Lakenheath Old Boys

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!

Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Champions League - Gameday 2

The second round of the Champions League dominates affairs today, chaps. It's the turn of the London clubs with Arsenal at home to Napoli and Chelski away to Steau. Fox Sports 1 is showing Celtic's match with Barca, while FS2 is showing the Chelski match. I'll be following the Championship matches, and especially Leeds at home to Bournemouth. Hoping we can break the four game losing streak and get one back today. Come on, you Whites! MOT!

29 Comments:

Blogger The Blue Devil said...

In the early CL kickoff, Zenit have drawn 0-0 with Austria VI.

2:20 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Team news - first out of Celtic Park:

Celtic: Forster, Lustig, van Dijk, Ambrose, Izaguirre, Matthews, Brown, Mulgrew, Samaras, Commons, Stokes. Subs: Zaluska, Biton, Balde, Rogic, Pukki, Kayal, Forrest.

Barcelona: Valdes, Dani Alves, Pique, Bartra, Adriano, Xavi, Busquets, Iniesta, Fabregas, Pedro, Neymar. Subs: Pinto, Montoya, Alexis, Jonathan, Song, Tello, Sergi Roberto.

Referee: Stephane Lannoy (France)

2:21 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

I'll be watching the Steau v. Chelski match on FS2 - here are the teams for that one:

Steaua București (4-2-3-1 ): Tatarusanu; Georgievski, Szukala, Gardos, Latovlevici; Filip, Bourceanu; Popa, Stanciu, Tanase, Piovaccari. Subs: Nita, Prepelita, Cristea, Tatu, Neagu, Varela, Kapetanos

Chelski (4-3-2-1): Cech, Ivanovic, Cole, Luiz, Ramires, Lampard, Torres, Mata, Oscar, Schurrle, Terry. Subs: Schwarzer, Mikel, Ba, Willian, Cahill, Azpilicueta, Eto'o

2:23 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Kick-off time - MOT!

2:46 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Oh - an early mad scramble in the Steau box. Mata pulled it back lovely to Schirley who had a deflected effort.

2:48 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

The teams at Elland Road:

Leeds - Kenny, Peltier, Lees, Pearce, Warnock, Austin, Tonge, Green, Mowatt, Hunt, Ross. Subs: Murphy, Varney, Smith, Spitty, Byram, Poleon, Cairns.

Bournemouth - Allsop, Francis, Ward, Cook, Harte, Fraser, Collison, O'Kane, Pugh, Grabben, Rantie. Subs: Surman, PItman, McDermott, Addison, Flahavan, Cornick, Elphick.

2:51 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Forest have taken the lead early away to Charlton through Andy Reid.

2:51 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Torres seems to have a problem and Eto'o is warming up. He'll carry on for the time being.

2:53 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Berra has scored for the Tractor Boyz away to Derby, who have a new manager in Steve McLaren.

2:53 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Wahay - that man Mesut Ozil has struck for Arsenal in the 8th minute. The Gunners great form continues. Wow!

2:57 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Torres' bad luck continues - he's come off injured and has been replaced by old man Samuel.

2:57 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Danny Murphy has scored a second for Ipswich.

And now Derby have scored one back. Three quick goals there at the Ricoh.

2:59 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Apparently the defenders are on strike at the Ricoh today. 1-3 Ipswich. Creswell with the latest goal.

3:01 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Blimey - the Arsenal are 2-0 up to a very good Napoli side. I wish I were watching that one!

Giroud with the latest goal there. Ozil apparently laid it on a plate from the by-line. Game over?

3:03 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Porto are 1-0 up to Atletico through Javier Martinez.

3:03 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

GOAL! Chelski are ahead with a poke home from Ramires after sterling work from Schirley.

0-1!

3:04 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Robert Lewandowski has put Dortmund 1-0 up against Marseille.

3:08 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Birmingham are 1-0 on Reading.

3:18 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

1-4 Ipswich!

3:20 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Wahay! Allsop has been sent off for Bournemouth at Elland Road. Hopefully there 's a penalty involved there too. Come one!

3:20 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

It is a penalty to Leeds!!!!!

3:21 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Bloody hell! Ross has missed the pen!

Still - Bournemouth down to ten men. Come on!

3:24 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Birmingham are 2-0 up now. Murphy with both goals.

3:25 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Fortunately we've also got Derby away at the weekend.

3:26 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Looks like it's one way traffic at Elland Road now. We need a goal though - come on!

3:28 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

GOAL! Chelski are 0-2 up!

It was mostly Samuel Eto'o's effort but it was an own goal in the end.

3:29 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Nearly half time now - I'd love another goal for us.

3:30 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

The half-time whistle goes in Bucharest and that was the best half of football this season for the Blues.

3:31 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Wahay! I'm just back from my class and see that my beloved have prevailed against ten-man Bournemouth 2-1 with goals from Ross and Dom Poleon. It's Dom's third goal of the season (and second winner), all off the bench. Surely it's time for Luke Varney to make way for this kid?

Right then. 14 points from 9 matches. So 36 points to get for safety.

7:43 PM  

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