UEFA Cup (R) Thread for the UEFA Cup games of the German teams. This week: Tuesday - 6.00 Aberdeen vs Berlin Thursday - 6.00 Stuttgart vs Ventspils Thursday - 6.00 Metallurg Donezk vs Bremen Thursday - 8.15 Gomel vs Schalke
I just set up CL threads for matches involving German clubs and Basel. Could you make this just for the UEFA Cup? I think they'll be plenty of stuff for the CL to have it's own thread. What do you think?
do we really need a thread for each match right away? shouldn't we wait to see if each one warrents such, otherwise stick with this thread until that arises?
Hertha started ten minutes ago with lots of injury trouble. Lineup: Kiraly - Hartmann, Sverrisson, Friedrich, Madlung - Neuendorf, Dardai,Tretschok, Marcelinho, Goor - Luizao Madlung is a twenty year old amateur without any pro game who has to play as all others defenders are injured.
Aberdeen vs Hertha 0-0 No pretty game, but this wasn't expected anyway. Bad luck for Hertha that a regular goal of Zecke was annulled.
Did you see the game Olaf? I could only listen and it sounded like the dons had most of the game, is that a fair assesment of it?
I saw most of it. Aberdeen probably had more ball possession and seemed to be a little superior. Both were unable to create many good scoring opportunities, I'd say both had about two or three.
I thought that the ref made the right decision, there was a clear foul before the goal. (Sorry if there was more than one annulled goal, i haven't seen the whole game).
It was this annulled goal, but in the replay you could clearly see that the player was tripping due to the bad pitch; Goor definitely did not foul in this situation.
I saw the whole match and would say that neither team really looked like they deserved to win. Aberdeen was maybe a little better, but not much. As for the non-goal, I thought it was a foul. Looked like he caught the defender's foot. My question was if the defender would have even gotten to the ball in time. Either way, 0:0 was a 'fair' result.
I still disagree with the foul scene, but it's okay. I saw 'Tagesschau' yesterday evening and was surprised that the serious announcer formulated "The referee costed Hertha the victory". I agree with the rest of the statement though. Was a typical boring first round game: the underdog is trying to play a good game, but isn't really able to and the German site isn't playing better than necessary and just cares to get a good result (though this failed for Hertha yesterday).
Just quick info for the ones in Germany as the TV magazines aren't updated: Stuttgart is covered at 6.00 pm on ZDF. Bremen is not covered. Schalke is covered at 8.10 pm on DSF. They got to increase the pace, Germany won ridiculous 0.75 points for the UEFA ranking so far.
FT Stuttgart 4 - 1 Ventspils 22' Amanatidis 33' Kevin Kuranyi 40' Kevin Kuranyi 59' Aliaksandr Hleb (pen.) 65' Rimkus FT Metalurg Donetsk 2 - 2 Werder Bremen 8' Krisztian Lisztes 14' Frank Verlaat 39' Tchoutang 53' Tchoutang
Stupid that Werder gave a 2-0 lead out of their hands - just costs a point for competing with Italy in the five year ranking. Stuttgart at least played very nice, finally a team where you had the impression that they love to play on international stage. Balakov missed his third consecutive pk in the first half, but later on he said that it's a good omen as Stuttgart won all these game. Kuranyi was impressive though he could have scored some more.
FT Gomel 1 - 4 Schalke 58' Ebbe Sand 61' Ivanov 67' Christian Poulsen 71' Ebbe Sand 73' Dario Rodriguez
As Brian or his multiple personalities didn't make a special thread for the CL Games: Bayer Leverkusen vs Manchester United 1-2 Bayer was the stronger team, but ManU took the chances very well to have a comfortable 2-0 lead at HT (both goals van Nistelroy). Berbatov scored for Bayer soon in the second, but many good chances were not converted. Next week's game in Cyprus against Haifa must be won to have a chance to advance. RC Lens vs Bayern Munich 1-1 Bayern started quite good, had some chances and scored by Linke. The second half belonged to Lens only and at the end Bayern must be very happy about this point. Next week against Milan Bayern is already under big pressure.
Dortmund vs Auxerre 2-1 Very strong first 10 minutes of Dortmund with an early lead scored by Koller. But then Borussia started to tremble for the rest of the game and Auxerre became the clearly better team. Amoroso relieved Dortmund in his first game after the injury before Auxerre came closer with seven minutes to go - seven further minutes of total trembling, but with lots of luck Dortmund collected Germany's first win in the Champions League this season.
TV Service for the ones living in Germany: Tuesday: 5.15 Hertha vs Aberdeen (ZDF); 10.15 recaps Haifa vs Leverkusen and Bayern vs Milan (RTL) Wednesday: 8.15 Eindhoven vs Dortmund (RTL) Thursday (national holiday): 3.15 Schalke vs Gomel (ZDF), 5.45 Bremen vs Donezk (ARD), 8.10 Ventspils vs Stuttgart (DSF)
Hertha vs Aberdeen 1-0 (1-0 agg) Hard work in an exciting game. Hertha dominated almost the full ninety minutes, but they were unable to score. Zecke was already sent off in the first half before an ejection for a Scot in the second half made it 10 vs 10. With just seven minutes to go Aberdeen almost knocked Hertha out with one of their few chances, but Dardai cleared off the line. Michael Preetz finally headed the game winner in the 89th.
I'm sure anyone knows meanwhile, but to complete this thread this weeks CL results: Bayern vs Milan 1-2 Haifa vs Leverkusen 0-2 Eindhoven vs Dortmund 1-3 Fresh UEFA Cup result: Schalke vs Gomel 4-0 (8-1 agg) The real sensation is not the result, but the fact that in a first round game against an unattractive opponent and no sportive meaning, the Arena AufSchalke was sold out with 52.000 - this really couldn't happen anywhere else in Germany. Of course a onesided game today, but at least four nice goals were scored by Wilmots (10), Hanke (62/72) and Kmetsch (67).
Bremen vs Metallurg Donezk 8-0 (agg 10-2) Great game though of course against a weak opponent. New record victory in Werder's almost legendary European Cup Competition history. If someone offers goals of these game in the Internet, then watch Micoud's dream goals and the second one by Borowski. Goals: Verlaat (14), Micoud (43/46), Borowski (45/78), Charisteas (51), Klasnic (66/90)
Ventspils vs Stuttgart 1-4 (agg 2-8) Not as good as it sounds. Was the worst of today's games and almost got critical as Ventspils scored the first goal and made some pressure. Tiffert (22) cared for better nerves and Ganea (52) for the final decision. Amanatidis (87) and Tiffert (90) added further goals. Nice result for the German teams in this week.