The Champions League returns this week and will see the Premier League’s four clubs in the competition: Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur all attempt to progress to the quarter finals. In the coming days there are two mouth-watering clashes involving English clubs, as Tottenham take on AC Milan at the San Siro and Arsenal host Barcelona at The Emirates Stadium, before Manchester United and Chelsea take on Marseille and FC Copenhagen respectively next week. The question is, how many Premier League clubs will emerge victorious from the last 16?
bet365 fancy TWO English teams to make it through – what about you? bet365 are betting on how many English sides make it through to the quarter final stage of the Champions League and the firm are 11/10 about two. bet365 spokesman Steve Freeth “injuries mean we’ve recently eased our price on Spurs progressing and it’s no secret that Arsenal have it all to do against Barcelona.” Also Barcelona are the firm’s 3/1 favourites to be the top scoring Champions League side this week.
I am slightly more optimistic about the English clubs’ chances in the Champions League in the coming weeks. Although neither of their opponents should be underestimated, you would expect both Man United and Chelsea to make it through without too much trouble. Then there’s Arsenal and Tottenham and while the Gunners face an uphill task, I think that if Spurs can snatch an away goal in Milan and be no worse than 3-1 down, they can make it yet another magical European night at White Hart Lane in the return leg. So I’m going for THREE English clubs to make it through – sorry Arsenal fans!
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Real Madrid eased their way into the Champions League quarter-finals with a comprehensive 3-0 win over Lyon at the Bernabeu on Wednesday.Real, who held a narrow advantage on away goals after the opening leg in France ended 1-1, always looked in control at home and gave up few chances while creating plenty of their own.Portuguese ace Cristiano Ronaldo was back in Jose Mourinho’s 11 after recovering from a hamstring injury, lasting 73 minutes and playing a hand in Marcelo’s opening goal.French striker Karim Benzema put the tie beyond doubt after the hour, and Angel Di Maria added another for good measure as Real clinched the tie with a 4-1 overall aggregate.The result gives Real a boost of confidence as they head back to La Liga to face city rivals Atletico on Saturday.The hosts were creating trouble for Lyon from the outset and needed just five minutes to come close to an opener through Sami Khedira, whose header from their first set-piece struck the left post.Goalkeeper Iker Casillas produced a fine diving save to redirect Cesar Delgado’s swipe from range beyond the right post – one of Lyon’s few real opportunities in the first half – while at the other end Lyon custodian Hugo Lloris did well to punch Ronaldo’s flat attempt over the bar.But a Real goal seemed inevitable given their complete dominance, and it came in the 37th minute after some terrific by-play between Marcelo and Ronaldo.The Brazilian left-back bullied his way to the edge of the area on a one-two with Ronaldo, cut inside a sliding Dejan Lovren and chipped his shot beyond Lloris to lift the Bernabeu to full voice.Benzema, who had found the net eight times in his past six matches, started to press for a goal of his own in the shadows of half-time.He found his way past Lloris with a header on 42 minutes, though it was rightfully disallowed for offside, and three minutes later Lloris produced an acrobatic leap to tip the Frenchman’s finish over the bar.But there was still time aplenty for the former Lyon man, whose 66th-minute goal owed much to a terrific ball by Marcelo.The Brazilian’s deep through pass cut Lyon’s defence open, allowing Benzema to go one out with Lloris in the area and slide in an easy finish.With the tie all but sealed Lyon’s heads bowed, allowing Mesut Ozil to get away a deft flick-on for Di Maria to race through and place his shot under the bar on 76 minutes.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger insisted the Premier League remains his top priority after the Gunners thumped Leyton Orient 5-0 in the FA Cup.Orient secured a lucrative fifth-round replay at the Emirates thanks to a last-gasp equaliser in their opening tie, but a Nicklas Bendtner hat-trick and goals to Maroune Chamakh and Gael Clichy ensured there would be no such fairytale on Wednesday.Arsenal advance to a thrilling showdown at Manchester United in the quarter-finals, but with leaders United a mere four points away on the Premier League table Wenger said the Gunners were focused on the top-flight silverware this season.”The league is a vital race. For us, the most important one,” Wenger said.”It will be interesting until the end of the season. Every game now is a cup game – we had one tonight, and will have one on Saturday (against Sunderland).””The race is tight, exciting. I don’t rule out Chelsea or Manchester City because everybody can drop points everywhere. If we maintain our consistency we have a very good chance.”Arsenal let slip the Carling Cup trophy with a 2-1 loss to Birmingham City in Sunday’s final at Wembley, and Wenger was pleased to see his charges return to their winning ways so convincingly.”It was a good response, we took the game in a serious way. It was good to win the game,” he said.”We are in a fantastic run. On Sunday we lost a game in special circumstances.”Orient boss Russell Slade praised Arsenal for ruthlessly responding to their 1-1 draw in the reverse fixture.”It was a difficult night for us. Chances were few and far between,” Slade said.”Arsenal were in the mood tonight and made life difficult for us. They played some wonderful football and we tried to live with that.””They are a group of internationals who are very focused and disciplined and their attitude tonight was spot-on.”
%image% Australia scored a surprising 2-1 victory over European heavyweight Germany at Borussia Park on Tuesday.Despite Mario Gomez’ first half goal, the Australians rallied in the second half to topple the home side.
A neatly-taken goals by Blackpool’s David Carney, the 1000th goal conceded by Germany, and a penalty from Luke Wilkshire, consigned the Germans to defeat.
A late goal from Asamoah Gyan earned Ghana a 1-1 draw with England at Wembley.
Recent Liverpool signing Andy Carroll put the Three Lions ahead just before the interval but the English were denied a victory over the World Cup quarter-finalists when Sunderland forward Gyan curled in a fine goal for the Africans.
France and Croatia played out a scoreless draw at the Stade de France, in a rematch of the 1998 World Cup semi-final which saw Croatia coach Slaven Bilic controversially have his opposite number Laurent Blanc sent off.
World Cup semi-finalist Uruguay overcame a late comeback to grab an entertaining 3-2 win over Ireland.
A Shane Long headed effort cancelled out Diego Lugano’s goal but then strikes from Edinson Cavani and Abel Hernandez put the Uruguayans 3-1 ahead.
A Keith Faley penalty gave the Irish a chance but the Uruguayans held on.
The hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, Russia and Qatar respectively, played out a 1-1 draw in Doha.
Qatar grabbed a surprise lead through Mohamed Kasoula, but they were denied a famous victory when Tottenham striker Roman Pavlyuchenko equalised with a shot that Qatari goalkeeper Meshal Mubarak got a hand to.
Former World Cup champions Italy beat Ukraine 2-1 in Kiev thanks to goals from Giuseppe Rossi and Alessandro Matri.
Greece was held to 0-0 draw by Poland in Piraeus despite a handful of scoring opportunities falling their way in each half.
Portugal beat Finland in Aviero thanks a brace from debutant Rúben Micael.
Canada edged out Belarus at a near-empty stadium in Antalya in Turkey courtesy of a 58th minute strike from Houston Dynamo defender Andre Hainault.
A Michael Krohn-Dehli winner saw Denmark come out on top against Slovakia. Denmark drew first blood after an own goal from Slovakia’s Kornel Salata although the Slovakians drew level Filip Holosko but it was the Brondby midfielder who had the last laugh for the Danes.
A solitary goal separated Bulgaria and Cyprus with the Bulgarians coming out on top courtesy of a contentious Martin Petrov goal.
In Asia, China resoundingly defeated Honduras by three goals thanks to a from goal from Huang Bowen, and a Yang Xu double – all of which were set up by Schalke midfielder Hao Junmin.
In Latin America, Ecuador were held 0-0 by Peru in The Hague, Netherlands.
The Peruvians, who were reduced to 10 men, managed to hold on after goalkeeper Salomon Libman’s saved Ecuador captain Walter Ayovi’s penalty in the first half.
A Matias Fernandez free-kick and Jean Beausejour strike saw Chile beat Colombia 2-0.
Sunderland led twice but fell 3-2 to West Bromwich Albion at the Stadium of Light on Saturday.Albion leapfrogged their opponents on the table and are on the brink of safety in the English Premier League, but it was not until the dying stages that they found themselves ahead and on their way to a hugely significant result.
It looked as though the Black Cats were on their way past the 40-point safety mark when they took an early lead ? Asamoah Gyan’s cross from the left in the 11th minute deflected towards goal and defender Nicky Shorey headed it past Scott Carson under pressure from Ahmed Elmohamady.
Albion equalised just before the half-hour mark when Sunderland failed with some basic defending and striker Peter Odemwingie capitalised, stretching to turn the ball past Simon Mignolet.
The Wearsiders almost instantly regained the lead when Phil Bardsley smashed a free-kick home after Gyan had been brought down 20 yards from goal in the 31st minute and Steve Bruce’s men successfully held on to their lead until half-time.
The second-half might have gone either way but Sunderland were gradually broken down, as Albion took heart from the home team’s nervy play.
The visitors levelled in the 54th minute through another scrappy goal, Albion passing it around static Sunderland players and Odemwingie given far too much time to find Youssouf Mulumbu who scuffed a shot home from 10 yards out.
Sunderland continued to play dreadfully and for the second time in consecutive weeks they were indebted to a fantastic performance from Mignolet between the posts to keep them in the game.
But there was nothing he could do about Albion’s 72nd minute winner – the visitors once again given the freedom of the park before Odemwingie found Paul Scharner 12 yards out and he finished dutifully.
Sunderland mounted a late surge but it never looked like being enough to snare a point, and at the final whistle, the home team were jeered for their poor second-half performance.
Heineken® launches first global ‘dual screen’ Champions League football game
Heineken® today announced the launch of StarPlayer, the live football game that lets fans watch UEFA Champions League matches on television whilst playing it in real-time on a computer, iPhone or iPod touch.
StarPlayer is a groundbreaking ‘dual screen’ digital initiative from Heineken which transforms TV watching into a social interactive experience for football fans. The game, which was created and devised by digital agency AKQA, taps into competitive banter of the fans by creating a live TV game experience that can be played from home.
StarPlayer, a unique overlay to live football matches, represents the first global example of a social media gaming platform. Fans watch the football on TV while playing StarPlayer in realtime, anticipating events unfolding on the pitch live and making decisions on what will play out over the next few seconds. The use of ‘dual screen’ technology that involves time-dependent decisions on passages of open-play makes StarPlayer a world-first innovation.
To score points, fans anticipate what will happen at key moments such as corners, free kicks, and penalties, for example whether the shot will be saved or whether there will be a goal in the next 30 seconds. With every correct forecast, fans gain points. Through the ‘Interactive Champions League’, they can also compete and share with their friends via Facebook and with other players around the world.
This is the sixth consecutive year that Heineken, the world’s most international beer brand, has sponsored the prestigious UEFA Champions League.
Floris Cobelens, Global Head of Digital at Heineken, commented: “StarPlayer will really change the way in which football fans interact with the UEFA Champions League, creating a more social experience around watching and enjoying the matches. For Heineken to be able to bring the excitement and competition of these premium matches to the actual fingertips of the fans through the cutting edge ‘dual screen’ technology of Star Player really showcases our
commitment to providing extraordinary innovative and engaging experiences for fans.”
Heineken are one of the first global brands to launch an iAd to promote the UK launch of StarPlayer on iPhone and iPod touch. iAd is Apple’s revolutionary new mobile advertising network, reaching millions of iPhone and iPod touch users in their favourite apps. The iAad delivers a cut down “demo” version of the StarPlayer game and allows consumers to get an engaging, playful gameplay experience, before going on to download the app and playing for real.
A little taster for what you can expect:
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Guangzhou regained the lead in the Chinese Super League with a 1-0 win away to Shenzhen Ruby on Sunday, while Beijing Guoan kept pace in second.Forward Jiang Ning struck the winner in the 68th minute for Guangzhou at the Shenzen City Stadium.
They now top the table by one point from Beijing, who beat Chengdu Blades 3-0 away from home.
Wang Xiaolong, Xu Liang and Honduran Walter Martinez were all on target with second-half goals in the win for Beijing.
Hangzhou Lucheng are down to third, level on points with second-placed Beijing, after they could only draw 0-0 away to Henan Jianye.
Liaoning Hongyun climbed to fourth with a 3-0 victory at home to Dalian Shide.
Yang Xu and Brazilian Valdo both netted in the space of four minutes just before half-time, with Yang striking again to complete the scoring on 85 minutes.
Qingdao Jonoon moved up to moved up to seventh with their third win of the season, a 4-1 triumph against visiting Nanchang Bayi.
Uruguayan winger Jonathan Ramis levelled for Nanchang after Li Peng put the hosts in front just nine minutes into the match, before Yao Jiangshan made it 2-1 shortly before half-time.
A second-half brace from Song Wenjie made sure of the points for Qingdao.
With the bad boy theme running on Football FanCast this week I thought it would be apt to supply you with a video list of some shocking incidents seen over the last few years on the football pitch. From player bust-ups, to dodgy tackles and even the bizarre actions involving referees and fans, there were many to choose from. Players are expected to be professional on the pitch, respecting the referee, respecting the opposition and being able to control their anger but football is a passionate game, which the following top 10 shows.
10: Mascots Fighting – This is one of the most bizarre incidents and although it does not feature football players, when do you see opposing mascots having a real punch up on the pitch? Well it happened between Wolves’ mascot Wolfie and Bristol Rovers’ three little piggies. Unfortunately this is the most light hearted of the entries in the list.
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9: Ruud Van Nistlerooy receives Arsenal attack – After winning a last minute penalty against Arsenal, Ruud Van Nistlerooy steps up to smash home a winner from the spot for Manchester United but it hits the crossbar and comes back out into play. The match is shortly over and Martin Keown along with his team mates decide to let the Dutchman know what they think of him.
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8: Di Canio pushes Ref – Although this incident is bad it is rather humorous at the same time, Sheffield Wednesday’s Paulo Di Canio was sent off in a game against Arsenal at Hillsborough and the passionate Italian shoves referee Paul Alcock. But the way the ref falls to the ground makes it look more comical than a serious matter.
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7: Gattuso loses it – Recent incident involving the AC Milan captain gradually losing the plot in the Champions League game against Tottenham Hotspur. He takes exception to Spurs coach Joe Jordan on the touchline first grabbing him by the throat and later trying to head butt him. Although his actions were disgraceful, I’m sure many of us would’ve liked to have seen Joe Jordan retaliate and stop the Italian in his tracks.
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6: Team-Mates Fight – There’s been a few of these incidents over the years but this one is probably one of the best (or worst) depending on how you look at it. Newcastle United’s Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer exchanged some heated words on the pitch which quickly turned to blows. It reminds me of a similar incident in the 1990s between Blackburn Rovers pair David Batty and Graeme Le Saux. There’s also been quite a few from the training ground, Sweden’s Mellberg vs Ljungberg and West Ham’s John Hartson vs Eyal Berkovic are two examples.
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5: Another Muscat tackle – One thing I have never understood in football is how Kevin Muscat made a career in the sport from assaulting players? This was just one of the latest from playing in his homeland of Australia getting sent off for a horrendous over the ball tackle. He had just come back from suspension after landing a kidney punch on a player during a game. In England, he made some horrible tackles, most notably on Mattie Holmes which ended his career short.
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4: Zidane – You know what, during the 2006 World Cup final, Zinedine Zidane bows out to the football world with a shocking headbutt on Italy’s Materazzi. Cursing between players happens in every game but Zidane took exception to whatever Materazzi said to him and knocked him completely off his feet to the millions of live viewers watching.
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3: Roy Keane’s retribution – This incident made me lose any respect I had for Roy Keane as a player. He even admitted in his autobiography that he deliberately set out to injure Haaland and should’ve received a lengthy ban. Keane saw it as revenge for an incident a few years earlier, Keane had tried to deliberately kick Haaland in front of him but ended up injuring his own leg. Haaland accused Keane of faking it, which is why Keane set out for revenge. Haaland never played a full game of football after this incident and Roy Keane was left to continue playing football for many years to come.
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2: Thatcher elbow – The defender has had previous for his over aggressive challenges on the pitch but this incident on Tottenham’s Pedro Mendes topped it all. Thatcher’s over enthusiastic tackle led with his elbow caused Mendes to be knocked out and hospitalised. The alarming thing is, Thatcher acts like it was a fair challenge. Maybe Wayne Rooney should watch this to see how dangerous flying elbows could be?
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1: Kung-Fu Cantona – An incident that shocked the football world. When Eric Cantona was sent off for Manchester United against Crystal Palace a Palace fan gave him abuse that sent the Frenchman over the edge and resulted in the flying kung-fu kick attack on the fan. He was banned for several months and it somewhat overshadowed the talented footballer’s career.
West Ham striker Demba Ba has denied being responsible for starting a brawl at the relegated club’s end-of-season gala awards on Monday night.It was suggested trouble began when Ba refused to sign an autograph for a fan at the function at Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
Police were called after tables were overturned, a vase smashed and chairs thrown, with security allegedly pursuing a group of fans as they fled the premises.
But the Senegal forward denied claims he had snubbed a supporter.
“I did sign the autograph,” Ba wrote on Twitter. “I never refuse to sign autograph to the fans.”
“He came to me saying he is tired to watch us play and was looking for confrontation.”
Co-owner David Sullivan later claimed that a drunken supporter had racially abused a player at the function.
“The whole incident has been blown out of all proportion,” Sullivan said. “It was one individual who had too much to drink, sadly a problem in British society.”
“A player was racially abused by the same drunken supporter, which is not acceptable. Sadly one drunken supporter let the club down.”
The incident came on the back of a 3-2 Premier League defeat to Wigan, which condemned West Ham to the Championship.
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The result led to the immediate sacking of manager Avram Grant ahead of the club hosting Sunderland in their final game of the season on Sunday.
The relegation brings to an end a dramatic few seasons in the top flight for the Hammers since their promotion for the 2005-06 campaign.
That season the club impressed with a mid-table finish under Alan Pardew and almost won the FA Cup final, eventually falling in a penalty shootout to Liverpool after a dramatic 3-3 draw.
Around 18 months ago, Wolverhampton Wanderers played a weakened team against Manchester United in a league match.
I was furious. Well, quite miffed anyway. I thought it disgraceful that they would throw in the towel for a football match, and thought it unfair on United’s competitors that they chose to do this once against United. It’s not as if a full-strength team couldn’t possibly have got a result at Old Trafford, however unlikely it may have been.
In the end, Wolves got a suspended fine. And since then, it not surprisingly happened again, and resulted in a £25,000 fine handed out to Blackpool for fielding a “weakened team” against Aston Villa in November – when they faced four games in 12 days (and narrowly lost 3-2). Ian Holloway threatened to resign if they were fined, but not surprisingly, didn’t.
The Premier League said this at the time: “In reaching a decision the Board took into account the team fielded by Blackpool in its match against West Ham United, and in subsequent league matches.”
It was slightly different with Wolves, as McCarthy had also spoken about how he saw no chance of getting a result – so was basically admitting that he had thrown the towel in (yet his fine was suspended!). Holloway on the other hand was adamant that he was simply using his 25-man squad as he saw fit, claiming that all teams have to submit squads, and that he should be allowed to use them.
What is clear is that both played weakened teams. The opinion a few journalists have put forward (and Holloway too) that a 25 man squad is there to be used and all players are equal is utter hogwash. Clearly any manager has a preferred 11, or close to it, and has other players there as back up and nothing more. If Holloway really thinks all of his squad to be equals he needs to explain why most of the team that faced Aston Villa that day have barely featured since.
Playing weakened teams in cup competitions is a different argument, and I wrote recently how I would have been disgusted as an Aston Villa fan at the weakened team Houllier put out against Manchester City as it was throwing away the chance of a trophy, and was deeply unfair for the fans that travelled down to watch their team limp to a 3-0 defeat. Likewise, the Wolves fans that travelled to Old Trafford that day may have preferred to have saved their money if they had know the team that was being put out.
This debate once more came to a head again at the weekend, when it was widely reported, and came to pass, that Manchester United would make wholesale changes to their team for the visit of Blackpool, with the impending Champions’ League Final in mind.
The Premier League chief executive, Richard Scudamore, confirmed no action would be taken over United’s selection. “As far as weakened teams are concerned, the Premier League has only ever applied the rule twice when it’s been an extreme case and somebody has changed all 10 outfield players and then the week after gone back and changed the 10 back again. That’s not going to happen.”
So it seems you have to change your whole outfield team to get in trouble. Yet as I will mention below, the rule does not state that at all, merely that every team picked should be full strength.
All things considered, I think the theory of fining a club for playing a weakened team is fine. However, the practice of fining a team is different, and bordering on farcical. This is because it is a rule that is simply unworkable.
The controversy revolves around E20 – no, not the fictional nightclub in Eastenders, but the Premier League’s rule E20, which states “In every league match each participating club shall field a full-strength team”.
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A simple enough ruling, but in that one short sentence is a lorry-load of trouble.
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One of the problems with enforcing the rule is the double standards. If United or Arsenal or Chelsea etc dropped 10 players for a league match, they could still put out a team that stands a good chance of getting a result. The smaller teams cannot. And if the likes of United did that and won the game, it’s hard to fine them when they picked up the points anyway. In fact, it’s nigh on impossible. And yet if the Premier League wants the ruling to work then it must be applied consistently, and thus, in theory, the big teams should be fined too. But that can’t really happen can it? And thus the ruling becomes little more than a punishment for smaller teams for not having the squad depth of the big boys.
It should also be noted that it’s harder with the bigger teams to know what a weakened team is. Their squads are of course deeper, due to extra resources obviously, and due to fighting the season on more fronts they often rely less on a set starting eleven, but use the squad to fuller effect.The odd change or two would be commonplace week by week even with a fully-fit squad, so the lines are blurred on just how weakened a team would be when wholesale changes are suddenly made.
The Premier League has partly brought this on itself by implementing 25 man squads, thus giving the managers the excuse of simply utilising their resources. And you cannot blame the big teams for resting players when they have a big game coming up and if that particular league game isn’t as important to them. And you can’t really blame the smaller teams for utilising their more meagre resources and targeting some games more than others in their quest to reach that magical 40 point mark.
All of which leaves a huge mess that is difficult to sort out. The rule really can’t be left as it is, and perhaps it would be best to accept that teams will use their squad as they see fit, however much you may disagree with that, and let them get on with it.
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