After match day 5
| November 6, 20082008 First Phase - Group E |
| Overall | | Home | | Away | |
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| GP | W | D | L | GS | GA | | W | D | L | GS | GA | | W | D | L | GS | GA | | GD | P |
| 1 |  | Man Utd | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | | 6 | 8 |
| 2 | | Villarreal | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 4 | 8 |
| 3 | | Celtic | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | | -4 | 2 |
| 4 | | AaB | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | | -6 | 2 |
| Key |
GP: Games Played, W: Wins, D: Ties, L: Losses, GS: Goals Scored, GA: Goals Against, GD: Goal Differential, P: Points
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The past few days have yielded some shocking results indeed. Being a die hard Manchester United fan, I was very and heartily pleased to see Chelsea whipped 3-1 by AS Roma. Chelsea were expected to win, at least draw this fixture but some cow dung like defending saw Pannucci make a mockery of Scolari's famed defence and score a goal much to Chelsea's embarrassment. Vuccinic added a brace to further Chelsea's misery before Terry pulled a scrappy goal back for his team.
Manchester United were held to a 1-1 draw by Celtic who after their 3-0 drubbing at Old Trafford seemed to play a new brand of attacking football in the first half. I was irritated to see Celtic field a "dirty" 5-5 formation in the second half. They defended earnestly before the power and curl on a Ronaldo shot in the 83rd minute caused Giggs to head home an equalizer and save United the blushes. Berbatov and Rooney's absence in the first half seemed to reduce United's edge as they put up a lackluster performance.
Del Piero is in stunning form as the Juventus star added two superb goals to kick Real Madrid hard and hand them a 2-0 defeat. I was surprised to see Casilass's wall positioning which handed Del Piero his second goal via a free kick. Robben's calf muscle injury will be expected to hamper Real further.
Arsenal and Fenerbache played out a boring draw and I could hardly keep myself awake.
Maxi Rodriguez scored a stunner for Athletico Madrid who were hard done by Gerrard's superb diving effort [:)] which handed Liverpool a farce penalty in the 95th minute which they grabbed with both hands.
It is going to be an interesting next few matches as the teams will go all out to top their various groups and I have sworn that I will put up posts covering the Champion's League and the Barclay's Premier league with my own unique oddball style of coverage :)
Keep watching :)
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