Champions League - 20/02/07 - Who will score first?

Predict which team will be the first team to score, not the first team to score in each game but out of all tonight's games.

Celtic v AC Milan

Lille v Man Utd

PSV v Arsenal

Real Madrid v Bayern Munich

PSV - Kone.

ronaldo 3.23

Rosicky.

Ronaldo (og)

Tweedle wrote:Ronaldo (og)

I'll go with Celtic.

Lille and PSV will shut up shop, so it won't be from those two games.
Makaay and RVN have to be reached first (it will take a couple of minutes), so I'll go with Kaka. Probably from a set piece or summat.

Parks lives wrote:

Tweedle wrote:Ronaldo (og)

:lol!:

no jokes, it may end out the most inspired prediction I've ever made

Massimo Oddo for Milan

i think Arsenal or Milan will be the first team to score today

I'm going for Scholes.

....now how do I translate the Dutch "gunnen" ?

Ik gun het hem namelijk wel

RVN or Beckham, the united connection.

I also think it will be RM. Raul.

Drogba

(Every game tonight will finish 0-0)

Simons

JVoH

ADO Bhoy wrote:JVoH

That would be a good bet.

Raul. Real Madrid

I think Celtic can win this match , the atmosphere there is really something.

Champions, ecco le formazioni
Si entra nel vivo con gli ottavi: le ultime dai campi. Valencia col dubbio Canizares, il Barça spera in Messi, il Chelsea recupera Ballack e Carvalho. Nell'Arsenal, Adebayor affianca Henry
Santiago Canizares, 37 snni, aveva saltato la sfida col Barça in Liga. Inside

MILANO, 20 febbraio 2007 - La Champions League riparte tra poche ore, con l'andata degli ottavi di finale. Stasera si disputano i primi 4 match: Celtic-Milan, Psv Eindhoven-Arsenal, Lilla-Manchester Utd e Real Madrid-Bayern. Domani si completa il quadro con Inter-Valencia, Roma-Lione, Barcellona-Liverpool e Porto-Chelsea. Ecco le probabili formazioni delle otto sfide.

CELTIC-MILAN
CELTIC (4-4-2): Boruc; Wilson, McManus, O'Dea, Naylor; Nakamura, Lennon, Sno, Jarosik; Vennegoor of Hesselink, Miller. (Brown, Perrier Doumbé, Telfer, Gravesen, McGeady, Beattie, Riordan). All. Strachan.
MILAN (4-4-1-1): Kalac; Oddo, Maldini, Kaladze, Jankulovski; Gattuso, Pirlo, Ambrosini, Brocchi; Kakà; Gilardino. (Storari, Cafu, Bonera, Simic, Seedorf, Gourcuff, Oliveira). All. Ancelotti.
PSV EINDHOVEN-ARSENAL
PSV EINDHOVEN (4-4-2): Gomes; Kromkamp, Alex, Da Costa, Salcido; Mendez, Simons, Cocu, Culina; Tardelli, Koné. (Boffin, Xiang Sun, Vayrinen, Lamey, Feher, Addo, Nguyen). All. Koeman.
ARSENAL (4-4-2): Lehmann; Gallas, Toure, Senderos, Clichy; Hleb, Fabregas, Gilberto Silva, Rosicky; Adebayor, Henry. (Almunia, Ljungberg, Baptista, Denilson, Flamini, Djourou, Aliadiere). All. Wenger.
LILLA-MANCHESTER UTD
LILLA (4-2-3-1)[/b]: Sylva; Chalmé, Tavlaridis, Plestan, Tafforeau; Cabaye, Makoun; Debuchy, Bodmer, Obraniak; Odemwingie. (Malicki, Schmitz, Lichtsteiner, Bastos, Robail, Fauvergue, Audel). All. Puel.
[b]MANCHESTER UTD (4-4-2): Van der Sar; Neville, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra; Ronaldo, Carrick, Scholes, Giggs; Rooney, Saha. (Kuszcak, Heinze, Silvestre, Park, Fletcher, Larsson, Solskjaer). All. Ferguson.
REAL MADRID-BAYERN
REAL MADRID (4-4-2): Casillas; Torres, Cannavaro, Helguera, Roberto Carlos; Beckham, Gago, Guti, Reyes; Van Nistelrooy, Raul. (Lopez, Salgado, Emerson, Robinho, Marcelo, Higuain, Raul Bravo). All. Capello.
BAYERN (4-4-2): Kahn; Sagnol, Lucio, Van Buyten, Lahm; Salihamidzic, Van Bommel, Hargreaves, Schweinsteiger; Makaay, Podolski. (Rensing, Demichelis, Lell, Scholl, Karimi, Pizarro, Ottl). All. Hitzfeld.

DOMANI (Tomorrow)
INTER-VALENCIA
[b]INTER (4-4-2):[/b] Julio Cesar; Maicon, Cordoba, Materazzi, Burdisso; Zanetti, Cambiasso, Dacourt, Stankovic; Crespo, Ibrahimovic. (Toldo, Samuel, Grosso, Solari, Figo, Adriano, Cruz).
VALENCIA (4-4-2): Canizares; Miguel, Ayala, Albiol, Moretti; Angulo, Albelda, Marchena, Silva; Villa, Morientes. (Butelle, Curro Torres, Navarro, Joaquin, Lopez, Pallardò, Viana). All. Flores.
ROMA-LIONE
ROMA (4-2-3-1): Doni; Panucci, Mexes, Chivu, Tonetto; De Rossi, Pizarro; Taddei, Perrotta, Mancini; Totti. (Curci, Ferrari, Cassetti, Faty, Rosi, Wilhelmsson, Vucinic). All. Spalletti.
LIONE (4-3-3): Coupet; Reveillere, Cris, Squillaci, Abidal; Toulalan, Tiago; Juninho Pe.; Govou, Fred, Malouda. (Vercoutre, Clerc, Cacapa, Santos, Ben Arfa, Govou, Kallstrom). All. Houllier.
BARCELLONA-LIVERPOOL
BARCELLONA (4-3-3): Valdes; Zambrotta, Puyol, Edmilson, Van Bronckhorst; Deco, Marquez, Xavi; Iniesta, Ronaldinho, Messi. (Jorquera, Belletti, Olguer, Motta, Giuly, Saviola, Eto'o). All. Rijkaard.
LIVERPOOL (4-3-1-2): Reina; Finnan, Carragher, Agger, Riise; Gerrard, Sissoko, Xabi Alonso; Luis Garcia; Kuyt, Bellamy. (Dudek, Hyypia, Zenden, Gonzalez, Pennant, Fowler, Crouch). All. Benitez.
PORTO-CHELSEA
PORTO (4-3-3): Helton; Bosingwa, Pepe, Fucile, Paulo Assunçao; Meireles, Lucho Gonzalez, Moraes; Quaresma, Postiga, Lisandro Lopez. (Vitor Baia, Cech, Ricardo Costa, Adriano, Alan, Bruno Alves, Joao Paulo).
CHELSEA (4-4-2): Cech; Paulo Ferreira, Carvalho, Terry, Bridge; Essien, Makelele, Ballack, Lampard; Drogba, Shevchenko. (Hilario, Geremi, Mikel Robben, Morais, Kalou, Wright-Phillips). All. Mourinho

These are la Gazzetta dello sprts probable startig line-ups for tonight and tomorrow night!

@ Deano, why you alwyas mentioning Oddo just out of curiosity! Good to hear and how I wnat that so badly...

Tonights game to score first I reckon Milan's game or Arsenals game

Saha, hope not though

Super Milanista! wrote:Champions, ecco le formazioni
PORTO-CHELSEA
PORTO (4-3-3): Helton; Bosingwa, Pepe, Fucile, Paulo Assunçao; Meireles, Lucho Gonzalez, Moraes; Quaresma, Postiga, Lisandro Lopez. (Vitor Baia, Cech, Ricardo Costa, Adriano, Alan, Bruno Alves, Joao Paulo).

Only one cb?


Probably(if our manager is not a coward):

------------------Helton

Bosingwa---Pepe---Bruno Alves----Fucile

-------------Paulo Assunção

--Lucho Gonzalez----Bruno Moraes(Meireles or even Chech)

Quaresma------------------Lizandro Lopez

------------------Postiga


Appart from that doubt in the midfield the rest should be right

Target Man wrote:Raul. Real Madrid

Goal No. 55 leading goalscorer in the CL

Target Man wrote:Goal No. 55 leading goalscorer in the CL

Shevchenko also has 55

No, he has 55 goals inc qualifying round Where as Raul does have odd few goals, but the for the top goal scorer chart q. rounds aren't included!

Half-Time:

Celtic 0-0 AC Milan
PSV 0-0 Arsenal
Lille 0-0 Man Utd
Real Madrid 3-1 Bayern

Real and Bayern are the only thing that's stopping this totally uninspiring, unremarkable night of football from being anything other than the act of treading water in anticipation of the 'proper' games tomorrow.