Champions league day 1

KdjaCL

Group Home Away
A Marseille 20:45 Beşiktaş Home
A Porto 20:45 Liverpool Home
B Chelsea 20:45 Rosenborg Home
B Schalke 20:45 Valencia Home
C Real Madrid 20:45 Bremen Home
C olympi-a-cos 20:45 Lazio Home
D Milan 20:45 Benfica Home
D Shakhtar 20:45 Celtic Home

The god damn greatest footballing tournament in the world starts again on tuesday with the group stages imo the best stages.... the best players in the world going to away games looking for 3 points you dont see better football in any league/world cup/ anywhere else in the world.

I going with the conservative Home for all that are at home. Only dodgy ones are Pool and Real, Porto are good but pool very good and real have a weird group stage thing with german teams.


kdjac

tdv

A Marseille 20:45 Beşiktaş Draw
A Porto 20:45 Liverpool Home
B Chelsea 20:45 Rosenborg Home
B Schalke 20:45 Valencia Away
C Real Madrid 20:45 Bremen Home
C olympi-a-cos 20:45 Lazio Draw
D Milan 20:45 Benfica Home
D Shakhtar 20:45 Celtic Home

mike65

Don't care too much tbh (until kick off naturalment!). Liverpool to win by one goal with first "CL 11" playing.

Mike.

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KdjaCL wrote:

Every home team will win

:eek:

It won't happen, imo.

But yeah, you're right, best football tournament by a country mile.

I love the CL.

kinaldo

What's the story with tv rights this season?

Please tell me RTE or TV3 are showing Arsenal Sevilla and not Lisbon Man U!

I don't have Sky and I don't have Setanta and I don't want to be stuck in a pub watching another boring Man Utd performance away from home in Europe.

~Rebel~

A Marseille 20:45 Beşiktaş HOME
A Porto 20:45 Liverpool AWAY
B Chelsea 20:45 Rosenborg HOME
B Schalke 20:45 Valencia DRAW
C Real Madrid 20:45 Bremen HOME
C olympi-a-cos 20:45 Lazio DRAW
D Milan 20:45 Benfica HOME
D Shakhtar 20:45 Celtic DRAW

Joeyjoejoe43

A Marseille 20:45 Beşiktaş Home
A Porto 20:45 Liverpool Draw
B Chelsea 20:45 Rosenborg Home
B Schalke 20:45 Valencia Draw
C Real Madrid 20:45 Bremen Home
C olympi-a-cos 20:45 Lazio Home
D Milan 20:45 Benfica Home
D Shakhtar 20:45 Celtic Away


Ya, champions league is awesome alright, I still prefer the world cup though (prob cause it only comes around every 4 years...)

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kinaldo wrote:

What's the story with tv rights this season?

Please tell me RTE or TV3 are showing Arsenal Sevilla and not Lisbon Man U!

I don't have Sky and I don't have Setanta and I don't want to be stuck in a pub watching another boring Man Utd performance away from home in Europe.

Your prayers are answered.

http://rte.ie/tv/listing.html?channel=132

Champions League
Bill O'Herlihy is joined by Eamon Dunphy, John Giles and Graeme Souness for coverage of Porto v Liverpool as this season's Champions League gets underway (kick-off 7.45pm)

Same game is on UTV.

I don't have poxy Sky either, so no choice for me.

jameshayes

A Marseille 20:45 Beşiktaş Home
A Porto 20:45 Liverpool Away
B Chelsea 20:45 Rosenborg Home
B Schalke 20:45 Valencia Valencia
C Real Madrid 20:45 Bremen Draw
C olympi-a-cos 20:45 Lazio Draw
D Milan 20:45 Benfica Home
D Shakhtar 20:45 Celtic Draw

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A Marseille 20:45 Beşiktaş Away
A Porto 20:45 Liverpool Porto
B Chelsea 20:45 Rosenborg Draw
B Schalke 20:45 Valencia Draw
C Real Madrid 20:45 Bremen Madrid
C olympi-a-cos 20:45 Lazio Lazio
D Milan 20:45 Benfica Milan
D Shakhtar 20:45 Celtic Shaktar

jobonar

A Marseille 20:45 Beşiktaş Home
A Porto 20:45 Liverpool Draw
B Chelsea 20:45 Rosenborg Home
B Schalke 20:45 Valencia Away
C Real Madrid 20:45 Bremen Home
C olympi-a-cos 20:45 Lazio Away
D Milan 20:45 Benfica Home
D Shakhtar 20:45 Celtic Draw

chopperbyrne

www.itv.com are streaming the Chelsea game. Not sure if you'll need to go through a UK proxy to view it though.

So you can theoretically watch both matches at once.

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chopperbyrne wrote:

www.itv.com are streaming the Chelsea game. Not sure if you'll need to go through a UK proxy to view it though.

So you can theoretically watch both matches at once.

Ah, good info mate, cheers for that.

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s_carnage

I can see Chelsea slipping up tonight. Another match without Lampard and Drogba = more points dropped. Chelsea are a class outfit but really suffer whenever any of their big 3 (Terry, Lampard & Drogba) are missing.

chopperbyrne

ziggy67 wrote:

D Shakhtar 20:45 Celtic Draw (i hope!)

I'm assuming you're a Celtic fan.

Surely you'd be hoping for a win but would settle for a draw?

antod

anyone that wants join a predictions league log onto
uefa.com and the code to join the boards
league is 21956-1482.

eirebhoy

A Marseille 20:45 Beşiktaş Home
A Porto 20:45 Liverpool Draw
B Chelsea 20:45 Rosenborg Home
B Schalke 20:45 Valencia Home
C Real Madrid 20:45 Bremen Home
C olympi-a-cos 20:45 Lazio Draw
D Milan 20:45 Benfica Home
D Shakhtar 20:45 Celtic Home

Pighead

A Marseille 20:45 Beşiktaş Home Win
A Porto 20:45 Liverpool Draw
B Chelsea 20:45 Rosenborg Home (Definite)
B Schalke 20:45 Valencia Draw
C Real Madrid 20:45 Bremen Home
C olympi-a-cos 20:45 Lazio Away
D Milan 20:45 Benfica Home (Definite)
D Shakhtar 20:45 Celtic Home (Definite)

Mr Alan

A Marseille 20:45 Beşiktaş Home
A Porto 20:45 Liverpool Away
B Chelsea 20:45 Rosenborg Home
B Schalke 20:45 Valencia Draw
C Real Madrid 20:45 Bremen Home
C olympi-a-cos 20:45 Lazio Draw
D Milan 20:45 Benfica Home
D Shakhtar 20:45 Celtic Draw

eirebhoy

Champions League ticket prices for group Rangers £35, Celtic £29, Lyon £18, Barcelona £13, Stuttgart £12, AC Milan £8, Benfica £8, Shakhtar Donetsk 70p.

ziggy

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KdjaCL

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

The music is on ...


/hugs tv


kdjac

leninbenjamin

pool concede a peno

and it's in. Lucho. Porto 1 - 0 Liverpool on 8 mins

Guy:Incognito

Id blame Reina there. Hyypia was done for pace but it was out near the edge of the box, no need for Reina to be out that far challenging.


Why the hell are setanta broadcasting the Celtic game in 4:3?

leninbenjamin

50 - 50 really, Hyypia should never have let whathisnamethePortoguy get in behind him like that, his pace is getting worse every time i see him, which is a pity.

Eirebear

Wooomph thats nopt a good start for celtic...horribly i should be kind of enjoying it, but all it does is make me more nervous for tomorrow..

Guy:Incognito

I think Celtic getting beated was a bit of a foregone conclusion. What is it, 12 defeats and and draw away in the CL before tonight?

DSB

Chuffed at the Shakhtar lead.

Guy:Incognito

1-1 Kuyt. Hypia with the assist.

leninbenjamin

just as i was going to post how ordinary Pool look, Kuyt scores. header from a free kick. good goal.

1 - 1

KdjaCL

DSB wrote:

Chuffed at the Shakhtar lead.

Its 2 now

Real 1-1 in a matter of seconds from each other, decent game Bremen understrenght and Real just look like scoring any time.


kdjac

mike65

Presumed Missing in Action

Mike.

Eirebear

Stekelly wrote:

I think Celtic getting beated was a bit of a foregone conclusion. What is it, 12 defeats and and draw away in the CL before tonight?

Something like that yeah, but considering the result they got in Moscow i thought they might get something.
But so far they have looked completely shellshocked.

surprise scorline at stamford bridge so far eh?

KdjaCL

Diego for bremen is just deadly, real building up to a raping but everytime Diego gets on the ball he just dances past players.

Anyone elses goalflash having issues? didnt see ACs 2 goals pop up

kdjac

eirebhoy

Stekelly wrote:

Why the hell are setanta broadcasting the Celtic game in 4:3?

I just realised tonight that Sky just cut the top and bottom off the picture so you don't actually get the full picture with Sky.

Anyway, after the abysmal start Celtic have played quite well in the last 25 minutes. Donati and McDonald have been excellent. Naka and Jan doing well supporting. Brown and Hartley staying back. The formation they're playing now is what Strachan probably should have started with but that's all well and good in hindsight. He's great at fixing things throughout the game.

Shakhtar for the first 20 minutes were as good as the likes of Barca, no doubt about it. The football they played was unreal. It's no surprise to Celtic fans though after the last time.

The defence is still a mess and can't be fixed without new players.

leninbenjamin

eirebhoy wrote:

I just realised tonight that Sky just cut the top and bottom off the picture so you don't actually get the full picture with Sky.

not usually, they are probably just getting a feed off a station with old technology. i've noticed that kind of thing happens a lot when your watching matches from all over the place. one will crop, the other will send as is.

KdjaCL

eirebhoy wrote:

Anyway, after the abysmal start Celtic have played quite well in the last 25 minutes.

In professional football thats called letting the team thats losing have the ball.

kdjac

ziggy

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eirebhoy

KdjaCL wrote:

In professional football thats called letting the team thats losing have the ball.

kdjac

Not really. You don't automatically look impressive when you have the ball, especially Celtic away from home.

Mr. Presentable

ziggy67 wrote:

Who is it you support? Shadenfraude will be coming back double to you bud!

Schadenfreude

I take no pleasure from this.

Probably

KdjaCL

eirebhoy wrote:

Not really. You don't automatically look impressive when you have the ball, especially Celtic away from home.

You do when you have the ball because they letting you have it, generally what happens Shak will start playing again around the 70th minute or so and get a 3rd if they want too.


Real clueless now All bremen, All Diego!!!!

If Bremen had a full team out i would expect a win for them :O Which means the front 2 are ****e and everytime Diego puts it on a plate for them they fluff it.

kdjac

Guy:Incognito

Thats a stupid sending off. WHy no yellow for the guy faking injury? Pennant shouldnt have lunged at it though.


I really hate the way you can tackle off the ball ( the guy obstructed him and happens in nearly every match) as lo0ng as your a defender running the ball out of play.

Reina is making some well dodgey decisions tonight. He needs to just keep saying to himself "stay on your line" ad not try involve himself where he has no business being.

KdjaCL

What an idiotic challenge. The ball is running out and in a hopeless attempt to get it Jermaine Pennant takes a lump out of Fucile's calf. A second yellow, an early bath and a glare from Rafael Benitez.

BBCs take on it

Stupid goalflash isnt working!!!!!


kdjac

Guy:Incognito

+Taking a lump is a bit much, I'd say the guy did more damage rollign around holding his shin.




This hoofing sht is pissing me off something awfull. Gerrard has the ball 10 yards inside his own half with a player closeing slowly enough from about 10 yards and he just lifts it 40 yards up the pitch not even remotely near a Liverpool player. What the ****k goes through a players head that makes him think thats a good thing to do. All he had to do was lay it off to one of the 3 defenders standing 10 - 20 yards away instead of loseing it.

Eirebear

Eirebhoy...what happened to Naka tonight??

DSB

Pennant definitely deserved to go.

mike65

Moral victory!

Mike.

Guy:Incognito

DSB wrote:

Pennant definitely deserved to go.

Never said he didnt, but theres no need for the guy to be diving and rolling around to make sure he gets sent off.


As I said my main gripe is the way off the ball challanges are allowed as long as your the defender shepherding the ball out. Your shouldnt be deemed in control of the ball until you touch it and make it yours. Then you are free to defend the ball.

eirebhoy

Eirebear wrote:

Eirebhoy...what happened to Naka tonight??

Dunno, thought he played quite well in the first half. Couldn't pass the ball in the 2nd half. He must be human. First time we've seen that kind of misplace passing since the first half of Dundee Utd v Celtic where he got a hattrick.

KdjaCL wrote:

Real clueless now All bremen, All Diego!!!!

The little bollix only got me 1 point in the FF.

Eirebear

I think a certain Mr Brown was lucky he stayed on the pitch long enough to get substituted also...couple that with the goal shaktar got chopped off it could have been an Artmedia style night for celtic i reckon.

As i said before, makes me all the more nervous about tommorrow really!