UEFA Champions League

Qualification (3rd Round)

Match Prediction (13 August 2008):
*Fiorentina vs Slavia Prague - Fiorentina Win : Correct [2-0]

Match Prediction (14 August 2008):
Shakhtar vs Dinamo Zagreb - Draw : Wrong [2-0]
*Galatasaray vs Steaue - Galatasaray Win : Wrong [2-2]
Sparta Prague vs Panathinaikos - Draw : Wrong [1-2]
Schlk 04 vs Atletico Madrid - Draw : Wrong [1-0]
Twente Enschede vs Arsenal - Draw : Wrong [0-2]
*Partizan vs Fenerbahce - Fenerbahce Win : Wrong [2-2]
*Standard Liege vs Liverpool - Liverpool Win : Wrong [0-0]
Spartak vs Dynamo Kyiv - Spartak Moscow Win : Wrong [1-4]
Levski Sofia vs BATE Borisov - Levski Sofia Win : Wrong [0-1]
Anorthosis vs Olympiakos Piraeus - Olympiakos Win : Wrong [3-0]
AaB Aalborg vs Kaunas - Aalborg Win : Correct [2-0]
Brann Bergen vs Marseille - Marseille Win : Correct [0-1]
*Juventus vs Petrzalka - Juventus Win : Correct [4-0]
Vitoria Guimaraes vs Basel - Draw : Correct [0-0]
*Barcelona vs Wisla Krakow - Barcelona Win : Correct [4-0]
*Guarantee Result

What happen to Liverpool?

I am totally disappointed with Liverpool performance. Every season, they are the one within the "Top Four" in the Premier League that spend the most in the transfer market and keep buying new players. This can be an advantages and disadvantages to Liverpool.

Advantages: They are adding quality players and youth to their existing team and improve their performance to compete for the No.1 position. The best example will be Fernando Torres, the best and most productive players they purchased. But they need to purchase wisely.

Disadvantages: They are adding too many non-productive and inexperiences players such as Andriy Voronin, Alvaro Arbeloa and some others players that had been sold such Mark Gonzalez, Mohamed Sissoko and others. There are simply too many changes in the players, every season, they keep buying and selling players. This had caused the players unable to create the bond and communication among the players. You may look at Manchester United and Arsenal, every season, they only purchased about average 3 players. And all those players are not sent directly to play at the first team; they usually spend 1 season on the bench.

Liverpool should buy wisely in the transfer market, research and analysis the players before brought them. Take Arsenal and Manchester United as examples, Arsenal purchased players and all the players came out to be world-class players, just unfortunately, Arsenal unable to retain their services. As shown this season, Mathieu Falmini recruited by AC Milan and Alexander Hleb by Barcelona. Even not only this season, you may know some great players from Arsenal such as Thierry Henry, Nicholas Anelka, Viera, Marc Overmarc, Petit, Reyes, Pires, Ashley Cole, and others whom transfer to "Europe Top Clubs". However, they will never be as successful as at Arsenal as you saw for Anelka, and Reyes. They are consider betrayal to Arsene Wenger, not greatful for the manager effort to train and develop them to become world-class players.

17 September 2008 Matches
Group A
AS Roma vs CFR Cluj - CFR Cluj Win [1-2]
Chelsea vs Bordeaux - Chelsea Win [4-0]

Group B
Panathinaikos vs Inter Milan - Inter Win [0-2]
Werder Bremen vs Anorthosis - Draw [0-0]

Group C
Barcelona vs Sporting Lisbon - Barcelona Win [3-1]
Basel vs Shakhtar Donetsk - Shakhtar Win [1-2]

Group D
Marseille vs Liverpool - Liverpool Win [1-2]
PSV vs Atletico Madrid - Atletico Win [0-3]

18 September 2008 Matches
Group E
Celtic vs Aalborg BK - Celtic Win*
Manchester United vs Villarreal - Manchester Win*

Group F
Lyon vs Fiorentina - Draw
Steanua Bucuresti vs Bayern Munich - Bayern Win

Group G
Dynamo Kiev vs Arsenal - Draw
FC Porto vs Fenerbahce - Fenerbahce*

Group H
Juventus vs Zenit St. Petersburg - Zenit Win
Real Madrid vs BATE Borisov - Real Madrid Win*