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The Blues pulled a rabbit out of their hat. Chelsea took a 1-0 win over Barcelona in the first leg of their semifinal match up at Stamford Bridge. The Blues didn’t give up that all-important away goal to Barca.

Didier Drogba scored the only goal of the match in the 45^th minute. Drogba fired home the point blank shot. Super Messi screwed up big time.  His turnover allowed Frank Lampard to find Ramirez. Ramirez took it to the tin. Ramirez faked the shot and hit Drogba with a perfect pass. Into the back of the net for the score.

Game, set, and match for Chelsea.

Chelsea allowed Barcelona to have most of the possessions. But when Barca was within striking distance the Blues shut em down.

Pedro almost found the equalizer in the 93^rd minute but his shot went clank off the post.

The moronic pundits told us that this would be a walk in the park for the mighty Barcelona. Not on this day.

On Wednesday Real Madrid lost to Bayern Munich 2-1 at the German’s house.

The mighty boys from Spain are behind the eight ball.

Los Blancos have the all-important away goal when they head back to Madrid for the second leg.

I think it would be great if Bayern Munich and Chelsea made it to the finals. These guys would stick it big time to the two Spanish clubs.

Will this actually happen?

Probably not. Both Real and Barca should win at their collective houses in the second leg of the semifinals next week.

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My guys from Flamengo defeated Americano-RJ 3-1 to advance to the semifinals of Taça Rio.  Mengao finished atop Group A with 21 points. Rubro-negro will battle archrival Vasco in the semifinals. Gigante de Colina beat us in the semifinals of the Taça Guanabara.

Deivid lead the Flamengo attack with the daily double. Mate Kleberson added a tally of his own to lead the guys to the win.

UOL- “ fizeram o necessário para vencer o Americano. E com o 3 a 1 obtido neste domingo, a equipe rubro-negra manteve a ponta, evitou a hostilidade da torcida presente e, agora, enfrenta o rival Vasco na briga por um vaga na final do segundo turno do Estadual.

Após a eliminação precoce na Libertadores, o foco do Flamengo ficou todo voltado para o Carioca. Mas como já entrou em campo classificado, o time da Gávea se permitiu poupar suas estrelas: Ronaldinho Gaúcho (dores na perna direita), Vagner Love (dores no joelho direito), Léo Moura (dores no joelho direito) e Willians (coxa esquerda) ficaram de fora da partida.”

http://esporte.uol.com.br/futebol/campeonatos/estadual-do-rio/pos-jogo/2012/04/15/sem-estrelas-fla-vence-americano-evita-vaias-e-enfrenta-vasco-na-semi.htm

Vasco and Mengao will battle it out on Saturday. The winner will advance to the finals. Gigante de Colina defeated Flamengo 2-1 in the semi finals of Taça Guanabara. 

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Flamengo sure looked like they were dead in the water against Vasco.  Mengao took the early lead. Deivid received a great pass from Vanger Love. Deivid deposited this sucker into the back of the net in the 16^th minute.

Vasco rammed through the equalizer in the 50^th minute. Diego Souza flat out beat the keeper to level this sucker at one all.

Both sides pushed the ball up and down the pitch. Mengao was saved in the 90^th minute. Ronaldinho Gaucho teed up the PK for the match winner and gave Rubro-negro a hard fought 2-1 win over Gigante de Colina.

Flamengo sits atop the leader board with 18 points. Botafogo is second with 17. Resende is third with 12 points. The top two sides advance to the Taça Rio semifinals.

UOL- As duas equipes entraram em campo com mudanças de última hora na escalação. No lado vascaíno, Felipe amanheceu com muitas dores no ombro direito e foi vetado pelo departamento médico. O técnico Cristóvão Borges optou pela entrada de William Barbio e deixou Diego Souza no banco. No Flamengo, a mudança foi uma opção do técnico Joel Santana, que preferiu escalar o experiente Kleberson, seu atual talismã, no lugar do jovem Muralha, tido como inexperiente pelo treinador.

O Flamengo precisava da vitória para afastar a crise e partiu com tudo para cima do Vasco no fim, sob o comando de Leonardo Moura. O lateral quase desempatou, aos 41m,lnuma lance frente a frente com Fernando Prass. No último minuto, Leo Moura invadiu a grande área vascaína e foi derrubado por Fernando Prass. Na cobrança de pênalti, já acréscimos, Ronaldinho deslocou o goleiro vascaíno e desempatou, aliviando sua barra na Gávea e classificando o time para as semifinais da Taça Rio. O problema ficou com o árbitro Vagner Santos Rosa, que teve de sair de campo escoltado pela Polícia Militar e sob xingamentos do zagueiro Rodolgo e do volante Eduardo Costa.”

http://esporte.uol.com.br/futebol/campeonatos/estadual-do-rio/pos-jogo/2012/04/07/flamengo-x-vasco.htm

The final round of group play in the Taça Rio is Sunday. Mengao battles Americano RJ.

Globo Esporte- “Um clássico marcado pela tensão. Foi assim que começou e terminou mais um Vasco x Flamengo. O pênalti cobrado por Ronaldinho aos 47 minutos do segundo tempo deu a vitória aos rubro-negros por 2 a 1 na noite deste sábado e uma pequena pausa na pressão sobre o time e o jogador, apesar de mais uma atuação nada empolgante do camisa 10. O resultado classificou o clube para as semifinais da Taça Rio. E acabou sendo a gota d’água para um tumulto que envolveu os jogadores do Vasco. Principalmente Eduardo Costa e Rodolfo, que partiram para cima do árbitro Wagner dos Santos Rosa, e só não o agrediram porque foram contidos pelos policiais.”

http://globoesporte.globo.com/jogo/carioca-2012/07-04-2012/vasco-flamengo.html

Flamengo and Lanus tangle at Mengao’s house on Thursday in the final round of group play in the Copa Libertadores. Rubro-negro needs to win and both Olimpia and Emelec need to tie for Flamengo to advance to the knockout stage of the Copa.

Don’t hold your breath.

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The United States beat Italy for the first time in eleven matches that covered a span of 78 years. This was the Italians first loss in Genoa. Clint Dempsey was the hero. His goal in the 55^th minute gave the USA a huge win over Italy. A great pass set up this sucker from mate Jozy Altidore. Altidore stood his ground at the top of box. He made a back pass to Dempsey. Dempsey stepped right and fired left. The Italian keeper Buffon never had a chance.

What stood out in this match was the way the guys played “D”. The guys made block after block. Bocanegra, Fabian Johnson, Jonathan Spector, and Michael Bradley clogged the middle. Sure there were a ton of offsides by the Italians but this was caused by good positioning of our guys. This frustrated the Italians.

Tim Howard came up big too.

Italy used many of their best players.

All in all this was a huge step in the right direction.

Lionel Messi had a hat trick to lead Argentina past Switzerland 3-1.

The dorks at ESPN are crowing about Messi’s performance. Hey guys Messi is great in crap like this but when he has to perform in real matches he sucks big time.

This is Messi’s MO. Great in meaningless matches but on the world stage Messi is scared shitless.

England lost to the Netherlands 3-2. Arjen Robben daily double led the Dutch attack.

The Netherlands was in complete control of this sucker. The score was closer than the match. 

England’s two goals came in garbage time. Gary Cahill in the 85^th minute and Ashley Young 90 minutes plus one.

Thank you Fabio Capello for screwing up the English national team.

He is gone but the stench lingers.

Spain killed Venezuela 4-0.

France beat Germany 2-1.    

So now lets put this win by the USA in perspective. This was huge but this was a friendly match. Sure the Italians wanted to win but this was not a real competition. Yes, we have made strides especially on the defensive end however we can’t let a side have sixty percent of the touches and control of the ball.

Progress has been made but we are still a long way off from competing with the top sides in the world.

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It doesn’t matter what the competition is UEFA League, the Champions League or Tidily winks Sir Alex and the boys have a kick ass side. After being bounced out of the Champions League at the Group stage Man U kicked ass and took names in their 2-0 romp over Ajax in the Europa League.

Goals by Ashley Young and Chicharito paved the way for the Red Devil.

Young’s goal was his first since September 2011.

Tom Cleverly played for the mighty boys from Old Trafford for the first time in three months.

The last time Man U played in the UEFA was 1995. Folks that’s seventeen years ago.

Man U picked up the all-important two away goals and the 2-0 lead on aggregate.

Chicharito said this- ”We know it is a leg of two games. We wanted a great result and thankfully we got the two goals,” he told Channel Five. ”We know Ajax is a difficult team, they have history in the European cups.

”We know there is 90 minutes more. We can’t say we are through yet.”

Sir Alex was not a happy camper concerning his guys performance. ”I’m delighted with the scoreline,” he said. ”It was a very ordinary performance from us though. We didn’t hit any great heights.

”We improved in the second half and probably deserved to win it in the end. I know Ajax can make it difficult with the system they play, but we didn’t get any tempo into our game. It was not a brilliant performance, but good enough.”

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/quotes?id=334846&cc=5901

The second leg will be played at Old Trafford.

Man City scored a come from behind win 2-1 over FC Porto.

An own goal by Porto’s Alvaro Pereira in the 55^th minute and the match winner by Sergio Aquero in the 84^th minute gave the Citizens the all-important road win.

Man City has a 2-1 aggregate plus a the two away goals.

The Citizens will play FC Porto in the Citizens house.

Roberto Mancini said he didn’t make any adjustments in the second half. In the first half Man City sucked. This is a crock of shit. Any coach or manager worth his salt seeing his team or side stinking the joint out will always make adjustments.

”I think that we played a good game,” he told ITV. ”We played very well. In the first half we had three or four chances to score and we were unlucky but in the second half we played very well.

”I told them only to play as we know how. In the second half maybe we played higher (up the pitch) but we had seven or eight chances to score and more importantly we didn’t give Porto which is important because Porto are a top team.”

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/quotes?id=334845&cc=5901

What would be a real kick in the ass if both City and Man U play in the Europa Finals.

FA Cup weekend is here. So this means the EPL is off. My Gunners will try and right the ship when we have a hot date with Sunderland at the Black Cats house.

Chelsea is at home against Birmingham.

Everton has Blackpool visiting the Toffees house.

Millwall- Bolton.

Norwich City-Leicester City

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I will get back to my regular writing on Saturday. I am on the road broadcasting Thursday thru Saturday. We have a huge tourney we are doing  so thanks for understanding. Man U is driving all their fans nuts. This is a constant state for all us Gunner fans and Gunner nation. Let the fun and games begin. We Gunners fans live with this all the time. So welcome to our world.

I would like to wish all of my readers a Merry Christmas and a Blessed and Happy New Year. We will take off Christmas Eve and Christmas Day then we’ll be back at it on Boxing Day December 26. 

God Bless you all and let’s remember that Christmas is the Celebration of the Birth of our Lord Jesus. Yes, I am a Jew who believes and follows Jesus-Yeshua.

Barcelona proved to the world why they are the best futebol club in the world.

The Catalans destroyed Santos 4-0.

This sucker wasn’t even close.

Lionel Messi hit the daily lotto.

Messi started off the hit parade with a strike in the 16^th minute.

The rout was on.

Xavi found pay dirt in the 23^rd minute.

This puppy was over.

Messi added his second goal in the 82^nd minute.

Former Gunner Cesc Fabregas scored in the 44^th minute.

Peixe won the Copa Libertadores but against Europe’s best Santos comes up way short.

Santos finished mid-table in the Brasileiros Serie A.

Peixe was tenth with 53 points.

Neymar said- “It’s impossible to stop Barcelona, but we are the second-best team in the world and for us that is a great reward.”

Santos headman Muricy Ramalho said- “Barcelona are the greatest team in the world,” he said. “No team can live with them. They’re unbeatable at the moment. Losing 4-0 to them is no disgrace.”

Pep Guardiola said about his side’s win- “My players were like artists,” Guardiola said. “Whatever they envisaged in their minds they were able to do on the pitch. It was an incredible performance.”

Here is the link- http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/998668/santos-forward-neymar-left-in-awe-of-barcelona?cc=5901

UOL wrote this about the slaying of Santos by Barcelona- Durante cinco meses, Muricy Ramalho vendeu a imagem de que o Santos iria atacar o Barcelona. O treinador passava horas analisando o clube catalão, consolidou um esquema tático para o esperado duelo, mas modificou tudo momentos antes de perder por 4 a 0 para o melhor time do mundo no Japão. Só que a escolha foi por uma opção jamais treinada.

Here is the link- http://esporte.uol.com.br/futebol/campeonatos/mundial-de-clubes/ultimas-noticias/2011/12/19/muricy-inventa-na-final-joga-com-um-time-novo-e-com-elano-no-banco-pela-1-vez.htm

Barcelona is good but these cats are in a dogfight in the Spanish League with hated foe Real Madrid.

In the La Liga Real Madrid is top dog with 40 points.

Barcelona is second with 37 points.

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Sir Alex and the boys stunk the joint out big time. Man U crashed and burned against an inferior Swiss side Basel.

Basel won 2-1.

The Red Devils gave up two really stupid goals to Marco Streller in the 9^th minute and Alexander Frei in the 84^th minute.

The mighty boys from Old Trafford were not ready to play.

Man U made way too mistakes in the back line.

When the Red Devils had a chance to score or create scoring chances they turned the ball over or made really stupid passes.

This serves them right.

Man U has been playing on fumes all year.

The blow out at home against Man City exposed the Red Devils as pretenders.

This was Basel’s first trip to the Champions League knockout stage.

The Swiss side kicked Man U’s ass big time.

Congrates to Basel for their huge win.

Man U has won a title and been to the Champions League finals three out of the last four years.

Man City scored two goals to beat Bayern Munich 2-0.

The Citizens needed Villarreal to beat Napoli.

Not on this day.

Napoli defeated the Spanish side 2-0.

Bayern and Napoli advance out of Group A.

Real Madrid moved on as well as Inter Milan, Benfica, and Lyon.

The big question remains is this is Man U really that a bad?

Man U has scored only one goal in a  match since City clobbered them.

The Red Devils have heap big problems.

Yes, the guys lost a great keeper and their defense is very suspect.

So now Sir Alex and the boys need to step it up big time if they want to catch City in the EPL title chase.

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It all came down to this. Win and you are the Campeonato.

My guys from Flamengo ended Vasco’s dream of winning the Brasileiros Serie A.

Gigante de Colina and Mengao tied one all.

This was a must game for us.

We had to have a result.

Internacional defeated Gremio 1-0.

If the guys didn’t get the tie this would have dropped Flamengo to fifth place in the table.

A goal by Renato in the 54^th minute saved our hides.

In the 30^th minute a goal by Diego Souza gave Gigante de Colina the lead.

It sure looked like Vasco would win the whole banana until the death knell struck twelve.

Corinthians and Palmeiras tied nil-nil to give Timao the crown.

Corinthians finished with 71 points.

Vasco ended up with 69.

UOL put it this way- http://esporte.uol.com.br -Para comemorar seu quinto título brasileiro, o Vasco não contava apenas com suas forças e precisava lutar contra o imponderável. Porém, depois de abrir o placar e manter o sonho vivo, a equipe acabou vendo o Flamengo marcar e, com o empate por 1 a 1, a equipe cruz-maltina voltou a amargar um vice-campeonato. Para completar, o Corinthians, que tinha de perder, segurou o 0 a 0 contra o Palmeiras e, com isso, ficou com a taça.

Com o resultado, o Vasco terminou o Brasileiro 69 pontos, dois a menos que o Corinthians. Além disso, o time cruz-maltino amargou o seu terceiro vice-campeonato brasileiro. Em 1979 e 1984 o clube já havia ficado na segunda posição, após perder para Internacional e Fluminense, respectivamente. Já o Flamengo, com o empate, garantiu vaga para a Libertadores do próximo ano.

Fluminense was third with 63 points.

Mengao has fourth place with 61 points.

The guys made it to the Copa Libertadores.

Globo Esporte had this to say- http://globoesporte.globo.com/jogo/brasileirao2011/04-12-2011/vasco-flamengo.html

 Há muito tempo que um Vasco x Flamengo não traduzia de forma tão literal a velha frase de que o duelo é um campeonato à parte. Mesmo com apenas o primeiro com chance de conquistar o Brasileirão 2011 em caso de vitória no Engenhão e derrota do Corinthians para o Palmeiras, a partida teve tensão e emoção do início ao fim, já que o Flamengo brigava por uma vaga na Libertadores e sonhava estragar possível festa do rival. E num confronto de bastante equilíbrio, com cada time superior em uma etapa, os rubro-negros conseguiram o empate por 1 a 1, que carimba o passaporte para a competição sul-americana – o adversário na Pré-Libertadores será o Real Potosí, na altitude da Bolívia. O time de Vanderlei Luxemburgo encerrou o Brasileirão na quarta posição, com 61 pontos, dez a menos que o campeão Corinthians.

The Brasileiro Serie A is done.

The guys did well to finish in fourth place considering last year where we were almost sent packing to D-2 ball.

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