finally does something good 2-1, Walcott has made a major difference !!

el rabitos

celtic are fcuked now, heres o'shea. fergie bringing out the big guns

bucks73

el rabitos wrote:

celtic are fcuked now, heres o'shea. fergie bringing out the big guns

lol

What is he at? Does he think its 1-1?

Royale with Cheese

Walcott is a legend

gandalf

The Beast Scores!!!

RasTa

Celtic are gonna dish out what they call in poker " a bad beat" talk about daylight robbery! We will still beat Benfica at home

Guy:Incognito

peno lol

Duras

brilliant save, well done celtic!

Xavi6

Finally some excitement

Guy:Incognito

RasTa wrote:

Celtic are gonna dish out what they call in poker " a bad beat" talk about daylight robbery! We will still beat Benfica at home

You cant ask for any more than a last min peno, cant blame celtic for the miss.

Poor hit, good height for the keeper

RasTa

I cant say they deserved to win it either, they where horrible