We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
Citeh will have their work cut out for them today as they take a 1-3 deficit back to Eastlands in hte second leg of the UEFA Cup quarterfinals.
posted by The Blue Devil @ 2:37 PM
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
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The teams are in:
Manchester City: Given, Richards, Onuoha, Dunne, Bridge, Zabaleta, Kompany, Ireland, Elano, Robinho, Caicedo. Subs: Hart, Garrido, Petrov, Fernandes, Evans, Sturridge, Logan.
Hamburg: Rost, Boateng, Gravgaard, Mathijsen, Jansen, Pitroipa, Jarolim, Aogo, Trochowski, Guerrero, Olic. Subs: Hesl, Da Silva, Petric, Ndjeng, Rincon, Schulz, Torun.
Dynamo Moscow have progressed with a 3-0 win in the earlier kickoff against France's PSG.
3,000 Hamburg supporters are making a heck of a racket in the City of Manchester Stadium tonight.
Richard Dunne has an early scare, almost letting in Pitroipja.
In the other two fixtures tonight, Shakhtar travel to Marseille with a 2-0 win from their home leg and Werder Bremen take a 3-1 lead to Udinese with them.
Micah Richards was in on the keeper there and should have finished. Citeh really could use an early goal to get back into this tie.
Oh dear, Hamburg have scored on the break through Paulo Guerrero. Citeh had thrown so much forward that they were caught out.
0-1 on the night - 1-4 on aggregate. A mountain to climb and Martin Jol is punching the air in delight.
Penalty to Citeh! The ball was driven into the area by Elano and the Hamburg defender had his hands in the air.
Elano to take...yes! slotted home neatly in the left corner.
1-1 on the night; 2-4 on aggregate. Sparky's happy now.
Kompany goes in two footed and is lucky not to pick up a card.
Elano picks out Ireland well. He was ghosting in at the back post but couldn't square and hit it weakly into the side netting.
David Pleat recycling his weakest material about "hamburgers" there.
Inler has scored through Inler and are 1-0 up. Werder still lead that tie 3-2.
Sorry, that should read "Udinese has scored through Inler..."
Quagliarella has scored a second for Udinese but Werder have got one back through the Brazilian Diego.
2-1 on the night; 3-4 on aggregate.
Citeh could use a goal or two from their Brazilian superstar Robinho. He got a nice ball over to Caicedo there but they'll need more directness.
Shaktar are nearly there now. Fernandinho scores their first of the night and they're 0-3 up. They'll play Kiev in the semis.
Bridge with a nice overlap but he couldn't find anyone in the area. Good play from Citeh but the final ball hasn't been there.
Quaragliarella has leveled things for Udinese. 1-3 on the night. 4-4 on aggregate.
That's the result that's Sparky's looking for now to at least force extra time.
Free kick now for Robinho....
Elano looks set to hit this one...ohhhh, it rockets off the crossbar!
Caicedo's finding himself offside far too often.
Coming up on halftime now. All to play for in the second period.
Richard Dunne clatters into the Hamburg captain once again. He's been booked and the referee calls him over for a chat. You can see the ref counting out the fouls for him but he's given him one more reprieve. He's on shaky ground.
Half-time: 1-1; 2-4 on aggregate.
The teams are back out for the second half. Citeh with a mountain to climb.
Ben Arfa has given Marseille some faint hope. It's 1-1 in that match with Shakhtar; 1-3 on aggregate.
Kompany goes into the book and will miss the first leg of the semi-final if Citeh progress.
The Citeh fans are starting to lose their patience with Caicedo who is flagged off again.
GOAL! Caicedo makes good after a slick through ball from Ireland.
2-1 on the night; 3-4 on aggregate.
Olic nearly struck back immediately there.
Elano wins a free kick right on the edge of Hamburg's box. The wind in Citeh's sails now.
Elano to line it up...off the post!
Oooooh, the corner came in, the goalkeeper made a hash of it and Caicedo put it over from six yards out.
Citeh are really in top gear now with some lovely touches by Robinho before Zaballeta rifles one at the keeper.
Good move from Hamburg ends with Olic shooting well over.
Elano with a delightful through ball to Robinho who just guided it toward goal. Well saved.
GOAL! Caicedo scores...no he's been flagged offside. Good call from the ref.
Diego has added a second goal for Werder.
3-2 Udinese on the night; 4-5 Werder on aggregate. The winner will face Hamburg or Citeh.
Zabaletta is down getting some magic spray on his knee.
Bridge finds Robinho in the box for an instinctive stooping header. Straight at the keeper.
Elano lines up another free kick but this time finds the wall. Off for a corner.
Oh, Robinho nearly in but he's fouled the keeper.
Clash of heads between Mathiessen and Caicedo there.
Mladen Petric to come on for Hamburg.
Claudio Pizarro has scored a third goal for Werder and that tie looks out of Udinese's hands. 3-3 on the night and 4-6 on aggregate!
And Richard Dunne has been sent off. He completely dived in and he sees a second yellow.
Citeh down to the ten men!
Gelson Fernandez is on for the last fifteen minutes for Citeh.
Corner to Citeh...they need a goal now.
Inside the last ten minutes now. Citeh must throw everything at it.
Hey Bob,
I didn't know about this thread.
Welcome back to the Empire State
COME ON CITEH
Olic nearly killed Citeh off there but Shay Given did so well.
Cheers, mate. Exciting match, eh?
Sparky takes Elano off...why? He's been brilliant tonight. Sturridge on.
Ach, Richards had to keep it down but he ballooned it over the bar. Nice one-two but the finish was sorely lacking.
Richards should have buried that one!
Richards seems to have pulled up lame. They need to get him off.
Rob should have done better there
Sturridge should have taken that first time.
It's all hands to the pump time for Hamburg.
Can Citeh do it??
Fernandes with a horrible shot over there.
I think they still might.
Nice dive by Petric
He is the plonker that scored Croatia's winner at Wembley
Oooh, Sturridge stabs a shot just wide.
Just wide by Sturridge.
Again, should have done better
BOY THEY HAVE HAD THEIR CHANCES!!
Four added minutes to go
Yeah, there are a couple of Croatian plonkers on this side. Olic is the other.
Terrible ball from Rob. He must do better.
Where the hell is Micah Richards playing at this point?
Given up for the corner!
Sturridge with a wide slash over the bar.
Hamburg working the corner flag.
Ireland hacks Olic and the ref wants a word.
Full-time: A valiant effort. Citeh win on the night but bow out of this year's UEFA Cup 3-4 on aggregate.
Last chance saloon
Blown
COME ON!!
They get a shot but that is it
Well done Citeh
Shame
Take care
I'll be around for the semis
So the semi-final line-up is:
Kiev vs. Shakhtar
Hamburg vs. Werder
Cheerio, Dave. I'll be around for the MLS match tomorrow night and of course for all the weekend action. See you then.
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