UEFA Champions League – Europe knows its 16 finalists

Post by Andrew Hill

Lastly the wait is over, and so is the group stage of the 2010-11 UEFA Champions League the has reduced in 50 percent its number of contenders, leaving only 16 teams on the run for Europe’s most prestigious club trophy.

Followers are rubbing their hands as they photo the virtual confrontations that the 2010 UEFA Champions League has prepared for the knockout phase, which begins on February 15, 2011. Through the group stage each and every contender had 1 typical premise: finishing in initial area to clinch the property area benefit and prevent a achievable confrontation versus the initial spot of one more group in the knockout phase. Teams like the defending champions Inter from Italy, or the 7 instances Champions League winner Milan -from the exact same nation- failed to do so, becoming two of the teams that people who finished in initial will not want to cross on their way.

On Tuesday groups A via D finished match day 6 which left: Tottenham from England in initial spot of Group A followed by Inter Group B was won by Schalke 04 from Germany and Lyon from Frances was 2nd Manchester United clinched Group C and Valencia from Spain obtained the second location and Group D had Barcelona in 1st spot followed by Copenhagen.

The previous 4 groups (E-H) played their respective games on Wednesday, in a match day that basically didn’t undergo modifications in the final standings in comparison to final week.

In Group E previous season’s runner up Bayern Munich from Germany didn’t have much problems to end in first location with 15 points out of 18 in game. Roma from Italy gave the Germans their only defeat in the group phase with a 3-two property victory, and completed in 2nd area with twelve points. Basilea from Switzerland was third with 6 points, and Cluj from Romania was last with 4.

Chelsea from England was heading to total an undefeated stage in Group F, but the undesirable streak -four games and wins- that they are struggling in the English Premier League followed them on their visit to Marseille from France, wherever they where defeated by one-. Still they finished in very first with 15 factors, followed by Marseille with 12. Spartak from Russia and the winless MSK Zilina from Slovakia finished the group with nine and no points respectively.

Street trip could be a great phrase to describe Actual Madrid from Spain encounter in Group G, as they barely had to sweat to clinch the 1st spot and maintain a report with no defeats. They doubled the points from Milan (eight), their closest contender, which fairly a lot displays the Spaniards superiority. With 7 points and in 3rd place was Ajax from the Netherlands, and Auxerre from France was relegated to the very last place with 3 points.

And Shaktar from Ukraine accompanied by Arsenal from Spain completed in very first and 2nd place of Group H, with 15 and twelve points respectively. Braga from Portugal reached match day six as a threat to Arsenal, since a win from the Portuguese -nine points- in combination with a loss from the English would have closed the group with their positions inverted. Partizan from Serbia was a 1st class spectator, as they misplaced all of their games, to stop up with factors.

On December 17 the draw for the finalists will be held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, and the competitors will be back in action right up until February 15, to start with the so awaited knockout round.

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