By DAN KARELL
All eyes today look towards Manchester as David Moyes and his Manchester United team look to exit from their recent league tailspin.
The Red Devils play their third straight home match on Tuesday against Shakhtar Donetsk in the UEFA Champions League, but are coming off two consecutive defeats at Old Trafford, a streak that had become unthinkable in recent years. Now, it’s up to Moyes, Wayne Rooney, and Ryan Giggs to bring some calm and stability back to the club.
Elsewhere in Champions League action, Bayern Munich welcome Manchester City to the Allianz Arena with first place on the line, while Cristiano Ronaldo returns to the Real Madrid lineup against FC Copenhagen.
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 (Today’s TV schedule is after the jump):
2:45pm – Manchester United vs Shakhtar Donetsk – Fox Sports 1
2:45pm – Galatasaray vs Juventus – Fox Sports 2
2:45pm – FC Copenhagen vs Real Madrid – Fox Deportes
2:45pm – Bayern Munich vs Manchester City – Fox Soccer Plus
2:45pm – Real Sociedad vs Bayer Leverkusen – Fox Soccer 2Go
2:45pm – Benfica vs PSG – Fox Soccer 2Go
2:45pm – Olympiakos vs Anderlecht – Fox Soccer 2Go
2:45pm – Viktoria Plzeň vs CSKA Moscow – Fox Soccer 2Go
There really was not much snow on the field in Istanbul, I’ve heard it was the hail that caused the abandonment of the game but come on.
Did you see them trying to scrape it off? A lot of it – unplayable.
So Anderlecht is playing 8 v 11. 3 red cards.
And STILL only losing 2-1.
3-1.
They move the ball well but just don’t have anyone who can put the chances away in front of goal. I wonder if Kljestan will try to get a move in January. He was certainly one of the better players for Anderlecht through Champions League. It would probably help his chances with the national team to move on to a bigger league.
I was thinking it be nice (although unlikely) if some of the nats could play play together at the club level. I think “Sochaux” could use Kljestan (Loan). I see Sachs as being able to succeed in France.
What USMNT player would Sacha be teaming up with at Sochaux?
Agree – I’ve been hoping for Demps to Sunderland, although I don’t hear anything like that. Expecting an announcement on him next week?
David Villa is the man.
any word why juve match is suspended?
Hail storm
snow.
What do you guys think of this chant for the Germany game in Brasil?
Rhine Monkeys! Rhine Monkeys! Why you cry? Is it becuz we stole Jurgen and all your black guys! Rhine Monkeys! Rhine Monkeys! Ozil belongs in a mosque in Turkey and not in Brasil!
I think you must be somewhere in Europe, to have managed to drink so much already.
Get out of here dude!
get to chanting witz
Typical… No wonder the world hates us.
Rhine Monkeys! Rhine Monkeys! Die Nationalmannschaft is not Die Nationalmannschaft unless it all kneels to the east for prayer.
Frankly, that sounds like something you would more likely hear outside the US. I don’t recall hearing things like that at US stadiums, but I have witnessed it throughout Europe stadiums in person.
Well, we are becoming more a Euro styled football culture everyday, Matt.
Looks like Chicharito is phoning it in.
A center midfield of Phil Jones and Ryan Giggs.What has happened to Utd, is it because of injury or was this squad punching way above their weight with sir Alex at the helm.
and did you see Ferdinand get the ball swiped from his feet?
Shakhtar is looking excellent, dominating much of the game. If they can go through to the last 16 they could give the big teams a lot of trouble.
Ferdinand is washed up.Evans was always average at best.Young only had one good season.Phil Jones has never looked good enough.Giggs is 40 years old.Kagawa has underperformed.Janusaj is only 18.Rooney dosent want to be there and on and on.
Giggs is human garbage
Mr Powers,
Moyes inherited a squad whose cracks SAF had been papering over for a while.Vidic and Ferdinand have careers on life support.They have a lot of names but no real team.
SAF even had to ask Scholes back out of retirement. Giggs is a wonder but fact that he still has such a prominent role should tell you everything. Imagine if Arsenal still needed Henry back as much as Man U seems to need Giggs.
It’s a testament to SAF that he welded this crew into a championship team but Moyes will need a different formula.
Ya, SAF has magic. Moyes doesn’t. I don’t know that its fair to Moyes to blame him for how poor some of those players truly are. Why do they even keep Danny Welbeck around. I’ll never know.
Kljestan scores for Anderlecht!
Only the 5th American to score in Champions League?
Hmm. 1 Kirovski; 2. Beasley 3. Kljesten 4. Jermaine Jones; 5. Reyna, anybody else?
Edu. He scored against Man U I think and then had an own goal just a few minutes later. It
Ahh found it… Edu scored against Valencia in 2010 and provided the own goal equalizer to boot.
So at least 6 Yanks have now scored in the CL
Is that former DC United RB Andy Najar playing forward for Anderlecht?
yeah
Got a yellow card too – trying too hard to seem like the ideal Jermaine Jones replacement
PSG scores first despite the relatively weak squad and no big significance to the match for them (in contrast to Benfica’s situation)…
2-0 Bayern in the 11′. City is giving Bayern way too much space. Goetze gets one.
Manchester City are sorely missing Kompany, and Toure today. City’s defense is looking soft.
Munich up already. 1-0 Bayern 4′ goal by Muller.
Three Concacaf ayers starting in the Anderlecht Olympiakos match.Najar Klejstan and Campbell.
Interesting point, although this is Anderlecht’s last appearance in the tournament this year, and with any luck, it will also be Campbell’s…
Kljestan with a goal
Anderlecht had 3 guys get sent off in that game. Seemed like Sacha played well.
Galatassaray juventus on fx sports 2. If I could pick on place to watch a game it would be Istanbul Turkey.
Benfica v PSG is on the Fox Sports Southwest channel.
Yeah it’s on all the regional Fox channels I could find. I’m in the mountains and am watching on their Midwest channel.
PSG mailing this one in, it appears: they just said Ibra, Thiago Silva and 4-5 other regular starters didn’t even make the trip to Lisbon.
Break a leg Cristiano
No seriously i hope he breaks both of his legs
too soon
no seriosuly too soon, he’d have plenty of time to recover
Love it.
is America vs Leon on TV? I thought it was today…maybe not.
Thursday
thanks