It has to be said Benvento have some quality names in their squad: Kanoute, Costa, D'Allisandro, Puscas ...not the good players with those names, obviously, but we have to start somewhere! There's the grand total of two good teams in the Ukrainian Premier League: Shakhtar and Dynamo Kyiv. A couple of seasons ago that number did increase to three when Dnipro got a billionaire backer - but then UEFA banned them for all UEFA competitions for three seasons after failing to comply with FFP (a sanction that I'm sure they'll use on other clubs...) so their owner stopped funding the club, a move which saw finish go from keeping pace with Dynamo and Shakhtar towards the top of the table to finishing seventeen points from safety last season as they plummeted into the second tier.
Looking at the groups the answer to who had the better result in the last round-City vs Napoli or us vs RM might just come about in the next round. We could be drawn against Napoli and City could draw RM
Reports are coming in that Liverpool fans in Sevilla were attacked by police and denied entry to the stadium...........doesn't that sound more than a bit familiar? My brother got the **** beaten out of him by riot police in 2007 whilst protecting his wife - broken ribs, wrist, concussion. Will UEFA do anything? Will they ****?
The ****ers do it every year. I can clearly remember them attacking wheelchair bound fans in our game. ****s. Leicester and Lyon last season, IIRC.
Barca are group winners. Chelsky qualify, but with Atletico needing to win to qualify, top of the group is not guaranteed (Chelsky draw + Roma win means they finish 2nd) .
I'm more bothered by the fact that they've declared the century over all of 17 years into it. In 60 years' time, footballers with genetically augmented bodies will look at this list and laugh.
Borussia Dortmund led Schalke 4-0 after 25 minutes but drew 4-4 conceding 4 times in the last hour. Is Klopp still manager?
Nice to see that The Mackem Curse is still in effect, even if their actual team won. Quite an amazing run, really.
Something tells me we won't be getting many Premier League clubs announcing goals like this... Here's what they were reacting to
CL KO stage groupings : Man Utd PSG Roma Barcelona Man City Besiktas Spurs Poool Madrid Juventus Chelsea Bayern Munich Basel Porto Shaktar Sevilla