The UEFA Champions League quarterfinals are underway today with Manchester United attempting to move one step closer to repeating.
Here are today's Quaterfinal first leg matches:
TUESDAY
2:45pm– ESPN2/ESPN360.com- FC Porto at Manchester United
2:45pm– Setanta Sports/ESPN Deportes/ESPN360.com- Arsenal at Villarreal
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.
haha..MarkieMark..so you think Evans is worse than the Porto defender who blindly passed it behind himself to an opponent for an easy goal?! You’re classic man!!
Evans was far from the worse United player out there today. They were all pretty bad. Where was the midfield? Carrick, Scholes and Park were flat out invisible. Was it due to 2 games in 2 days? Or just the season wearing on them? Who knows. But the 2nd leg is going to be outstanding!
It’s Neville that’s useless. They really missed Ferdinand today. MUFC deserve credit for the fightback to 2-1 but that last giveaway was atrocious defending. In Neville’s defense, he had two men to deal with and so he had to leave the back post player free. Where was the extra midfielder to preserve the lead?
Yes, all is evans fault, he is the dummy to blame so that more famous players are not at fault…
No, he is not a great defender, but he’s not to blame for the goals conceded by united….
Man U put so much emphasis on winning Premier (which is still not a sealed deal) that they forgot to show up to play in this match. Sure they’re going to win 5 trophies. They got the three smaller ones this year. So good to see a giant faltering. The bigger they are the harder they fall. Johnny Evans is the worst defender in the world.
FINAL- United 2, Porto 2. And now Manchester United has to go win at Porto, something no English team has ever done.
Great game. Ended 2-2.
Any updates on the other game??
five minutes extra time for this game is insane….
Giggs owes Ronaldo a bar tab for taking the free kick and blasting it over the goal. What a waste that was. Not Giggsy at all.
here we go again… Ronaldo on the ball in the final minute for a free kick on the edge of the box.
Class by the United fan who threw a beer at Porto’s coach.
I geuss Johnny Evans isn’t the only defender with a problem tonight.
WOW, Porto ties it in the final minute. 2-2. Ruh roh.
I hope United fans have health insurance. This game combined with the Villa game is not for the faint hearted.
cised
2-2
i think van der sar had quite a game too, but probably a routine one for him…
What a workhorse Tevez is. He tracks back to the byline from the forward position to defend. Great goal too. Good job from Rooney as well.
Rooney with a beautiful side-volley back-heel pass that finds Tevez, who races in and finishes from close range.
Going to be a great finish. Happy this game wasn’t a blowout.
GOAL MAN UTD!!!!!!!!! Tevez from Rooney, 2-1 United.
Of course I was looking down at the screen and Tevez puts the ball in the back of the net.
United 2 Porto 1
Tevez with a goal off a flick from Rooney.
They just might get away with a win.
Vidic is clearly man of the match for United. He, Rooney, and Ronaldo were the only ones who showed up to play today
adebayor’s goal was something else. such skill
Sick sick sick by Abebayor
havent seen it, but 1-1 for arsenal, must have been a fantastic bicycle kick by adebayor…
A couple of decent chances for Porto put aside by Van De Sar. Porto looks great on the counter.
Giggs has put a spark in this team, they still look shaky on defense though. They really miss Ferdinand.
Giggsy comes on and kicks Ronaldo off the ball for the free kick, and almost puts the ball on a United head right in front of goal.
United are really pushing for it.
Hulk is a bright spot for Porto. Also the best name I’ve ever heard.
Laser by Park makes its way through traffic but the keeper was in the right spot at the right time and takes it in the chest.
Too many meat pies at the half for United, they still look pretty sluggish. But starting to put the pressure on Porto some more here…
John O’Shea and Park Ji Sung have been especially terrible for Man Utd. They miss Rafael and could use Tevez or Giggs for Park at some point.
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read the live comment on the guardian website, minute by minute report and pretty funny too…
Tony, you can never be offside if the opposition made the pass.
Tommy smith is nothing to write home about. Derrick Rae is class as long as he doesn’t try and evaluate the game.
Villarreal 1, Arsenal 0
Manchester United 1, Porto 1
both at Halftime.
stuck at work… what are the scores so far?
United look PUTRID. I will be cised to see them lose or tie at home. Porto is a very hard place to win at, and if the Devils go down I will be ecstatic.
Ferguson must work his magic at the half because his team looks terrible. Just about every player has made one direct pass to the opposing team, and only Rooney seems like he wants to be on the field and not at the bank cashing his check.
Porto’s defense looks amazing, clogging up every lane.
Wishing I could see the other game, anyone have any notes on it?
how stupid are the espn commentators to blame the porto goal on evans? he held his foot into a pass and was not able to control it. The real problem was the pass by ronaldo…
But probably you can’t blame the great C. Ronaldo…
Hey Toddy…..dude he’s on loan….at Xerez……where the hell have you been for 2 months?
United are clearly being outplayed, but they have a recent history of getting a result as second best.
Aaron,
That clears it up for me, thank you very much! I guess I didn’t know about the back pass rule.
Manchester United just does not want this game right now…that and Alex Ferguson is an idiot for choosing this squad. Wayne Rooney should never ever ever ever ever ever ever be played as a lone striker.
aside from the last ten minutes in the first half the ManU-Porto game was riveting.
ManU is really lucky to be even. Porto had enough chances to be up by two….
It was definitely a lazy backpass that Rooney picked off. Unbelievable gift. Obviously it’s not offsides when the other team passes him the ball.
try http://www.playandwatch.co.uk/index.php?mcid=8
normally something works
Tony, from the explanation on the gamecast, it sounds like Rooney put the ball in off a back pass from a Porto player. I didn’t see it, but he couldn’t have been offsides from a pass from the other team.
Was the gamecast explanation wrong? I wish I could be watching at work . . .
anybody have a link for the villareal/arsenal game? for some reason nothing I am finding is working…thanks
Why was Rooney not offsides on his goal in the 15th minute??? Am I missing something.
PUT JOZY IN, VILLA
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