El equipo de Tigres viajó con suplentes para disputar los cuartos de final de vuelta de la Copa de Campeones de CONCACF. ¿Buena o mala decisión?
En el partido de ida disputado el miércoles pasado, pudimos ver a un cuadro casi titular, debido a que por las bandas jugaron Alberto Acosta (Por izquierda) y Elías Hernández (por derecha) y son las posiciones en las que normalmente vemos a Damián Álvarez y Danilinho, el resto del plantel era el que solemos ver cada fin de semana.
Con ese título seguramente se preguntarán: ¿y a éste qué le picó?. Pues si, aquí los
mosquitos están con todo, pero no es eso lo que me hizo escribir este post, sino lo que vimos hace
unas cuantas horas en el partido de eliminatorias de la Liga de Campeones de
CONCACAF, donde el Pachuca realmente no se midió y le propinó tremenda
zapatiza al Jalapa de Guatemala al son de 7-1, y de visitante.
El día de hoy el Atlante enfrentó al Impact de Montreal y lo venció por marcador de
dos goles a uno, lo que le da el liderato del grupo C y la calificación a los cuartos de final
de la Copa de Campeones de CONCACAF. El no haber jugado el pasado sábado contra Tecos en el
[...]
El día de hoy el Atlante enfrentó al Impact de Montreal y lo venció por marcador de
dos goles a uno, lo que le da el liderato del grupo C y la calificación a los cuartos de final
de la Copa de Campeones de CONCACAF. El no haber jugado el pasado sábado contra Tecos en el
[...]
A complete 360 took place in the 1996 rankings from 1995. In 1995, Ajax won the European Champions
Cup only to finish second to Juventus in the rankings because of the lower ranking of the
Eredivisie. In 1996, Juventus defeated Ajax on penalty kicks in the final of the European Champions
Cup, but still finished behind Ajax in the rankings because AC Milan was able to take the Serie A
title away from Juventus.
We'll be back early next week with our fourth annual World Club Ranking pre-season edition. In the
meantime, we'll return to a place where we haven't been in a while. The past.
In 1995, we saw an end to three consecutive years in which the top ranked club of the year was the
UEFA Champions Cup (now, Champions League) victor.
With no club football going on this past weekend, we're back with the latest in our lists of the
WCR Top 25s for past seasons. Next up is 1994.
1994 saw a trend continues as for the third consecutive season, the winner of the UEFA Champions
Cup finished atop the annual rankings. For the second straight season the tournament's runner-up
finished second in the rankings.
(Note: Sorry that this is later than usual for the week, but the wifi in my current apartment in
Buenos Aires is hit-and-miss and this week, mostly miss. I move this weekend and hopefully, this
will improve.)
In 1991, for the seventh consecutive year, the club that won the Champions League did not finish
on top of the World Club Rankings annual charts.
Since we didn't have many significant domestic league matches this week, and I have time to kill
on a train from Amsterdam to Brussels, here is the next edition of our Annual Rankings. This time,
we are up to 1989.
1989 was one of those seasons in which the European Cup winner did not manage to finish atop the
World Club Rankings for the year.
This installment of the Annual Rankings brings us to 1987. In the final rankings for 1987, a
European club returns to the top of the rankings, though it was not the European Cup champion. That
title belonged to the runners up in the Portuguese Liga, Porto, who defeated Bayern Munich 2-1 in
the finals in Vienna by scoring two late goals to overcome a 0-1 halftime deficit.
Liverpool was unable to follow in the footsteps of Ajax and Bayern Munich with a third consecutive
Champions Cup title in 1979 as they fell in the first round of the tournament to fellow English
club Nottingham Forest. Forest carried the national banner valiantly, however, moving past AEK
Athens, Grasshopper Club and FC Cologne on their way to the championship match.
Following in the footsteps of Ajax and Bayern Munich, Liverpool repeated as European champion in
1978. This time they did it by continuing their dominance over Borussia Monchengladbach, who they
defeated in the 1977 final and the 1978 semifinals, and over Club Brugge, who they defeated in the
1976 UEFA Cup final and again, 1-0, in the European Cup final at Wembley Stadium, with Kenny
Dalglish providing the winning margin in the 65th minute.
Dynasties continued to dominate, as dynasties are apt to do, in 1975. Even though it seems odd to
say that the Champions Cup, with a final between two teams from two of the top leagues in the
world, was anti-climactic – so I won't – but the final did pit the ninth-place team
from England against the tenth-place team in the Bundesliga.
En esta final de Champions el Barcelona dominó los últimos 85 minutos; el Barça de Messi,
Henry, Eto'o, Iniesta, Xavi, Pujol y Rafa Marquez se llevó sin competencia la orejona de Europa.
Los del Mersey se mostraron impotentes ante el buen juego y toque de balón de los de
Catalunya.
En un partido donde domino los últimos 85 minutos, el Barça de Messi, Henry, Eto'o, Iniesta, Xavi
y Rafa Marquez se llevaron la orejona. Los del Mersey se mostraron impotentes, ante el buen juego y
toque de balón de los...
Los "Reds" de Fergie echados para atrás sacan un valioso empate a ceros del Nou
Camp, Messi junto Xavi tuvieron una buena actuación dominando el medio campo, pero los de
arriba no tuvieron certeza para marcar. Rafa Marquez jugando seguramente...
El Barca y el Manchester son favoritos para pasar a las seminfinales con las victorias que
obtuvieron de visita, las otras dos llaves Chelsea - Fenerbache y Liverpool - Arsenal, aun
están abierta. Cuartos de final, vuelta Martes 8 -...
Los "Reds" del Mersey, favoritos de muchos para repetir su título de Champions, no
pudieron sobreponerse al autogol de Risse en Antfield y sucumbieron en tiempo extra 3 por 2 contra
los del Chelsea que guiados por un tremendo Dorgba,...
