Articles tagged with "zenit st. petersburg"
UEFA Cup Final LiveBlog: Rangers v. Zenit
By Ian Rose | May 14th, 2008Rangers 0-2 Zenit St. Petersburg (Denisov 72', Zyrianov 90+3') 2034: And another goal to ice it. Zenit St. Petersburg has won the UEFA Cup. My man of the match is certainly Andrei Arshavin, who assisted both goals. Zenit gets a deserved ...
UEFA Cup Final Preview
By Ian Rose | May 14th, 2008That's right, football fans. The wait is over. You can finally stop crossing off the days on your calendars, because the final of the UEFA Cup is here. Okay, so I know that the really big show is next week, but today is the kinda big show, and we ...
Snapshot: Achtung! Surrender. For you Fritz, the UEFA Cup 2008 is over.
By Jan | May 1st, 2008A welcome message to the Bayern players in German: "We don't wait for May 9th. The surrender has to happen today." The UEFA had the banners removed before the game kicked off. So Bayern can't argue that they just followed orders. But the Zenit fans g ...
UEFA Cup Final: It's Zenit vs. Rangers
By Laurie | May 1st, 2008The thing I love most about the UEFA cup is its diversity. Because there are so many routes to qualification, you never know who's going to end up on top. Unlike Champions League. (No all-EPL final here. And hurray for that!) Who would hav ...
Rangers' "never ever score" strategy works out well - the Final awaits
By Ian Rose | May 1st, 2008I'm not going to make a long post, but I do want to congratulate Rangers on making it to the UEFA Cup final. Actually, both finalists - as much as I pull for every Scottish team in Europe, I really like Zenit as well, and I'm happy for both. I st ...
Bayern Munich 0 - 4 Zenit St. Petersburg; Second Leg
By Angela | May 1st, 2008Starting lines for both teams. Bayern: Kahn (C), van Bommel, Jansen, Klose, Toni, Ribery, Roberto, Schweinstieger, Lahm, Demichelis, Lucio Zenit: Malafeev, Shirokav, Krizanac, Tomishchuk (C), Gorshkov, Anyukov, Denisov, Fayzulin, Zyrianov, Domingue ...
Insanity: Liveblogging and Tracking Two UEFA Cup Matches at Once. Only at The Offside
By Laurie | April 24th, 2008UEFA Cup. The Champions League's neglected little sibling. So neglected that our preview post is going up at halftime. Oops. Sorry. Try to forgive us. Today we have both games of the semifinals, going on simultaneously. Bayern Munich ...
Bayern or Russia jersey giveaway
By Ian Rose | April 22nd, 2008Well, we're just a few hours out from the launch of Episode 20 here on the podcast, but I wanted to drop a quick note before then and announce our predictor contest for this week. On Thursday, we have the first leg of the UEFA Cup semifinals, includ ...
UEFA Cup quarters: live scores
By Ian Rose | April 10th, 2008Here are the latest scores and events from today's quarterfinals. Check back or refresh for the latest. Results: Zenit St. Petersburg 0-1 Bayer Leverkusen (Zenit advances on 4-2 aggregate) (Bulykin [BL] 18') Bayer needed four away goals to pul ...
UEFA Cup Thursday Preview
By Ian Rose | April 9th, 2008Now that, once again, we've gotten the Champions League out of our systems, with one great game in England, and then that other one, it's time to decide who will be the Final Four in the UEFA Cup. Here are the matches, and who needs what to progress ...
UEFA Cup Thursday Preview
By Ian Rose | April 2nd, 2008Now that all that Champions League nonsense is over for another week, it's time to get back to the tournament everybody really cares about ... the UEFA Cup. *crickets* ... Anyway, we have four quarterfinal matches tomorrow, and the four return legs ...
Still need 6 out of 8 UEFA Cup bloggers
By Ian Rose | March 29th, 2008I know I haven't been quite as regular on this blog as in the past, with my other blogging duties at the Offside and World Cup Blog keeping me quite busy these days, but I wanted to point something out. Of the eight teams remaining in the UEFA Cup, ...
Round of 16 First Leg Wrap-up
By Ian Rose | March 7th, 2008Anderlecht 0-5 Bayern Munich Wow. This always looked like a lopsided tie, but I didn't expect this. With ten goals in their last two European matches, and five different scorers in today's match, Munich is starting to look like the favorite everyone wa
The UEFA Cup "league table"
By Ian Rose | February 23rd, 2008I got to thinking last night about different ways to talk about the 16 remaining teams in the UEFA Cup. Which side really is the favorite? What has their form been like? I decided it might be interesting to look at the last 16 UEFA Cup teams as a leagu
Russian league takes #6 spot
By Ian Rose | February 21st, 2008As predicted last week, the Russian Premier League has taken its place as the sixth-ranked league in Europe. Their current UEFA coefficient of 40.75, added to by Spartak Moscow's 2-0 win over Marseille today, puts them just over Romania and into the cove
The current situation in the UEFA Cup
By Ian Rose | December 7th, 2007There is one matchday to go in the group stages of the 2007-08 UEFA Cup. Here are the current standings in each group, and which scenarios mean qualification for which teams. Group A Qualified: Everton (9 pts) Still in the mix: Zenit St. Petersburg
Great day in the UEFA Cup
By Ian Rose | November 29th, 2007Some excellent matches today, with everything you could want from a day of European football. Comebacks, underdog wins, a few dominating performances and a few gutsy draws. Let's take a look at a few matches. Zenit St. Petersburg 2-2 Nurnberg The Ge
Early results: Bolton take shock point in Munich
By Ian Rose | November 8th, 2007The early matches of UEFA Cup group stage day 2 are over, and there are some real shocks. Bayern Munich, nearly everyone's favorite for the Cup title, dropped their first points at home today, as Bolton shocked them with a 2-2 draw. It's the third draw
UEFA Cup Group A Preview
By Ian Rose | October 9th, 2007This is the first in an eight-part series taking a closer look at the eight groups in the UEFA Cup group stage, previewing the matches, and making my admittedly shot-in-the-dark predictions for each and every match of the group stage. Group A is, in or
UEFA Cup first round set
By Ian Rose | August 31st, 2007Well, the draw is complete, and the first round of the UEFA Cup proper is set and ready. There are some interesting ties here. The English teams seem to have done quite well, while the Germans have gotten some very tough draws. Here are a few of the ke
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