Champion's League Matchday 2

Tie of the round being Ajax v AC Milan for obvious reasons

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Uefa Champions League
Spartak Moscow v MSK Zilina, GpF, 17:30
Ajax v AC Milan, GpG, 19:45
Auxerre v Real Madrid, GpG, 19:45
Basle v Bayern Munich, GpE, 19:45
Braga v Shakhtar Donetsk, GpH, 19:45
Chelsea v Marseille, GpF, 19:45
Partizan Belgrade v Arsenal GpH, 19:45
Roma v CFR 1907 Cluj-Napoca, GpE, 19:45

Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Uefa Champions League

Rubin Kazan v Barcelona, GpD, 17:30
Hapoel Tel-Aviv v Lyon, GpB, 19:45
Inter Milan v Werder Bremen, GpA, 19:45
Panathinaikos v FC Copenhagen, GpD, 19:45
Rangers v Bursaspor, GpC, 19:45
Schalke 04 v Benfica, GpB, 19:45
Tottenham v FC Twente, GpA, 19:45
[b]Valencia v Manchester United, GpC, 19:45

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why is ajax vrs ac milan the tie of the round?? they both play in inferior leagues to spain and england…

??

champions of europe are italian therefore other leagues are inferior to it - dutch & british football are much of a muchness these days

spanish football is shit

Valencia vs United clearly the tie of the round.

Ajax have more European Cups that the four competing English teams put together…

:lol:

game set & match

Dont put United in with the London Trio there. :lol:

Zlatan putting Arrigo Sacchi in his place after his brace on matchday 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDftR5WMfv8

What a legend. :clap:

It’s pretty shit that all the entertaining, attacking teams are playing on the same night throughout the group stages - Roma, Bayern Munich, Milan, Spartak Moscow.

Good to see a couple of 5.30 kick off’s will kill the auld evening a bit

Yes, McGeady at 5.30pm tomorrow followed by Totti at 7.45pm. Should be spellbinding.

we are talking about today, not in the seventies. ajax have as much chance of winning it as galway utd. its barcelonas all the way now that they have replaced that useless gimp, ibrahinovic, with villa…

Martin Jol knows the score.

Called Zlatan the greatest striker in World football, in todays press conference.

Reports from Italy are claiming that Sneijder, Milito and Pandev have fallen out with renowned trouble maker Samuel Eto’o.

Valeri Karpin says we’ll be concentrating on attacking Zilina down the flanks this evening; a reference to McGeady’s excellent play in recent weeks too:

Naturally we have discussed their strengths and weaknesses, but I would rather not speak about individual Zilina players – they don’t have a Messi, of course. They have a good tall striker, and usually tall players like that are not especially good movers, but Momodou Ceesay is a decent striker who can cause plenty of trouble for our defence.

“When nine or ten players are back in their penalty box, we need to play down the wings as it is almost impossible to break through the centre. Thank God our wing play has worked quite well in recent games.”

Claudio Ranieri is confident that Saturday’s victory over Inter will be the launch pad for our season but he’s wary of the threat posed by Cluj:

“When you beat the team that won last season’s Champions League after playing a very good match and showing you can focus for more than 90 minutes, you start to believe in your own ability. Now we don’t want to stop.”

"CFR Cluj won in Rome just two years ago; I remember Juan Culio scored two goals and he will play tomorrow too, but they are not a surprise package now.

"CFR will play a 4-4-1-1 formation and look to sit back and hit us on the counter-attack because they have some very fast players.

“They also have four players who are more than 190cm tall so we will have to pay attention from corners and free-kicks.”

Paul Scholes has been spared the trip to Valencia and rested.

McGeady starts for Spartak. Pat Dolan reckons he’s a top player and said that he really likes him as a footballer so that’s me, NCC, Rocko, larryduff, Nutsy Fenlon, Damien Richardson, Pat Dolan and Trap in the McGeady camp. Dolan reckons it’s a move that will benefit him as a person and that it will also help him mature as a player playing a different style of football.

Zlatan to score at any time must be the nap of the night though.

Any chance of a link to the game Bandage?

Try this, larry:
http://www.atdhe.net/24933/watch-spartak-moscow-vs-zilina

It’s also on Setanta Ireland and Sky Sports 4.

We’ll be coming up against a few of these Spartak and Zilina players in the upcoming internationals against Russia and Slovakia.

Nice to see Aiden McGeady offering a warm handshake to Martin Hansson pre-game. :clap: