Roma 3 - 1 Chelsea

Roma Tame Roman's Chelsea!

Roman Abramovitch's Chelsea did not live up to their reputation and came unstuck against a competent Roma side.

Chelsea started confidently but an element of slack defending resulted in Christian Panucci putting the home side ahead after 34 minutes. It would be an understatement, to say that Chelsea were deflated after a good start, when any one of Lampard, Deco, or Malouda could have shot them ahead. However, it was Deco who assisted in starting the rot, with a foul that resulted in the first goal being converted from a free kick. He received his first yellow card for his questionable endeavors.

The pendulum had swung and it was now the home side that seemed the most confident. They were suitably rewarded, 3 minutes after the interval, when Vucinic, rifled the ball past goalkeeper Cech, from some distance, to put Roma two up. Ten minutes later he scored again, and Chelsea were shell shocked at being three goals down, with the game seemingly passed redemption.

John Terry got one back with the easiest of touches in the 75th minute, when he received the ball from Deco. Shortly afterwards, any hope of further recovery by the Premiership league leaders was hampered as Deco received a second yellow card. Of course two yellows equal one red and he was ordered off the pitch.

All in all it was not a good night for Chelsea, but Roma enjoyed themselves as they swept to a convincing victory.

Liverpool 1 - 1 Athletico Madrid

Lucky Liverpool's Late Equalizer

Liverpool had most of the possession and by far the greatest number of shots on goal. However, there will be many who will feel that they were very lucky to snatch an equalizer in the dying minutes.

Madrid had gone ahead with a fine counter strike, when Lopez found Maxi, who hammered the ball past Reina in the 37th minute. Afterwards the visitors defended their lead with some purpose but remained dangerous on the counter attack. After 90 minutes they were still in front and set to bag maximum points.

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In the dying seconds of injury time, Gerrard went down under a challenge from Pernia, that there didn't seem to be that much wrong with. Whether it should have been a penalty is questionable, but the Liverpool captain made no mistake in driving the ball home from the spot, to rescue his side from looming defeat.

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