21 October 2008



ZENIT ST PETERSBURG 1 (Tekke 80)

BATE BORISOV 1 (Nehaychik 52)



Nekhaichyk's nimble footwork took him away from Anyukov and as he steered the steered the ball inside Malafeev's post as the goalkeeper came off his line. Tekke volleyed in a late but deserved equaliser.



Attendance : 20,000

Assists : Bliznyuk, Shirokov





JUVENTUS 2 (Del Piero 5, Amauri 49)

REAL MADRID 1 (Van Nistelrooy 66)



Del Piero turned his marker and former team-mate Cannavaro as he touched on a pass to Amauri, the Brazilian returned the ball through Pepe's legs and before the Real Madrid defence had a chance to close him down he curled a brilliant first time shot inside the right post.



Nedved intercepted Pepe's blind pass out of defence, Sergio Ramos didn't bother making a challenge leaving the former European footballer of the year time and space to measure a cross to the back post and Amauri headed past Casillas via a deflection off Heinze. Real finally woke up and having gone close on four occasions eventually scored through who else but Van Nistelrooy.



Juve's ownage of Real Madrid continues and Ranieri saves his job, for now.



Attendance : 25,813

Assists : n/a, n/a, Heinze





VILLARREAL 6 (Rossi 28, Capdevilla 33, Llorente 67, Llorente 70, Pires 79, Llorente 84)

AAB AALBORG 3 (Saganowski 19, Enevoldsen 36, Johansson 77)



The Villarreal centre backs watched Due's cross sail in from the left and Saganowski threw himself at the ball to head the Danes into a shock lead. Rossi finished off a measured passing move to equalise. Five minutes later the home side were in front, Capdevilla with a lovely shot from the edge of the box which hung in the air before rattling in off the right post. Saganowski sucked in the Villarreal centrebacks and flicked on a crossfield pass, sending Enevoldsen clear to beat Diego Lopez.



Llorente snared a rebound after Zaza fumbled Senna's speculative effort and bagged a second minutes later after Pires pushed a defender out of the way before laying on a pass. Aalborg got within a goal when Johansson headed in a free kick via a deflection off Capdevilla. Zaza parried from Cazorla but Pires, who fed the midfielder, headed in the rebound. Llorente volleyed in Capdevilla's cross to completed his hat-trick.



Attendance : 22,000

Assists : Due, n/a, n/a, n/a, n/a, Pires, n/a, n/a, Capdevilla





MANCHESTER UNITED 3 (Berbatov 30, Berbatov 51, Rooney 76)

CELTIC 0



O'Shea poked on a half cleared corner and Berbatov, standing in an offside position, flicked the ball past Boruc and took a quick look at the linesman before running off to celebrate. He tapped in a second after Boruc spilled a Ronaldo free kick. Rooney, who looks even more like a potato following his recent haircut, finished off a quick counter attack which started with VDS throwing the ball to Fletcher, Tevez with the final pass.



With Tevez now a bench warmer following the arrival of the taller and more elusive Berbatov I wonder if United will go through with their plan to sign the Argentinean, especially for the massively inflated fee of €30 million. He's worth half that at most.



Attendance : 74,655

Assists : n/a, n/a, Tevez





BAYERN MUNICH 3 (Klose 4, Schweinsteiger 25, Ze Roberto 90)

FIORENTINA 0



Toni headed on a longball and Klose powered through a Vargas challenge before angling the ball wide of Frey. Minutes after Felipe Melo missed an open goal Toni initiated another attack by flicking on a longball, this time to Ribery. Vargas sliced the Frenchman's lazy pass to Schweinsteiger and he turned the Peruvian inside out before slamming a right foot shot past Frey. Gilardino and Mutu flashed shots wide of Rensing's post but in truth Fiorentina were a distant second best. Ze Roberto finished them off with a marvellous solo effort.



Attendance : 66,000

Assists : n/a, n/a, Demichelis





STEAUA BUCHAREST 3 (Arthuro 8, Goian 11, Petre 45)

LYON 5 (Keita 23, Benzema 33, Fred 69, Benzema 71, Fred 92)



Lyon fell behind to a brace of headed goals though Lloris was responsible for the second, horribly misjudging the bounce on Goian's header. Keita, not to be confused with the former Sevilla midfielder of the same name, began the first comeback with an explosive right foot volley and Fred took advantage of poor marking to head the seven time French champions level. Steaua did Lyon on another corner though this time Lloris was powerless to stop Petre's bullet header. Within two minutes of replacing Keita, Fred equalised, thrashing Toulalan's lay-off past Zapata. Benzema delicately volleyed a Juninho free kick into the bottom right corner. Beautiful goal. Mounier took advantage of space down the left to fashion a chance for Fred which he took at the second time of asking.



Attendance : 17,000

Assists : Ogararu, Nicolita (ck), Makoun, Grosso, Nicolita (ck), Toulalan, Juninho (fk), n/a





FENERBAHCE 2 (Silvestre 15 og, Guiza 78)

ARSENAL 5 (Adebayor 10, Walcott 11, Diaby 22, Song 49, Ramsey 94)



Arsenal put their indifferent league form behind them with another sparkling European victory. Walcott

and Adebayor toyed with Fenerbahce's offside trap to send Arsenal racing into a two goal lead. Silvestre sliced Guiza's shot past his own goalkeeper but Fenerbahce's hopes of a comeback were quickly dashed when Diaby trapped a long ball and made the most of a lucky bounce off Maldonado to restore Arsenal's two goal lead. Song punished comical set piece defending to thump in a fourth but proved to be less effective at the other end, his wayward header sending Guiza clear. Ramsey combined with Eboue on the edge of the box, finishing with a crisp low drive.



Attendance : 49,521

Assists : Fabregas, Fabregas, n/a, n/a, n/a, Eboue





PORTO 0

DYNAMO KYIV 1 (Aliyev 27 fk)



Attendance : 37,000

Assist : Ninkovic (won fk)