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The fates wanted Manchester United to win. This is the line most Chelsea fans, and even some Man U fans, will have on their lips after United won the the 2007-08 Champions League title on penalties in Moscow. Sir Alex’s second Champions League title, coming fifty years after the Munich air crash, sees United complete the double, with Roman’s Chelsea ending the season empty handed.

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Liverpool 4-2 Arsenal

Abou Diaby (13)

Sami Hyypia (30)

Fernando Torres (69)

Emmanuel Adebayor (84)

Steven Gerrard ( p) (86)

Ryan Babel (90)

*- Bold indicates Liverpool player.

Even if you are a Liverpool supporter, take a moment to clap for Arsenal. Arsene Wenger’s young guns played extremely well, and were the better side over the two legs. But as it so often happens, the better team does not necessarily progress; the luckier team does. And that, precisely, is how I’d describe Liverpool getting into the last four of the Champions League.

Benitez chose to start with both Crouch and Torres, thereby forcing Gerrard to play on the left.

And for the first thirty minutes, it was all Arsenal. Liverpool did not have the time to get settled as Arsenal pounded away relentlessly in search of the crucial away goal. After all, Liverpool had drawn 1-1 at the Emirates Stadium, and they were quite capable of enforcing a shutout.

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Arsenal 1-1 Liverpool ( Adebayor/ Kuyt)

Arsenal 1-1 Liverpool ( Bendtner/ Crouch)

Liverpool ?- ? Arsenal

Yes folks, Arsenal and Liverpool meet for the third time in a week, and this one is probably the most important of them all, with a spot in the last four of the Champions League at stake.

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On the shores of Lake Geneva lies the Swiss municipality of Nyon. And it was in this place that the UEFA Champions league quarterfinal draw was announced. With four English teams, one Spanish, one Turkish, one Italian and one German team in the fray, this is what the draw threw up.

Arsenal vs Liverpool

AS Roma vs Manchester United
Fenerbahce vs Chelsea
Schalke vs Barcelona.

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Ramos vs Grant

Tottenham vs Chelsea

One London club will walk away with silverware.

The question is- WHO ?

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The draw for the second round of the Champions League 2007-08 has been announced, and we do have a few surprises.

Arsenal taking on Milan.

Inter taking on Liverpool

AS Roma vs Real Madrid

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Here are the results from Matchday 4 of the UEFA Champions League.

Group A :

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Here are the results from the games played on the 18th and 19th of September.Group A :

Marseille 2-0 Besiktas ( Julien Rodriguez/ Djibril Cisse) 

Porto 1-1 Liverpool ( Lucho Gonzalez/ Dirk Kuyt) 

Group B :

Schalke 0-1 Valencia ( David Villa)

Chelsea 1-1 Rosenborg ( Andriy Shevchenko/ Miika Koppinen)  (more…)