By FRANCO PANIZO
From high-profile Champions League games in Europe to an intriguing match stateside with plenty at stake, there’s something for every American soccer fan to watch on Tuesday.
The afternoon’s slate of fixtures is littered with interesting battles and a few of them will pit some of the biggest clubs in Europe against one another. There’s Borussia Dortmund’s clash with Olympique Marseille, Ajax’s battle with AC Milan and Celtic’s tilt with Barcelona, mouth-watering match-ups that will attract plenty of eyeballs in the U.S. and world wide.
At night, D.C. United will look to pull off a massive upset again Real Salt Lake in the U.S. Open Cup final at Rio Tinto Stadium. Not much has gone right for United this season in league play, but they can somewhat redeem themselves by picking up some hardware against an in-form RSL side determined to win the 100th edition of the tournament in front of its home crowd.
If you will be watching any of today’s games, please feel free to leave your thoughts, play-by-play and analysis in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action (Today’s TV schedule is after the jump):
12:00pm –Â Zenit vs. Austria Vienna–Â Fox Soccer Plus/Fox Deportes
2:45pm-Â Basel vs. Schalke 04–Â Fox Soccer 2Go
2:45pm-Â Steaua BucureÅŸti vs. Chelsea– Fox Soccer 2Go
2:45pm-Â Borussia Dortmund vs. Olympique Marseille–Â Fox Soccer 2Go
2:45pm-Â Arsenal vs. Napoli–Â Â Fox Soccer Plus
2:45pm- Porto vs. Atlético Madrid– Fox Soccer 2Go
2:45pm-Â Ajax vs. Milan–Â Fox Sports Net
2:45pm-Â Celtic vs Barcelona–Â Fox Deportes/Fox Soccer 2Go
9pm- Real Salt Lake vs. D.C. United– GolTV
Stupid RSL
DC???? Wow…Goodbye Jason
how may trophies have you won, red bull, red bull? how many trophies have you won?
nice chant, so much for RSL’s “depth”
DC!!!
Wow. How did RSL manage to not win this one?
come on DC, hold the result, i am rooting for you
No blood, no glory.
Nick DeLeon is still alive?
No, but Lewis “Livin on a Prayer” Neal is!
Surely you will give us a play by play commentary for the us open cup final that hardly anyone can watch on TV!?
Well, this is suck.
If anyone finds a stream, please post it. I would be amazed of there was one, no streamers care about this game.
If anyone else cares, US soccer is live tweeting this thing. That’s the best I got.
Well, it’s not a video stream, but here’s the local (UT) radio link. They’re broadcasting the game. By the way, DCU just scored, up 1-0 in the first half.
Forgot the link, duh! espn.kall700sports.com
There are streams in all the usual places.
ESPN doesn’t even have it listed.
In other news, Geoff Cameron has apparently made some waves, according to ESPN.
Xolos USA and america play tonight on unimas 8pm central as well.
thanks for the heads up
Only saw the second half but man xolos were dreadful. Gomez looked like a island out there, even with a strike partner. Absolutely no creativity. I liked coronas defense of work but you can tell he’s a little confused on when to go up field. Castillo and Ariola were very good going forward, with much of the attack coming down Castillos left flank
Wow,Ozil is amazing. I don’t think I gave him enough credit at Madrid, but you see when Ronaldo wanted to keep. He does things while making it look effortless.
So, Spector still exists, huh.
I posted recently how valuable a #10 type of play-maker can be to a team. Ozil. Nuff said. Ronaldo’s comments about how valuable Ozil it. Nuff said. This link says plenty:
http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2014/matches/round=2000479/match=2011786/postmatch/report/index.html#ozil+leads+arsenal+victory+against+napoli
For the USMNT Donovan is that #10 player play-maker, but Donovan WILL ACTUALLY score more goals than Ozil will while playing the same role.
All opinions welcome:
I really hope you’re not insinuating Donovan is better than Ozil.
If Ozil played for the Galaxy he would score way more goals than Donovan.
In the national team Ozil has Gomez, Klose and Kruse to finish his plays. Donovan has Altidore.
Donovan play in MLS
Ozil plays in the EPL.
What’s your point?
Donovan’s goal scoring prowess speaks for itself. He is a better goal scorer than Ozil, who is a great playmaker who gets the occasional goal. He is not a great finisher. Donovan has scored at every level. But this is a silly argument. It’s just a thing of beauty to see Ozil on the ball. He has his Arsenal teammates thinking they are all equally as good. Aaron Ramsey the new Gareth Bale.
Donovan will score more goals than Ozil playing the same role. That is the point. Did not say anything about MLS or Bundesliga or this or that player is better than the other. This team has that player as a forward. You read too much into it. You insinuated. Make your own original post.
Comparing leagues again…so insecure
The only thing I may be insinuating is Donovan needs to play this role for the rest of the qualifiers and into the World Cup. He could be a valuable offensive hub.
Just to be nit-picky, if “nuff” was said then that’s where you stop talking.
I want another Mike E comment!
I think he is out getting a new Barca third kit.
The red in the Barca game was a joke and Balo’s dive in the Milan game was disgraceful. Dortmund with a nice bounce back performance after their one against Napoli two weeks ago. If Arsenal can take care of things at home in the next two games they will be through more than likely.
The Celtic red was a joke? You obviously didn’t see the replay, he clearly kicked Neymar after the initial foul.
to be fair, the fact that the internet is debating this on every soccer website right now shows there was nothing “clear” about that call.
I guess the joke is more about Neymar’s reaction to the love tap, he was barely touched and acted as if he was being tortured.
Just to further clarify, kicking out like that is stupid and probably deserves a red. However acting like youve just been stabbed and writhing in pain is a joke when all that happened is you barely got kicked.
Barca fans/players are seriously some of the biggest babies in the game. unbelievable. i was expecting to see Neymar taken the F out and he was hardly touched and pulled out his best Busquets “Sniper” impression.
Celtic v. Barca is an awful game anyway.
Really soft straight red on Celtic. Barca was fairly unimpressive today.
What a stupid call by the ref on the Balotelli PK, stole the points from Ajax
Ya, terrible call. That is 100% the ref choosing the outcome of a game.
Champions league fixture,
0-0 late in the game,
Barca playing with a man advantage….
Celtic has em right where they want em
Nice acting by Neymar to get Brown sent off.
You’re kidding right? He intentionally kicked him after the play. I mean honestly are you that daft? Straight red every day and Sunday regardless of the amount of contact–and he certainly made plenty of contact.
Not really the assault mike e is claiming: http://t.co/nrCRAKV6Cr
seriously…
Really Mike E that wasn’t much. Yeah a rough take down, deserving of yellow, but the little nick at the end, might not have been intentional. I tend to think it was because of the way his foot came up and the toe lifted like a kick. But I don’t think it was worthy 7 to 10 in Attica like you are claiming..
http://youtu.be/LzXH9LonEmo
Yeah you can tell he really tried to break Neymar’s arm there lol. La Liga just living up to it’s name.
Mike is apparently not letting video evidence get in the way of his crappy point.
Did he kick him or just try to slow down while going by him…. I mean… I didn’t really see him go out of his way to make contact…. just looked like aftermath of a guy being fouled….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwD2XnPwmto
Much better view of the foul. You can kinda see how the angle of his leg changed to ensure contact. It was dumb.
Barely a kick but clear enough that he didn’t have to kick him nor did he attempt not to kick him.
Scott Brown intentionally kicks Neymar after fouling him on the fast break. Yellow card followed by a straight red card.
Pathetic joke of a team.
Barca must be destroying them then?
Intentionally kicked Neymar? Not really. And if you think Celtic is a “pathetic joke of a team” then why is Barca struggling to squeak out a win when they’ve had a man advantage for a third of the match?
Jeez Celtic are a bunch of thugs. No wonder the SPL has such an awful reputation. If THIS is your top team? Elbows everywhere. Late cheap shots. Shoves.
Arsenal look really, really good. Never would of thought that after that villa game.
Whitbread with a goal in his debut with Derby County against Ipswich. At least I think it’s his debut. Derby are down 1-3 in the 20′ however.
Ozil with an awesome finish. Quick 1-0 lead for the Gunners