Spotlight On Surprise Champions League Finals RunnersUp Bayer Leverkusen Part 2
Group F coughs up an Anglo-Scottish clash. Manchester United sent a reserve team up to Glasgow just before the season began and duly thumped the Scottish champions 3-0. Not many give Celtic much chance against United's first XI who have begun the season on fire. Benfica seem dangerous again. They knocked both United and Liverpool out last term and will need to be respected. FC Copenhagen constitutes the quartet and might surprise a few people.
Inter is a big cost here and are worth financing. They've added strength, quality and depth to their squad and following the Calciopoli scandal were belated given last year's Scudetto in Serie A. Sporting Lisbon are no pushovers, but Inter can and ought to get past them. There is one slight worry though. Bayern Munich is the type of team that could run up the score against weak opponents like Spartak Moscow. If Bayern and Inter are level on points, Bayern could well win this group on goal difference.
The final itself will always be remembered for that spectacular volley by Zinedine Zidane that turned out to be the winner but the region of interest is with that particular Bayer squad that got into the final.
Aston Villa - 110 million - Villa are in a interesting position due to the fact that the debt of 110 million is owed to Chairman Randy Lerner. Obviously he can write off this debt but it's highly unlikely. With the sale of key players this summer (Ashley Young and possibly Stuart Downing), the debt will of course be decreased but the team won't ever get into Europe without the money being reinvested in quality players.
In the summer, everyone and I believe Benitez included, expected more money from the owners. People talk about how much we spent, but they appear to have completely forgotten that we sold just as many and our net spending was around 25 million! Sunderland spent over that while Man u spent more than twice. He wanted to purchase more, you could sense and feel it, but I think that a mix of the new stadium cost, the slowness and procrastination of Rick Parry and a lack of funds resulted in a halt of the spending.
The state Liverpool were in when Rafa joined was fair. from this source had the likes of Traore, Baros and Biscan from the group. We had limited funds, at least when compared to Man U and Chelsea so we couldn't find the best players. First season, we won the champions league. 류현진중계 knew there would an overhaul of players though.
Five"El Clasico" in a season and four of them took place in April-May only in time range of 18 days. In recent history just in 2001-02 both Giants met four times in a season and before that when they clashed more or as equal as this year I really don't remember.
Group H sees the prohibited, but reinstated AC Milan host surprise qualifiers Lille, AEK Athens and Anderlecht. Anticipate AC to acquire the group , along with the others to all take points from one another.
