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.
Money concentrations…Only two teams have $ in La Liga. Implying La Liga is the best league because they have the best team is mistaken. In 1979 Cosmos were one of the best teams in the world… NASL not so much. Ya see. Sorta like two teams dominate Scotland and are OK sides but the league isn’t very strong. For Barca, league games are mostly(or should be) scrimmages, the only competition is a couple of games against Real M. Only other stiff competition is Champions league.
My whole point is in reply to EPL goggles comment, much stronger than La Liga.
EPL and La Liga teams don’t have exclusive players. All teams mentioned have access to the same pool of players.
You know what Swerve, while I disagree with you that Barca was “NOT that impressive, I fully agree with you that several of the players on Arsenal should be sent packing. Denilson is a disaster and should be tarred and feathered…ZERO defensive presence. The work rate of Nasri and NB as compared to their Barca counterparts was embarrassing. If you want to be the best, you need to give 100% maximum effort and several Gunner players were not up to the task…in the Nou Camp…against the World’s best player… = disaster…
Thing is EPL has more good teams, Roll Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and MU into just two teams and Barca and Real Madrid wouldn’t look so exceptional.
Calm down, Phil.
You’re out of your mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An excellent demolition!
Now all we need if for Bayern to knock out MU, then maybe, just maybe some people will take their EPL goggles off!
Arsenal played to lose…Barca was NOT that impressive at all…Nobody touched Messi or played him tight. Idiots. Arsenal should be ashamed of their lack of enthusiasm in this match. Yawn.
Eventually I think he most definitely will be included with the likes of Pele and Maradona. But he’s still young. Lets let him dazzle us for a few more years!
Lionel Messi is the greates footballer ever, don’t give me any more maradonna or ronaldo or pele shite, this guy is incomparable. THE GREATEST THERE EVER HAS BEEN
someone’s a happy guy right now.
Great point, at least with Messi learning from the best. Now he does do a lot on his own – last year he was great with Xavi and Iniesta creating a lot, but this year he’s sublime.
It’s now beyond ridiculous that the English match announcers, Arsenal fans and Wenger keep on with the “Young” Arsenal excuse that they’ve been offering for AT LEAST 5 YEARS!! Enough of your silly delusion Londoners, your team just does not measure up! They were very lucky during the first leg and lucky that Barcelona didn’t drive it home in the second half today. No more saying Arsenal is a “Young Team” Mr. Wenger, they most certainly are not and your pithy excuses ring mighty hollow.
Not to sound like a hater, but alot of Messi’s goals have to be attributed to the fact that he plays on possibly the best team of the past five years,
OF COURSE MESSI IS THE BEST PLAYER IN THE WORLD AT THE MOMENT, but it is easy to become so good when you have Ronaldinho, Eto, Henry, Xavi, Iniesta, Etc Etc….. around you everyday at practice teaching you new things….. Messi Looks like the perfect combination of all the attacking players that he has played around since be at Barcelona……..
Marquez actually stepped up today.
Hey Shark,
4-1, my friend… 🙂
Don’t let the lengthy, verbose pontifications of the professional soccer scribes fool you. The current state of global soccer can be summed up in one short phrase: Messi rules…
Congrats!
Everest. Fuji. McKinley. None compare to the mountain of memories via Messi.
Guardiola is the epitome of “cool”… I love watching him on the sidelines. And yeah- he looks like a Spanish James Bond.
But I’ll take “Play Like Messi”….
Just give Barca the CL trophy right now. Actually, don’t. Let them rip apart Inter and ManU first.
Well that was an exclamation point…4-1
Glad the USA beat Spain…:) 🙂
See ya Arsene…I’m sure this game would make him rethink any possible move to Real. Why would he want to be tortured by Messi twice a year minimum.