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everyone loves the champions league but no one likes to wait two weeks for the action. good thing that this weekend was international weekend. most big european teams took a break from league play to allow the battle of nations to take place. over the weekend we saw two big matches take place on espn. Argentina and Messi took on Donovan and the USA at the new meadowlands stadium it was an action packed game which saw 18 year old phenom Juan Agudelo score the eaqualizing goal to salvage a draw for the usa. the match ended 1 1. Sunday we saw the Scots take on the samba boys of Brazil. the two giants played at Wembley stadium of the 9 encounters Brazil is still unbeaten Neymar seen as one of the "next big things" scored two goals to ensure brazil of a 2 0 win. Next week the champions league continues check out OneXhance.yolasite.com to see all the new action.

wrap up cl

the week of champions league futbol has gone by quicker than we wanted to but finally the moments we have been counting down since day 1 who would be in the final 8 competeing for the quarter finals. chelsea's 0-0 tie against Kobenhaven saw Chelsea advance through a 2-0 aggregate from the first leg and Real Madrids 3-0 thumping of Lyon was enough to see Madrid through also. The quarter final looks action filled and oozing with class these 8 teams will fight tooth and nail to become europes greatest team. more information can be found at One Xhance

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round 16 second leg

and finally to yesterday where a great day of soccer was witnessed by millions, the first game was Manchester United vs. Marseille these two teams tied 0 0 in the first encounter two weeks ago but yesterday when push came to shove the Red devils took Marseille by storm with a 2 1 win as Javier "chicarito" Hernandez the mexican sensation picked up a brace to insure Manchester succes, but the game that everyone around the world couldnt wait to see, last years champions league final contestants, Inter Milan vs Bayern Munich two weeks ago the two giants met in the San Siro in Italy as both teams fought long and hard it would be the flying Dutchman (Arjen Robben) who would deliver the final blow in the game with a wonder strike from outside the box that Julio Ceaser couldnt hold on to and spilled it to Mario Gomez who made no mistake and gave Bayern the 1 0 win. yesterday we saw the two go at it in a heated blow for blow match, the game had non stop intensity and excitement what seemed to be a sure Bayern Munich win slipped away in the 88th minute when goran Pandev the masadonian who was relatively quiet all game came in out of nowhere and topshelfed the ball to garentee not only the 3 2 win over bayern but a spot in the quarter finals for the defending champions. today we will witness the round of 16 wrap up as lyon of france meet Real madrid in the second leg and Chelsea play Kobenhaven.

champions round of 16

last thursday we saw the champions league take a turn in history, AC Milan and Tottenham saw the second leg of Round 16, Tottenham were the victors in the first encounter a late goal by Peter Crouch insured Tottenham an advantage going into this second leg, the match ended 0-0 and through aggregate Crouch's goal in the first leg was enough to send Tottenham into the Quarter finals and AC Milan home. Another game that didnt fail to shock the public was Shalke and Valencia the two teams played to a 1 1 draw in the first leg but with both teams fired up and ready to rumble the second leg was a great performance by both teams but it was Shalkes 3 1 win over Valencia which secured them a spot in the quarterfinals as well

second leg week one

i know i was a little late delivering the news, but with that said last week was the second leg for the round 16. on Tuesday we saw Barcelona and arsenal meet head to head at the blaugrana in Spain, arsenal with the 2 1 aggregate advantage over Barcelona stepped into Spain with one thing in mind; winning. all didn't go as planned as Barcelona took the game to arsenal and win at home 3 1 taking the aggregate advantage of 4 3 and advancing to the quarterfinal. miles away Shakhatar and Roma played their second leg, Roma already having lost the first encounter 3 2 suffered a second straight defeat 3 0 and made an embarrassing exit from the sweet 16. allowing Shakhatar to advance to the quarterfinal.