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Showing posts with label champions league. Show all posts
Showing posts with label champions league. Show all posts

Friday, August 31, 2007

Reds in Group A

The draw for UEFA Champions League 2007/08 has been finalised. Liverpool was drawn into Group A together with Porto (Portugal), Marseille (France) and Besiktas (Turkey).



Group A
LIVERPOOL (England)
Porto (Portugal)
Marseille (France)
Besiktas (Turkey)

Group B
CHELSEA (England)
Valencia (Spain)
Schalke (Germany)
Rosenborg (Norway)

Group C
REAL MADRID (Spain)
Werder Bremen (Germany)
Lazio (Italy)
Olympiacos (Greece)

Group D
AC MILAN* (Italy)
Benfica (Portugal)
Celtic (Scotland)
Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine)

Group E
BARCELONA (Spain)
Lyon (France)
Stuttgart (Germany)
Rangers (Scotland)

Group F
MANCHESTER UNITED (England)
AS Roma (Italy)
Sporting Lisbon (Portugal)
Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine)

Group G
INTER MILAN (Italy)
PSV Eindhoven (Holland)
CSKA Moscow (Russia)
Fenerbache (Turkey)

Group H
ARSENAL (England)
Sevilla/AEK Athens** (Spain/Greece)
Steaua Bucharest (Romania)
Slavia Prague (Czech)
CAPS - seeded teams
* defending champions
** TBC

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Goal highlights : Liverpool v Toulouse

Watch how Liverpool demolished Toulouse in Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round second leg at Anfield. Liverpool won by 4 goals to nil and qualified for the group stage of UEFA Champions League 2007/08. The draw for the group stages will be scheduled today at 12am midnight (Malaysian time) and was held in Monaco, France.

Here's are the clubs that going into the draw :

Pot 1
AC Milan
Barcelona
Liverpool
Inter Milan
Arsenal
Real Madrid
Chelsea
Manchester United

Pot 2
Valencia
Lyon
Porto
Sevilla/AEK Athens
PSV Eindhoven
AS Roma
Benfica
Werder Bremen

Pot 3
Celtic
Schalke
Stuttgart
Steaua Bucharest
CSKA Moscow
Sporting Lisbon
Lazio
Marseille

Pot 4
Rangers
Shakhtar Donetsk
Besiktas
Olympiakos
Dynamo Kiev
Fenerbache
Slavia Prague
Rosenborg



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Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round (2nd leg)
Liverpool 4-0 Toulouse
Crouch 19, Hyypia 49, Kuyt 87, 91
(Aggregate 5-0)


Liverpool through to the group stage with a 5-nil victory on aggregate over French club Toulouse. Goal from Peter Crouch on the 19th minute put the Reds on the front seat before Hyypia and Kuyt wrapped up the match in the second half. The French outfit clearly no match for a revamped Liverpool lineups with Gerrard, Carragher, Finnan, Voronin, Torres and Alonso all were omitted from the starting eleven. Sebastian Leto was given his first start to his Liverpool career and played on the left side of the midfield. Rafa also gave Lucas Leiva a debut as a second half substitute for Momo Sissoko on the 68th minute.

Peter CrouchPeter Crouch, left out of the last two matches, returned to score after just 19 minutes and captain for the night Sami Hyypia made light of a broken nose to head home the second just after the break. Crouch and Yossi Benayoun also both returned to the starting line-up to good effect. Benayoun's enthusiasm, pace and skill was at the centre of most of Liverpool's attacks and the opening goal came after when Benayoun worked to get Kuyt into space on the right and his far-post cross was turned in by Crouch's outstretched right leg.

Crouch should have scored again two minutes later when Benayoun popped up on the left and lifted in a cross that the tall striker rose to meet from six yards but planted his header over the crossbar. Crouch continued his wasteful ways when Arbeloa swung over another cross, again heading over, while Kuyt was next to miss with a header from another Benayoun cross.

Within three minutes of the restart it was 2-nil, a Yossi Benayoun corner being nodded in by Hyypia. Liverpool were sailing through the tie and Kuyt provided still more attacking menace yet missed the target when set up by Crouch. The Dutchman was also denied by the crossbar after his shot had taken a touch off Mauro Cetto but he finally got his reward three minutes from time after a fine one-two with substitute Ryan Babel. Deep into stoppage time, Benayoun played him in for his second.



Liverpool: 25 Reina, 17 Arbeloa, 4 Hyypia, 5 Agger (3 Finnan, 81), 6 Riise, 11 Benayoun, 22 Sissoko (21 Lucas, 68), 20 Mascherano, 33 Leto (19 Babel, 75), 15 Crouch, 18 Kuyt
Unused subs: 30 Itandje, 9 Torres, 14 Alonso, 16 Pennant
Bookings: None

Toulouse: 16 Douchez, 28 Cetto, 24 Ilunga, 15 Paulo Cesar, 5 Mathieu (22 Sissoko, 81), 25 Dieuze, 2 Fofana, 14 Sirieix, 9 Elmander, 20 Emana (17 Fabinho, 76), 21 Gignac (10 Bergougnoux, 54)
Unused subs: 1 Riou, 6 Jonsson, 7 Mansare, 8 Batlles
Bookings: None

Attendance: 43,118

Referee
Wolfgang Stark (GER)

Assistant referee
Jan-Hendrik Salver (GER)
Volker Wezel (GER)

Fourth official
Markus Schmidt (GER)

UEFA Referee observer
Günter Benkö (AUT)


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