review- chelsea vs copenhagen

anelka was in form on th night

a game of less competitiveness ended in chelsea taking away all the points and the massive advantage of 2 away goals as nicholas anelka, who was 5 in 5 before this match, scored both the goals to take his tally upto 7 in europe and give his side a much needed confidence boost!...it was also fernando torres' debut in europe for his new side and much was expected of the spaniard and although he didn score, he was playing much better than he did against fulham in the barclays premier league!
stale solbakken surprisingly changed his formation from what had served them so nicely during the group stage matches which included a draw with spanish giants barcelona!....he played a 4-4-2 with wiland in goal, antonsson, jorgensen, wendt and pospech in defence...domingues de souza, kvist, gronkjaer and bolanos across the midfield and damme and santini in attack...martin vingaard who had basically been there hero during the group stages was left out on the bench...
ancelloti decided to drop drogba for this 1 keeping him on the bench as he continued to try different options to try and make 50 mil pound signing fernando torres fit into the squad!...chel also started a 4-4-2 where cech started in goal with bosingwa, ivanovic, terry and cole making up the defence...ramires, lampard, essien and malouda were the midfield and anelka and torres started upfront!.....
chelsea attacked right from the off and torres had a good oppurtunity in the 6th min when the ball dropped to him quite kindly in the kobenhaven box but the spaniard wasn expecting it and his first touch was a bit too heavy and wiland did well to come and collect the ball from his feet!....then in the 16th min a misplaced back pass from gronkjaer gave the ball straight to anelka who rounded 1 player and made no mistake with the finish!....this was the frenchman's 6th in as many games and he really has been chelseas shining light this season in the champions league!.....
chelsea continued to dominate from their on in and the similar formations meant that most of the football was being played on individual battles and there was never really gonna be any doubt on who has the better squad!....torres had a few chances but still couldn find his chance and anelka continued to be a nuisance for the danish teams defence
SECOND HALF
martin vingaard was brought on finally for santini and basically created copenhagens first real chance of the match with a low driven shot that was saved by petr cech!...
then came the second goal for anelka....essien managed to maintain some good possession in midfield and layed it forward to lampard who produced a beautiful lofted through ball for anelka who finished very calmly!....a few moments later some good footwork from torres put him through on goal but he still couldn get his first goal for the club in what have been so far less but disappointing appearances for the spaniard in the chelsea blue!....chelsea were very comfortable after that and their goal was not under any real threat at all!
carlo ancelloti will be very pleased with his sides result which was required more for a confidence boost than anything!....theyl go to stamford bridge knowing they have a very comfortable 2 away goals advantage and are expected to progress!

review- lyon vs real madrid

benzema scored against his former club

the clash of last year...repeated again at the same stage!.....lyon managed a win against the 9 time champions back then....this time however real had a newfound spirit under jose mourinho and a better squad and were looking all the more dangerous!....they needed a win to put them comfortable for the second leg which they now really need to progress from having not gotten past this stage for the past 6 years...but yet could only manage a draw in what was a fairly interesting encounter!
claude puel started his regular 4-2-3-1 line up with lloris in goal, reveillere,cris(*captain*), lovren and cissokho in defence..toulalan and gourcuff in midfield, bastos, kallstrom and delgado in front of them and gomis filling into the lone strikers role which the injured lisandro normally occupies!
this was to be the first time karim benzema would play at the stade de gerland after making his big money move to real, but he was on the bench with kaka while mourinho also started his favorite 4-2-3-1 formation with casillas(*captain*) starting in goal, ramos, pepe(*finally back from injury*), carvalho and arbeloa in defence...alonso and khedira in midfield with di maria, ozil and real's man in form cristiano ronaldo in front of them...adebayor was in attack!.....
the match began at a frantic pace and stayed that way for quite a while with no side gettin any clear possession on th ball!...madrid were dominating it though a lil bit although lyon probably had the better of the chances with bastos a continuous threat down the flanks!....gourcuff marshalled th midfield superbly and most of lyons early chances were created through him....one person who wasnt performing at all however....was reals no7!....those of you who watched the game will have noticed how easily the former manchester united star was giving away possession in tryin to be over smart on the ball with all his fancy tricks!...in fact his only real contribution to mardids cause was a free kick in the 20th min when ozil was brought down by gourcuff some 28 yards out and even that wasn struck well enough and lloris was able to parry it away!....at the other end gomis got a GLORIOUS chance to take lyon 1 up when the french side broke quickly following a madrid corner and the ball was played out wide to bastos who put a cross in that wasn caught properly by casillas....it fell straight to the feet of the striker but he his his effort well over the bar!...
SECOND HALF
real were better in the second half and so was ronaldo...who came VERY close to scoring in the opening stages of the second half with a freekick from the right side of the box which seemed a very tight angle but he somehow managed to get enough power and swerve to direct it past lloris but unfortunately also past the center of the goal and it hit the framework!...ramos then struck the post with a header from an ozil corner!.....real uped the tempo from there and were a constant threat to lyons defence which started looking a bit more shaky!....in the first half lyons 4 in midfield were constantly closing down reals mid and players like ozil weren being able to create anything at all!....during the second however half however reals player seemed to be much quicker and the passing was a lot better which was creating chances!....
benzema was brought on for adebayor and the former lyon man certainly got a welcome reception from his former fans!....however th cheers soon turned to an orchestra of boos when after jostling well for the ball with toulalan, he got possesion of the ball and layed it onto ozil...the german played it square to ronaldo who first touch through balled it to benzema and the no9 took a few touches inside the box to settle himself before slotting it past lloris who did get a touch on it but it wasn strong enough!...
th rest of the match just seemed to go on with patches of it gettin really boring at times!...real defended well for most of the match but then they were broken....a freekick came in from gourcuff which hit the wall and came in high towards the defence...cris...who had had a very very good match won th header and it dropped really kindly to gomis who calmly slotted it past casillas who was left shouting at his defenders!....have to say lyon did deserve that goal after the impressive game they had!
all in all a good game of football and a good performance from lyon who in my point of view managed to rescue the match because of 1 sole reason...ozil, th man through whom all of reals attacks are channeled was man marked very very well and wasn given any space to create!..this meant that the attacks were having to go through the wings which lyon dealt with very well...obviously a pre-planned strategy!...mourinho will be confident though that his side can go all the way in th second leg as real have been very impressive at home and mourinho extended his own personal record of home wins to 9 years now without a defeat!....a very remarkable achievement indeed!

review- arsenal vs barcelona

delight on the face of wenger after v. persie's equalizer

an amazing comeback from arsenal secured the win for them over the team many call one of the greatest ever in what was a very memorable night at the emirates!....
okay so lets just get straight into the team news....both managers played their regular starting XI although nasri was back for arsenal which gave them a boost and he played out on the left wing with v. persie and walcott alongside him in attack...fabregas(Captain) played in the playmaking position behind the striker and song and wilshere were charged with having to deal with barcas attacks through the center....eboue, koscielny, djourou and clichy were in defence with the youngster szczesny making his champions league debut in the goal...
guardiola went with the side that has produced sooo much amazing football this season minus puyol in defence...valdes in goal...alves, pique, abidal and maxwell in defence with busquets xavi(captain) and iniesta in midfield and messi, villa and pedro up front!....
well even more was said about this game than the previous 1 due to all the events that took place between the two clubs, the most prominent one being barca's continued desire to get cesc fabregas back to where he initially started his career after the player himself expressed his desire to move back!...that transfer saga lasted the whole of last summer until fabregas finally put an end to it by saying he'l be staying...it was also a big occasion due to the fact that messi had basically ripped apart arsenals defence in the second leg at camp nou and most people....a lot of arsenal fans themselves included weren expecting much from this fixture!....
however once we kickoffed at the emirates the scene was totally different and arsenal attacked right from the off signalling their intentions very clearly....barca are used to A LOT of possession in their matches and mustv been expecting a re-run of last years first leg in which they totally controlled the whole flow of the game and wouldv been 5-0 up in the first 10 min if not for some excellent goal keeping from manuel almunia...the case this time around however was different and for the first 25 min barca couldn put together a proper passing move!...this was due to the fact that this time....arsenal were playing a very high line and were pressing a lot....nasri and walcott were continuously dropping back meaning when barca had the ball, they retreated in 2 banks of 4 making it hard for the catalans to play their usual game....there was however once chance on th 15th min when messi springed clear of the defence and got on to a perfectly weighted through ball from david villa and was through on goal but couldn direct his chip over szczesny properly and the ball drifted just wide of the post....th goal keeper has to be given credit there as he stayed up for as long as he could and forced the shot from messi who every1 had expected to score and half the barca fans had even already started celebrating!.....
walcott's lightning quick pace caused barca a lot of problems at the other end and he was continuously getting the better of maxwell who lets be honest was never really a match in terms of quickness....regualar chances were created through him but the finishing wasnt good enough from v.persie and fabregas....
and they were made to pay for it in the 25th min when after some neat foot work from messi the ball was played through to david villa who looked to be off side at first but clichy played him on and was made to suffer for it after a clinical finish from the spanish no7....barca dominated possession and chances for the remainder of the half and couldv easily been more up as daniel alves was being left completely unmarked again and again on the right hand side it looked like he was a right winger instead of a right back(*well he always does look like that*)
SECOND HALF
the second half had a relatively quiet beginning to it and the pattern of play seemed to continue with barca still dominating possession...then came the change that in my p.o.v changed the game for both sides....well changes i should say....guardiola took off villa and brought on keita shifting iniesta into a more advanced role while wenger took off song who was having a tough time coping with the speed of the play and was sitting pretty on a final warning after a series of bad tackles and brought on arshavin putting nasri in the middle....the fact that barca had taken off their main striker and brought on a holding mid meant that they lost most of their attacking threat and were concentrating more on possession...arsenal had made a positive attacking change and got more involved in the game after that and created more chances...jack wilshire...who btw had an EXCELLENT game considering hes still just 19 was involved in most of the chances and handled the center midfield brilliantly!...
pedro did have a good chance to extend barcas lead after he got a long ball out from abidal but koscielny handled the situation very well and was able to snuff out the danger...
then came the moment arsenal fans had been waiting for for a long time...following a free kick in their own half, th ball was squared out to clichy from fabregas and the left back made a bustling run forward....exchanging passes with arshavin in the process before layin a good through ball to v.persie on the edge of th box...the dutchman didn look like he could score from that angle but somehow managed to smash it past valdes at the near post for a fantastic finish!....he is on hot form right now and it showed with the way he took that on!....
arsenal marched on from their on in and the second goal followed quickly....5 min after th first, th ball was played nicely in defence and kept away from barcas players before fabregas launched a through ball to the right wing where nasri was lurking....the frenchmen took it forward a bit then cut it inside and layed it off to arshavin who was comin in from the far side and a brilliant finish from the russian secured a deserved win for arsenal!....

arshavin celebrates in style after securing the win for his side

a very very exciting match ended on a high for the gunners who will be very optimistic going in to the second leg knowing they can get something from that fixture although they will be vary of barcas threat at home as even last year a 1 man show from messi tore them apart and knocked them out of the competition!...a very quiet night for the argentine this time around....and my applause to wilshires performance...who despite his young age looked to be one of the most mature and skilled players on the pitch!...

review- valencia vs schalke

this match was sort of in the shadows because of the blockbuster event going on in the san siro but in truth it was an equally entertaining match with quite a lot of chances created and 2 very good finishes...one of them coming from the LEGENDARY raul gonzales....who is the highest ever goal scorer in european competitions!...
valencia were without juan mata for this 1 and joaquin was left on the bench....they went with a 4-3-3 system where guaita started b/w the sticks and infront of him were miguel, navarro(captain), ricardo costa and mathieu in defence...with everbanega, topal and costa in midfield and dominguez, soldado and adruiz up front....this time around last year valencia wouldv called up on stars like world cup winners david villa and david silva but unfortunately due to financial reasons those two had to be sold....the side still however has been doing pretty good so far under unai emery..
schalke however were able to start their usual 4-4-2 line up with german no.1 manuel neuer(Captain) in goal....uchida, howedes, metzelder and schmitz in defence....farfan, kluge, matip and jurado in the mid while huntelaar and raul started up front...this game was being looked forward to as rauls return to spain for the first time since leaving real madrid last summer!...
th game started well and huntelaar had a glorious oppurtunity to put the german side in front in the 9th min of the game but completely mis-timed his volley from 6 yards out!...valencia continued to attack after that and took the advantage on th 17th min when mathieu made a brilliant run down the left hand side and crossed th ball in towards soldado who made no mistake with an awesome finish to put the ball beyond the german keeper in to the far corner!....terrific football from the spanish who till that point hadn really created any proper chance....
valencia kept it strong at the back for the rest of the half and the full backs kept getting forward which was creating a prob for the schalke defence!...they kept chugging away at the defence and there were quite a few scares for neuer with valencia unlucky not to have scored a few more!
SECOND HALF
the second half started without any changes to th sides and in pretty much the same manner as the first ended with valencia attacking!...however raul did get an opportunity to equalize when neuer sent a long goal-kick towards him which he controlled well but couldn get enough power on his right-footed strike to seriously trouble neuer!....the game just carried on chances were created by both sides until the 63rd min when adruiz broke free on the left hand side, put a cross in towards th raul who took a fine touch before terrificly slotting the ball into the far corner!....it was his 71st goal in european competitions!....quite a remarkable feat!...
all in all a memorable night for raul on his return to spain and schalke will be optimistic going into th second leg cox of that away goal they have!

review- AC milan vs tottenham

crouch's calm finish ensured the win for spurs

milan legends andrea pirlo and filipo inzaghi, who is also th second highest goal scorer in champions league history missed out for the italians. they were however still able to call upon a very experienced side with the likes of 4 times champions league winner clarence seedorf also featuring!....allegri went with his preferred 4-3-3 with abbiati in goal, abate, nesta, vepes and antonini in defence...gattuso(captain for the night), thiago silva and flamini in midfield and seedorf playing 'in the hole' behind robinho and the man currently in th form of his life, zlatan ibrahimovich....this system however did mean that all their attacks would be concentrated down the center and they didn have much width which in the end proved to be their downfall as well!

tottenham had a quite changed team from the last time they visited the san siro in what was a classic against inter milan...theyr star that night gareth bale missed out this match through a back injury and luka modric who had had a hernia operation 10 days ago was on the bench!...spurs went for a more wide 4-4-1-1 formation with gomes in goal...corluka, gallas, dawson(captain for the night), assou-ekotto in defence...palacios and champions league debutant sandro in the middle...with lennon and pienaar providing the pace down the flanks and van der vaart playin in his favorite position, behind peter crouch....

spurs started very well with an effort on goal in the first minute after a good passage of passes!....milans front 3 playing very narrow meant that essou-ekotto and corluka had full licence to get forward at will and especially th latter was quite a menace for milan to handle and regular crosses were coming in from spurs' right hand side towards the tall target man, peter crouch!..infact tottenham had most of the early chances of the game and milans first real attack came on 20 minutes when corluka lost out possesion to robinho on the left hand side and th brazillion played the ball through to ibrahimovich who did pretty well to get away from dawson and put a cross in but it was too close to gomes and he hooked it away with his hand...abbiati meanwhile was carried away on a stretcher wearing a neck brace after a nasty collision and i certainly hope it wasn too serious and he has been quite a rock at the back for them this season!...marco amelia was brought on to replace the big italian...

spurs meanwhile continued with their all-out-attack approach which harry redknapp had promised and they had a quite clear strategy throughout the game....get the ball to the flanks and then combine the full back with the winger to create a 2 v 1 situation in order to get crosses in....they continuously flooded the box and crouch was again and again getting th better of the centerbacks because of his height...but their attacking wasnt the only notable point of the game...they defended excellently and the strikers werent given any space at all....in the system allegri was playing, all the attacks were to go through seedorf....if you watched th match however you will have noticed that at times he was nowhere to be seen....palacios had an excellent game marking him and as a whole spurs defended very very well and gomes had very little to do during the first half

SECOND HALF CHANGES

allegri brought on pato in the place of seedorf in the hope to cause the spurs back 4 some problems who till that point had had a relatively easy match!...spurs continued with the same team and basically the same strategy....expose the flanks to the pace of lennon and pienaar...this very nearly led to a goal in the opening minutes of the second half as lennon bursted down the right hand side, put in a cross to v.d. vaart who instead of passing square to pienaar tried an audacious but quite brilliant chip over amelia that was JUST wide of the post...th whole of milans defense was caught off guard and if it had been a few inches to the left it wouldv definitely gone in for what wouldv been one of th goals of the champions league!...at the other end a few min later gomes pulled off one of the saves of season after following a corner situation gattuso pulled the ball back into the box and yepes got up above everybody to put in a towering header which the whole stadium mustv thought was certain to go in but gomes took full advantage of his height and somehow reacted quick enough and put in a strong hand to get the ball clear which was heading for the top corner!....

milan certainly picked up from there and started playing better but a disgraceful challenge from flamini ruined th mood at san siro!....lunged in two footed on corluka and it shouldv been a straight red card for the frenchman but he was very lucky to escape with just a yellow!...corluka had to be taken off with a strapped ankle cox of that and was replaced by woodgate!...during all this gattuso had also pushed joe jordan, the spurs assistant and tempers were flaring all around!...gattuso went crazy and started pushing any1 who he challenged with and really shouldv gone off for a push on crouch after an battle for a high ball....

then came the moment as following a couple of crosses into the spurs box, the londoners finally got possession of the ball through sandro who squared it to modric...he took a touch and played th ball through to lennon who had miles of space to run into!....the lightning bolt as i call him broke at full pace...brilliantly got past yepes leaving him for dead and then squared the ball to crouch who had a simple tap in!...it was counter attacking football at its very finest and well spurs did deserve that goal and the win...they'l go into the second leg knowing they have that priceless advantage of an away goal and with the believe that they can charge their way into the quarters now!....

it proved to be a very eventful game and lived up to all the hype...tottenham even without their starlet bale were the better side on th night and deserved th win!...

finally something happening!

makoun has made his move to aston villa

aahh rumors!...finally somethings starting to pop up in th world of transfers!....got quite a lot for you guys today so lets just get right into it!....starting with the stuff that has been confirmed of course...
Cameroon international Jean makoun has signed for aston villa !...most of you will remember that wunder goal he scored for lyon against real madrid last year that did effectively knock real from the competition!....if you haven seen it well here it is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYHJGdNyL_w ...absolute beauty of a strike from th 27 year old who has signed for villa on a three and a half year deal costing villa 6mil pound..makoun said about the move: "i am thrilled to be here at aston villa. i am really really happy and very proud to have joined a great club. villa have been after me for quite a while, so i am delighted its finally happened. i cant wait to get started now."..makoun will certainly add a new dimension to villas attack and the fans will be hoping he can find his feet quickly to help th club get out of the bottom half of the table and back into form!...
former man united striker ruud van nisterlooy has confirmed that his former club real madrid have made inquiries about him to bring him back as gonzalo higuain has been sidelined for 4 months recovering from an operation and real look for a striker to have as back up for karim benzema!....it well definitely be quite a move if it does actually go through and im sure the fans right now in madrid are going crazy thinking bout having him back!..
according to inter milan's technical director marcon branca, midfielder sulley muntari is looking to exit the club...the ghanian has made just 12 appearances this year with one start and is looking to move away in search of first team football...sunderland have been linked with him but muntari has stated that if he moves he will only go to london...meaning tottenham are on alert right now!...
roque santa cruz has joined his former club blackburn on loan till the end of th season...he was getting quite irritated of being consistently on the bench at man city and it didn look like he was going to experience first team football there any team soon with the array of stars manager roberto mancini has at his disposal and so the Paraguayan has re-joined th club he left when he joined man city...youngsters richie de laet and corry evans have been re-sent out on loan from manchester united to portsmouth and  hull city respectively...the latter who already have signed quite a few players on loan already including th likes of villa keeper brad guzan, arsenal reserve keeper vito mannone, james chester(*again from manchester united*) and aaron mclean from peterborough united...they have also signed matt fryatt from leicester united for 1.2 mil pounds!
okay so now for those delicious rumors!!....apparently negotiations have broken down b/w barca and sergio busquets over th latters contract...an agreement has not been reached over the wages the spanish international is asking for and manchester united have been alerted of this...besquets' current contract expires in 2013 and sir alex will definitely consider him as an option to replace th soon-to-retire paul scholes!
staying with the 3 time champions league champions now and united are being quite heavily linked with a move for portugese left back fabio coentrao!...benefica are believed to have already started looking for a replacement for the 22 year old who was a revelation for portugal in th 2010 world cup!..the rumor emerged after concerns appeared that patrice evra is considering to leave th club in th summer!...united will have to dish out 20mil pounds to sign coentrao if they do decide to go through with the deal!...
oh wait and this just in!....everton have accepted a bid from chelsea for playmaker steven pienaar!....tottenham had also bid for the south african but manager david moyes has confirmed the bid from chelsea has been accepted although pienaars personal terms are still to be accepted by th londoners!...david moyes after sundays merseyside derby said: "we have accepted an offer from chelsea. but steven has not agreed terms with them. we'v given his representatives a chance to talk to chelsea but they'v not got permission to talk to tottenham because they've not offered the same money"...what a move this will be if it does go through...pienaar in my view is one of th better play makers in the epl and would give a HUGE boost to carlo ancelloti's side in their quest to retain the title this year!...
meanwhile aston villa are looking to make a shock bid for german striker miroslav klose!!...real madrid are rumored to be interested in th bayern munich and now it appears villa are looking to challenge them for the striker!....klose has just 6 months left on his contract and so is available for a cut-price..klose has a very good reputation of finding the net especially in internationals with having scored 58 goals in 105 appearances for germany and villa manager gerrard houllier is looking to bolster his attacking options by signing the former werder bremen hitman!...a move to real is still more likely though for the 32 year old!..
and now for th goals of th week..
5.at no.5 we have what now seems like a rare goal from *once in hot form* liverpool striker fernando torres against blackpool!...rb kelly sets him through with a good pass on th right flank and just when it seems th spanish international is going to cut back and cross he blasts a shot across goal into th top right corner quite brilliantly...sorry i couldn find a highlight of just the goal so it can be seen here with the match highlites http://www.footytube.com/video/blackpool-v-liverpool-70073
4. at no4 we have a goal from former liverpool mid(*read major flop*) alberto aquilani who seems to re-found form at juventus...against bari here del piero floats in a free kick which was cleared but not hit hard enough and it fell straight to the feet of aquilani who blasted it in with a very good volley!...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT0hinF1IFM
3.lionel messi now and that guy just cant seem to stop scoring goals or going crazy at defences...but heres its not 1 of his oh so very mesmerizing runs that tear defences apart...its a free-kick against deportivo la coruna which is struck perfectly from the little argentine and gives the keeper no chance of stopping it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PylWYAJQ0kE
2.the work horse of man city carlos tevez got on the score sheet twice against wolves and one of them was a BRILLIANT solo run...goes past 3 players(*one of them twice*) and weaves his way through the helpless wolves defence very very superbly and then coolly slots the ball through the keepers legs...from first touch to last this is perfection from the argentine! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V369xkv05Cc (*sorry for the bad quality*)
1. and now the goal keeping that run from tevez from getting top spot...this is from villareal mid cani against osasuna and well i honestly just cant really describe this goal your just gonna have to see it to believe it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeX5iDmJy8Y !!

transfer season not upto expectations!

king kenny is back!

okaaayyy soo where to start?....well quite some stuff(*apart from transfers..honestly isn this one of th most boring transfer seasons ever?=/*) has been goin on in th world of football...in england another exciting round of F.A cup action just passed along...with..as usual..a few surprises along th way as well!...big guns first then....soo th biggest fixture in english world football....and to many th biggest in th world...and in my view it holds just slightly less importance than the el classico but that in itself is a measure of it!....man united vs liverpool!...yes th great english derby as some call it...it was turning out to be a very dismal time going into the game cox of th clubs state but then th thing most(*read EVERY SINGLE 1*) of the liverpool fans was waiting for...new management...roy hodgson left th club with mutual consent(*i think thats just to save his respect a lil he was basically sacked*) and ol king kenny...kenny daglish, 19 years after having left th job was back at anfield and brought with him a new found spirit among th kop..th game though didn do any favors to that!...a very very controversial(*pretty clear it wasn*) penalty being given in th first minute....no doubts though bout th finish as ryan giggs, th maestro slotted it beautifully to make it 1-0...wich it would remain for th remainder of th game wich had many other talkin points as well including th sending off of stevie g but that was a pretty correct decision if you ask me!....united were th better side for th greater part of th game and in th end did deserve th win...th highlites can be seen here if your interested in em http://www.footytube.com/video/manchester-united-v-liverpool-69877...
apart from that there was a very interesting and edge-of-your-seat-stuff kind of game in italy.....AC milan vs udinese!....zlatan ibrahimovich saving Milan in th very depth of stoppage team to make th score 4-4!....th highlites can be viewed here although this does mostly contain only th goals! http://www.footytube.com/video/ac-milan-udinese-jan09-69790
okay so getting to some actual transfers(*rumors*) did actually take place...a lot of loan deals have taken plae although i doubt youd want me to bore you with names of people you probably dont even know!...most prominent would be that ben amos, the reserve keeper of man united has been sent out on loan to oldham.....david beckham meanwhile has arrived in London and underwent a medical today at spurs' chigwell training ground but tottenham are tryin to negotitate with L.A Galaxy over an insurance issue(*you just cant get becks and hope to not pay shit loadz in other stuff related to him now can you?*)....arsene wenger has FINALLY looked to the transfer market and has stated that he might just require a new cb(*wich was i think required anyway*) if sebastian squillacis hamstring problems continue to mess with his playing!...rene adler...keeper of bayer leverkusen has basically issued a "come and get me" call to man united by stating(*again*) that it is his life long dream to play for th club and when growing up peter schmeichel was his biggest idol!...th 25 year old has put his contract talks on hold and has told th board that he is not willing to discuss any any new contract right now and that every1 at th club knows of his high ambitions and man united being his dream club.....i personally dont think united will realy sign him having already ensured th capture of andre lindegaard in that position!....but hey who knows he may just be th new no1 in a couple of years!....thats all for now make sure to keep checking in to th blog for new updates and if you want to be notified of them instantly just become a follower!