AC Milan and FC Barcelona officials have come to an agreement on the sale of Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho will play in the Italin Serie A next year. The sale of the Brazilian mega star will only cost AC Milan 30 million Euros, which is surprisingly low. This was a good move for Ronaldinho because he will definitely be a starter for AC Milan as he had some major problems with Barcelona's coach Frank Rijkaard. Barcelona will not be struggling in this position as they still have Xavi, Krkic and dos Santos.
In today's Serbian Derby played at FK Partizan stadium the two arch rivals FK Partizan and FK Crvena Zvezda only managed a 1:1 draw. For Partizan this like a win as they are still 5 points in front of Zvezda with 9 games left to play. Crvena Zvezda will pray for a miracle where Partizan will have to lose 2 games as Crvena Zvezda will have to win all of their 9 remaining matches. Which is very unlikely.
The visitors, Crvena Zvezda were the first team on the score board as Igor Burzanovic scored a nice goal in the 22 minute. Partizan's Brazilian midfielder made it 1:1 only 5 minutes later. Both clubs started the game with a more defensive formation which was clearly the wrong move for Crvena Zvezda.
One more exciting UEFA Champions League matchday behind us. Yesterday we say Manchester United beat Roma 2:0 and Barcelona bearing Schalke 1:0.
Today's matches were even more exciting than yesterday's. Arsenal took on Liverpool on the Emirates Stadium today. Arsenal took the lead in the 23rd minute from a well taken corner and Adebayor headed it in the goal with style. Only 3 minutes later Liverpool managed to equalize with Dirk Kuyt's goal. Afterwards, Arsenal was attacking through out the whole match but were not able to score. Arsenal had about 70% ball possession. Liverpool will be going home with a slight advantage as these two will face off for a second leg in Liverpool.
Another, more exciting match today took place in Istanbul, Turkey as Fenerbahce hosted Chelsea. Chelsea were the first team on board thanks to an own goal (Deivid). At half time the score was still 1:0 in Chelsea's favor. Fenerbahce made a few changes early in the second half including Kazim Kazim, who scored the equalizer in the 64th minute. In the 80th minute a miracle. The man that scored the own goal (Deivic), scores a beautiful goal from 30 yards beating Cuducini. The fans went ballistic, and 60,000 fans made it sound as if 600,000 fans were there at that moment. Fenerbahce won all of their home games in the Champions League this year including: Inter Milan, PSV, CSKA Moscow, Sevilla and now Chelsea. Which is quite an accomplishment. Chelsea will try to fix their mistakes next week in London and 1:0 win would take Chelsea through to the next round. Or will Fenerbahce make history.
As UEFA Champions League resumed today, away teams were more successful.
Manchester United defeated Roma in Rome with the score 2:0 (C. Ronaldo, W. Rooney). The Red Devils demonstrated once again that they are very serious in this year's Champions League campaign. Crisitiano Ronaldo proved once again that he is World's best soccer player at the moment and Wayne Rooney confirmed good form as of lately. It will be very tough for Roma to score 2 goals in Manchester because Manchester United is not known for conceding many goals, especially not at home. Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand are 2 tough monsters to pass through.
FC Barcelona ended a negative streak by winning a very crucial match today in Gelsenkirchen as they defeated Schalke 1:0 (B. Krkic). Barca has shown once again that they are competing for Champions League final every year. At times Barcelona defense looked a bit sleepy but Schalke was not able to capitalize. Well deserved win for Barcelona as they await a rematch next week. No one that is not a die hard fan has ever heard of Bojan Krkic untill this year. This young man had already managed to be the youngest player ever to play in the Champions League, to be the youngest ever Barcelona player to score and today was one of the youngest players ever to score in a Champions League Match, a very important one as well.
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