Firecrackers seem to often find their way onto the periphery of some matches; this one landed smack in the middle of it all. Literally, unfortunately. This one came during a Cypriot league game between Omonia Nicosia and Anorthosis while an injured player was being treated. There were no serious injuries.
Welcome to Cyprus, where you end up more severely injured after receiving treatment than you were beforehand. The big match on Sunday afternoon in Cyprus saw second placed Anorthosis entertain sixth-placed Omonia Nicosia, however the match was suspended for 10 minutes in the second half due to incredible scenes of fan violence.
An Anorthosis player wasreceivingtreatment from medical staff during a match against Omonia Nicosia in Cyprus on Sunday when a fan apparently decided that the delay wasn't up to his standards of entertainment, so he threw an explosive directly at the downed player. The blast cleared the scene as players and physios all rolled away covering their ears.
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Sorteggio abbastanza benevolo per le tre italiane, Juventus Napoli e
Palermo, impegnate nei preliminari di Europa League. Arrivano
buone notizie Da Nyon, in Svizzera, dove si sono plasmati gli
abbinamenti dei playoff validi per l'accesso ai gironi dell'ex Coppa Uefa.
It's Barcelona's to lose. Even the four one seeds teams who find themselves as potential opponents
(Chelsea, Arsenal, Lyon & Inter - and they're Barca's only potential opponents) are desperately
hoping to avoid the Barcelona lottery. The Catalans are simply, undeniably playing the best
football on the planet right now.
The Cinderellas are in group B, not A. Cluj was the underdog-come-good story to start out the
campaign, and deservedly so. They beat Roma - though who didn't earlier in the season - and
nil-niled (yes, that's a verb) with a then high-flying Chelsea team. Now, however, they've come
back down to earth, and will be [.
Two Greek teams surprised everyone last night scoring a combined six goals and picking up four
points from stiff competition. Werder Bremen fell to Panathinaikos 3-0 while Inter Milan, down 3-2
to Anorthosis well into the match, managed to salvage a point and finish 3-3.
OK, so I blew the call on the Inter-Anonthosis match but I think keepers Julio Cesar (Inter) and
Arian Begaj (Anorthosis) combined for one of the most noteworthy goalkeeping displays we've seen
this year.
4 seeds are the new 3 seeds; or, Transylvanians, Cypriots & Belarusians are legit. BATE were very
fortunate to be eying a blonde Austrian rather than a turban-sporting Italian in net, but they were
never predicted to sneak a deserved point. Cluj proved their Roma win was no fluke, even if they
used a vastly different [.
Another eight Champions League games today, and I'm going to try and cover them all here in one big
LiveBlog. Personally, I think today's games look a bit more interesting than yesterday's. Inter vs
Bremen promises excitement and we'll see if Cluj's win at Roma was just a fluke when they host
Chelsea in Romania.
Cette fois c'est sur on y est :)
Originally uploaded by Yogi_OM La Champions y su himno se escucharon por toda Europa, se inicio de
manera historica para algunos cuadros como el de Javier Aguirre y el Aleti que regresarón
despues de 11 años para propinarle una goleada a domicilio a el PSV de Holanda.
The gulf between football in Eastern and Western Europe is rarely more clearly on display than in
Bill Turianski's latest contribution, a map of the 2008-09 Champions League. Of the 32 clubs only
nine could be considered part of Eastern Europe and three of those (Panathinaikos, Anorthosis and
Fenerbahçe) fit ever so loosely into that category.
I know this post is a little late, but I've been working a lot this past week and haven't had the
time to update. The groupings for the 2008-2009 Champions League tournament have been set. Here are
the groups: Group A: Group B:Chelsea Inter MilanRoma Werder BremenBordeaux PanathinaikosCluj
Anorthosis Group C: Group D:Barcelona PSVSporting Atletico MadridBasel
According to UEFA, the Greek Super League is more than twice as good as the Cypriot First Division
(coefficient ranking of 25.8 to 10.1). Doesn't matter. First it was Anorthosis, rewarded with a
spot in the Group of Holy Shit I Don't Want To Watch This, who dispatched Olympiacos from Europe,
and today saw AC [.
Terminati i turni preliminari con la qualificazione di Juventus e Fiorentina, quest'oggi vengono
sorteggiati i gruppi della fase a gironi in Champions League. L'appuntamento è per le ore 18 a
Montecarlo. Ecco le quattro fasce.
1a fascia: Manchester United, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcellona, Liverpool, Arsenal, Inter, Lione.
Note: When we do our searches for the ever-elusive game highlights, we have to take what we can
get. (And we do it with much gratitude to the people who manage to evade the Video Police and host
them.) But the ones we find are not always perfect. There's a good chance that [...]
To use a golf analogy, the teams in the group stage of the Champions League make the turn today and
tomorrow with the completion of the first three games of the group stage. And while it's early, for
some teams, it's make-or-break time. Group by group, here's an analysis of who needs to win: Group
A: ROMA Needs [.
For the first time in 3 years, the Italian Serie A managed to get 4 Clubs to the UEFA Champions
League Group Stage. With the DRAW taking place yesterday, "someone came out smiling" and
others not so much. "Four Italian teams and four levels of satisfaction" as Gazzetta
would say. Let's have a look. .
Champions League Group Stage Draw
Group A: CHELSEA, AS Roma, Bordeaux, Cluj
Group B: Inter, Werder, Panathinaikos, Anorthosis
Group C: Barcelona, Sporting, FC Basel, Shakhtar
Group D: LIVERPOOL, PSV, Marseille, Atletico
Group E: MAN UTD, Villarreal, CELTIC, Aalborg
Group F: Lyon, Bayern, Steaua, Fiorentina
Group G: ARSENAL, FC Porto, Fenerbahce, Dinamo Kiev
Group H: Real Madrid, Juventus, Zenit, Bate
Champions League Group Stage Draw
Group A: CHELSEA, AS Roma, Bordeaux, Cluj
Group B: Inter, Werder, Panathinaikos, Anorthosis
Group C: Barcelona, Sporting, FC Basel, Shakhtar
Group D: LIVERPOOL, PSV, Marseille, Atletico
Group E: MAN UTD, Villarreal, CELTIC, Aalborg
Group F: Lyon, Bayern, Steaua, Fiorentina
Group G: ARSENAL, FC Porto, Fenerbahce, Dinamo Kiev
Group H: Real Madrid, Juventus, Zenit, Bate
Tolstoy once wrote that "the two most powerful warriors are patience and time". Inter
needed a lot of the former in order to beat their UCL opponents Wednesday night... and 44 minutes
of the latter. But boy did those 44 minutes seem long. If there is one sure thing this year's
Champions League will [.
Over in theCypriot top flight on Saturday, anAnorthosis player (as well as several other members ofpersonnel)came incredibly close to suffering an even nastier injuries when a Omonia Nicosia fan armed with an explosive flare decided to test out just how injured the prone player really was by chucking his grenade into the mix.
Metalurh Donestk and Slaven Belupo both had dominating victories (7-0 & 6-0) in the first legs
of UEFA Europa League Second Qualifying Round on July 19, 2012. Overall, most of the home teams won
the opening matches with the exception of KuPS, Red Star Belgrade, Gomel, Anorthosis, Kalmar FF,
Viktoria Plzen, and Dila Gori who all won on the road.
Önce tahmin edilebilir skorlarla başlayalım. Scolari'nin Chelsea'si evinde
Bordeaux'i 4leyerek bu sene de kupada iddialı olduğunu ortaya koydu. Mourinho'nun
İnter'i ise deplasmanda Pana'yı 2-0 ile geçti. Lucesculu Shaktar Şampiyonlar
Ligi'nde İnönü'deki hazırlık maçlarından farklı
olduğunu bağırdı; Basel'i İsviçre'de 2-1 yendi.
