UEFA Champions League matchday 2 (Tuesday thread)

[carlos tevez]

Just a reminder that there will also be 4 U20 World Cup matches taking place as well. The most interesting are US vs. Cameroon at 12:45 EST and Ghana vs.England at 3:30 EST.

As for the UCL matches themselves...

[h2]Matchday 2 - 29 September 2009[/h2]

E	ACF Fiorentina		Liverpool FC
E	Debreceni VSC		Olympique Lyonnais
F	FC Rubin Kazan		FC Internazionale Milano
F	FC Barcelona		FC Dynamo Kyiv
G	FC Unirea Urziceni		VfB Stuttgart
G	Rangers FC		Sevilla FC
H	Arsenal FC		Olympiacos FC
H	AZ Alkmaar		R. Standard de Liège

[th=""]Group[/th] [th=""]Home[/th] [th=""]
[/th] [th=""]Away[/th]

 

[ezln1]

directv HD remix will be in full effect.

vamos barca

 

[aplx2]

YES!^^

Inter will be in HD as well. I don't go to work till 3 pm pacific!!!


VISCA BARCA!

 

[18key]

Thank god FSN is carrying the Arsenal game. I was scrolling through ESPN and almost cried when it wasn't listed on their network. Tomorrow is gonna be agood day for soccer

 

[aplx2]

Here's the complete schedule for those fortunate enough to have directv. Got it from some cat at bigsoccer.com

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - Match Day 2:

Tuesday September 29:

Rubin Kazan vs Inter Milan - 12:30pm ET (early kickoff) - DirecTV ch. 462 and 462-1 HD

Arsenal vs Olympiacos - "Your Regional Sports Network in HD"

Fiorentina vs Liverpool - Setanta Sports USA (mirrored on DirecTV ch. 46

Rangers vs Sevilla - FOX Soccer Channel (mirrored on DirecTV ch. 467)

Barcelona vs Dynamo Kyiv - DirecTV ch. 463 and 463-1 HD and FOX Sports en Espanol

Debrecen vs Lyon - DirecTV ch. 464 and 464-1 HD

Unirea Urziceni vs Stuttgart - DirecTV ch. 465 and 465-1 HD

AZ vs Standard Liege - DirecTV ch. 466 and 466-1 HD

Wednesday September 30:

CSKA Moscow vs Besiktas- 12:30pm ET (early kickoff) - DirecTV HD ch. 462 and 462-1 HD

Manchester United vs Wolfsburg - FOX Soccer Channel (mirrored on DirecTV ch. 467)

APOEL vs Chelsea - Setanta Sports USA (mirrored on DirecTV ch. 46

Real Madrid vs Marseille - FOX Sports en Espanol (mirrored on DirecTV ch. 469)

Bayern Munich vs Juventus - DirecTV HD ch. 463 and 463-1 HD

AC Milan vs Zurich - DirecTV HD ch. 464 and 464-1 HD

Bordeaux vs Maccabi Haifa - DirecTV HD ch. 465 and 465-1 HD

Porto vs Atletico de Madrid - DirecTV HD ch. 466 and 466-1 HD


HUZZAH!

 

[carlos tevez]

Inter are currently tied 1-1 @ Rubin Kazan (some Russian club).

 

[ezln1]

there goes balotelli

Inter is getting dominated out there....dont know how they havent conceded a 2nd goal

 

[ezln1]

the only thing I HATE about these HD broadcasts are the english commentators..dull and lifeless...if only we could get a HD broadcast with spanishcommentators, or better yet, with Ray Hudson

 

[sirius lee handsome]

Originally Posted by EZLN1

the only thing I HATE about these HD broadcasts are the english commentators..dull and lifeless...if only we could get a HD broadcast with spanish commentators, or better yet, with Ray Hudson

It's absolutely terrible. I watch Fox Sports en Español for that very reason and today I'm hearing announcers in English.

GOLLLL DE MESSI!!!

 

[Sinner]

'Pool down 0-2 at Fiorentina after 36min...

 

[18key]

Arsenal needs to capitalize on some chances. They've had way too many to have it tied at 0 at half. What a disappointing game so far

 

[2wenty thre3]

I'm in class right now and my homie sent a link to the Liverpool game... Little did I know that it was a link to porn that just kept opening up new boxes

I had to dead my laptop asap

Liverpool down 2?

 

[18key]

VAN PERSIEEEEEE! GOOOOOOOLLLLLLL

Finally

 

[carlos tevez]

You knew Arsenal was dominating when you saw Gallas doing more attacking than defending.

The linesman on the Olympiacos half of the pitch was blind. He didn't call an offsides when Gallas was 1 on 1 with the goalie and then he didn't callan offsides when Arshavin scored the 2nd goal. It wouldn't have mattered anyways but I found it odd that he missed 2 very obvious calls.

Arsenal should easily win this group.

 

[tonton32]

Arshavin's finish was top class.

looking forward to tomorrows matches. i expect solid showings from the united match, juve v bayern, real v mareille, and porto v atletico.

 

[wttm]

On a side note, realistically speaking do you guys think City can win the EPL or finish top 4? How I see it is that the top 4 are having a more hecticschedule with UEFA and a relatively thin team, especially come mid season when fatigue and injuries hit. Arsenals and their injury prone ways, Chelsea with atransfer ban, United still need to rely on Giggs the magician too much, and well, Liverpool is Liverpool. Its impressive to watch City so far with their deepteam. With all the ban, injuries, and turmoil so far, their offense doesn't seem to slow down.

 

[sirius lee handsome]

Is Henry still on Barca? Dude is practically non-existent

 

[tonton32]

Originally Posted by wttm


On a side note, realistically speaking do you guys think City can win the EPL or finish top 4? How I see it is that the top 4 are having a more hectic schedule with UEFA and a relatively thin team, especially come mid season when fatigue and injuries hit. Arsenals and their injury prone ways, Chelsea with a transfer ban, United still need to rely on Giggs the magician too much, and well, Liverpool is Liverpool. Its impressive to watch City so far with their deep team. With all the ban, injuries, and turmoil so far, their offense doesn't seem to slow down.

I see what your saying, but to me i think its too early to tell how things will turn out with united, i mean even though they havent fully playedup to their potential, im fine with it b/c united always play their best football during the second half of the season. im excited to see how things turnthough. i say we have a prediction thread or something for the epl.

 

[Sinner]

NO goals after 45 mins.

 

[carlos tevez]

Haha...Michael Owen is injured already. What a shocker.

 

[dc1323]

Man U is down 1-nil...

 

[Sinner]

Giggsy... off of a deflection... but I'll take it.

 

[dc1323]

3 mins later... it's tied. Giggs again

 

[dc1323]

CR9 back to his old dramatic antics... smh. that guy kills me. Kaka is class... Ronaldo needs to take notes.

 

[Sinner]

^ What did he do?