Shakhtar Donetsk with a surprising victory against Arsenal

Yesterday Arsenal played against Shakhtar in their fourth game in Group H. The night was terrible for the team of Arsenal who surprisingly lost after a long struggle against their opponents. The end result was 2-1. The game was visited by 48 765 people and the main referee was Massimo Busacca. After 3 games Arsenal scored the amazing result of 15 scored goals and the most amazing thing is that now they lost for the first time and scored only one goal, which made their points equal to the ones of Shakhtar. Arsenal are still first in their group, because of the many goals they scored, but after the last game the strength of the team is questioned. Many people may argue that the referee was corrupted or that the game was bought, but the referee judged everything correctly and made the best possible decisions. The game was very exciting and although many people thought the game was already decided after Walcott's goal in the 9th minute, Arsenal's fans were disappointed by the development of the game. Craig Eastmond scored a goal in the 27th minute, but unfortunately he scored an aoutogoal and the result became equal. The former player of Arsenal Eduardo decided how the game will end during the 45th minute. Right now Arsenal don't how to worry about their position, but they have to be more careful in the future.

GROUP H

Pos.	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1.	Arsenal	4	3	0	1	15	4	9
2.	Shakhtar Donetsk	4	3	0	1	7	6	9
3.	Braga	4	2	0	2	3	9	6
4.	Partizan Belgrade	4	0	0	4	1	7	0

Champions League final - Bayern Munich vs. Inter

The most unexpected final of the Champions League will be played this Saturday. After some unexpected games both teams managed to reach the finals eliminating ex-champions such as Manchester United and Barcelona. Bayern won the league and the cup of Germany (in a post below). Inter also won both cups after some unexpected games that pulled them in front of their opponents. This Saturday we will be witnesses of a very dramatic game that will determine the next champion of the most elite league in Europe. Bayern have a very offensive style of game and this helped them a lot during this season of the Champions League. Inter showed a lot of fear that was shown in their last game against Barcelona when Valdes who is Barcelona's goalkeeper had more successful passes than the best one in Inter - Zanetti. I guess that they will play once again in deffence hoping not to lose their precious points. After the request from Bayern to UEFA about Frank Ribery's red card in the match against Manchester, UEFA didn't agree to let him play on Saturday and Bayern will once again play without one of their bes players.

The two players from Netherlands that make miracles in Bayern will once again play together to win a cup. Arjen Robben was the author of some magnificent goals that were responsible for the wins of Bayern this season. Mark van Bommel is not only the captain of the team, but he is also the heart of the team. With these two men Bayern have a great chance for winning the Champions league, but still - they have to be careful, because Barcelona also thought that they will be the ones who will continue to the finals, but the careful playing of Inter managed to stop them.

I personally hope that Bayern will win the Champions League. Do you think that after such a statistic in a semi-final Inter should win the cup?

The Champions League: unexpected win for Inter and a dramatic victory for Bayern

The two days of the Champions League were very dramatic. Bayern won with 1:0 with a shot of Robben and a lucky head of Muller that gave the dangerous trajectory. Barcelona had a very difficult game that wasn't expected and lost the game with 3:1. The first match was played in Italy where Inter were obviously the better team. Barcelona didn't have a chance to prove themselves and the result showed it. Messi as well as Xavi was unable to perform many good attacks, because Inter were very powerful in defence and didn't allow him to get the ball very often. In the 19th minute Pedro Rodriges scored for Barcelona and the answer from Inter came only 11 minutes after it. The goal was scored by Wesley Sneijder. After the first halftime Micon scored and right after him scored Diego Milito. During the match in Spain Barcelona have to socre 2 goals to classify for the finals, but Inter will make sure to meet Bayern on the last stage. The other game was played on Wednessday 21 April. Bayern played against Lyon in a very dramatic game with 2 red cards. Ribery made a foul that was thought to be very dangerous and received a red card and had to leave the stadium in the first half. Bayern managed to hold the situation and the miracle came when Toulalan received 2 yellow cards in 4 minutes and the number of playes was equal in both teams. After this Robben scored again a perfect goal that made the result clear. Muller was in a very lucky position and his head barely touched the ball, but he managed to send it so that it is impossible to be saved. The final result in Germany was 1:0 and Lyon have a very good chance to classify, but still probably Bayern will classify for the finals.

Sevilla - CSKA Moskva

Sevilla and CSKA are considered to be the outsiders in the Champions League. Their last game was in Moscow where they felt the Russan cold weather. The temperature was under 0 degrees. Sevilla are most likely to continue after this stage of the elimination stage. Both teams have played great during they last 50 games and in fact their statistics show that the percentages of games won/draw/lost are almost equal. Sevilla have bigger chance to classify after they managed to score a goal in Moscow. The Russans had a bigger chance in Moscow, because they are used to the colder Russian temperatures. Although they had a much bigger chance in Moscow, Sevilla scored a goal and the result was draw. Now both teams have to fight till the end for each single inch of the soccer field. The chances for the teams are 50-50, but the sport journalists say that Sevilla will continue to the next phase.

Chelsea with desperate need of at least 1 goal against Inter

Chelsea against Inter will be the derby match of the 1/8 finals in the Champions League in the night of the 17th of March. In the first leg Inter managed to win the match with 2-1 which gives equal chances for both team to continue to the next stage. If Chelsea wins by 1-0 they will be the team to continue so Inter have to be very careful with the team's preformance at the field. As you probably know Jose Mourinho will return to "Stanford Bridge" now coach in Inter and this event will bring more emotions to both teams. Everyone knows how strong are both teams so I think that the teams performance iver the last couple of months should not be commented except for the last games of the clubs. Chelsea made an easy win against West Ham with 4-1 and again Didie Drogba played a fantastic role in the team and scored 2 goals. In the other hand Inter lost their game against the team Of Catania with 3-1 and that was a huge surprise for the fans of the team. But now the upcoming match against Chelsea will be an opportunity to get back on the right path with a win which will be amazing but at the same time very hard. Because of Chelsea's performance and teamplays I expect an easy with for the blues from London with 2-0 or 3-0 with at least 1 goal scored by Drogba.

Fiorentina - Bayern München

Tomorrow will be played the 1/8 finals of the Champions league Bayern München - Fiorentina. The expectations are that Bayern will win against the team of Fiorentina. During their last game in Germany on 17 February 2010 Bayern won with 2-1. It is expected that Bayern will won again, because if we take the statistics of their 50 previous games we will see that Bayern had a lot more goals and games won. Bayern had 64% games won while Fiorentina had only 44%. When we look at the scores that they've made, we could see 1.38 goals per game scored by Fiorentina and about 2.28 scored by Bayern.

Bayern appeared to be in a bad shape and we saw that durin their last game in Germany where they scored 1-1 against Köln. Bayern will do their best to score several goals and will not allow Fiorentina to score in their door. To keep the result Bayern need to score 1 goal while Fiorentina needs 2. The game will be difficult for both teams who all want to qualify for the next stage. Louis van Gaal will make everything possible to keep the score that will qualify them.

The game will be tense, because Fiorentina will do their best, but I think that the result is obvious - Bayern will reach the 1/4 finals where they will face the team of Arsenal or the one of Porto. After the victory of Porto the expected opponent is Porto.

Arsenal vs. Porto

In 1/8 final Arsenal faces Porto in second match for a place in the quarter-finals of the most commercial football tournament-Champions league. In the first leg, surprizingly, the winner was the portugal team that managed to beat their opponents with 2:1 with 2 unusual mistaked of the Arsenal goalkeeper-Lukas Fabiansky.Before the matches it was thought that the team from London will easily eliminate its opponens from Porto but things went differently. Now the two teams know each other and will be 100% ready for the upcoming match. Arsenal had a dramatic tragedy in the end of the last week when Ryan Showcross broke the leg of the midfielder of Arsenal-Aaron Ramsey. Even though sad feeling went among Arsenal players they managed to win the match and the next one too. Their captain Francesc Fabregas is injured and will miss the match which will be a great plus for the opposing team. Arsenal league position is 3rd with the same amount of points as the second Chelsea but with 1 match more then them. In the other hand is the team form Portugal that is also the champion of the country. They play very well in the last 4 years in Champions league and even one 1 trophy. But now agains them is the strong England team of Arsenal that won't give up in all the 90 minutes. Because of the great motivation among Arsenal players I think they will many opportunities for the goal. As I was saying Porto are a great force in Europe and everytime it's hard to defeat them. After the win against Arsenal Porto won against the team of Sporting Braga with the amazing score of 5:1. But then the lost against the strong team of Sporting Lisabon with 3:0 which was a great surprize. The they made draw with Olhanence(2:2). Now they are a little bit unfocused and make mistaked but always managed to deal with the situation. In their last 4 matches Porto leads with 2:1 wins and 1 draw. I expect a great "battle" between the two teams finishing with a draw(1:1) or a win for Arsenal(2:1)