For half of the teams in the UEFA Champions league, the group stage ends Tuesday afternoon, and knockout-stage implications are still on the line.
Tottenham, tied atop Group A with defending champion Inter Milan, could secure first place in the group with a victory against FC Twente. Considering Spurs' three-goal edge over Inter in goal differential, a win should do the trick barring an Inter rout of Werder Bremen.
Jermaine Jones' Schalke leads Group B and has already secured a place in the next stage, but a win over Benfica would clinch first place and a better knockout draw. Jones is not with the first team Tuesday after recently being demoted by coach Felix Magath. In Group C, Maurice Edu's Rangers, already guaranteed a third-place finish and a spot in the UEFA Europa League's Round of 32, is playing for pride against Bursaspor. Edu (knee injury) did not travel with the team to Turkey.
Here is the TV schedule for all of Tuesday's Champions League matches (all start at 2:45 ET):
- Fox Soccer Channel/DirecTV – FC Twente vs. Tottenham
- Fox Soccer+/Fox Soccer.tv/DirecTV – Werder Bremen vs. Inter Milan
- Fox Deportes/Fox Soccer.tv/DirecTV – FC Barcelona vs. Rubin Kazan
- Fox Soccer.tv/DirecTV – Benfica vs. Schalke
- Fox Soccer.tv/DirecTV – Lyon vs. Hapoel Tel Aviv
- Fox Soccer.tv/DirecTV – FC Copenhagen vs. Panathinaikos
- Fox Soccer.tv/DirecTV – Bursaspor vs. Rangers
- Fox Soccer.tv/DirecTV – Manchester United vs. Valencia
If you will be watching any or all of Tuesday's matches, please feel free to share any thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below. Enjoy the action!
It might have been unintentional, but in any case, it was a clear handball by the Kazan defender that deflected and then slow went across the goal line. It’s better to get a goal than a penalty, so I imagine the ref might have been playing advantage (but I had thought one side has to have possession of the ball to get advantage).
Well played.
Does Berbatov have any idea what the rules for offsides even are?
That HAS to be a penalty for Valencia, come on.
Not surprising that the Fox commentators are just slurping all over the United players.
What happened? Sounds like an intentional handball?
So why didn’t play stop when the Rubin player touched the ball with his hand? Did the ref basically just play advantage and let the ball go into the net?
Why does it seem that every match I watch with Manchester United playing, they are given more extra time than should be or is held up by the 4th official.
Slight example… here against Valencia, United was messing around with the ball in Valencia’s half… a good 20 seconds after the alloted time, and only when they finally had the ball taken away did the whistle blow.
No americans abroad and no intense games yet. Valecia is entertaining and my goodness Shalke uses all its energy on CL.
I think Qatar just won the Champion League by beating everyone in the first round.
United Valencia is also on Comcast Sports New England
I will take a pass on today……All the good games for Match Day 6 is in about 24 hours.
Go spurs, gers.
The United-Valencia game is also on Fox Sports Detroit.