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  The obvious big game is AC Milan vs Real Madrid on the first day. With Milan edging out Madrid 3-2 at the Bernabeu in the first leg, Madrid is going to have to put on a show to pick up the three points. On the 4th, Liverpool is away to Lyon in virtually a must win scenario. Having lost to both Lyon and Fiorentina, they'll need the three points to hold on to the possibility of moving on to the knockout stages. Also, with Barcelona having lost to Rubin Kazan at home at the Camp Nou, Rubin looks to take 6 points off the Spanish giants in successive upsets.  Pato is congratulated by AC Milan coach Leonardo for his winning goal against Real Madrid
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 15:44 |
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| # ? Nov 22, 2009 00:36 |
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That picture is also of Leonardo realizing that he wont lose his job right after the game! Ronaldo is out for Madrid, which is a huge boost for Milan. I hope the team doesn't become overly confident, and I wont put a draw or (hopefully) a win out of the question. Of note is that Milan is on a much better run of form that Real Madrid is currently, so hopefully that momentum will keep going for us. The one question mark in the line up is probably Inzaghi vs. Boriello. Boriello scored two this past weekend against Parma, but it's hard to ignore that Inzaghi simply does better in the CL than any of our other strikers, especially in tough games. Either way, when one comes out, the other will come in.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 16:05 |
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Fully expect Liverpool to lose here, then utterly tonk both Fiorentina and Debrechen to qualify. United team news: Vidic, Ferdinand, Park, Giggs all out. Rooney may well sit this one out to look after Kai. Berbatov's got a bit of a knee issue, so it might be a 4-3-3 with Owen in the middle, which is about as exciting as it was seeing Alan Smith in midfield. Papers reckon we'll play some variation on code:Realistically, I'd be ok with a point, and I doubt we're going to really exert ourselves with Chelsea on Sunday. TBH I'd rather we had Fabio in place of Evra, since Paddy could do with a rest.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 16:31 |
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If Berbatov is indeed not available:code:
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 16:35 |
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Bling Bling posted:If Berbatov is indeed not available: Hmmm. I'd actually like to see Obertan instead of Macheda there, just to see him get a proper run out. That team loses quality quite rapidly as you move forward though. Banking on a 0-0, or hilariously actually seeing Fletcher-Scholes in the centre and Berbatooney up front. Also, BBC reporting that Johnson and Aurelio are both out for Wednesday.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 16:45 |
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Most likely Milan will line up like this.code:GravityDaemon fucked around with this message at Nov 03, 2009 around 17:52 |
| # ? Nov 03, 2009 17:46 |
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In theory Chelsea will win 4-0 or 5-0. I reckon 3-1 or 2-0 though. Saying that, Drogba is making his CL return tonight.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 18:07 |
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Yeah GravityDaemon - I kept hearing it would be Inzaghi to start but most sources now say Marco will start. Inzaghi will probably come on in the second half at some point. While part of me thinks it will be a close game there's another part that hopes we gently caress up Madrid. I'm really hoping Higuaín doesn't start though.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 18:17 |
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I read murmurings that he wouldn't start despite scoring both goals in Real Madrid's last win. Even if he does start, I think our defense will give him a problem. Dida is also making up for that howler during the last CL game. He made a few amazing saves against Chievo and Parma that would be the envy of keepers ten years younger than him.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 18:20 |
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When is Ronaldo going to be back? He would probably have a field day against Milan - he's probably pissed he doesn't get to play them
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 18:49 |
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Line ups... Dida, Oddo, Nesta, T. Silva, Zambrotta, Ambrosini, Pirlo, Seedorf, Ronaldinho, Pato, Borriello Subs -Flavio Roma, Ivan Gennaro Gattuso, Kakha Kaladze, Filippo Inzaghi, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Ignazio Abate, Mathieu Flamini Or 4-3-3/4-2-1-3 as James Richardson likes to call it. Madrid have gone for Casillas, Albiol, Pepe, Arbeola, Ramos, L. Diarra, Alonso, Marcelo, Kaka, Higuain, Benzema. Subs - Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dudek, Van der Vaart, M. Diarra, Raul, Gago, Granero.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 19:21 |
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Atletico Madrid: Sergio Asenjo, Perea, Pablo, Juanito, Antonio Lopez, Reyes, Paulo Assuncao, Cleber Santana, Simao, Sinama Pongolle, Forlan. Subs: De Gea, Raul Garcia, Jurado, Aguero, Maxi, Ujfalusi, Dominguez. Chelsea: code:Man Utd: Van der Sar, Neville, Brown, Evans, Fabio Da Silva, Valencia, Fletcher, Scholes, Nani, Macheda, Owen. Subs: Kuszczak, Evra, Anderson, Rooney, O'Shea, Obertan, Gibson. CSKA Moscow: Akinfeev, Alexei Berezutsky, Vasili Berezutsky, Ignashevich, Shchennikov, Krasic, Semberas, Aldonin, Mamaev, Necid, Dzagoev. Subs: Pomazan, Daniel Carvalho, Maazou, Odiah, Piliev, Rahimic, Grigoriev.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 19:23 |
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quote:IM PLAYING FOOTBALL TONIGHT GUYS!! 
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 19:26 |
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w00bi posted:Atletico Madrid: Sergio Asenjo, Perea, Pablo, Juanito, Antonio Lopez, Reyes, Paulo Assuncao, Cleber Santana, Simao, Sinama Pongolle, Forlan. Subs: De Gea, Raul Garcia, Jurado, Aguero, Maxi, Ujfalusi, Dominguez. Forgot this guy even existed. I knew he moved here. Anybody know he ended up at Atletico? I knew he was doubtful but Aguero on the bench just sucks. 
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 19:30 |
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Joe Cole wears seriously short shorts.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 19:30 |
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Guys you come to see: Tuesday 3rd November Group A Bayern München v Bordeaux Pedro PROENCA (Portugal) Tiago Trigo & José Ramalho Hugo Miguel Maccabi Haifa v Juventus Terje HAUGE (Norway) Frank Andås & Kim Thomas Haglund Kristoffer Helgerud Group B Manchester United v CSKA Moskva Olegário BENQURENCA (Portugal) Jose Manuel Silva Cardinal & João Santos Artur Soares Dias Besiktas v Wolfsburg Alberto Undiano MALLENCO (Spain) Fermin Martinez Ibanez & Juan Carlos Yuste Jimenez José Luis Paradas Moreno Group C AC Milan v Real Madrid Felix BRYCH (Germany) Thorsten Schiffner & Mark Borsch Jochen Drees Marseille v Zürich Craig THOMSON (Scotland) Martin Cryans & Francis Andrews Mike Tumilty Group D APOEL v Porto Damir SKOMINA (Slovenia) Primoz Arhar & Marko Stancin Roberto Ponis Atlético Madrid v Chelsea Bjorn KUIPERS (Netherlands) Sander van Roekel & Berry Simons Tom van Sichem Wednesday 4th November Group E Fiorentina v Debrecen Manuel MEJUTO GONZALEZ (Spain) Jesús Calvo Guadamuro & Roberto Díaz Pérez del Palomar Fourth official Bernardino González Vázquez (ESP) Lyon v Liverpool Frank DE BLEECKERE (Belgium) Peter Hermans & Walter Vromans Joeri Van De Velde Group F Rubin Kazan v Barcelona Konrad PLAUTZ (Austria) Bernhard Zauner & Armin Eder Fritz Stuchlik Dynamo Kyiv v Inter Bertrand LAYEC (France) Michael Annonier & David Benech Damien Ledentu Group G Unirea v Rangers Claus BO LARSEN (Denmark) Henrik Sønderby & Torben Jensen Thomas Vejlgaard Sevilla v Stuttgart Martin ATKINSON (England) Peter Kirkup & Jeremy Simpson Stuart Attwell Group H Arsenal v AZ Alkmaar Alain HAMER (Luxembourg) François Mangen & Christian Holtgen Luc Wilmes Standard Liege v Olympiacos Nicola RIZZOLI (Italy) Cristiano Copelli & Andrea Stefani Daniele Orsato Referee, assistants, 4th. Liverpool can't complain with De Bleeckere and Arsenal should be okay with Hamer, but a couple of more interesting choices for United and Chelsea. From what I'm told, Benquerenca is by turns bloody brilliant and bloody awful, and there's no way of predicting which one's going to turn up. Kuipers I've heard nothing about because he's new on the Elite list and this is probably being seen as a chance for him to get some experience at one of Europe's top grounds. Oh, and well done to Martin Atkinson, who UEFA seem ridiculously high on right now. Admittedly, Howard Webb's off at the U17 World Cup, but even taking that into account, Atkinson's had a lot of matches for his first season on the Elite list, and they've not necessarily been the dregs either.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 19:32 |
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Why doesn't Claus Bo have a bigger game? He's awesome.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 19:34 |
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I was rewarded for watching the last Milan - Madrid game.. So going to watch this one again.. betting on 0-0.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 19:50 |
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is adthe not working for anyone else? if so can i have a stream madrid milan thanks
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 19:51 |
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theblindparrot posted:is adthe not working for anyone else? if so can i have a stream madrid milan thanks It's on MSG+ if you have a TV with cable.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 19:51 |
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The Man, The Myth, The Moustache...
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Shrapnac posted:It's on MSG+ if you have a TV with cable. tits, thanks
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 19:54 |
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It'd be nice if we got it out of our own penalty area! e: Marseille already up 2-0 on Zurich GravityDaemon fucked around with this message at Nov 03, 2009 around 19:59 |
| # ? Nov 03, 2009 19:56 |
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BBC Sport's Phil McNulty at Old Trafford: "...Interesting notes from Sir Alex Ferguson in the match programme where he writes: 'Watch out tonight as well for CSKA's goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev, impressive in the first leg too - he is a very good player.'" Not tapping up whatsoever. 
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 19:59 |
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Referees wearing white shirts is so bizarre to me.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:01 |
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Essien got a yellow from Reyes making a drama out of a hard but fair tackle. Ugh.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:02 |
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w00bi posted:Not tapping up whatsoever. Yeah you need to look up what tapping up means. Protip: this is not it. If Sir Alex were to say there's a shiny ferrari with Akinfeev's name on it waiting for him at Old Trafford (hint hint wink wink) that would be closer to tapping up.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:02 |
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Der Shovel posted:Yeah you need to look up what tapping up means. Protip: this is not it. Fergie has been dropping public hints for him to come to United for a while now. This is part of that.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:03 |
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Owen is going to get 2 goals tonight. That or he's just going to keep coming so close to scoring with near misses for the entire night while Macheda or Valencia get our only goal.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:04 |
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CSKA are playing really, really high up the pitch - long balls have almost resulted in a chance every time.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:05 |
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w00bi posted:Fergie has been dropping public hints for him to come to United for a while now. This is part of that. Yes and it's not tapping up to say you admire a player. That's not an illegal approach or anything even remotely resembling it. Come back to us when they're meeting to discuss terms without CSKA's approval.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:05 |
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Cech great save.quote:Yes and it's not tapping up to say you admire a player. That's not an illegal approach or anything even remotely resembling it. Come back to us when they're meeting to discuss terms without CSKA's approval. Persuading a player to switch teams is tapping up. I'm not saying those exact words are tapping up, but Igor's situation with United has been around for a long time now so it's not just Fergie admiring him like you imply.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:06 |
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Anyone got a direct link to Bayern/Bordeaux? Most of the sites are blocked at work, and Roja Directa has no direct feeds.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:07 |
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God loving dammit Pato
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:10 |
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holy poo poo what a shot Van de sar totally got his angles wrong?
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:10 |
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w00bi posted:Fergie has been dropping public hints for him to come to United for a while now. This is part of that. Not tapping up, he can say what he likes, he's not allowed to contact the player directly, that's tapping up and that's what he's been (rightly) accused of in the past
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:10 |
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I was sure he'd wasted the chance, but then he just blast it in. Well taken shot.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:11 |
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Iggles posted:holy poo poo what a shot He really wasn't expecting a shot on target from that angle. Amazing shot.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:11 |
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Balls to that. Good shot though. Meh a draw here is still going to do. We'll still win 2-1 though. ,
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:12 |
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w00bi posted:Cech great save. But he's not persuading him to switch teams, he's just saying he's good.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 20:12 |
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Lil Micky Owen ftw  welp... 1-2 dozy loving defense.
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