World Football Thread XVIII: The Beckham has Landed

[Maquiladora]

Great game between LA and Pachuca.

Beckham went off injured after like 20mins. Pachuca score, end to end stuff for the next 60mins, LA equalise in stoppage time with an overhead kick Now waiting for extra-time.

[Maquiladora]

Pachuca wins on penalties with Abel Xavier missing the last pen for LA.

The best part was Donavan missing his pen that would've won it, especially after he delayed for so long kneeling and praying Great stuff

[alva]

And seeing as no Belgian teams are in the CL this year, I'll get to watch several games involving English clubs!!

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Maquiladora
Slavia Prague knock Ajax out of the CL. Celtic seem to have beat Spartak Moscow on pens.

I'm not too surprised you omitted to mention Arsenal strolling past Sparta Prague 5-0 on aggregate to join the group stage.

Fabregas was awesome when he came on. Two goals from midfielders, (Cesc and Rosicky) one from the new Croazilian striker Eduardo , and a half-decent atmosphere in the ground for once. Long may it continue.

I almost missed the first goal due to big queues at the turnstile. Lucky it wasn't two minutes earlier.

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by Cort Haus

I'm not too surprised you omitted to mention Arsenal strolling past Sparta Prague 5-0 on aggregate to join the group stage.

Sparta were rubbish though, nothing surprising or exciting about Arsenal cruising through.

CL groups:

Group A
LIVERPOOL
Porto
Marseille
Besiktas

Group B
CHELSEA
Valencia
Schalke 04
Rosenborg

Group C
REAL MADRID
Werder Bremen
Lazio
Olympiakos

Group D
AC MILAN
Benfica
Celtic
Shakhtar Donetsk

Group E
BARCELONA
Lyon
Stuttgart
Rangers

Group F
MANCHESTER UNITED
Roma
Sporting Lisbon
Dynamo Kiev

Group G
INTER MILAN
PSV Eindhoven
CSKA Moscow
Fenerbahce

Group H
ARSENAL
Sevilla/AEK Athens
Steau Bucharest
Slavia Prague

[reds4ever]

Poor old Rangers!

[Cort Haus]

ManYoo Roma should be interesting. :riotpolice:

[DanS]

Originally posted by Maquiladora
The best part was Donavan missing his pen that would've won it, especially after he delayed for so long kneeling and praying Great stuff

As I said, Donovan's a frickin' *****. Can't wait to see him replaced on the national team by the likes of Altidore.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
ManYoo Roma should be interesting. :riotpolice:

Yeah, I bet that the water cannoning back when is the last bath a lot of the scum had.

[reds4ever]

Groups B and E look the killers to me.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The Beckham is injured again. Knee sprain in the SuperLiga match today... damn Mexicans.

[LordShiva]

Group C

Poor Olympiakos

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
The Beckham is injured again. Knee sprain in the SuperLiga match today... damn Mexicans.

The whole Beckham project is looking like an expensive disaster for all converned. Except perhaps Victoria.

[LordShiva]

Now that teh Champions League is starting, hopefully all this Beckham/MLS talk will stop

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
The whole Beckham project is looking like an expensive disaster for all converned. Except perhaps Victoria.

Well, it's mostly their fault. There seemed to be a rushing back of him from injury.

And of course it isn't an expensive disaster. Look at the shirt sales and higher ratings because of all of the attention MLS recieved. Sure it's a disappointment because of the injury, but the MLS hasn't been in the US sports pages like this ever.