Arsenal have an away goal to take to the Emirates after a dramatic visit to Portugal. Lukasz Fabianski made a horrible mistake to hand Porto the lead but Sol Campbell leveled shortly after but Falcao scored the winner for the Portuguese champions.
Arsene Wenger will hope that his north London side can take advantage of home advantage and progress to the Champions League Quarter Finals.
So apparently we may or may not have already signed Standard Liege striker Milan Jovanovic so with that in mind here is a tribute video that could go someway to showing us what to expect at Anfield if we do indeed snap up the soon to be out of contract Serbian International.
Without wishing to come over all Danny Baker on the game of football, there are some moments of sheer wonder that transcend the game as we know it. They are rare instances where something happens on the field of play that has no rightful reason to be taking place. An occurrence that makes you do a double, or even triple, take. The kind of trick or flash of brilliance that makes even those with no interest in the football (and there are some weirdos who really don’t care for the beautiful game at all) marvel at.
This is Pele at his best. You could call it cheeky or even a case of showboating, and indeed you would just shout abuse at any other lesser exponent of the game who attempted to copy this. In many ways the fact that this trick didn’t quite succeed only seems to make it even more of a delight to watch, as though in some way the fact that the Brazilian failed to score proves that perfection is in many ways a lofty peak no one can ever reach.
Frequently linked with a potentially vacant position this summer at Anfield, couldn’t Guus do two jobs at the same time? After all he has done so before with great success!
Despite being down to ten men Stoke City took the lead at the Britannia when Glenn Whelan put Stoke City ahead but Gareth Barry leveled things for Manchester City in this bad tempered affair.
Manchester United pulled off a fantastic win in Milan and have a lead, and more importantly three away goals, to take back to Old Trafford. Sir Alex Ferguson will have been taken aback by Ac Milan’s early lead.
Paul Scholes leveled before a Wayne Rooney brace saw the Premier League champions take a two goal lead before Clarence Seedorf pulled one back for the San Siro outfit late on.
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