Tue 18 Sep 07 Champions League Roundup
Chelsea were held at home to Norwegian side Rosenborg at Stamford Bridge 1-1, Chelsea wore their home blue shirts and Rosenborg had on their traditional white shirts. Miika Koppinen surprised the home crowd with a 24th minute goal, which Andriy Shevchenko equalized in the 53rd minute.
Liverpool drew away at Porto with 10 men after Jermaine Pennant was sent of in the second half at the Estádio do Dragão. The match finished 1-1 with Dirk Kuyt cancelling out Lucho Gonzalez’s penalty, Liverpool wore their home red shirts and Porto their blue & white vertical striped home shirts.
Marseille’s Orange Champions League Shirt
Marseille celebrate their opening Champions League fixture win.
Marseille wore their European shirt for their UEFA CL Group A fixture against Besiktas at the Stade Vélodrome, which they won 2-0 thanks to goals from Rodriguez and Djibril Cisse in front of 45,000 fans.
UEFA CL Shirts
To round up the other games, AC Milan wore their red & black home kit to beat Benfica who wore their special pink away shirt, the Italians winning 2-1 at the San Siro.
Olympiacos drew 1-1 with Lazio with goals from Galletti for the home side and Zauri for the Romans. The greek team wore their white and red vertical striped home shirt and the Italians their dark blue third shirt.
Real Madrid wore their white home shirt against Werder Bremen, Rudd van Nistelrooy gave them the win scoring in the second half for the 2-1 victory over the Germans who wore their dark green with lime third shirt.
Thirteen Match Win-less Run
In the nights final fixture Shakhtar Donetsk scored two early goals in the Ukraine, condeming the Scottish side to another away trip in Europe without picking up three points, since the start of the UEFA Champions League Celtic have failed to win away from home in thirteen attempts.
Shakhtar wore their orange and black vertical striped shirts with black shorts against Celtic who had their green & white traditional kit for the game, Brandao and Lucarelli scored the only goals in the 2-0 win at the RSK Olimpiyskyi stadium.
hope that arsenal get threw to night and that man utd lose. isn’t it about time alex furgeson stepped down; you watch give or take one to two seasons and man utd will be a mid table team.
are you havin a laugh ? ‘mid table team’ ive never heard something funnier than that in my whole life !!!! and alex ferguson will be at united for about another 2 or 3 seasons ! and hope arsenal lose and UNITED win (1-0 to united - RONALDO)
As a Celtic fan I am fed up with yet another away defeat in the C L. Donetsk fully deserved it. Our trouble is we play against **** teams, in a silly league in a silly country. Nakamura and Venegoor are becoming passengers. They are lazy players and Zurawski is as good as being 2 men down. Get it sorted Strachan, or go.
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arsenal will lose to ac milan at san siro and manu will beat lyon and beat arsenal again