Champions League Match Day 5 Review
- Another series of games that only a football lover could enjoy. Got to watch Zenit and Juventus play to a 0-0 draw only to have Manchester United vs Villarreal match the same scoreline.
- Say what you want about Cristiano Ronaldo and everyone does but name me a player that takes the same kind of punishment week in and week out? Does he play it up? Sure, one can say that but not a game goes by without someone on the other team isn’t trying to knock Ronaldo down. Joan Capdevila challenge late in the game was ugly and deserved a straight red card. If Ronaldo’s leg was placed on the ground inside of up in the air he could of easily had his leg broken.
- What happen to the Nani I once knew? At Sporting he was a player who could decide a game. At Manchester United he has neither progressed as a player or even scarier matured.
- How about Porto without the likes of Jose Bosingwa and Ricardo Quaresma going into a hostile environment in Turkey missing their leader Lucho Gonzalez and walking away with a 2-1 victory over Fenerbahce? Lisandro Lopez second goal was due luck since hand ball wasn’t called but regardless Porto went in there looking for the win and got what they deserved.
- Needless to say I’m quite happy seeing Porto and Sporting Clube de Portugal advance to the knockout stages of the Champions League. Hopefully one of them can sneak into the quarterfinals.
- What in the world happen against Aalborg there Celtic? After that performance Celtic completely deserve to sit alongside hated rivals Rangers who are both knocked out of European competition.
- Good luck in the UEFA Cup Aalborg who gave Villarreal and Celtic all they can handle after many people expected them to run over Aalborg.
- Also nice to see Bayern Munich move on to the round of 16 come February. Something just didn’t feel right last year with the Germany Giants missing from the Champions League.
November 26th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Re: CR7 – he certainly does take a beating in games and that red for Capdevilla was deserved IMO. On the flipside, he (Ronaldo) doesn’t endear himself to the referees or the crowd by hamming it up both in the grimaces and the posturing when things don’t go his way. I’m sure really rags on you when you’re targetted match after match & the fans mess with you at the same time. I would bring up that Rooney behaved much better with the posturing when things didn’t go his way (minus the apparent dive in the box.)
This contrasts quite a bit with the Bate/Madrid game where several times players on BOTH squads did everything they could to stay on their feet. THAT, my friend, is what I prefer to see (ok, ok, that’s how we played years back “It’ll take a lot more that that, lad, to knock me down”) I really hate seeing the latest soap opera during a match.
BTW – who the hell plays football in the snow? God, I’d need a heated jockstrap to play there. Hats off to both teams.
Last…. Do snowballs hurt less than coins when thrown?