The final berths in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 will be decided today and Wednesday as Europe's best look to move a step closer to a shot at the Champions League title.
Today's schedule of matches features several do-or-die encounters, including Juventus-Bayern Munich and Marseille-Real Madrid, two match-ups that will send one team into the knockout round and the other to the Europa League.
Here is today's schedule of Champions League matches:
2:15pm- Setanta USA- Juventus vs. Bayern Munich
2:45pm- FSC- Wolfsburg vs. Manchester United
2:45pm- FSE- Marseille vs. Real Madrid
2:45pm- Fox West- FC Zurich vs. AC Milan
2:45pm- DirecTV- Maccabi Haifa vs. Bordeaux
2:45pm- DirecTV- Chelsea vs. APOEL Nicosia
2:45pm- DirecTV- Atletico Madrid vs. FC Porto
2:45pm- DirecTV- Besiktas vs. CSKA Moscow
If you will be watching today's matches, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action.
Bayern looked ferocious. Juve didn’t play well but Bayern put the pressure on all nite.
Yea. Very exciting. Now let’s remember that this game was against Kettering Town, a fourth division side, just promoted from the fifth division. If we’re seriously looking at guys who’s claim to fame is a brace, however impressive, against Kettering, we’re screwed….
(SBI-The calls for a national team look are a tad premature, but the fact remains he entered a tied cup match in overtime and delivered the goods. That’s a great development for a young American prospect. and will hopefully lead to more time and more opportunities.)
With all due respect, Ronaldo would make my pub league team pretty darn good. Messi deserved the ballon d’or this year, but in a global draft, CR is my top pick…
yes. France. Russia. Netherlands. Greece. Face it. Cyprus is probably a nice place to vacation. And I am sure its league isn’t as bad as the Uzbekistan first division. But it is still freaking Cyprus. Which puts it somewhere outside the top 20 leagues in Europe.
As a matter of fact it ranks 34th in total player value per transfermrkt.co.uk
and for a more direct comparison:
Total Player Value:
Chelsea – 382M Pounds (16M AVERAGE!!!)
Apoel Nicosia – 12.5M Pounds
Uh. So the average player at Chelski is has a higher valuation then the entire Apoel squad.
Puh-thet-ICK!
That second goal was pure drive and instinct.
Ronaldo makes Madrid an incredibly good team. Without him, well, they can lose to Alcorcon.
Having actually watched a game in Cyprus, in person, I can attest that it is solid, entertaining football.
I know it’s hard for some people to believe, but there are actually some good players and leagues outside of the big three leagues.
Did, Mike Grella score for Leeds?
they could of gotten a younger forward who is as good as owen right now. the average premier league player can score the goals he made today. Unimpressive hat trick there is such a thing just not in the eyes of the team and coach becuz all they want is the W.
(SBI-They could have gotten a younger forward as good as Owen for free? Doubt it.)
Juventus looked awful, they need some new players in the transfer window………Landon Donovan anyone?
i don’t know. leeds is better than any team in MLS … probably Charlton too.
The best part about this little tear he’s gone on is that it will most likely lead to a whole lot of time for our little Italian American.
Certainly it’s excellent to see Grella progressing for Leeds, but I think it’s a bit much to be recommending him to even a January camp. It’s best to simply let him develop in England as we did with Charlie Davies and give him caps here and there until he’s ready for a serious first team look, and then map out a plan for his national team career from there.
There are also too many other players that deserve a look before Grella. Findley, Cunningham, and Cooper are all players that Bradley, and many others, will probably consider ahead of Mike.
Exciting prospect though, somebody definitely ought to put up some video of those goals as soon as humanly possible.
Forget it! Make Grella this year’s Honda Player of the Year, and retroactively apply the title to him as well for the past 5 years!!
League one is not better than MLS.
Grella is RAMPANT!, 2 goals and almost 2 assists in 15 minutes of a game that was deadlocked for 115 minutes.
why not. leeds is surely better than any MLS team so I don’t see the “he’s only in League One” argument holding a lot of water … either way good to see he made such a huge impact on the game … he created that Beckford goal too.
i know. but it is pretty exciting to see his entrance into the game pretty much turn around a moribund Leeds side. he had a hand in 3 of the 4 goals in 15 minutes. that is pretty good in my book, even if it is versus Kettering. Good to see we might have some good youngsters scattered about tho.
Mike Grella scores a second goal. a beauty from the right side. Grella for US MNT- Cap him!
If Leeds hold on and get promoted and Grella continues to get minutes and play well in the Championship…well then he’ll be in the running for 2014. But no way he or any other American in League One is going to South Africa.
and a Mike Grella run down the right channel and cross into the box creates Leeds 5th goal for Jermaine Beckford. Grella on FIRE!!!
MIKE GRELLA SCORES AGAIN!!!!! Grella tucks a beauty in the upper left corner from the far right corner of the box to put Leeds up 4 – 1 in extra time versus Kettering. After managing only 1 goal on 40+ shots in the first 105 minutes Leeds explodes for 3 goals in the second period of extra time. Two goals in 15 minutes by the American Mike Grella … is Bob watching?
MIKE GRELLA SCORES!!! The American’s strike from inside the box puts Leeds in the lead 2 – 1 in the 108th minute of extra time in their FA Cup replay versus Kettering Town.
Mike Grella on for Leeds @ the 105th minute. can he pull leed’s bacon out of this FA Cup fire?
As a fan of the U.S. National Team, you should be used to upsets of bigger teams. Chelsea choked, yes, but it won’t mean much.
Yeah. Eddie would go.
well leeds could apparently use Eddie Johnson. they have outshot kettering 40 – 6 and have only managed to take the game to extra time 1 – 1?!?!
maybe a loan move for eddie in Jan?
Probably just for the field. Thanks for the updates, local news is pretty slow to report any developments.
Eddie Johnson has the problem that currently Fulham’s first choice strikers are scoring. All he can do is buy his time, play well in training and the reserves and take his chance when it comes.
benched. he should be shot … scoring goals like that … the nerve!
I bet that little team from Cyprus would do a number on most MLS sides
Eddie Johnson scores agian for the Fulham reserves against Arsenal on a penalty. (though it was a very weak and young Arsenal side since most of the reserves are off to play in the Champions League tomorrow)… If you are counting that is 5 goals for the reserves in 5 matches (he missed two matches while with the 1st team)…
I guess he is doing everything he can…really seems to need a move to a Championship side where he can play some…Reading seem to be struggling to score goals…
ok that would have worked better if i hadn’t been typing so fast … C-Y-P-R-U-S! yeah. ok so anyway.
All I really remember is that Cooper thanked A-B/InBev in the press conference. Other than that I am not sure.
they are from freakin CYPRUS!! cyprus dude, there is no spinning that …. C-Y-P-U-S! that is just pathetic … it would have been pathetic if they had rolled out the kiddies and not beaten Apoel Nicosia but this is just downright absurd. meanwhile in Germany United fields 7 midfielders and half B teamers and beats Wolfsburg in a bowl of mud. Football is a weird game.
All I can say is Wolfsburg got OWEN’D!!!
True. A midseason choke by Chelsea may be the only thing that gets Manchester United a title this season though. Don’t underestimate the Cypriat team.
nice choke job by chelsea. nearly a full strenght squad and at home and cannot beat a team from cyprus? really?
Well Juventus laid quite an egg at home, wonder if this could cost fierra his job. Also out of the first 8 booked into the knock out rounds there are 7 leagues represented.. very nice!
I know, all that guy is good for is scoring goals when you need them. Why does he even play? He should have been benched…
He’s done exactly what a target striker is supposed to do: take the chances, easy or difficult, that come to him. He’s done so very well, especially his third goal. He knew what the goalkeeper would do before he did it. THAT is goalscoring prowess.
is there really any such thing as an ‘unimpressive’ hat trick? really? come on, the guy is 30 and was FREE!!! i will take a hat trick from a freebie any day.
Well the only thing that might just steal Michael Owens thunder is the fact that two CSKA players have just been found positive for dope testing, and could leave their team’s participation in this tournament in question, meaning that Wolfsberg could make it through by default. WOW. Crazy events here on matchday 6.
Yea, there are a bunch of undersized guys that came through SLU that have bounced around MLS and down to USL now…maybe this will be their landing spot.
Any mentions of sponsorships? Any additional help from A-B/InBev would be huge. Don’t like the color scheme either..should have gone with red/white or blue/white
And Ronaldo once more
and now has a hat trick but this is an unimpressive hat trick. nothing like the owen of old really.
GOAL! MANCHESTER UNITED! JUST as Wolfsberg find an excellent chance on the other side that Riether’s foot misses, Owen finishes on a breakaway chance.
Thanks! 🙂