3 Oct ~ UEFA Champions Lge - Wednesday Matchday #2:
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2007/08 UEFA Champions League: Matchday #2:
Wednesday, 03 October 2007
Benfica v Shakhtar Donetsk 2:45
Besiktas v FC Porto 2:45
Celtic v AC Milan 2:45
Lazio v Real Madrid 2:45
Liverpool v Marseille 2:45
Rosenborg v Schalke 04 2:45
Valencia v Chelsea 2:45
Werder Bremen v Olympiakos 2:45
Match on Tv:
3 Oct 2007 - (Thur Morning)
CH. 23 & 24
Valencia v Chelsea - Ch 23 - 2:45am (Live)
Lazio v Real Madrid - Ch 23 - 5:00am (Delayed)
Liverpool v Marseille - Ch 24 - 2:45am (Live) -
Terry in race to face Valencia
Chelsea FC captain John Terry is to have surgery on a fractured cheekbone on Sunday that could keep him out of the midweek trip to Valencia CF. -
it won't be easy at Celtic.
they are without Nakamura
we are without Dida, Maldini and Ronaldo -
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink is out too.Originally posted by Deunamist:it won't be easy at Celtic.
they are without Nakamura
we are without Dida, Maldini and Ronaldo -
Valencia vs Chelsea
Flores: Avram who?
Valencia coach Quique Sanchez Flores claims he has never heard of Avram Grant as a manager.
Flores said: "I've heard of Grant as a sporting director but never as a trainer. I hope that because he has come into this position it is because he can face the situation. We do not see Mourinho leaving as something positive and we cannot calculate the consequences it will have.
"I respect Mourinho's work and think he has a good methodology and good control of his players.
"But the players are the same even if the trainer has changed. We have to face the game thinking Chelsea want to win the competition." -
JOHN TERRY is showing real bottle while Michael Ballack was surrounded by them. Chelsea skipper Terry will play through the pain barrier in Spain tonight with a face mask to protect his fractured cheekbone, as we exclusively revealed yesterday.
But German team-mate Ballack chose to protect his ankle injury by sitting down when he went to the Munich Beer Festival with wife Simone.
Presumably, Ballack had no problems getting a round in on his £120,000-a- week wages. But Terry will be doing a different kind of ordering in the Champions League clash at Valencia.
Terry will play with a face mask to protect his fractured cheekbone -
Valencia vs Chelsea
Fernando Morientes last night admitted: John Terry is my worst nightmare.
And David Villa reckons Terry is the only man in the world who could play just four days after his face was smashed against Fulham.
The Valencia strikers are stunned Chelsea skipper Terry will turn out in tonight’s Champions League clash — by wearing a mask over his cracked cheekbone.
Morientes, 31, said: “The most ferocious marking I’ve suffered was John Terry.
“He is such a hard defender. He looks for any weakness he can find like a slight injury or a knock and he makes the most of it.”
Villa admitted: “If there’s one player on earth that could get an injury like that on Saturday and play on Wednesday, it’s John Terry.” -
*Chelsea 'must not lose in Spain'*
Joe Cole admits that Chelsea cannot afford to lose their Champions League game at Valencia on Wednesday.
Chelsea drew their first match at home to Norway's Rosenborg and the game in Valencia is their first in Europe since they split with coach Jose Mourinho.
"We need to go out there and get the result," the midfielder said.
"We've only got one point on the board in the Champions League so it's a game we must not lose. We want to go home with all three points."
Chelsea have won only one of their last six games - and that was against Championship side Hull in the Carling Cup.
And they are a lowly eighth in the Premier League after a defeat and a goalless draw in new manager Avram Grant's first two games in charge.
Chelsea put in one of their best performances under Mourinho in Valencia's Mestalla stadium last season, coming from a goal behind to win 2-1 and book a semi-final against Liverpool.
But Cole admits that Chelsea will lose in Valencia on Wednesday if they do not improve their form.
"It's a tough place to come and they are a side with great players," the England midfielder said.
"We need to be five to 10% better than we've been all season. We need to improve.
"That is everyone, including myself, we are not firing on all cylinders at the moment.
"We are improving and we don't think it will be too long before we are back to our top level and higher."
And Cole says they need to forget about Mourinho, who led the side to consecutive Premier League titles in 2005 and 2006 and the Champions League semi-finals in the last two years.
"The club were very successful under Jose but in football things move on and things change," he said.
"We want to draw a line under that now and look forward. The atmosphere has been fine, obviously nothing runs smoothly when there is any change among leaders and managers.
"We all just want to look forward to a successful future with Avram and Chelsea, and win things." -
Half Time
Werder Bremen 1-0 Olympiakos
Benfica 0-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Besiktas 0-0 FC Porto
Rosenborg 0-0 Schalke 04
Liverpool 0-0 Marseille
Valencia 1-1 Chelsea
Lazio 1-1 Real Madrid
Celtic 0-0 AC Milan -
Wednesday, 03 October 2007
UEFA Champions League Full-Time Results
Benfica 0 - 1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Besiktas 0 - 1 FC Porto
Celtic 2 - 1 AC Milan
Lazio 2 - 2 Real Madrid
Liverpool 0 - 1 Marseille
Rosenborg 0 - 2 Schalke 04
Valencia 1 - 2 Chelsea
Werder Bremen 1 - 3 Olympiakos