Champions League 18th/19th October 2011 Fixtures

[Theo_14]

Tuesday, 18 October 2011 CSKA Moscow v Trabzonspor, Dinamo Zagreb v Ajax, FC Basel v Benfica, Lille v Inter Milan, Man City v Villarreal, Napoli v Bayern Munich, Real Madrid v Lyon, SC Otelul Galati v Man Utd, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 AC Milan v BATE Borisov, Barcelona v Plzen, Bayer Leverkusen v Valencia, Chelsea v Genk, FC Porto v Apoel Nicosia, Marseille v Arsenal, Olympiakos v Borussia Dortmund, Shakhtar Donetsk v Zenit St Petersburg,

[Theo_14]

Tough game for Manchester United... Especially since this will be a tricky away trip, I think Herhnandez should get the nod ahead of Weldbeck, he's just too good to be on the bench but then again Weldbeck hasn't done anything to be dropped either.

Tough selection headache for SAF.

[kingusama92]

Otelul (4-5-1): Grahovac; Rapa, Costin, Perendija, Salageanu; Antal, Filip, Neagu, Giurgiu, Frunza; Punosevac.

Subs: Branet, Skubic, Ilie, Sarghi, Vigilanti, Iorga, Pena.

Manchester United (4-4-1-1): Lindegaard; Fabio, Smalling, Vidic, Evra; Valencia, Carrick, Anderson, Nani; Rooney; Hernandez.

Subs: De Gea, Jones, Evans, Fletcher, Owen, Berbatov, Welbeck.

Referee (1-0-0): Felix Brych (Germany)

[kingusama92]

Good to see Hernandez in.

[kingusama92]

Lovely stadium and loud crowd.

[kingusama92]

Villareal score against Manchester City!

1-0.

[kingusama92]

Oh Otelul Galati come very close!

Tame defending until the block.

[kingusama92]

United need to regroup.

Just not getting things together and in flow.

Carrick seems to be passing the ball beautifully. One positive out of the half, I suppose. Otherwise, it's been quite disappointing. More chances need to be created.

0-0 HT.

[kingusama92]

Rooney scores a penalty after a brain fart from Costin with a hand ball.

1-0.

[kingusama92]

Horrible refereeing.

Red card to Vidic for something that deserved a yellow.

[kingusama92]

Phil Jones on for Fabio.

[Theo_14]

Manchester city score a very late goal thanks to Aguero who gives Manchester city their first win in the Champions league.

Feel for Villarreal as they actually played some good football when going forward and looked very organised defensively however it didn't prove to be enough for them, and now they have suffered their 3rd defeat of the CL campaign.

[kingusama92]

Manchester United win 2-0.

Rooney scored another penalty.

Good win, but we had a poor game. Lucky to get two penalties otherwise we barely created opportunities for ourselves.

[Punisher]

Yeah not many goals from open play from United and that must be a big worry. Credit to Otelul, they defended with their hearts out and were not the pushovers others expected them to be.

[Theo_14]

Big game for Arsenal... Especially when you consider this being an away game against a tough side who beat Dortmund 3-0 in the CL game.

However like Arsenal, Marseille are also struggling domestically. Infact they are doing worse then Arsenal. The French side are 15th in the table with 10 gams gone. Tough times indeed.

However still wouldn't rule out a win for them, just hope Arsenal snatch a draw or even a win there, looking forward to it.

[Rana]

Originally Posted by Theo_14 Big game for Arsenal... Especially when you consider this being an away game against a tough side who beat Dortmund 3-0 in the CL game. However like Arsenal, Marseille are also struggling domestically. Infact they are doing worse then Arsenal. The French side are 15th in the table with 10 gams gone. Tough times indeed. However still wouldn't rule out a win for them, just hope Arsenal snatch a draw or even a win there, looking forward to it.

That 3-0 didnt suggest the right score, apparently it should have been the other way. Arsenal will come back with a draw tonight.

[Theo_14]

Originally Posted by Rana That 3-0 didnt suggest the right score, apparently it should have been the other way. Arsenal will come back with a draw tonight.

Instead they achieve a better result!

It was a scrappy game and overall a ugly game for Arsenal. However we were the better team as we created more chances and took our chance very well, fantastic finish by Wales captain Ramsey.

Thought Arsenal and even Marseille were very good defensively, was slightly dissapointing to see Marseille not going forward once during the opening 15-20 minutes of the 2nd half.

Overall a fantastic result for Arsenal - great for the confidence too.

[kingusama92]

Top win for Arsenal.

Poor defending by OM in stoppage time. Ramsey was left open.

Still, Arsenal deserved the win. They were trying harder than OM to actually produce some sort of result.

[Fireworks11]

Important wins for Utd and Arsenal. It's all about the 3 points at this stage, doesn't matter how you get them!

[SempreSami]

Shakthar - Zenit was the best game I've watched this season.

[Amjid Javed]

Old skool smash and grab by arsenal, wouldnt mind a few off them in the PL over next few games!

[Rana]

TBH i havnt seen arsenal defend this good for so long!

[Theo_14]

Originally Posted by Rana TBH i havnt seen arsenal defend this good for so long!

I'm not sure if you watched Arsenal's game versus Dortmund last month... But that was their best defensive performance in years, even better then the defensive performance produced last night.