Bologna 1:1 Juve in the derby in Serie A

After the postponed game of Serie A Bologna and Juventus ended draw in this midweek Serie A clash.
The hosts scored a goal in the 17th minute after their first serious situation in front of the door of their opponents. The captain Marco di Vaio sent the ball in the lower right corner of Buffon's door.
Until the end of the first half Juventus did not make a serious threat to Bologna's door, while the hosts were keeping advantage.
The second half began in a similar manner to the first one, but in the 58th minute after a counter attack the Montenegrin Mirko Vučinić scored for Juve after an accurate pass from the captain Alessandro Del Piero.
Untill the end of the game Juve's player Claudio Marchisio missed a 100% goal chance.
In the 83rd minute Leonardo Bonucci again from Juventus received a second yellow card and was sent out just a bit after the referree cast out the coach Antonio Conte, because of protesting.
At the end both teams shared their points. Juve remain undefeated, but still are 2 points behind Milan who are 1st in Serie A

The match with the unexpected outcome

Apoel vs Lyon was a match that presented a very interesting experience to everyone who watch the game both from their homes and live on the field itself. Both teams fought furiously, not giving much chances for any scoring to be done and thus the match continued on through the first half, with only one goal for Apoel and at the same time, several hits on the goal. The second half showed off, both teams' annoyince with the fact that the score was still quite challinging, being 1-0 and they started to play somewhat more aggressively. Lyon was advancing throughout the match and at the same time they had kept their aggresiveness to an ammount at which they did not receive many fouls in comparision to Apoel, who received one red card during the game. After progressing into the final penalties, Apoel gave a last push and managed to finish the penalties 4-3, thus giving them their victory.

Barca destroyed Leverkusen, Messi with 5 goals

The last holder of the Champions League trophy humiliated the German Bayer Leverkusen, earning a victory of 7-1 at Camp Nou. Lionel Messi scored five goals for his team at the second match of the 1/8 finals and his teammate Christian Tello added another two. Karim Bellarabi scored one for the Germans in the last minute of the match. Barca won their first match with 3-1.
In the 11th minute Messi received a good pass and fired a shot from a small angle, but Bernd Leno saved. Messi again gained the ball and passed to Pedro, but his shot was blocked.
In the 24th minute Pique made an attempt to score after Xavi sent the ball into Leverkusen's box. His header was saved by the keeper, however.
The goal show started in the 25th minute. Xavi showed his extraordinary ability and passed the ball to Messi, who sent the ball into the net, beating Leno. That was his goal number 50 in his matches in Europe with Barcelona.
In the 31st minute Messi advanced to the Germans' goal, but his shot was blocked by the defenders in the very last moment. Two minutes later Simon Rolfes from Bayer tried a shot, but unsuccessfully. That was the only possibility for Bayer in the first half.
In the 42nd minute Messi scored another one. He humiliated the defense of Leverkusen and eliminated the keeper with a precise shot. Two minutes later there was another possibility for PepTeam, but Leno stopped Fabregas and then Pedro was unable to score.
In the 50th minute Messi added spectacular goal after an assist from Fabregas. The Argentinian was left alone by Bayer's defenders and had no problem firing the ball into the net.
IN the 54th minute Eren Derdiyok from Leverkusen attempted to score, but his shot was just a few centimeters away from the goal. In the subsequent attack Barca sent the ball into the net once again. Tello, who had come as a substittution just a few minutes before that, fired the ball into the empty goal froma few meters.
A couple of minutes later Messi scored his 4th goal. Bayer's defenders and Leno made a stupid mistake and allowed him to steal the ball and send it into the net.
In the 62th minute Tello received the ball from Alves and with a powerful shot with his right foot beated the keeper, who was unable to stop the ball from crossing the goal line.
Five minutes before the end of the match Lionel Messi punished for the last time Bayer Leverkusen. With a shot from about 20 meters he added a 5th goal,
IN the last minute Bayer managed to return 1 goal, but the humiliation for the players and the club remained.

Man City vs. Sporting

The 1/8 finals of the Europa League are starting this night. We have eight great matchups, which will make our Thursday nights a lot more fun. Man City continues it's second run in the Europa League against another Portuguese team. This time the opponent is Sporting. After a dramatic win versus Legia Warsawa he portugals are ready to face the first in the Premier League. Although City focuses all of their powers in the league they want to perform at their best in the Europa Legaue as well.

It is going to be an interesting matchup between two good teams eager to win and perform at their best. With 4 top strikers, including the scandal personality of Carlos Tevez, City have the chance to rotate the team as the depth in the team is big. I predict that it will be a tough match maybe with a lot of goals and a close result at the end. My prediction for the result of the matchup is that City will beat 1-1 Sporting in the first match. In the second match City easily will get the match similarly to the match against Porto. After all I expect and interseting battle.

Release the Gracken!Please...

Once upon a time there was a great zerg player that was regarded as one of the best in the world and the best in the Europe. His name was Idra. His real name is Greg Fields. His strange nickname comes from a thing he read which was named "Idrajit". Idra is one of the players that has the most fans in the Starcraft 2 community. One of the reasons is that he never wants to chees and always plays a macro game. He was so good that he always seemed just to have more stuff than his opponent. However, he also received many fans because of his attitude. Idra is well known for his rage quitting and calling people cheesy especially players from the terran race. Before he looses he always insults people and leaves the game. He also left a game where he had won a huge engagement and left for no appearent reason. When Idra played with the legend of Starcraft Boxer, he was called Grack as Boxer doesn't have a good english. Then came a lot of new nicknames such as the Gracken or just the Grack. Idra dominated the Starcraft 2 community as he was regarded as the best zerg in Europe and of the best in the world. He went to Korea in GSL where he did recently. He became the only player to leave the GSL in Code S without droping to Code A. However now Idra seems never to win. He now is regarded as a weak player that can loose his temper really quickly and just cheese because he is angry. If he drops one game you can expect him to go 6pool in the rest of the series. Recently he played in the IEM and in the groupstages he was only able to win 1 out of 5 matches. It also seems that he hasn't won anything in a while. All his fans are wondering when Idra goes on the stage and they can say aggain: "Release the Gracken".

Arsenal Falls Short of Greatness

Arsenal played one of the best matches in its history, but this proved not enough for the Gunners to qualify for the next round of the Champions League. The first match went disastrous for the London team, which lost 0:4 to AC Milan. Despite the terrifying result Arsene Wenger kept his optimism and hoped to overthrow the Italian machine in the second leg. His team played extraordinarily well. In the 7th minute, Kozscielni scored the first goal, giving a head start to Arsenal. In the 26th minutes, the spirits of Arsenal fans were raised when Tomas Rosicky scored the second goal. Just before the end of the first half a penalty was given to Arsenal: Robin van Persie made the result 3:0. Arsenal seemed to be invincible. When the second half started, Arsenal tried to maintain the pressure on Milan's defenders, but its attacks were unable to result in a fourth goal. Gervinho and van Persie both missed excellent chances to equalize the aggregate result. Milan also had its chances to destroy Arsenal's hope for qualification, but Ibrahimovic missed several good chances. When the refree blew the final whistle, Milan was triumphant, but Arsenal fans and players had to leave the stadium with the sense of defeat that was further embittered by the fact that they were so close to a historical victory over one of the strongest clubs in Europe.