Subject: UEFA Cup

good luck!

Last 16 fixtures
To be played on 8 / 14 March

Braga v Tottenham
Celta Vigo v Werder Bremen
Lens v Bayer Leverkusen
Maccabi Haifa v Espanyol
Newcastle v AZ
PSG v Benfica
Rangers v Osasuna
Sevilla v Shakhtar Donetsk

Latest betting:

Seville 4/1
Tottenham 9/2
Werder Bremen 9/2
Benfica 9/1
Espanyol 10/1
AZ Alkmaar 12/1
Lens 12/1
Newcastle 14/1
Osasuna 16/1
Paris St Germain 16/1
Rangers 20/1
Bayer Leverkusen 20/1
Celta Vigo 20/1
Shakhtar Donetsk 25/1
Braga 33/1
Maccabi Haifa 33/1

There are some tough ties there. I'm thinking the Newcastle v AZ will be a good prospect.
Anyone see another potential cracker of a match?


coys.

m a c c a b i !!!!!!


what a game so much luck huge 1:0.

next team is espanyol the 2nd team of barcelona .
9th in the spanish league and i wanna remind to all the macabi haifa fans that they beat barcelona month ago so its gonna be very hard !

i saw the match on eurosport! Maccabi played a good match and cska had a great oportunity to score in 90th minute(carvalho)

pfffffff Werder Bremen :(

But Maccabi was so so good and without Yaniv Katan he his the key player!!!!!!

maybe I will go to barcelona to see the game VS Espanyol

I have to admit that Maccabi was good. They concentrated and managed to win. Well, the game was interesting. And despite of CSKA's lostI liked how they played. It was clear for me that our players are better but out of their best conditions (the season hasn't started yet in Russia) and weren't lucky that evening. Besides, the referee didn't punished Maccabi with an obvious penalty

Braga is going to win the uefa cup.
An old Porto(player and captain) and Portugal player, its the new coach :)

And, F*ck Benfica, hate those bastards.

Ohh, and Porto will in the Champions. We just need to win 1-0 in Chelsea Home :) Ricardo Quaresma will do the trick.

braga is a faint team

We just need to win 1-0 in Chelsea Home :)
funny:)
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Cracking game at St James'. Newcastle were 3-0 up after 24 minutes.

Good referee let the game flow though I don't agree with his penalty call, Steven Taylor arms were tight by his sides and the ball went to the hand, the hand didn't move to the ball.

Great game, can't see AZ going through now because Newcastle will almost certainly get at least 1 goal over in Holland.

4-2 loss. Their is still a good chance for AZ to go through.

I can assure you that you did not see the 'real' AZ today. I don't know what happened, but they did not get to their normal level. Especially Nourdin Boukhari gave a very bad performance, I do not understand why he stayed on the pitch for 83 minutes, I would have substituted him after 30 minutes already. But I think AZ will go through in Alkmaar, as they always score much and Newcastle's defence did not look that great.
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Newcastle do not have the best defence it is true, nothing would surprise me about them losing in Alkmaar, but I also feel sure that Newcastle can score there, meaning Alkmaar have to score at least 3.

It's going to be tough, especially with Martins, who is a great striker, but AZ score something like 2.75 goals on average per match, so it should be possible ;-)

Could you please tell me who scored the goals for NU?