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Barcelona clinches Group D in Greece and now thinks in Real Madrid
Barcelona clinches Group D in Greece and now thinks in Real Madrid
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Barcelona clinches Group D in Greece and now thinks in Real Madrid
Posted: Nov 26, 2010 |Comments: 0
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Barcelona has a vital game on Monday against Real Madrid for the first place of La Liga, but before thinking about it they needed to assure their classification to the next round, which they did by defeating Panathinaikos 0-3.
Matchday 5 was perfect for Barcelona from Spain, not only did they defeat the Greeks from Panathinaikos 3-0 on the road (Messi once and Pedro twice), but they also clinched Group D favored by the result from the game between Rubin Kazan from Russia and Copenhagen from Denmark, which the Russians won 1-0 through a penalty kick from Christian Noboa, making it mathematically impossible for the Danish to fight for that first place.
With 11 points and their classification assured, Barcelona can now focus exclusively on Monday’s game against their greatest rival Real Madrid, for La Liga‘s matchday 13. And Rubin Kazan (6 points) will start working hard on their strategy to qualify into the playoffs -as they need a win on their visit to Barcelona on December 7- and praying that Copenhagen (7 points) either looses or ties their home game against Panathinaikos (2 points).
In Group C the Spaniards from Valencia didn’t miss the chance to guarantee their presence in the knockout phase against the winless Bursaspor from Turkey and defeated them 6-1, imposing a club record for highest number of goals scored in one Champions League game. With this result Valencia reached 10 points, and Bursaspor remains with 0 points.
And in Wayne Rooney’s return after one month away due to injury, Manchester United from England also guaranteed their assistance (13 points) to the next round with Rooney’s penalty kick for the 0-1 road win against Rangers from Scotland (5 points). With Man U and Valencia classified, the only thing pending to decide is who is finishing first, and this will be determined on December 7 at Old Trafford stadium when the Spaniards visit the English.
It’s interesting how a team’s performance can change so much from one competition to another, which is the case of Schalke 04 from Germany, a team that is trying to escape from the last places of the Bundesliga stadings (15th place out of 18 teams with only 13 points after 13 games), and that occupies the first place of Group B with 10 points in 5 games in the Champions. With their 3-0 victory (Fafan once and Hutellar twice) at home against Lyon from France, the Germans snatched away the first place from the French that are now second with 9 points.
In the other game of the group the Portuguese champions Benfica (6 points) suffered and unexpected defeat in Israel against H. Tel Aviv (4 points) by 3-0, leaving them in a scenario where only a win on matchday 6 for more than 4 goals against Schalke, combined with a 2 goal difference defeat from Lyon versus H. Tel Aviv could give them a knockout phase ticket. Both games will be disputed on December 7.  Â
The defending champions Inter from Italy saved their head coach Rafael Benitez’s position thanks to the 1-0 (Cambiasso) home win against Twente from Holland. If Benitez didn’t made it to the next round he was going to be fired, but luckily from him his players stood up and won a difficult game against the Dutch champions. Now Inter is in second place with 10 points, the same as Tottenham from England that is in first place, but with the slight advantage of the goal difference on their favor, which is +4 and +7 respectively. Twente and Werder Bremen form Germany are already eliminated, as the Dutch only have 5 and the Germans 2 points. Â
Speaking about Tottenham, they did their duties as well defeating the Werder Bremen 3-0 thanks to the goals from Kaboul, Modric and Crouch. On the last matchday of the group phase they will be visiting Twente and Inter will visit Werder Bremen to decide who finishes in first and wins the home field advantage.
The knockout phase is just one matchday away, and fans are already starting to rub their hands thinking about what is coming ahead: Europe’s 16 finest betting it all in two-game series.Â
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