Real Madrid Defeated Zenit St. Petersburg 2-1 in Champions League 2008-2009

Real Madrid ended a seven-match win-draught on the road in Champions league after pulled off an impressive 2-1 away victory over UEFA Cup Champion Zenit St. Petersburg last night. Real Madrid got the first goal thanks to an own goal and then their Dutch striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy scored the winner for the Spanish champions. With this victory, Real Madrid has six points from two matches and thus leading the Group H point table.

Real Madrid manager Bernd Schuster is very much happy with the performance of his boys in Russia. The managers said that Real Madrid earned a very important victory over Zenit St. Petersburg. The coach also thinks that pressure was mounting on Real Madrid, specially in the second half of the match. However, he is now delighted with the points Real Madrid pick up last night because he thinks these points are crucial for Real Madrid’s next two match as he sees Real’s two victories as morale-booster for the visit to Turin to face Juventus.

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Manchester United Defeated AaB Aalborg 3-0 Thanks to Dimitar Berbatov Double

Manchester United’s excellent 3-0 away victory at AaB Aalborg was marred by a seemingly serious injury sustained by midfielder Paul Scholes. However, the Red Devils went into the match on the back of two confidence booster domestic victories and they could build on those victories in last night’s Champions League encounter. Moreover, Manchester United’s record signing Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov, who was making his Champions league debut, at last scored for his new club.

Two strikes from Dimitar Berbatov made the task easy for United to ensure three points from the match. The striker played very well and in fact, he showed his best performance since joining the club over the summer in a move from Tottenham Hotspur. Manchester United started their Champions league campaign with a goalless draw at home against Villarreal. Now, Manchester United is leading the Group E with 4 points from two matches.

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Arsenal Defeated FC Porto 4-0 in Champions League 08-09

Arsenal made a strong come back from their 2-1 home defeat to premier league’s newly promoted Hull City as the Gunners defeated French giant FC Porto in an emphatic way. The 4-0 score line does not reveal the fullest of Arsenal’s dominance in the match. The North London club could have won by six or seven goals in the match. Robin van Persie and Emmanuel Adebayor scored two goals each to secure the 4-0 home victory over Porto in a Group G match up of Champions League 2008-2009. Arsenal started the campaign with a satisfactory 1-1 draw away at Dynamo Kiev. With two victories Arsenal is now leading the point table with four points, while Porto secures the second place with 3 points from two outings.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is happy with the performance of his young boys. He said it was necessary to respond quickly in a convincing way after receiving a setback from Hull City at home. He also added that Arsenal was focused and he was happy with the attitude of the players.

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Samsung Electronics launches Samsung Pixon 8 megapixel camera phone.

Samsung Electronics has released its latest camera phone Samsung Pixon. The phone comes with an 8 mega-pixel camera.

• The camera of Samsung Pixon comes with 16x zoom.
• The Samsung Pixon comes with video options including video and photo upload.
• The Samsung Pixon has a duel power led flash.
• The Samsung Pixon has a photo browser.
• The video of Samsung Pixon is supported by virtual 5.1 channel.
• The Samsung Pixon has HSDPA quad band.
• The Samsung Pixon comes with 7.2 mbps connectivity.
• The Samsung Pixon has a 3.2 inch touch screen.
• The Samsung Pixon comes with a half inch thick frame.

Geesung Choi, President of the Samsung Telecommunications Business said:

“Now everyone will be able to ‘get their pics on’ so much more quickly and easily. For the first time you will have a camera on your phone capable of delivering the quality of image of a regular camera. The big benefit is not just the ease with which people will now be able to capture and share camera-phone shots,”

The Samsung Pixon will be first launched in France in mid-October and then it will be launched in other European countries followed by Asia.

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Shakhtar Donetsk vs Barcelona Champions League 08-09: Preview, Live Score

Shakhtar Donetsk will welcome Spanish giants Barcelona tomorrow (1 October 2008) in a Champions league showdown. The match will take place at the RSK Olimpiyskyi stadium, Ukraine. Both sides are going through a bad patch in their respective domestic leagues, but started their Champions league campaign with impressive victories. So, it is expected to be a hard-fought match.

Match: Shakhtar Donetsk vs Barcelona, Group C, Champions League 2008-2009

Date: 1 October 2008, Wednesday

Venue: RSK Olimpiyskyi Stadium

Kick off: 19:45 BST (British Standard Time)

Shakhtar Donetsk is the defending champion of Ukrainian premier league. However, the Ukrainian champions got off to a poor start to their title defense campaign this season. Having played nine matches so far this season, Shakhtar Donetsk occupies the 11^th position in the league table, securing only 9 points, 13 points behind the league leader Dynamo Kyiv. There is no doubt that Shakhtar Donetsk is now way out of their title defense challenge in Ukrainian premier league, having won only one of their nine matches. In their last five matches in all competitions, Shakhtar Donetsk won two and drew three. So, here it is clear their recent form is not satisfactory. In their very recent league match, they settled for a 1-1 drew against second placed Metalurh Donetsk.

However, Shakhtar Donetsk started off well in Champions league with a 2-1 victory away at FC Basel. So, their poor domestic run may not affect their Europe form. Here, I want to mention one thing that Shakhtar Donetsk failed to get into the round of 16 last season, even after starting brilliantly by winning the first two group stage matches. So, they have to hold on to their current form of Europe in order to make it to the round of 16 this time. They will face Barcelona at home and they can relish on the fact that Western European countries stumbled at Ukrainian teams many time in the past due to weather and condition. However, Barcelona will not have to face freezing condition this time as it is now summer in Ukraine.

Spanish giants Barcelona will find it a tricky trip to RSK Olimpiyskyi stadium of their Ukrainian opposition. Barcelona’s failed to make a good start in La Liga this season. Barcelona’s domestic form has so far been unimpressive and disappointing. The Catalan club managed to pick up only one point from their opening two league matches. However, the good thing is that Barcelona is gradually returning to their prime form. In their last five matches in all competitions, Barcelona won four and drew one. In fact, the Barcelona won their last four matches including a 6-1 thrash over Real Sporting de Gijon. Barcelona won the Catalan derby at Espanyol 2-1 last weekend. Now, after five matches, Barcelona stands at the 5^th place with10 points under their belt. Out of five league matches, Barcelona won three, lost one and drew one.

Moreover, Barcelona defeated Sporting CP Lisbon 3-1 in the Champions league opener. So, the Spanish club will go into the match against Shakhtar Donetsk with full of confidence. So, Shakhtar Donetsk and Barcelona have some similarities in terms of their domestic form and European form. Both the clubs started off poor at home, while they got impressive victory in their respecting opening match schedule in Champions league. The only difference is that Barcelona’s recent form indicates that they are come back with their prime form, while Shakhtar Donetsk’s recent form does not imply any quick improvement.

Online Live Score and Updates

Here, I am giving some online live score and updates from where you can get live score and updates of the match:

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I think, this is too close a match to call. Shakhtar Donetsk will enjoy the home condition and get the support of home fans, while Barcelona has a number of quality players like Lionel Messi, Samuel Eto’o in the attacking line up and Carlos Puyol and Gerard Pique in the defense. So, it is not going to be an easy affair for either side.

‘Drona’ vs ‘Kidnap’: The Race Begins?

Upcoming Bollywood movies, ‘Kidnap’ and ‘Drona’ go head to head during Eid festival. The two big budget films involving big names will hit the screens before the Eid vacation starts in India. So, both the films will have about four days vacation to bring the moviegoers to the cinema halls.

During the festival season in India, big budget, multi starrer movies get involved in a race. Last year, Saawariya, and Om Shanti Om involved in a tussle during Diwali festival in India. This time, Imran Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Minisha Lamba starrer Kidnap will take on Abhishek Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra starrer Drona.

Both the movies are important for their directors and the protagonists. Drona is the second directorial of Goldie Behl after his directorial debut Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai in 2001. So, director Goldie Behl’s career prospect as a film director now largely depends on this big budget supernatural movie. Moreover, the movie is also very crucial for actor Abhishek Bachchan who could not churn out a big hit since 2007 hit Gugu. Since Guru, Abhishek Bachchan starrer big banner movies also fell at the box office. Yash Raj Films’ ‘Jhoom Barabar Jhoom’ and ‘Laaga Chunari Mein Daag’ failed to rock the box office, while ‘Sarkar Raj’ saw average success. So, a big hit has been due from Abhishek Bachchan who plays a superhero role in the movie Drona. The character Abhishek Bachchan plays in the movie tries to save the world from an evil magician (played by Kay Kay Menon). The movie involves a number of action stunts and special effects. Priyanka Chopra and Jaya Bachchan also play two important roles in the movie.

‘Dhoom’ and ‘Dhoom 2’ fame director Sanjay Gadhvi has to give a stern test with his upcoming Eid flick Kidnap. In fact, this is his first project outside Yash Raj Films. Having seen extensive success with ‘Dhoom’ and ‘Dhoom 2’, Sanjay Gadhvi is now keen to produce another chartbuster for the Bollywood moviegoers.

Most importantly, Bollywood’s new heart throb Imran Khan will find the movie crucial for his rising career. The actor impressed all with his goodie, down-to-earth, soft image in his debut movie ‘Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na’ which did very well at the box office. Imran Khan himself also received much accolades for his sensual performance in the movie. However, in Kidnap, Imran Khan deals with a different role which is very much opposite to the one he played in his debut movie. In Kidnap, the actor plays a character who kidnaps a girl (played by Minisha Lamba) due to his old foe with her father. So, Imran Khan turns out to a kidnaper in the second movie after doing a soft-hearted role in hid debut film. Bollywood fans are eagerly waiting to see Imran Khan in a new look. Now, question is that if Imran Khan will be able to bring out success with his new angry-man avatar too. Time will answer it. The movie also stars Sanjay Dutt who plays the role of the girl and Vidya Malvade who will be seen in the role of the girl’s mother.

Drona will hit the screen on 2^nd October, just the day after Kidnap gets released. Bollywood fans are eagerly waiting for the two much-awaited movies. Both the movies have huge potential in terms of success in the box office. Now, let us see how Bollywood fans react to ‘Drona’ and ‘Kidnap’ once the movies get released world wide.

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Kay Kay Menon Hopeful About Upcoming Movie ‘Drona’

Kay Kay Menon, who plays villain in the upcoming Bollywood flick Drona, has said that people will react well to the movie Drona which will get released worldwide on 2 October. Asked if audience will accept supernatural fantasy film Drona as reality films have worked well lately at the box office, Kay Kay Menon has said that people are matured enough to accept all sorts of movies.

Kay Kay Menon has also talked about his role in the fantasy film Drona. Directed by Goldie Behl, Drona tells the tale of a young man, Aditya/ Drona, protagonist in the film (played by Abhishek Bachchan). Based on comic books, graphic arts and Indian mythology, the movie portrays a young man who has royal inheritance, but he does not know about his true identity. Once he realizes his identity as part of a royal family, a royal responsibility of saving a precious thing from an evil magician comes to him. In the end, he confronts the magician, who wants to gain immortality by capturing that precious thing. Kay Kay Menon plays that villainous role of the magician in the movie, while Abhishek Bachchan plays the role of that young man. Priyanka Chopra plays a bodyguard of Abhishek, while Jaya Bachchan portrays the role of a queen who turns out to be the mother of that young man.

Kay Kay has admitted that he never played a role like that in the past. He says that he did the role because that attracted him and he thinks, an actor should not be stick to a certain kinds of roles in the name of creating image. Rather, Kay Kay, who has a MBA degree in his academic career, feels that an actor will get recognition only if he possesses talent. Kay Kay has been in Bollywood arena since 1996 when he was launched by Saeed Mirza's movie Naseem. However, the versatile actor rose to stardom nine years after his arrival in the industry through the Sudhir Mishra directed 2005 movie Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi. Since then, there is no looking back for the actor and his career wheel is rolling on. Now, let us see if Bollywood moviegoers accept Kay Kay Menon in his new avatar in the movie Drona.

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