Now that everyone here got the Roma-CFR Cluj matchup completely wrong, it's time to move onto Matchday 2. Arsenal, Celtic and Manchester United are you British teams involved, With ManU-Villareal apparently our ESPN2 game of the week. Given that the early listing was for Real Madrid-BATE Borisov, I'll take it. If you don't like that game, please feel free to browse our links. There is one that should really help you out.
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Cristiano Ronaldo will be making his season debut for Manchester United tonight. That is, if he gets off the bench. Unfortunately for us American fans, The Haitian Sensation is not on Villareal's Champions League roster, though Giuseppe Rossi is. Bastard.
Match-ups and lineups after the jump.
Group E
Celtic-Aalborg
Manchester United-Villareal
Group F
Lyon-Fiorentina
Steaua Bucharest-Bayern Munich
Group G
Dynamo Kiev-Arsenal
Porto-Fenerbahce
Group H
Juventus-Zenit St Petersburg
Real Madrid-BATE Borisov
Lineups
Celtic: Boruc, Hinkel, Caldwell, McManus, Naylor, Nakamura, Robson, Brown, Maloney, Samaras, McDonald
Aalborg: Zaza, Beauchamp, Jakobsen, Olfers, Pedersen, Curth, Johansson, Augustinussen, Risgard, Enevoldsen, Saganowski
Manchester United: Van der Sar; Ferdinand, Evra, Neville, Evans; Hargreaves, Fletcher, Park, Nani; Rooney, Tevez. Subs: Anderson, O'Shea, Ronaldo, Vidic, Brown, Foster, Giggs
Villareal: Diego Lopez; Gonzalo, Capdevilla, Angel Lopez, Godin; Fernandez, Eguren, Edmilson, Cani, Pires; Franco. Subs: Viera, Llorente, ibagaza, Fuentes, Cazorla, Senna, Venta
Dynamo Kiev: Bogush, Betao, Diakhate, Mykhalyk, Nesmachniy, Vukojevic, Yussuf, Yeremenko, Aliev, Ninkovic, Bangoura. Subs: Shovkovskiy, Ghioane, Morozyuk, Shatskikh, Kravets,
Arsenal: Almunia; Sagna, Toure, Gallas, Clichy; Walcott, Fabregas, Song, Denilson; Van Persie, Adebayor. Subs: Fabianski, Vela, Eboue, Bendtner, Ramsey, Wilshere, Djourou
Alright, it's Lingering Bursitis here. I have no idea what I'm undertaking, but I thought that since I'd found a Real Madrid v. BATE Borisov feed, I might as well do a half-hearted liveblog (while still technically at work). Call it madness, but I could probably bank on us being the only ones around with that depth of coverage.
2 mins: Raul goes close to scoring. The feed is in Portuguese. This is not going to be easy.
5 mins: All Real so far, unsurprisingly. BATE elicit loud wolf-whistles for hoofing their sole possession downfield.
11 mins: GOAL REAL MADRID... nice build-up. Robben's romp down the left wins a corner. Van der Vaart takes it short, and Guti's low "cross" scuffs across the box to Sergio Ramos, all alone on the back post, and he one-times it through Veremko's legs. Real Madrid 1, BATE Borisov 0 (Ramos 11")
And brilliantly, the patchy Portuguese feed goes down. What the hell was I thinking anyway? I'm just playing out a crisis on the blog... the need to do something about soccer completely overwhelming my better nature.
Time to troll for another obscure game to cover.
Will Real Madrid master Bate?
ReplyDeleteOh, and where's the TM - NY KID on "The Haitian Sensation"?
I figured you would be along to do it. I was right.
ReplyDeleteim watching the liverpool/sunderland reserves showdown. one day, id like to see a woman naked.
ReplyDeleteAlso, we get a blog TM on Spartak London
ReplyDeleteI am going to actually watch the Real/BATE match. Wish me luck
ReplyDeleteFuck it, I'm moving to the post for some Real Madrid insights.
ReplyDeleteHang in there, Georger! It'll happen for you some day.
ReplyDeletethe Arsenal kits are making my eyes bleed
ReplyDeleteI hate the home Arsenal kit more. Using the Blackcurrant on the sleeves. Yuck.
ReplyDeleteMy Arsenal feed sucks. I should find a Celtic one, no one will want to watch that.
ReplyDeleteWould Gary Neville start for Birmingham?
ReplyDeleteSopcast 6029 for Arsenal feed
ReplyDeleteGilardino scores to put Fiorentina up one (against the run of play) in Lyon...
ReplyDeletelyon are the pre 2008 spain of the champions league
ReplyDeletePorto already up 2 on Fenerbache.
ReplyDeleteAnd dammit, Lyon! Allez!
munchinland up 1-0
ReplyDeleteScrew looking for a BATE feed... Porto look good, don't they? Poor Aragones... :(
ReplyDeleteSergio Ramos master(s) Bate
ReplyDeleteNY Kid: because he's Adebayor. It's what he does. Hat trick one week, 6 weeks without a goal, then another hat trick
ReplyDeleteCan't get any good streams. Ack. Oh Southeast |Asian pirates, why do you hate the Mac OS? Think I picked Fenerbahce to go through. I'm an idiot.
ReplyDeleteBut doesn't he care about my CL fantasy team?
ReplyDeleteAalborg are applying some neat pressure... look out, Celtic. You have the NY Kid dreaded vote of confidence to advance
ReplyDeleteI am truly the kiss of death. Bet any and all monies against my picks!
ReplyDeletetalking about Arsenal's terrible travel arrangements for their return to London. So they get back home at 3AM on Thursday? So what?
ReplyDeleteIt's only Bolton on Saturday.
/tempting fate
Celtic have a Penalty...
ReplyDelete... and Barry Robson misses it. Still 0-0 there. Hilarious.
ReplyDeleteAnd Fenerbache pulls 1 back
ReplyDeleteSir Bobby would have made it
ReplyDeleteHa ha... the 4-letter gamecaster mentioned the missed PK in the Arnseal v Kiev liveblog.
ReplyDeleteThere would have been a riot in the Ukraine if Walcott had scored on the counter after the ref (rightly) didn't award a PK
ReplyDeleteAnother for Gilardino... 0-2 Fiore away from home against the limp Lyon
ReplyDeleteI hate you.
ReplyDeletesorry
ReplyDeletewhat I meant was limp lyonnais
there's plenty of other good, descriptive l words I could use
ReplyDeletelifeless
lackluster
lame
limited
listless
limp is a good one though
Oh, so you're a funny man?
ReplyDeleteYou're lucky I'm a PSG man.
plenty of bad adjectives beginning with P too
ReplyDelete:P
Where are all the Man United goals? Arsenal goals?
ReplyDeleteEurope is looking rather lukewarm tonight as opposed to the general pyrotechnics of yesterday (only one game ended 0-0, goals everywhere).
Of course, they'll all right the ship in the 2nd half. Still, 8 games and only 7 goals!
I had no idea that Pires played for Villareal. Astounding!
ReplyDeleteMadrid get a second on BATE
ReplyDeleteRonaldo warming up.
ReplyDeleteStats from Glasgow.
ReplyDeleteCombined shots: 14
On target: 1
@u75 - How Ruud of them
ReplyDeleteDamn Dive gets a PK
ReplyDeleteSlim Charles' little brother gets a PK goal for Kiev
ReplyDelete1-0 kyiv
ReplyDeletethat wasn't supposed to happen
Hey... Arsenal getting the shit end of a dive in the box in the CL. Sounds familiar.
ReplyDeletePoop.
ReplyDelete@PR-
ReplyDeleteI have purged all memories of such an event. What are you on about?
Now now chaps, let's not get all conspiratorial. The pressure of playing in Eastern Europe is clearly affecting the Spanish ref as well as your lot.
ReplyDeleteChristina has made her debut for ManUre.
ReplyDeleteThose [officials] who do not learn from the past are dooming [the Gunners] to repeat it.
ReplyDelete"Slim Charles' little brother gets a PK goal for Kiev"
ReplyDeletewho we hittin?
GC description of the call:
ReplyDelete"It was a funny one, the pen award. One where both players have a hold of each other, but the attacker flings himself to the floor theatrically, clutching the defender's shirt, and the ref buys it."
Nice Roy. At some point though, the Gunners need to shed the hard-done-to tag and simply just get the job done.
ReplyDeleteI still sympathize re: the PK just now. Not the one against us though
oh, good - Bendtner will definitely improve the situation
ReplyDelete@PR-
ReplyDeleteThat's a big boy who went flying down under little Bacary's challenge. Laughable, is it had not been awarded.
*if*
ReplyDeleteDidn't say Arsenal hasn't blown chances. And by doing so left themselves no margin for error. It's easier to take the loss (if it happens) if the error wasn't a gift from the official though.
ReplyDeleteHere come Lyon... it's 2-1 now!
ReplyDeleteRoy: understood. They'll get it sorted, although it won't be due to anything Bendtner does
ReplyDeleteThere's something wonderfully sad about Bendtner's "run with the ball until I get tackled" style. It's a simplicity that you just don't see much past 8 year-olds.
ReplyDeleteJuve finally get a goal... 1-0 there, 10-15 mins to go
ReplyDeleteJuve scored. Del Piero.
ReplyDeletethis has 89th minute tevez goal written all over it
ReplyDeleteNorwich down to QPR at the half despite QPR being a man down from 25 minutes.
ReplyDeleteRed Card for Aalborg too... the door is wide open there, Nakamura's free kick needed a fine save from Karim Zaza
ReplyDeleteVela on
ReplyDeleteUnfuckingbelievable... the damn frogs have equalized
ReplyDeleteLyon 2, Fiore 2
Lyon 2-2
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, C-ron botches a chance at the far post and then watches Jonny Evans plant a wide-open header square against the post from close range after his gorgeous cross. I am loving it
ReplyDelete1-1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteLevel. Thanks you Gallas.
ReplyDeleteBENZEMA!
ReplyDeleteGALLAS!
ReplyDeleteIt's all French all the time!
that's a good result away from home, PK aside.
ReplyDeleteI've always loved that Gallas kid.
ReplyDeleteSo, what'd I miss? I just came in in the 83rd minute. Am I to understand the penalty was bullshit?
ReplyDeletePorto bag another to help their goal difference, 3-1 there
ReplyDelete1-1 FT Arsenal
ReplyDeleteI have no feeds... how much extra time after the Gallas' goal?
ReplyDeleteAnd Wenger is pissed. In the American way, not the British one.
ReplyDelete@hockalees-not enough.
ReplyDeleteGallas scored in the 88th. Maybe 3 minutes of added time.
According to the anjlnouncer it was a "Joobious" penalty.
ReplyDeleteLOL at Group E. Two 0-0 games.
ReplyDeleteclose to full time in Norwich too... still 1-0 QPR
ReplyDeleteNorwich fail to score. 0-1 at home to 10 man QPR
ReplyDelete