Its Champions League week again this week with the last 16 teams fighting it out for a place in the quarter finals. The 2 English teams who played were Liverpool and Chelsea. Chelsea played Juventus in Turin and drew 2-2 on the night. They went through 3-2 on aggregate and from I have seen and read it was a tough match for Chelsea. Essien was back for Chelsea and I think hes a really important player for them and they will play a lot better with him in the team.
Liverpool were also playing tonight, and played Real Madrid. They won 4-0 (5-0 on aggregate). Liverpool played really well but also Real Madrid were rubbish. They just dont seem as good as they used to be with several players getting on abit, too inconsistant or just not good enough!
Torres in particular played very well and as usual Steven Gerrard had a good game in Europe. He also managed to once again get away with a dive!! It resulted in a freekick to Liverpool but nothing came out of it.
Tomorrow it is Uniteds and Arsenals turn. For United, I think its going to be a tough game but if we play as well as we did a couple weeks ago we should be OK. It seems like Ferdinand will be fit so thats good. It will be interesting to see who Fergie picks to play in midfield with the defence pretty much picking itself and the forwards properly being Rooney and Berbatov. Midfield will be Ronaldo plus 3 others. I think Park will play along with Carrick and I think possibly Giggs for his experience.
Come on United!!
