The very first Week in the Champions" Round of 16
The 2011-12 UEFA Champions League Round of sixteen is on and some have now received roughly overwhelmed.
By Camilla Mancini
The 1st eight clubs with the Knockout Phase of the prestigious event met involving Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th for the 1st leg fixtures. On every of the four matches there was a triumphant club that now has a foot during the quarterfinals, possibly using a narrow edge like Lyon, or with an almost-unbeatable a person, like Milan. This to start with fraction for the last 16 will now ought to wait before March 6th and 7th to keep going using the challenge and look up for that prospect move about to the future stage; but initial the remaining 8 will meet up with involving tomorrow which Wednesday. Each of the exact same, here is a brief review of the first matches:
February 14th - Lyon 1-0 APOEL: these two had their experience on the Stade de Gerland, wherever the Cypriots seemed for being in disadvantage against Olympique Lyonnais, which dominated in the whole match. Though Les Gones nonetheless have got a greater UEFA coefficient than APOEL, the Cypriots are already increasing plenty in the course of this time and in reality it has come to be the 1st Cypriot club to succeed in the spherical of 16. APOEL's functionality continues to be really really good in the course of the opposition but on Tuesday it wasn't good enough and Alexandre Lacazette saw a possibility in this to location the target that gave his team the current direct.
Bayer Leverkusen 1-3 Barcelona FC: with the BayArena were taking part in the Werkself as well as recently most intimidating club in the Champions, Bar?a, which now is half-way into quarterfinals. For the period of the 1st fifty percent the Germans stood up sturdy blocking the Spaniard squad, but at 41' Alexis Sanchez scored his first of all Champions League plan, offering the direct to defending champions few minutes before the break. In second fifty percent Leverkusen welcomed the visitors along with an end goal from Michal Kadlec, yet this just revolved the zeal belonging to the visitors to fight back and 3 minutes later on Sanchez was scoring again, to then be followed by Messi at 88'.
February 15th - Zenit St. Petersburg 3-2 Benfica: A final moment end goal from Shirokov broke the tie favoring the Russians. In spite belonging to the tough reduced temperature (-10 C) the two teams did a great job and stored elements quite even. The primary to attain was Maxi Pereira at the 20', but seven minutes later on was adopted by Roman Shirokov's very first purpose belonging to the day. By the 71st minute a possibility to score arrived for Sergei Semak, but there was also a person for your Portuguese Oscar Cardozo at 87' to achieve a draw; however a moment when a 2nd goal from Shirokov gave Zenit the direct.
Milan 4-0 Arsenal: the harshest from the end results from this week has been the 4-0 that Milan nailed on Arsenal. The Italians had less possession with the ball than the Gunners, but that did not make any difference, inside of the end the 53% of ball possession that Arsenal had didn't meant anything. Kevin-Prince Boateng obtained from the score sheet at 15', followed by Robinho scoring one time on each fifty percent (38', 49') and also to close the serious defeat a penalty was put by Zlatan Ibrahimovic when his compatriot, Djourou, knocked him around.
By Camilla Mancini
The 1st eight clubs with the Knockout Phase of the prestigious event met involving Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th for the 1st leg fixtures. On every of the four matches there was a triumphant club that now has a foot during the quarterfinals, possibly using a narrow edge like Lyon, or with an almost-unbeatable a person, like Milan. This to start with fraction for the last 16 will now ought to wait before March 6th and 7th to keep going using the challenge and look up for that prospect move about to the future stage; but initial the remaining 8 will meet up with involving tomorrow which Wednesday. Each of the exact same, here is a brief review of the first matches:
February 14th - Lyon 1-0 APOEL: these two had their experience on the Stade de Gerland, wherever the Cypriots seemed for being in disadvantage against Olympique Lyonnais, which dominated in the whole match. Though Les Gones nonetheless have got a greater UEFA coefficient than APOEL, the Cypriots are already increasing plenty in the course of this time and in reality it has come to be the 1st Cypriot club to succeed in the spherical of 16. APOEL's functionality continues to be really really good in the course of the opposition but on Tuesday it wasn't good enough and Alexandre Lacazette saw a possibility in this to location the target that gave his team the current direct.
Bayer Leverkusen 1-3 Barcelona FC: with the BayArena were taking part in the Werkself as well as recently most intimidating club in the Champions, Bar?a, which now is half-way into quarterfinals. For the period of the 1st fifty percent the Germans stood up sturdy blocking the Spaniard squad, but at 41' Alexis Sanchez scored his first of all Champions League plan, offering the direct to defending champions few minutes before the break. In second fifty percent Leverkusen welcomed the visitors along with an end goal from Michal Kadlec, yet this just revolved the zeal belonging to the visitors to fight back and 3 minutes later on Sanchez was scoring again, to then be followed by Messi at 88'.
February 15th - Zenit St. Petersburg 3-2 Benfica: A final moment end goal from Shirokov broke the tie favoring the Russians. In spite belonging to the tough reduced temperature (-10 C) the two teams did a great job and stored elements quite even. The primary to attain was Maxi Pereira at the 20', but seven minutes later on was adopted by Roman Shirokov's very first purpose belonging to the day. By the 71st minute a possibility to score arrived for Sergei Semak, but there was also a person for your Portuguese Oscar Cardozo at 87' to achieve a draw; however a moment when a 2nd goal from Shirokov gave Zenit the direct.
Milan 4-0 Arsenal: the harshest from the end results from this week has been the 4-0 that Milan nailed on Arsenal. The Italians had less possession with the ball than the Gunners, but that did not make any difference, inside of the end the 53% of ball possession that Arsenal had didn't meant anything. Kevin-Prince Boateng obtained from the score sheet at 15', followed by Robinho scoring one time on each fifty percent (38', 49') and also to close the serious defeat a penalty was put by Zlatan Ibrahimovic when his compatriot, Djourou, knocked him around.
