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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FIXTURES-28/11/2007

Group A:

Besiktas 2-1 Marseille
The group has become interesting as any 2 teams can qualify out of the 4 as it comes down to the last match of the group stages.Porto has 8 while liverpool and Marsellie has 7 each and win for Besiktas means they have 6 points.

Liverpool 4-1 FC Porto
Fernando Torres scored his first goal in Champions League for Liverpool from free header.Lisandro Lopez equalized for Porto. Second half started with Liverpool getting chances but failing to score.The deadlock was broken by none other than Fernando Torres to net in his second goal of the match .After that it was a cakewalk for Liverpool as Gerrard scored from a peanlty and Crouch scored from a header.

Group B:

Rosenborg 0-4 Chelsea
A brace from Drogba and a free-kick l from Alex helped Chelsea go 3-0 up. The 4th goal came in from Joe Cole in the second half.

Valencia 0-0 Schalke
David Albelda was sent of for his serious foul play

Group C:

Lazio 1-2 Olympiakos

Bremen 3-2 Real Madrid
Rosenberg opened the scoresheet for Bremen as Madrid's defene looked shaky from the first 5 min itself.Robinho equalized for Madrid.Bremen came back with Sanogo goal to take the lead at half time. Bremen increased their tally by one more goal in the second half with Hunt scoring the goal.Real Madrid fought hard but managed to pull only 1 in their bag with Vanistelrooy scoring. Vanistelrooy scored a fantastic chip goal.

Group D:

Benfica 1-1 Milan
Pirlo opened the scoring for Milan .The home team came back strong with the goal from Maxi.

Celtic 2-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Donati scored the winning goal in the 92minute to ensure Celtic reach the next round.


FULL TIME SCORES 27/11/2007

Group E:

LYON 2-2 BARCELONA

Bojan Krkic the 17 year wonder kid passed the ball to Iniesta who opened the scoring for Barcelona in just 5 minutes.Lyon came back in no time as within 3 min they equalized with a Juninho goal.Barca again took the lead in the second half with Messi scoring the penalty. Juninho scored his second goal of the match from a peanlty as Lyon had equalized again.

STUTTGART 3-2 RANGERS
Pardo,Cacau scored the goals for Stuttgart while Charlie Adam and Ferguson and Marica scored for Rangers.

Group F:

DYNAMO KIEV 1-4 ROMA
Panucci ,Guily and Mirko scored for Roma. Ismael scored for Dynamo

MANCHESTER UNITED 2-1 SPORTING LISBON

After losing to Bolton,United continued the same form as they went 1-0 goal downin the first half .The goal came from Abel.Sir Alex Ferguson rested some of the key players like VanderSar and putting Giggs Tevez and Hargreves in the bench.With the start of second half Manu made two changes after their disappointing performance in 1st half Nani and Carrick were substituted and in came Tevez and Giggs.With their introduction a sudden urgency emerged among the Red Devils to score a goal and they got it with a equalizer from Tevez. Ronaldo scored the winning goal for Manu in the injury time from a free kick .The win was not a convincing for Manu as they had to fight till the end to get their goals.

Group G:

CSKA MOSCOW 1-0 PSV**
Farfan scored the goal for PSV.Last season Farfan was the top goal scorer in the Dutch league.

INTER MILAN3-0 FENERBACHE
The first half went goalless at San Siro with goals coming in the second half from Cruz and Ibrahimovic and Luis.

Group H:

SEVILLA 3-1 ARSENAL
Arsenal went ahead first with superb Eduardo's goal but Sevilla came back strong with two goals from Fabiano and Keita.kanoute scored the third goal with a peanlty which assured Sevilla 3 points.

STEAUA B 1-1 SLAVIA P
Badea scored for Steua while Zdenek equalized for Slavia