UEFA Cup Group Stage Matchday 3

I think this board is bored

AZ lose to German nobodies

HSV win yet again and Modric is bogstandard average

Ronaldinho is linked with Chelsea

and yet NOBODY could give a toss



football fatigue me thinks

Nobody cares about Nurnberg & HSV. Ronaldinho to Chelsea has already been denied by his brother.

How did HSV play? I haven't seen any of the goals yet. How are Germany's coefficient points? There's been a lot of talk about that earlier in the season, are they in a good position now?

with HSV and Nuremberg winning the co-efficients points are accumulating

I'm sure chrissi has the details

the de Jong goal was nothing special, kind of a poach

Troch's penalty was ace

Very good position. They/We are back in fifth having passed the Romanians again.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/data/method3/crank2008.html

More points than Italy even (so far).

I just hope this Dutch madness soon ends at HSV

tonight there were 4 Dutch onfield players at kick-off vs 2 Germans



add Stevens and the whole deal feels like a betrayal

Rehagel would be a good replacement for Stevens

Well done AZ

Otto, HSV is awesome under Stevens, you can't deny that!!

Effenberg wrote:Very good position. They/We are back in fifth having passed the Romanians again.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/data/method3/crank2008.html

More points than Italy even (so far).

The Bundesliga is doing quite well this year, only Spain and England are doing better.

EDIT: Okay, and the Turkish league...

golsud wrote:Nobody cares about Nurnberg & HSV. Ronaldinho to Chelsea has already been denied by his brother.

I can see Otto's really keen for Dinho to move to Chelsea, so that he can use it as amunition against EPL (Europe's Premier League) should he fail. He's even gone to the lengths of bringing it up in the JEWefa Cup thread

Bayer start without their 2 best players, Schneider & Barbarez.

line-up:

R. Adler - Castro, M. Friedrich, Haggui, Sarpei - Ramelow, Rolfes - Freier, Kießling, Barnetta - Gekas

Thank you Herr Skibbe was looking forward to some footy...

HT Spartak - Zuerich 0-0
HT Bayer - Sparta 0-0

Live table:

Zuerich 7
Spartak 5
Sparta 5*
Bayer 4
Toulouse 0

*play final match tonight

Zuerich - Bayer
Toulouse - Spartak

Bayer - Sparta is barely watchable. or in German "Bayer fehlt die Kreativitaet, deshalb muessen Sie sich die Chances erarbeiten, aber dass gelingt nicht da Die Tschechen sehr Kampfstark sein. Ein Affentittentottengeiles Scheissespiel"

Lucas Biglia e Mbark Boussoufa,Tottenham has to watch out tonight

EMPortuguese wrote:Lucas Biglia e Mbark Boussoufa,Tottenham has to watch out tonight

Anderlecht have a few class player indeed. Hassan can be great too, Frutos is great at getting at the end of Biglia's passes. Apart from that Anderlecht have a poor team. But who knows...

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Ramelow sent off for Leverkusen. (dunno what happened missed it)

Schneider on Freier off. Hoppe Bernd gets an assist, otherwise this costs me points.

71' Bayer - Sparta 1-0 Friedrich header, Barnetta assist from corner

70' Spartak - Zuerich 1-0
57' Titov 1-0

Bolton fans held in Serbian hotel
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Hundreds of Bolton Wanderers football fans have been detained at a Belgrade hotel ahead of the club's Uefa Cup tie.
Serbian police have held the supporters at the Hotel National amid security fears after trouble involving Red Star Belgrade supporters last weekend.

The club said the fans, on an official trip, are being held without reasonable explanation and it has expressed its "frustration and disappointment".

Bolton face Red Star in a Uefa Cup Group F match on Thursday evening.

A statement by Bolton said the club's feelings were shared by Uefa, the FA, the British Embassy, Red Star, and travelling British police.

The club said the supporters had been prevented from visiting Belgrade city centre before the match.

"Strong and intensive" representations had been made to the local police since the incident started, the club added.

The statement said: "However, all attempts to resolve this situation have been met with the response 'the matter is under consideration' from the Belgrade police.

"The actions of the Serbian police have been made entirely unilaterally and with no prior warning or agreement with Bolton Wanderers FC or other relevant parties.

"Bolton Wanderers FC are fully aware of a crowd order situation that arose last Saturday (when a Serbian police officer was attacked with flares), and we do understand that this may have increased security issues for the local police."

The club said it was seeking clarification of unconfirmed reports that the Serbian police had received specific intelligence that Bolton supporters were at risk of attack in the city centre.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7131542.stm

Tottenham line-up:

Robinson
Chimbonda
Dawson
Huddlestone
Young-Pyo
Lennon
Malbranque
Zokora
Jenas
Keane
Bent

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Berbatov's on the bench.

PAARS WIT:

in goal # 1 Zitka

at right fullback #27 Wasilewski

in central defence # 23 Juhasz

and # 6 Van Damme

at left fullback # 3 De Schacht

at right mid the man who'll nutmeg Lee # 10 Hassan

running the show in central midfield the best unknown Argentinian # 5 Biglia

and the powerhouse # 8 Polak

at left mid experienced #14 Goor

and up front, not Emile but # 9 Mbo Mpenza

and the matchwinner #29 FRUTOS

ALLEZ PAARS WIT!

the pundits on Belgium tv think Anderlecht don't stand a chance. Their defence is makeshift.

Linz strikes again.

1 nil Braga in Greece.

Sp. Braga:

Paulo Santos, João Pereira, Anilton, Rodriguez, Carlos Fernandes, Roberto Brum, Frechaut, Wender, César Peixoto, Jorginho e Linz.

Suplentes: Dani Mello, Paulo Jorge, Castanheira, Stelvio Cruz, Jailson, Lenny e João Pinto.

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:the pundits on Belgium tv think Anderlecht don't stand a chance. Their defence is makeshift.

Zokora was pretty Cr@p in Belgium playig at centre half though so they would definitely stand something of a chance. Pretty even so far in.

EMPortuguese wrote:Lucas Biglia e Mbark Boussoufa,Tottenham has to watch out tonight

Boussoufa is injured.
Biglia is a class player though.

Luso wrote:Sp. Braga:

Paulo Santos, João Pereira, Anilton, Rodriguez, Carlos Fernandes, Roberto Brum, Frechaut, Wender, César Peixoto, Jorginho e Linz.

Suplentes: Dani Mello, Paulo Jorge, Castanheira, Stelvio Cruz, Jailson, Lenny e João Pinto.

31'

Aris Saloniki 1 - 1 Braga
6' [0 - 1] R. Linz
26' [1 - 1] G. Ronaldo

A pitty Braga couldn´t hold it longer.
Great supporters from Aris, fantastic athmosphere.

It's not over yet Pro... they can still get the win.

Anderlecht robbed by the ref. Frutos was not offside when he scored.

HT 0-0

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:# 9 Mbo Mpenza

League Champion 99/00

Bolton are winning. Very surprising considering they are away from home and their side is: Al-Habsi, Hunt, Meite, Michalik, Samuel, Stelios, Speed, Teymourian, Wilhelmsson, McCann, Braaten.

Luso wrote:

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:# 9 Mbo Mpenza

League Champion 99/00

He's not exactly great though...

Sheffield gunner wrote:Bolton are winning. Very surprising considering they are away from home and their side is: Al-Habsi, Hunt, Meite, Michalik, Samuel, Stelios, Speed, Teymourian, Wilhelmsson, McCann, Braaten.

This Megson bloke is turning out to be something of a genius.

This game in Salonika is nicely balanced,Braga started well and got the goal after a mistake from the keeper, and Aris were second best except for free kicks outside the area.Great header for the equaliser,and Aris stepped it up and should be in front now but for a great save by Braga keeper and a 1 on 1 miss.Braga look less confident now in defence,but look well capable of scoring again.Could go either way.