‘Anderlecht’ Archives
Champions League qualifiers
Who cares, honestly? None of these teams are going to win the bloody thing. What a useless format for a crap competition. Bring on the Wenger super league. Atletico Madrid 2 - 0 Panathinaikos (Agg. 5-2) An ugly, ugly game. Panathinaikos' defender Loukas Vintra bagged an own goal from a Diego Forlan 'pass' in the fifth minute. Sergio Aguero [...]
More Champions League qualifiers
I'm finding myself strangely drawn to Arsene Wenger's Euro Super League right now, nothing to do with these crock of shit fixtures, naturally. Panathinaikos 2 - 3 Atletico Madrid The fixture of the evening, but that's not saying much. Ten minutes before the break Panathinaikos saw a Salpingidis goal disallowed for offside, Atletico Madrid [...]
Champions League qualifiers
Twente 1 - 1 Sporting Lisbon (Agg. 1-1*) A second minute header from that man Douglas handed big Steve McClaren’s Twente the lead over Sporting, the scoreline remaining like that until deep into injury time, the 95th minute to be exact, when Sporting’s keeper Rui Patricio legged it into the Twente box to face a corner, the goalie incredibly [...]
Champions League qualifier: Anderlecht 5 – 0 Sivasspor
An absolute shocker for the Turkish upstarts from Sivas, who, in the Turkish press at least, were really confident of their chances of doing over the Belgians. Me thinks they've left themselves a little too much to do in the second leg. Young Tom De Sutter headed the hosts in front from a corner, with Mbark Boussoufa firing home a left-footed [...]
