Sunday, April 15, 2007
Friday, April 13, 2007
UEFA CUP RESULTS
Benfica 0 - 0 Espanyol
Osasuna 1 - 0 Bayer Leverkusen
Tottenham H. 2 - 2 Sevilla
Werder Bremen 4 - 1 AZ Alkmaar
teams in bold past trough the semi-finals
Thursday, April 12, 2007
PREVIEW UEFA CUP SECOND LEG
first leg (0:0)
Probable teams
Bremen : Tim Wiese; Clemens Fritz, Naldo, Petri Pasanen, Jurica Vranješ; Patrick Owomoyela, Torsten Frings, Diego, Tim Borowski; Miroslav Klose, Aaron Hunt.
Alkmaar : Boy Waterman; Gijs Luirink, Kew Jaliens, Ryan Donk, Tim de Cler; Julian Jenner, Demy de Zeeuw, Moussa Dembélé, Maarten Martens; Shota Arveladze, Danny Koevermans.
Osasuna - Leverkusen
first leg (3:0)
Probable teams
Osasuna : Ricardo López; José Izquierdo, César Cruchaga, Javier Cuéllar, Nacho Monreal; Valdo, Josetxo Romero, Iñaki Muñoz Oroz, Juanlu; Roberto Soldado, Savo Milošević.
Leverkusen : René Adler; Gonzalo Castro, Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker, Ahmed Madouni, Alexander Meyer; Bernd Schneider, Pirmin Schwegler; Paul Freier, Sergej Barbarez, Athirson; Andriy Voronin.
Benfica - Espanol
first leg (2:3)
Probable teams
Benfica : Quim; Nélson, Anderson, David Luiz, Léo; Georgios Karagounis/Rui Costa, Konstantinos Katsouranis, Petit, Simão; Nuno Gomes, Derlei/Fabrizio Miccoli.
Espanyol : Gorka Iraizoz; Pablo Zabaleta, Marc Torrejón, Daniel Jarque, Francisco Chica; Moisés Hurtado; Francisco Rufete, Iván de la Peña, Luis García, Albert Riera; Walter Pandiani.
Tottenham - Sevilla
first leg (1:2)
Probable teams
Tottenham : Paul Robinson; Teemu Tainio, Michael Dawson, Ledley King, Pascal Chimbonda; Aaron Lennon, Didier Zokora, Jermaine Jenas, Steed Malbranque; Dimitar Berbatov, Robbie Keane.
Sevilla : David Cobeño; Andreas Hinkel, Javi Navarro, Julien Escudé, David Castedo; Daniel Alves, Christian Poulsen, Enzo Maresca, Adriano Correia; Renato; Frédéric Kanouté.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Champions league info
Manchester United - AC Milan
Chelsea FC - Liverpool FC
Old Trafford will stage the first match of the UEFA Champions League semi-finals on 24 April after AC Milan eliminated FC Bayern München to join three English teams in the last four of club football's premier competition.
Final repeat?
While United are contesting their first semi-final in five years, their opponents Milan know all about this stage of the UEFA Champions League having reached it in four of the last five campaigns. The Rossoneri will hope to repeat their 2-0 aggregate success against United in the 2004/05 first knockout round, and a sequel to that season's epic final against Liverpool in Istanbul could also be on the cards in Athens on 23 May.
Rivals meet again
Just as two terms ago, Chelsea FC - the only semi-finalist never to have played in a European Champion Clubs' Cup final – are the barrier standing in Liverpool's way in the other tie. Chelsea will have home advantage in the first leg on 25 April, before the game concludes at Anfield on 1 May. Twenty-four hours later, at San Siro, the second of the 2006/07 finalists will be known.
