UEFA Champions League Match Day 1
Group A
Chelsea 4-0 Bordeaux
Roma 1-2
CFR
Group B
Panathinaikos 0-2
Internazionale
Bremen 0-0 Anorthosis
Group C
Basel 1-2
Shakhtar
Barcelona 3-1 Sporting
Group D
PSV 0-3
Atlético
Marseille 1-2
Liverpool
Group E
Man. United 0-0 Villarreal
Celtic 0-0 AaB
Group F
FC Steaua Bucureşti 0-1
Bayern
Lyon 2-2 Fiorentina
Group G
Porto 3-1 Fenerbahçe
Dynamo Kyiv 1-1 Arsenal
Group H
Juventus 1-0 Zenit
Real Madrid 2-0 BATE
Chelsea dominated, showed their potential and depth when they completely ran over Bordeaux after their substitutions.
Do I need to mention Roma? Horrible, extremely embarrassing result for the runner-ups in Serie A to lose to the team who are, statistically, the worst in the competition.
Good result for Inter; Pana, as with other Greek sides are very difficult to play away from home to.
Disappointing result for Werder Bremen, but fully deserved by Anorthosis. They defended fantastically. You can see the Greek influence, they pretty much defended and tried to attack on the counter
Shakhtar do the business as expected: nonetheless, it's no good to see Aussie Scott Chipperfield's club lose.
Barcelona bounced back from a couple of disappointing results to put away Sporting; will be disappointed they conceded, though. Xavi was tremendous as usual (captain of my fantasy team
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Athletico 3-0 against PSV is a surprising result, I thought this would be closer. Bad finishing from PSV, considering the massive amount of shots on goal they made.
Marseille (one of the two clubs I follow) vs Liverpool... what can I say? Gerrard digs Pool out of a hole once again. Disappointed at this result
Gerrard was absolutely sublime, that goal was just breathtaking.
I thought Villareal had a better match than United and created better chances (you must admit, that backheel that hit the post was beautiful: it deserved to be a goal). I'm sure Ferguson will be happy with the result though, especially considering he rested a number of players for this match. Although Cristiano Ronaldo did not make the impact that was intended, it's encouraging for United fans and SAF to see him back in action.
Celtic's scoreless draw with Aalborg surprised me. Very disappointing result for Celtic to lose to such a side after 6 straight wins at home in the Champions League. They even missed a penalty. They'll be worrying right about now because they were just held to a draw at home by the weakest side in their group and they play shit away from home. Funny fact, Australian Michael Beauchamp got sent off: the referee mistook him for his fellow central defender. Group E is shaping up to be very interesting though...
Bucharest would be pissed they couldn't grab a point, from what I understand they had some good chances.
Fiorentina were unfortunate, they squandered a 2 goal lead thanks to a couple of dubious decisions and a free kick that shouldn't have been.
Porto really had to win: they couldn't afford losing to Fener with Le Arse and Kyiv to play. They scored some great goals! Dani Guiza also scored from a weird angle for Fener.
Juventus struggled a bit with Zenit. Del Piero had a fantastic game, pretty much won it for them. Well played by Zenit though.
Business as usual for Real Madrid, disappointed we didn't see more goals. They took their foot off the pedal after they went one up. Weren't even trying.
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