Tonight is the final round of the Champions League to decide which teams can qualify for the next round. There is more than pride at stake as every step your team takes closer to the title, the monetary rewards is quite substantial as well.....
The pick of the ties tonight is Barcelona vs Werder Bremen. The Bremen team have surprised everyone with their resolute display and is currently leading the German Bundesliga. In the last round, they even beat Chelsea to secure second place ahead of Barcelona. With German hitman, Miroslav Klose in fine form, they are definitelly annoucing their presence in a BANG BANG way....
Barcelona, with their array of stars and as defending champions, should have been comfortably thru to the next round. Yet, the loss of Eto and Messi through injuries plus the lost of form of some players after the World Cup have somehow conjure up such a situation for them. They are now in danger of being the first ever Champions to fail to make it past the group stage. On the other hand, with stars such as Ronaldinho, Giuly, Deco, Iniesta, Eidur and Thuram expected to start tonight, it will take a brave man to write them off.....
Liverpool and Chelsea are through to the next round so there will be little anxiety for their fans in their respective ties although Chelsea will definitely want to win to top their group. For once, Pool fans can rest easy on the Away tie to Galatasaray....
Stay tuned to the big game tomorrow for the Gunners!!!
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Arsenal needs only to avoid defeat at FC Porto on Wednesday to reach the knockout stage.
It'll have to do it without captain Thierry Henry (Can they?).
Arsenal and the Portuguese side go into their final first-phase game sharing the Group G lead with 10 points. A draw is enuff to send them both through.
Third-placed CSKA Moscow is two points back and is at Hamburg hoping one of the leaders will slip because it cannot qualify even if it matches the leaders' points tally. If all three teams tie, Porto and Arsenal would go through on head-to-head results.
If CSKA wins, Porto or Arsenal would exit with defeat.
Henry would have missed the encounter through suspension but the Gunners captain also has a sciatic nerve injury which may keep him out for six weeks.
Against Arsenal, Porto will likely be at full strength. Right-back Bosingwa, winger Ricardo Quaresma, goalkeeper Helton and striker Helder Postiga, who has scored in each of Porto's last five league games to become the top league scorer with nine goals, are all expected to recover from slight injuries.
Porto won the Champions League under Jose Mourinho (The So called Special One) before he moved to coach Chelski, where he has bought two Premier League titles.
Well said...
you actually beat me to writing a preview...
Thanks.... see you around...
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