Posted on 02/23/2005 11:00:31 AM PST by soccer_linux_mozilla
Yeah, BaBY!
Yes, Tim Howard.
with the lineup of Carroll/Neville-Ferdinand-Silvestre-Heinze/Keane-Giggs-Ronaldo-Scholes/Rudd-Rooney, with Smith/Saha on the bench, Man U look strong. Especially considering Sheva is out for Milan. The game is on ESPN2 starting at 2:30pm Eastern.
I second that motion!
Its snowing there and freezing weather.
Using Christmas Tree formation. Wow, I tried that once with my team and got burnt. Very vulnerable on defense and drives mid-fielders nuts on getting back. It is, however, a scoring formation.
Milan's lineup: Dida; Stam, Nesta, Maldini, Kaladze; Gattuso, Pirlo, Seedorf; Kaka, Rui Costa; Crespo.
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Scholes panicked, didn't settle the ball and blew the open shot. You only get a few of those and must take advantage.
Lyon up 1-0
Ahh, the excitement is in the air, I can just feel it! I've had the end of February highlighted on my calendar for days now, there's nothing that can compare to the start of the... the..... The Champions League soccer tournament thingy. I thought this day would never come....
Goose bumps, I tell ya, goose bumps...
Rooney is having trouble controlling balls in the box
Chelsea up 1-0
The visitors take the lead on a breakaway goal with their first effort of the half. Lampard creates the chance, his long ball from midfield sailing over the head of Van Bronckhorst for Duff to run onto. The Irish winger shows no signs of injury as he bursts into the area, draws the goalkeeper and squares the ball towards Cole in the centre. Belletti has to make contact to stop Cole taking the chance but can do nothing but hit the ball into his own net.
United's goalkeeping nightmare returns to haunt them yet again! Themselves, Liverpool and Arsenal are going to all be after top-class keepers in the summer.
Berlusconi will be in a good mood tonight!
Hernán Crespo's goal eleven minutes from time gave AC Milan their first win away to English opposition in European competition and put them in the driving seat to reach the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals after a well-deserved 1-0 win here tonight.
Crespo, on his return to England following an unhappy spell at Chelsea FC, scored the only goal of this absorbing first-leg tie, hammering the ball into the net after United goalkeeper Roy Carroll, who rejected a new contract at the club earlier in the day, had spilled Clarence Seedorf's shot.
I left here and watched the game with Ben Olson. He said to hit Rooney like a target and he would fold. Wow, did he call that one. Gees, the word is out on him I guess. He said something like, he has hard hands.
BTW, trying to get down to Hatteras for some spring fishing. Outer Banks are the best.
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