{ECT: Road to the Wembley} AC Milan, AS Monacao, PSG & Dortmund through semis

[Ohm]

Barcelona threatened as Ribery takes Porto in next rounds

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FC Porto 3 - 0 FC Barcelona
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In the last kick-off from round five fixtures of group stages in European trophy, Porto managed to confirm to go through with a comprehensive 3-0 victory derived from a solid performance in support of home crowd. Frank Ribery's double helped his side to get a massive win over FC Barcelona that puts them ahead in trophy chances and Barcelona in real danger with one game in hand which certainly shall be their crucial match of the season and their place in next round depends on what follows in other fixtures from Group A.

FC Porto entertaining FC Barcelona in an European fixture.

FC PORTO STARTING LINEUP.

FC BARCELONA STARTING LINEUP.

Toni Kroos volleyed a shot on a pass assisted by Frank Ribery but the keeper saved and the ball was deflected away from the net.

The attack wasn't broken down yet as the defender miss marked the striker, and the striker headed the ball to net the goal and lead his team in front.

Alexandro Pato was the player who earned one goal lead for his side.

Wesley Szczesny making a fine save in the end of a dangerous looking attack.

Pato tried to cheap the keeper, tried to extend his goal tally and his team's lead but that attempt was failed by some very good keeping from Barcelona's Samir Handanovic.

Toni Kroos assisted a through ball pass to his team mate coming from left wing; Ribery went down to the right side of the post and scored with a low right bottom finish.

Frank Ribery was leading his team in front with that great goal.

Porto defender and Barcelona attacker, both looking to gain possession of the ball.

Good fist, another good save by Wesley Szczesny.

Porto were in massive position with end of the first fourty five minutes.

Barcelona's hopes were depending on him and he was just doing his job; tryin to create chances, trying to get goals.

As the manager was in real threat after being behind, he sent on an experienced attacker to try get at least a point from the match.

Referee straight to the spot, awarded penalty in Porto's favor.

Frank Ribery was the man who was given the charge to strike from 12 yards. Keeper expected a low finish but the striker had other ideas and penalty was converted into the goal after that strike.

Ribery celebrated his goal with his team mates.

Substitutions from both the sides for two different situations.

Handanovic kept it well again.

FC Porto have officially moved into next round and that has been decided by three goals winner in front of their home fans.

MATCH FACTS

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GOALS

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ASSISTS

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SAVES

FC PORTO

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Pato 13' . Ribery 27' (p)64'

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Kroos

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Szczesny 7

FC BARCELONA

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-

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-

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Handanovic 4

@Jack Ryder @santhoshSKR

 

[Ohm]

Aaah! There have been a bad from me. I actually had to sim it Real playing at home but mistakenly reversed the fixture. Sorry about that. Real vs Chelsea would be posted later.

 

[rishabh96]

First Anniversary of Soon.

 

[Ohm]

Standings as after the completion of round 5. Five teams have been confirmed to go through, denoted by '[Q]'.

GROUP A

POS    TEAM                   P    W    D    L    GF    GA    GD    PTS
1   [Q]FC Porto               5    4    1    0    12     3    +9     13
2      Liverpool              5    2    0    3     8     8     0      6
3      FC Barcelona           5    1    2    2     5     8    -3      5
4      FC Schalke             5    1    1    3     5    11    -6      4

GROUP B

POS    TEAM                   P    W    D    L    GF    GA    GD    PTS
1   [Q]AS Monacao             5    4    0    1     9     1    +8     12
2   [Q]Chelsea                5    3    1    1     6     3    +3     10
3      Real Madrid            5    1    1    3     4     8    -4      4
4      Napoli                 5    1    0    4     3    10    -7      3

GROUP C

POS    TEAM                   P    W    D    L    GF    GA    GD    PTS
1   [Q]AC Milan               5    2    3    0     9     5    +4      9
2      Atl Madrid             5    2    2    1     8     4    +4      8
3      FC Bayern              5    1    2    2     5     9    -4      5
4      Manchester Utd         5    0    3    2     8    12    -4      3

GROUP D

POS    TEAM                   P    W    D    L    GF    GA    GD    PTS
1   [Q]PSG                    5    4    1    0     9     3    +6     13
2      Bor. Dortmund          5    2    1    2     8     8     0      7
3      Juventus               5    1    2    2     7     8    -1      5
4      Manchester City        5    0    2    3     3     8    -5      2

Fixtures from round 6 are available here.​

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Real Madrid, really? really? really?

Well, neither did FC Barcelona qualify.

 

[Sulaiman7]

Real Madrid, really? really? really?

Well, neither did FC Barcelona qualify.

So didn't Bayern.

Madrid in actual life would have already won this.

 

[Ohm]

You guys need to know that both Barca and Bayern are not yet knocked out. They might hope for miracles. Something, 'ray of hope' type.

*Cough* While from group A, even the last ones can do appalling stuff if they do most of their opportunities and if the fate is with them. Come on, I would love to see my leagues being more peerless.

 

[Sami Kumar]

Good to know that we're still undefeated along with PSG & Porto. Hope fully we can continue our undefeated streak. Group C really shaped up to be the "group of death" , But I'm glad that we made it through.

 

[rishabh96]

Schalke 99% out

 

[Ohm]

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FC Barcelona 2 - 2 Liverpool
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FC Barcelona's starting lineup

Liverpool's starting lineup

Stephan El Shaarawy opened the scoring in the ealiest minutes. It was a well composed goal produced after 5-6 top class passes, absolutely majestic team work.

Stephan El Shaarawy who scored in this very important fixture, was celebarting scoring of the goal.

A few minutes later there was a counter attack from Barcelona in response to visitor's early goal; and Leo Messi came to find the equalizer in the end of that counter attack.

Messi created a chance himself with his solo skill but just lacked good finishing in the end as the ball hit the bar and went off. Otherwise it would have been one of the best goals game has ever seen.

At the end of first half, both teams were equaled sharing 2 goals 1-1.

David Villa came on as a substitute.

As soon as he joined the field, he was involved in couple of counter attacks. In one of those counter attack, Villa just just failed to produce the goal from a header.

A tactical change by Barcelona's manager as the team wasn't settling with a draw.

Substitution frorm the away bench, manager trying to strengthen his midfield with the introduction of Miguel Veloso.

David Villa's strong header passed the goal keeper and pushed his team in one goal lead.

It's always pleasure to score, and even more joyous if you do the job after coming as on a substitute.

Leo Messi seemed very dangerous in late minutes.

Whoa! Carlos Vela did score a brilliant volleyd goal before 2 minutes to the full time whistle. A draw here would surely secure their place into next round.

And in this important decider, Liverpool had the advantage with one point for qualifying into knock-out stages.

Match Facts

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FC Barcelona

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Messi 1, Villa 1

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Neymar 1, Feghouli 1

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Handanovic 5

Liverpool

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Shaarawy 1, Vela 1

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Diego 1

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Akeenfiv 7

@Jack Ryder @Raghu​

 

[Pinch hitter]

Good see this league is back... and Happy for draw after season resume...

 

[Ohm]

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Bor. Dortmund 2 - 0 Manchester City
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Dortmund was all set for the game between two evenly matched teams.

Borussia Dortmund's starting lineup.

Manchester City's starting lineup.

Joe Hart had a brilliant challenge earlier and he responded with an even better save.

Ashley Cole tackling Marco Reus.

Angel Di Maria had an easiest chance of scoing from here, but it could be his worse day that keeper judged the direction of the shot and kept the ball out of danger.

Stevan Jovetic scored on his chance, beating the keeper with a flat right bottom finish.

As soon as he did score, he went down to the flag to celebrate scoring.

What a finish was that by Samir Nasri to bag the second goal for his team. With goal coming just before the half time whistle, Borussia put themselves in a massive position.

Nasri time and time again tried to be tricky and break opponent's defense.

As the first half time whistle was blown, visitors were down by two goals.

Julian Draxler went off being substituted.

Movements on the benches from both dug-outs.

Marco Reus lately had a good strike but that wasn't enough to net the goal.

Yaya Toure was the man in action.

This is how it ended. Borussia Dortmund fixed their spot in round of 8s with that home victory.

Match Facts

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Bor. Dortmund

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Nasri 1, Jovetic 1

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Lewandowski 2

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Hart 6

Manchester City

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-

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-

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Marchetti 5

 

[Ohm]

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Juventus 0 - 0 PSG
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A view of the players standing inside the tunnel before the kick-off.

Juventus' starting lineup.

PSG's starting lineup.

The paris' striker was seemed very dangerous but the Juventus' defenders were able bodied to stop him and the threat produced by him.

Van der vaart had a long shot but that wasn't his best efforts that ball went far over from the post.

Juventus' defenders were all in a great touch. They were doing things absolutely perfectly to break down threat produced by their opponent.

Carlos Tevez making his run towards the goal post, but as it was defenders' day, they came up with yet another fine tackle.

It was a goal less first half at Juventus stadium.

"I just can't have any better gift than this."

Substitution from the away bench.

And then he has been told, life is not as easy as he thinks.

Substitution from the home side: Gonzalo Castro coming on for Ibrahim Afellay.

"I just save my team's ass."

The game was over 0-0 at the Juventus stadium.

Match Facts

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Juventus

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De Gea 4

PSG

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-

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Casillas 4

@Sulaiman7​

 

[Ohm]

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AC Milan 0 - 4 Atletico Madrid
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A full crowd at San Siro on a wet day for AC Milan's match against Atletico Madrid.

AC Milan's starting lineup.

Atletico Madrid's starting lineup.

Thomas Muller has to cheap the things after his overpaid transfer to Milan.

Jackson Martinez snatched his first goal of the day to put his team into the lead.

Jackson Martinez celebrating his goal.

Manuel Neuer made a 'fine' tackle as we all could see there!

Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored with a clean flat finish to double their lead.

Gokhan Inler bagged up third goal for his team from a long shot.

Inler was celebrating his goal with his team-mates, as we often see in Football players celebrating their goals. It's nonew thing.!

Is it a bird? Is it an aeroplane? No it's Thibaut Courtois of Belgium.

As the first half whistle was blown, home crowd was shouting at their own people in red jerseys.

Milan player failed to scored after producing a well composed counter attack. That describes the picture.

Substitution: Atletico bring on Koke for Ivan Rakitic.

Neuer had been given one more reason to kill himself with that late goal. Meanwhile Milan defender thinks he deserve more than a lifetime ban for his open play activities.... lol!

Fantastic save by Thibaut Courtois.

Substitution from both sides.

Gokhan Inler going off after having one of his best ever days.

Finally AC Milan stopped conceding goals.

Match Facts

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AC Milan

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-

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-

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Neuer 2

Atletico Madrid

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Mkhitaryan 1, Inler 1, Martinez 1, Costa 1

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Debuchy 1, Mkhitaryan 1, Ozil 1, Rakitic 1

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Courtois 7

@Sami Kumar @SambarVadai​

 

[Ohm]

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AS Monacao 1 - 0 Chelsea
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These two teams have been already through the next round, even it was just a formality for them.

AS Monacao's starting lineup.

Chelsea FC's starting lineup.

Monacao player reacts after not being able to score on a simple chance.

This player was doing well on the picth, being almost a heavy challenge for opponent's defenders.

Yohan Cabaye had a good strike at the goal but it was cleared by some very good block.

Aubameyang scored on a top class finish with a massive header going into the net, leaving the keeper stunned.

The player had absolute reason to celebrate that big moment.

HT: AS Monaco 1, chelsea 0.

Substitution from AS Monacao, manager bringing on striker for striker.

Paul Pogba's skills on the field were absolutely magnificent to the viewers.

Yet another tactical change from home bench.

Nemanja Matic trying cheap passes to find an opening to his forwards.

Eden Hazard came on as a substitute in later moments. It was surely an agressive move by the manager to get that equalizing goal before full time whistle.

And it ended here with sealing their fifth victory in the group stages.

Match Facts

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GOALS

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SAVES

AS Monacao

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Aubameyang 1

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Ben Arfa 1

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Lloris 3

Chelsea

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-

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-

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Weidenfeller 0

@Na Maloom Afraad @Davoo​