There are two big challenges for the Gunner side. Fist one is the return leg Champions League match against Celtic FC and the premier league match with man utd. Arsenal’s starting performances is impressive. Gunner’s captain Cesc Fabregas may miss the play-off match in the home ground. But he could return in the league match on 29 August to take on Manchester United.
The 22-year-old Spain midfielder, who excelled in the 2-0 first-leg win at Celtic Park on August 18, suffered a hamstring injury in the Premier League game with Portsmouth on Saturday.
Fabregas could also miss the Premier League clash with champions Manchester United at Old Trafford on Saturday, though Wenger remained optimistic he could play a part.
Injury hits arsenal side more and they have to take on the home match second leg match when more than 6 players will be out for serious injury. Although it hopes that skipper Cesc Fabregas back to the team is just time matter.
The final match of Champions League 08-09 will be taken place on 27 May 2009 at the time of 20:45 (CET) at Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy. This is the first time; Stadio Olimpico is going to celebrate the UEFA CL final match between Man Utd vs Barcelona but in 1996 Juventus F.C. won the trophy. Previously, it has been celebrated five important matches live World Cup Football 1990, when West Germany won the title of world champions. Only one English Football Club met two times in these kinds of famous match ever. None but arsenal played two matches in European Cup football tournament and won too.
72,700 capacitated play ground is all set to celebrate the UEFA CL final 08-09, was situated in 1928 but opened in 1937. It has celebrated more that 30 matches including some famous matches.
The Summer Olympic in 1960 was held here as well as Summer Universiade in 1975 and World Championships in Athletics in 1987.
The UEFA Champions League is going to be held second time here and the first time any English FC is playing this ground. The first UEFA Champions League will be along with any English team.
Manchester United and Arsenal two English giants are going to meet in the UEFA Champions League 08-09 semi final first leg match at Old Trafford the home city of Man. Utd. Manchester United got wins 4 matches out of the last five matches and Arsenal just 3 wins one lose and one draw as well as the opposition lost jut one match. The wining statistics is positive for the host.
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Among the last five matches Arsenal defeated to Chelsea in FA Cup for 2-1 and leveled to Liverpool for 4 – 4 in the premier league. In the quarter final round they beat Villarreal. But, Manchester United beat to Everton in FA Cup tournament, and in the quarter final round it defeated FC Porto.
The statistics of last head to head ten matches Arsenal and Man, Utd. both won four times each and two times drawn. But he general statistics of UEFA Champions League 2008/2009 is Manchester United won 4 times, drawn 6 and no lose but Arsenal won 8 drawn 3 and just one lose. Among the four wins, MU two in home and two is in away but among the 8 wins Arsenal got 5 at home and 3 in away.
In the season 08-09 of UCL Manchester United just able to take wins from the last 8 match just 3 and 5 resulted drawn. But the Red Devils got 5 wins one lose and 2 drawn. Arsenal is very strong for this season.
But, if you look over the premier league standings table you will easily understand that Arsenal is fighting for survival.
Here, I am giving some website links from where you can get the live score and updates of the match:
The wining records of Barcelona and Chelsea similar. Among the last five, they both have secured three win each and two drawn, no lose. The competition of Uefa Champions League 08-09 first leg semi final between Barcelona and Chelsea is going to kick off on 28 April 2009. Both the team is confident to take lead, especially Barcelona because this is their home match,
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Barcelona, who the leader of Primera Division had three wining records but all were in Primera Division matches. There was a single match of UCL of Quarter Final that made drawn. In quarter division, FC Barcelona got one wins and one drawn.
Similarly, Chelsea secured three wins and two drawn. There were two important matches along side Liverpool and Arsenal. In the FA Cup the beat Liverpool and Uefa Quarter final round they made drawn with Arsenal.
Since 2005, Barcelonaand Chelsea met in the encounter six times, when each teams won two times and drawn two times. They both met in 2006 Uefa Champions League and in the away match Barcelona lost to the Chelsea and the home match came to drawn. In the same season they met another time. That time Barcelona won the away match but drawn in home match.
Form the statistics it is clear that in all season they could not get wins when it played home match as first leg. In the season 08-09, Barcelona is going to face first leg match along with Chelsea in their home ground. Now, we all have to wait what the result come this year.
The first leg match of the UEFA Champions League semi-finals will be kicked off on 28 April 2009 20:45 (CET). The encounter will be taken place in Spain the home ground of FC Barcelona at CampNou, Barcelona, Spain.
Chelsea’s fans are eagerly awaited for the semi final match of CL 08-09 against FC Barcelona. All eyes are fixed on Didier Drogba, who is the most expected players in the side of Chelsea. To hold Chelsea’s position, he played important roles in last dozen of matches. The striker has scored 9 goals from the last 12 matches.
Chelsea doesn’t have any good performances in the Uefa Champions League. In the last year it could reached to the final. It was the first liver ever but failed to won the title of UCL Champions. Thought they played best in the fixed time but in the tie breaker it lost to Manchester United.
Liverpool FC is in pressure and they must have to win the next match to qualify them in the Champion League UEFA Champions League semi-final. None but win because they lost in the second leg math to Chelsea last week. Although Chelsea has not good record in the CL, they seem to be very fruitful this year. Chelsea just reached in the final onetime ever but Liverpool in six times Champions League winner.
The CL Quarter-finals, second leg match will be held no 14 April 2009 at 20:45 (CET), at StamfordBridge, London in England. You all know that Chelsea is leading by winning the first-leg match. Important information is that Chelsea is very positive in this ground and never lost a tie match.
In the 2005 UEFA Champions League Liverpool took on AC Milan in final and scored 3-0 in the second half. As a result they able to level the match by scoring three goals in six minutes in second-half. At last penalty brought the 2005 Champions League title by 3–2.
The quarter final match of Champions League 08-09 is going to take on between Manchester United and Portuguese champion FC Porto on 7 April, 2009 at Old Trafford. This is the home match for Manchester United (first Leg match) and the away match will be held on April 7, 2009.
Venue: Old Trafford Date: Tuesday, 7 April Kick-off: 1945 GMT
Coverage: Full commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live with live text commentary on the BBC Sport website. Also live on ITV1
Both the football teams are very honored from their position. Manchester United, the English top football club and the opposite FC Porto is also of Portuguese. In the running season they are drawing the top pointing of the standing board. Most probably, the fans over the world know well only about the English Clubs but not others of Europe except Barcelona and Real Madrid. Manchester United is the champions of the English Premier League as well as FC Porto is also Portuguese champions. The top two will meet in the encounter of Champions League’s quarter-final first leg match.
Who will win? If I arrange a pull then most the vote will come to Manchester United because it is very strong arranged team in all sides. Ronaldo, Rooney Tevez dominating the opposites with an iron hands. The last match along with Aston Villa of English Premier League is one of the big examples and nothing to describe. Manchester United has big achievements in last 15 matches and secured 11 wins although it lost to Liverpool for 1-4 goals.
FC Porto is not a well formatted team for English football. It did not get any wins in last 12 matches and lost 11 and one just drawn. But, it has enough quality to take on Manchester United. The Brazilian striker, Hulk is one of them who is considered as a real competitor of Ronaldo. He came to the attention after a brilliant display in the first leg of the last-16 tie against AtleticoMadrid. Aly Cissokho joined to FC Porto in January from Vitoria Setubal and draw attention to all and thinking against Ronaldo. Ferreira has baked and the strong support for striker Hulk.
Man Utd squad: Van der Sar, Foster, Kuszczak, O'Shea, Neville, Vidic, Evans, Ferdinand, Evra, Eckersley, Ronaldo, Nani, Fletcher, Gibson, Carrick, Scholes, Giggs, Park, Rooney, Tevez, Welbeck, Macheda.
Among the last 6 football matches Manchester united won 4 and lost two. But the Portuguese champion just 3 and but no loss. I mentioned ago that FC Porto did not secured any wins in English league.
After the second leg match of knock out tournament, it was almost final that which football clubs are going to play the Quarter Finals and the first league matches of the quarter-final will be taken place on 7, 8 April and the second leg matches on 14, 15 April 2009.
Here, I am giving the quarter final line up of Champions League 2008-09:
Champions League 2008-09 Quarter Final Line up
Competing Teams
Villarreal (Spain)
Arsenal (England)
Manchester United (England)
FC Porto (Portugal)
Liverpool (England)
Chelsea (England)
Barcelona (Spain)
Bayern Munich (Germany)
Top four English clubs are the most exciting parts of the champions’ League. And the other clubs two from Spain and rest two are from Germany and Portugal.
Now, it is also final that which team will play matches each others and what they think about the draw. I found something about the mach conditions and what the teams could do. There is not doubt that the football lovers will enjoy the most exciting events this year.
Real Madrid is one of the popular Spanish football team which is going to take on the English football club Liverpool. The duo has a very good similarity. Real Madrid is leading the second place in the domestic league match on the other hands Liverpool is in the same position too. In 1981, Real Madrid and Liverpool met in the champions’ league cup in Paris and that time Liverpool was the winner.
In the decelerated squad, I can see some new faces who did not played last few matches.
The skipper trained on Tuesday having missed three weeks with a hamstring injury, while Xabi Alonso returns from a ban but Daniel Agger is out (back). Steven Gerrard who is the skipper of the Liverpool club, will attend during the first match of Champions League on 25 February 2009 at 1945 GMT. Steven Gerrard has scored 11 goals in this season on the side of Livepool. He of out for three weeks from the league match for his injury but Xabi Alonso has back to the squad as well as Daniel Agger is out for the next match along with Real Madrid.
Real Madrid is looking very fresh mood because of their performances in the last few matches and some of the key players will lead the team in Paris. Rafael van der Vaart is one of them though Klaas Jan Huntelaar will not able to add sprit for the Club. Even they are getting good leadership from their manager Ramos.
This is not end for Real Madrid because it did beat to any team in the last 9 matches. So, these sequel victories are also very positive for the performances and determine to beat the opposition.
Despite of some painful moments from some previous matches, Liver pool manager is hopeful to present some especial thing for the fans.
"Steven will be in the squad. He was OK in training," said Benitez, who will be returning to his hometown for the first time as Liverpool manager. "It was a special training session so we were not testing him 100%, but he trained OK so we will see."
Liverpool has played along with 13 matches and secured six victories, four draws and three defeats but the last defeat was very terrible. But Real Madrid did not get any success against any English countries.
Online Live Score and Updates
There are some important websites that will provide the latest updates and live score during the match time. You can watch the most anticipated match between Liverpool and Real Madrid match live on Sky Sports.
The drawn of the last match along with Roma, Arsenal is thinking widely to take the lead at Emirates. Although they tied the match but the Arsenal manager is pleased with the performances of his gays. He believes that they are strong enough to beat Roma anytime and it will be their promise. This is the second match of the Champions League when Arsenal is going to take on Roma.
"I believe we are strong enough to beat them," the Frenchman told reporters at his Monday press conference. "But the Champions League, you know, at that level it's down to many mistakes, being in good form on the day, being decisive in taking your chances, and that's all the qualities the English teams want to show."
In the ongoing Premier League Arsenal is not doing well at all. It is leading the 5th position of the standing tables and is 5 points behind Aston Villa that is holding the 4th position. Some days ago I read an article where the writer wrote that Arsenal could kick out for the champions’ league for next year. May be, the ongoing EPL is not going well for the Arsenal that is why Arsene Wenger is satisfy to get a tie.
The first knockout round match of Champions League between Arsenal and Roma is going to take place on 24 Feb 2009 and 20:45:00 CET at Emirates Stadium – London. In last week Roma visited the same city to take on Arsenal. They now want to improve their capacity and determine to present best on the next knock out tournament.
Heading into the first leg, the Giallorossi unfortunately have a number of injuries to contend with, as the likes of Mirko Vucinic, Alberto Aquilani, Marco Cassetti and Jeremy Menez all missed their most recent outing against Siena.
Now, it is big question for Roma, that will they improve themselves, a couple of top players are going to lay off for injury. Some others players, Juan, Vucinic, Aquilani and Cicinho are suppose to return in the next match. It figures out that the squad is could do positive at Emirates Stadium. Here is the complete squad of Roma below.
Luciano Spalletti’s Roma squad in full is as follows: Aquilani, Artur, Baptista, Bertagnoli, Brighi, Cicinho, De Rossi, Diamoutene, Filipe, Juan, Loria, Doni, Pizarro, Mexes, Montella, Motta, Perrotta, Riise, Taddei, Tonetto, Totti and Vucinic.