Last UEFA Champions League Group Stage Match Day
by Richard Farley on Dec 9, 2009 2:10 PM EST
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UEFA Champions League gets the last half of Mach Day 6 (Group stage) started in half-an-hour.
Yesterday, Bordeaux, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Chelsea won their groups and were joined in the competition's second round by Bayern München, CSKA Moskva, AC Milan and FC Porto.
Four clubs that had second round ambitions will instead by relegated to the Europa League: Juventus (wow), VfL Wolfsburg, Marseille and Atlético Madrid.
Today the big story is in Group F, where all of Barcelona, Internazionale Milano, Rubin Kazan and Dinamo Kiev could win the group, go through in second, or be sent to Europa. Only Barcelona is guaranteed to be playing European football in Winter 2010.
Barcelona goes to Ukraine to face Dinamo while newly-crowned champions of Russia Rubin Kazan go to the San Siro in Milan to face the Nerazzurri.
In Group E: Lyon and Fiorentina are already going through. It's just a matter of who wins the group.
In Group G: Sevilla has booked passage. Unirea Urziceni and Stuttgart meet in Germany to decide who joins them.
In Group H: Arsenal's locked-up the group, and Olympiacos needs only a point from the Gunners to go through. Else, they could end up in Europa with a loss combined with a Standard Liege win over AZ Alkmaar.
I'll be hanging out in the comments throughout the day while I finish my piece on the weakest of the World Cup's eight groups. Help me follow the action on the last day of UEFA Champions League group stage.
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My picks ...
… to advance today (in order of finish in their group): Lyon, Fiorentina; Barcelona, Internazionale; Sevilla, Unirea; Arsenal, Olympiacos.
Some thoights..
Barca suffered but eventually got in, Inter is headed to another early exit, they won but didn’t convince me they are good enough to be in the final stages, and Liverpool has to win the Europa League, otherwise i don’t think Rafa stays for next year.
"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that." Bill Shankly
And Vincent saw the corn
And Einstein the number
And Zeppelin the Zeppelin
And Johan saw the ball
--Dutch cabaret song
by SantiagoColombia on Dec 9, 2009 4:58 PM EST reply actions
Not exactly a crazy day
but it wasn’t set up to be, compared to previous CL’s. Friday’s draw for the 2nd round should be very, very interesting.
You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke. In *St. Louis* his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. To kill! Period! Win by attrition. Well, *Steven Jackson* was the best.
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