The most highly-anticipated match of the European club season has arrived, with rivals Manchester United and Manchester City clashing today with first place in the English Premier League and bragging rights in the city of Manchester on the line.
Manchester City is currently in first place, riding the stellar form of striker Edin Dzeko and midfielder David Silva, but City hasn't played nearly as tough a schedule early on as Manchester United, who have already faced Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool while City has yet to face any of those regulars in the EPL Top Four.
City's credentials will be tested at Old Trafford in the match of the weekend, the best match on a day loaded with good match-ups. Among the other top matches to watch in Europe, you have Lille facing Lyon in a clash of French powers and Club America taking on Chivas Guadalajara in the latest installment of 'El Super Clasico', one of the best rivalries in the world.
MLS fans will have their eyes on Houston, where the Dynamo take on the Los Angeles Galaxy in the final match of the regular season. Houston can secure a Top 3 seed in the East with a win, while a loss to the Los Angeles Galaxy will mean a trip through the wild card round.
Looking to see some Americans Abroad? You won't want to miss Michael Bradley and Chievo facing struggling Inter Milan, or in-form DaMarcus Beasley leading Puebla against Toluca.
If you are 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 (Today's TV Schedule is after the jump):
TODAY'S SOCCER ON TV
6:30am- Fox Soccer Plus/FoxSoccer.tv– Lecce vs. AC Milan
6:30am- ESPN3.com– Ajax vs. Feyenoord
8:30am- Fox Soccer Channel– Manchester United vs. Manchester City
8:30am- Fox Soccer Plus/FoxSoccer.tv– Arsenal vs. Stoke City
9am- ESPN3.com– Inter Milan vs. Chievo
9am- ESPN3.com– Cagliari vs. Napoli
9:30am- ESPN3.com– Bayer Leverkusen vs. Schalke 04
10am- ESPN3.com– Real Sociedad vs. Getafe
10am- FoxSoccer.tv– Blackburn vs. Tottenham
11am- Fox Soccer Channel– Queens Park Rangers vs. Chelsea
11am- FoxSoccer.tv– Auxerre vs. Stade Rennes
11am- FoxSoccer.tv– Paris St. Germain vs. Dijon
11:30am- GolTV– Hannover 96 vs. Bayern Munich
Noon- DirecTV– Osasuna vs. Real Zaragoza
Noon- ESPN3.com– Atletico Madrid vs. Mallorca
1pm- Telemundo– Toluca vs. Puebla
1:15pm- ESPN3.com– FC Porto vs. Nacional Funchal
2pm- GolTV– Valencia vs. Athletic Bilbao
2:45pm- Fox Soccer Channel– Bologna vs. Lazio
3pm- Fox Soccer Plus– Lille vs. Olympique Lyon
4pm- GolTV– Villarreal vs. Levante
5pm- Univision– Club America vs. Chivas Guadalajara
7pm- Galavision/Direct Kick– Houston Dynamo vs. Los Angeles Galaxy
qpr 1-0 over Chelsea and now a red card for Chelsea!!!
Bad match for Bradley, not what you want to see. Poor kid might be playing himself out of any playing time on the national team.
I’m not sure which was more exciting to watch, the beautiful Farfan goal that lead to Schalke winning 1-0 vs. Leverkusen, or the Jones-Ballack match-up. Think Jones got the better of ballack in this one and was the better man for not going for Ballacks antics trying to draw him into a card.
Jermaine Jones fighting it out will Ballack and holding his ground….Ballack is slow and old and mad about it – he’s done
Chris Rolfe has scored a penalty against Odense BK today.
I couldn’t gather why the red, maybe 2nd yellow from dissent cause the goal was basically an Olympic goal, beautiful and went in at the far post about midway in terms of height.
because they are probably ManU fans.
Jozy going full 90? That would be a good sign. Perhaps the manager has seen better results in training sessions?
Yep, it seems like the best midfielder in England is always a guy who doesn’t start for Spain.
looks like he did just fine as a sub 🙂
MB distributing nicely, maintaining possession – nothing fancy. He’s broken up a number of chances. Not closing out quite as quickly or authoritatively as you would like a CDM to do. Perhaps more concerned with positioning? He’s def been a step slow a couple times to close out a shooter or passer.
No, just a chance. MB stuck in middle of the pitch, trying to cover two at once. He got stuck behind his man and couldn’t catch up. Chievo defending like mad.
Well, getting up at 5:30 to watch Man U – Man City was certainly worth it. Evans getting sent off pretty much sealed Man U’s fate, but City was freaking lethal in the second half. Creating chances, not allowing Man U to really get anything dangerous going outside of Fletcher’s goal.
Beyond the absolutely nonsensical amount of attacking talent they have, the thing that stands out for me every time i watch City is how insanely good David Silva is, and how ridiculously deep Spain is that he can’t even get a look at the starting 11.
Man Utd should have started Phil Jones instead of J Evans. Damn De Gea is my fantasy team keeper argh!
east coast…not as bad as my boys in the west!
What one – an Inter goal?
Certainly crazy stuff, but w/ Man U down a man, they really never had a chance.
1-6 at home and could have been more. The changing of the guard has begun.
Aaand he may have been a step slow on that one.
Didn’t see the Inter goal – too bad MB was at fault, but he’s everywhere now, breaking up Inter attacks like crazy
Holy ****!
That’s about the only words I can come up with for this.
Rangers won 2-0. Bocanegra assisted on the 2nd.
Damn. I *almost* feel bad for Man U. Just shredded today by City.
How is no one else commenting on this thorough beat down United is enduring. Wow!
This inter-chievo game is really hard to watch.
So far a productive weekend for Yanks Abroad. Some goals, some assists, some 90 minute performances. I’m pumped!!
waved*
i think jozy was onsides, not by the near defender, but the far defender on the goal that just got waived off
Deuce with an assist on a Bryan Ruiz equalizer.
We must not be watching the same game. MB is not looking good at all. In addition to bad passes, MB is getting chewed up on defense and the man he was supposed to be marking on a corner kick, Motta, headed in Inter’s first goal. The announcer said: “Bradley did not jump.
Nice mover around the keeper – itsa Jozy almost…
Inter scores off corner header – MB’s mark. MB didn’t get off his feet.
Huh? what happened?
Roda Kerkra just had a player ejected after AZ scored, off of what I think was an Olympic goal, the feed stuttered and Jozy was trying to put in the rebound from the defenders clearance but he was inside, beautiful goal!
Lets hope Jozy gets one now that his team will have a man advantage!
It is impossible for a player on the bench in this game to have contributed to his team’s success so far this year.
Shouldn’t you be complaining about AZ starting a lazy, cocky forward who isn’t the best player in the world at age 22?
I was going to buy the foxsoccer.tv package, and then I found out I can’t even watch the United/City match live. I hope they get it together before the World Cup.
I was expecting some fireworks from that game… did Mario put on his bib properly this time?
Shut the f*ck up
Bradley playing his typical bottom of the mid triangle distributor for Chievo. He looks good, conservative, lots of good short quick passes – & few bad ones. But at 19 minutes inter is starting to move.
“stellar form of striker Dezko”? You mean balotelli right? B/c Dezko’s been benched, only reason why he started last week champion’s league was because mario was serving 3gams suspension. I think balotelli has scored like 5 of his last appearances or something, if you’re going to be a soccer reporter why don’t you try i don’t know, clicking on bbc/sport/footbal and reading??
J. Jones in the starting 11 for Schalke!! He is definitely coming on as of late. Thanks goodness for coaching changes. Bradley is playing a very conservative def. midfield spot per, I’m sure, the instructions of the manager. Jozy needs a goal to quiet down these “rift with the coach and media” talks. Buddle must have caught a glimpse of Herc’s 2 goals yesterday and said “I gotta get in on this for MY call-up”
“Houston can secure a Top 3 seed in the East with a win, while a loss to the Los Angeles Galaxy will mean a trip through the wild card round.”
Seems a draw will mean that, too, as Columbus appears to own the head-to-head tie-break with Houston. But I expect Houston will take the full 3 pts at home and with something clear to play for against a resting LA side without anything clear to play for.
And you guys are up _way_ too early…
Haha I hear you dude, Alaska timezone for me. I just stayed awake and wrote a paper for Econ. I think the Manchester Derby tangent I took might be detrimental to my grade though..
Yay Buddle. 6goals in 12 matches now. Hoping Jozy and Clint scores
Good start for our Yanks, Buddle was on bench but came in at halftime, scored 7 minutes later.
Jozy is starting and so are Edu & Boca, hopefully Bedoya gets 15 minutes or so
I’m in LA, so it’s been bad, but I got treated to the insanely high scoring game of AC Milan at Lecce, Milan went down 3-0 at halftime, I turned it off, then saw Boateng and Aquilani came in and then in like 15 minutes Boateng had a hat-trick to tie it up, then Cassano set up Yepes for the winner in like the 82 or 83rd minute, crazy game!
This Manchester Derby really should be the late afternoon game tho, the slot QPR v Chelsea is on
And Balotelli with a class finish!!! what was that, the 21st minute?
Dude me too. What time zone you in?
Link to AZ v RODA:
http://www dot firstrowsports dot tv/watch/87770/1/watch-az-alkmaar-vs-roda-kerkrade dot html
replace dot with .
Side note looking forward to Inter v Chievo on espn3.
united/city. worth getting up at this dreadful hour on a Sunday!