The UEFA Champions League will see its first two semifinalists determined today in a pair of tightly-contested quarterfinal contests playing their second legs.
The main event of the day features FC Barcelona playing host to Arsenal (2:45pm, FSN/FSE/DirecTV). The team's tied, 2-2, in the first leg in London and today's second leg is promising to be another exciting affair.
The first match of the day pits Italian champions Inter Milan against surprising CSKA Moscow. The teams will meet in Russia today (12:30pm, FSC) after Inter won the first leg, 1-0, in Milan.
If you will be watching today's action, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action.
This is obscene.
Cuatro o Catorce. For Lionel Messi, it need not matter.
From BBC
“There’s just a latent anxiety around the Nou Camp now. Barca not creating much and Arsenal having lots of possession. A goal now for the visitors would make this very interesting.”
Plenty of divers to go around in football these days unfortuntley….one Ronaldo comes to mind and the list could go on…:)….amazing Eduardo is even playing after that horrific injury….
2024: Infostrada Sports, take a bow: Lionel Messi has scored in 83 Barcelona games and they have only ever lost one – 4-3 against Atletico Madrid on 1 March, 2009. —Insane stat.
And Eduardo “I Dived During the Celtic Game” Da Silva comes on…
Arsenal with a decent second half….makign things a tad more interesting…
And with every beautiful touch, so are we.
True but then again, you never know about Barca.
i will thank myself like the mighty Greeks, with a bountiful sacrifice to myself that will be enjoyed with all the finest pleasures, such as watching messi
ha! you can thank yourself as well.
Barca looks content to sit back.
o that is good, when i post that on another site i will make sure to make them think i wrote it
From the BBC
Our friends at Infostrada Sports have unearthed a few more bits of info about this Lionel Messi character. He’s just scored the sixth hat-trick of his career. At 21 minutes, it was the fourth fastest Champions League hat-trick (behind Mike Newell, Joseba Llorente and Marco Simone) ever. He’s the youngest Champions League hat-trick scorer since Wayne Rooney in 2004-05. And his 38 goals match his tally from last season. Barcelona’s top goalscorer in a season was Ronaldo with 47 in 1996-97.
which is exactly what he wants you to think, he is Lionel Messi and you are Getafe stuck on April 23, 2007 wondering what is happening in continuous bewilderment.
Brazil’s Ronaldo was on another planet for 2-3 years, but a serious knee injury pretty much wrecked his career (save for a couple of great moments). Messi is the best in the world right now, but let’s see what happens over the next few years. I hope he’s allowed to light up the game for years to come.
Messi is a player unseen like any other. Writers and scribes around the world have abandoned trying to describe him. Messi has forced them to write in sole purpose of topping each other.
I guess it’s not too early to break this out again: http://i43.tinypic.com/11bngi0.gif
no i am not quite sure i am living in it, perhaps visiting, something as good as i just saw is hard to believe is real
True, but there is the RM game this weekend. Messi seems to be tireless.
little do we know, we are living in that universe.
From the BBC
It’s not too early to talk about Lionel Messi being one of the greatest footballers of all time, of course it’s not. What’s the point in being a football fan if you can’t have such discussions? The memories this young man is leaving us with this season alone are simply unforgettable. He’s scored 38 goals already, and some of them are beautiful beyond belief.
LOL…thanks…
not quite see Messi does not even need to score, he simply creates a universe where he already has scored more than they do
3rd? that would be some talent
Messi is apparently not bound by the same rules of time, space, gravitional pull, etc., that enslave the rest of us. He exists somewhere in a land of pure imagination…
Ok. Will give you the one goal… no problem.
frank, you’ve got a better chance of growing a third belly button than pep taking messi off at the half.
As the wise ones say “taketh the good with the bad”
whats the point in beating a team missing their starting stricker, leading scorer, 2 center backs, and an outside mid? if they pull messi thats all arsenal would accomplish if they won, thats not a win thats a roll over and die on the other teams part. losing fabregas and song doesnt add up to that
Messi is interplanetary. If they score 4. He will score 12.
haha, just wanted to give you your due
perhaps
sky sports are so far up their own british arse its sickening. to be fair though, this can be said for any country and their sports teams
Yea imagine if his form for his nat team was at this level every game, kinda scary hu?
i hope pep takes off messi at halftime, because thats the only way arsenal have any shot at advancing. i think they can score 2, but i dont think they can not concede.
Aresnal has one goal…..and it’s only half time…:)
Thanks stevie
Hell, messi can make it 2 hat tricks come the 2nd half. what a special player and to to think he’s only 22…
blag = ray hudson in sbi reader form.
Is this a men against boys game?
haha GL to ya dude
almost a 4th!
Denilson is absolutely terrible. HEH jacka$$…you’re a defensive mid…please keep track of the World’s best player. Denilson sleep walking on all 3 goals. As I said in an earlier post, losing Song was a much bigger loss than people realized. Denilson needs to be sold.
If they don’t slow it down, he might score 6.
He just about had another.
Holy crud….I stand to win $220 if Barcelona wins 4-1…..the second half is going to give me an ulcer…..
My posts are no longer showing up, problem with anyone else?
What was that again? 🙂
And Messi with a hat trick, o the jedi can feel the disturbance in the force
Wow. He just keeps getting more ridiculous with every touch.