Posts Tagged ‘Liverpool’
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
It is hard to deny that the Primiership league is the crème de la crème of European Football leagues. Hey, we new that before but the performances by Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea left no room for a doubt. Our Spanish counterparts didn’t do to shabby either qualifying 3 of their own.
Manchester and Liverpool simply out played their opponents while Chelsea and Arsenal struggled a bit but got by into the next round.
It is now put in place that the majority of the quarterfinals will be an ultimate showdown between the two best leagues in Europe.
We are all waiting until next Friday to find out who is playing whom but one thing is for sure, we are all in for a treat as the Primiership and La Liga face off for bragging rights.
Tags: Arsenal, Champions League, Chelsea, English, Liverpool, Man U
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Looks like Liverpool is up to their Champions league magic again. Their 1- 0 result over Real Madrid has all of Spain wondering, if they do in fact get past Real in the second leg, who will be their next victim from La Liga.
Could FC Barcelona get a rematch from a few years back with everthing on the line?
We will all have to wait and see.
Liverpool manager , Rafeal Benítez, admitts that it is just one game and the team will have to play better the second time around but for now they deserve to enjoy this moment for it was a pleasant game to the eye.
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Tags: Champions League, FC Barcelona, Liverpool, Real Madrid
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
When the European Football 2007/08 season is almost finishing, different things can be analysed to check how the season has developed and which have been the most relevant facts during the nine months of competition.One of the most important facts are the goals scored, both in the domestic leagues and in the Champions League. In this aspect there is a name leading both tables: Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United with a total of 37 goals scored followed by Fernando Torres from Liverpool with 29 goals scored. But let’s go to the tables to see all details of the goals scored: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) National LeaguesCristiano Ronaldo - Manchester United 30 3 88 38 33 20 3Daniel Güiza - Mallorca 24 0 115 38 34 18 1Emmanuel Adebayor - Arsenal 24 3 118 32 35 17 1Luis Fabiano - Sevilla 23 2 93 33 28 16 4Fernando Torres – Liverpool 23 0 106 35 32 17 4Luca Toni – Bayern Munich 21 0 117 34 29 15 3
Marco Borriello – Genoa 19 5 146 43 33 14 4
David Trezeguet – Juventus 19 1 152 27 34 14 2
Mario Gomez – Stuttgart 18 0 100 32 23 13 2
Alessandro del Piero – Juventus 18 2 143 26 35 13 3
Kevin Kuranyi – Schalke 04 15 0 171 28 30 10 1 Champions League Cristiano Ronaldo – Manchester United 7 1 128 36 10 6 3Steven Gerrard – Liverpool 6 2 182 20 12 6 0Didier Drogba – Chelsea 6 0 151 31 10 4 2
Fernando Torres – Liverpool 6 0 145 20 10 5 1
Lionel Messi – FC Barcelona 6 1 121 33 9 5 1
(1) Goals Scored
(2) Penalties
(3) Minutes per Goal
(4) % of Team Goals
(5) Appearances
(6) Games Scored
Crucial Goals
Tags: Liverpool, Manchester United, Messi
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
This tournament was inaugurated in 1955 at the suggestion of the French sports journalist and editor of L’Equipe Gabriel Hanot as a continental competition for winners of the European national football leagues, as the European Champion Club’s Cup, abbreviated to European Cup.
The competition began in 1955/56 using a two-leg knockout format where the teams would play two matches, one at home and one away, and the team with the highest overall score qualifying for the next round of the competition. Entry was restricted to the teams that won their national league championships, plus the current European Cup holder. This qualification system continued until 1992. In the 1992/93 season, the tournament was renamed to UEFA Champions League and in 1997/98, eligibility was expanded to include not just domestic champions but also the best performing runners up according to UEFA’s coefficient ranking list. In UEFA’s coefficient system, a team finishing second in the Spanish La Liga would be more deserving of an automatic place in the Champions League than a team finishing first in, for example, Polish Orange Ekstraklasa. As a result, the system was restructured to force “weaker” national champions to qualify for the group stages, while other, “stronger” national runners-up would automatically get places.According list below, since 1955 52 clubs and 10 countries have written his name in the European Football winners. Clubs: Real Madrid (9 wins), Milan (7), Liverpool (5), Ajax and Bayern Munich (4), Barcelona, Benfica, Inter, Juventus, Manchester United, Nottingham Forest and Porto (2) and Aston Villa, Borussia Dortmund, Celtic Glasgow, Feyenoord, Hamburg, Olympique Marseille, PSV Eindhoven, Steaua Bucarest and Red Star Belgrade (1).
Countries: Italy and Spain (11 times), England (10), Germany and Holland (6), Portugal (4) and France, Rumania, Scotland and Serbia (1).
Tags: Barcelona, Liverpool, Milan
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