Champions League Group Stage Matchday 1 *spoilers*

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Well, the most prestigious cup competition in club football starts again today. There truely are some mouthwatering fixtures ahead of us. I fancy Inter Milan or Real Madrid to end up overall winners this year.

Tonight's fixtures:

Barcelona v Levski Sofia, 19:45
Bayern Munich v Spartak Moscow, 19:45
Chelsea v Werder Bremen, 19:45
Galatasaray v Bordeaux, 19:45
Olympiacos v Valencia, 19:45
PSV v Liverpool, 19:45
Roma v Shakhtar Donetsk, 19:45
Sporting v Inter Milan, 19:45

Wednesday's

AC Milan v AEK Athens, 19:45
Anderlecht v Lille, 19:45
Dynamo Kiev v Steaua Bucuresti, 19:45
FC Copenhagen v Benfica, 19:45
FC Porto v CSKA Moscow, 19:45
Hamburg v Arsenal, 19:45
Lyon v Real Madrid, 19:45
Man Utd v Celtic, 19:45

Some juicy matches in there. Celtic v Man U will be a real physical challenge. It's a pity Keane isn't still at the Celts. Lyon vs Madrid is another that stands out in my eyes as a good fixture for the neutral.

Chelsea will get a good game off Werder Bremen while Arsenal *should* turn Berlin over. I am worried about Liverpool vs PSV. Liverpool have been playing awfully in recent weeks and could come unstuck against a well organised dutch side. Their head coach, Ronald Koeman, beat us both legs at Benfica and Jan Kromkamp will be giving their team plenty of inside info. Nervously going to watch it on ITV later...

Let battle commence!
 
Joe Cole is nearing full fitness & might get a game tonight, we've been playing very narrow with him & Robben out.
Ballack was saying WB can be brilliant or rubbish, hopefully the latter tonight & Klose looks a doubt for them:)
 
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lemonkettaz said:
no gerrard....

lol... hope they get beat for leaving him out :)

klose is going to score tonight, but chelsea will win 3-1.....far out prediction


But statistically they win more games without him so they shouldn't miss him too much, that is, unless they lose, in which case it will then be blamed on Gerrard not playing. ;)
 
lemonkettaz said:
how many games has he not featured though compared to how many games he has...

....isnt it all ratio stuff...

Yep, but the Liverpool fans I know, boast when they win without Gerrard citing statistics showing they win more games without him and that they are not a one man team, but as soon as they lose then they use Gerrard as an excuse if he didn't play. Which is it? ;)
 
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IMO, Benitez is messing around with the team too much. I know every player needs to rest at some point but it's only a few games in to the season. We desperately need to hit some form and I don't think we'll do that by chopping and changing the team each week. I'm glad Agger, Kuyt and Bellamy have been brought back and Alonso dropped, as he's not playing well, but playing Sissoko and Zenden in the middle :confused:
 
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