Articles tagged with "shakhtar-donetsk"
Shakhtar Donetsk advances to UEFA Cup!
By sasha | November 27th, 2008Shakhtar Donetsk won a place in the UEFA Cup with a stunning 5-0 triumph over Swiss squad FC Basel. Jádson gave Hirnyky the lead just ...
News and Notes: Victories Marred By Injuries
By Yevy | November 12th, 2008Even before the horrific injury suffered by Oleksandr Romanchuk in the Ukrainian Cup Round of 8 match against Stal Alchevsk, manager Yuri Semin declared that ...
Zhovto-Syni!
By sasha | November 6th, 2008Following Champions League losses of Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv it is up to Metalist Kharkiv to save me from this week of despair. ...
Champions League Matchday 4 Roundup with Video Highlights
By Laurie | November 6th, 2008Note: When we do our searches for the ever-elusive game highlights, we have to take what we can get. (And we do it ...
Sporting defeats Shakhtar Donetsk
By sasha | November 5th, 2008Shakhtar Donetsk's hopes to advance in the Champions League ended with a 1-0 loss to Portuguese super-power Sporting. The match was tightly played before the ...
Dynamo - Porto: Champions League Preview
By Yevy | November 5th, 2008It appears Dynamo drew the right Portugese club in the Champions League this time around. A year ago Sporting Lisbon beat Dynamo twice to ...
We're MOVIN' ON!!! Champions League Recap: Sporting 1 - 0 Shaq D
By Greg | November 5th, 2008No bullshit build up necessary... Sporting Starting XI Postiga - Liedson João Moutinho - Rochemback - Izmailov Miguel VelosoGrimi - Polga - Caneira - AbelRui ...
Shakhtar will be satisfied with a win only
By sasha | November 4th, 2008As Mircea Lucescu's Shakhtar Donetsk ready to face Portuguese giant Sporting in Lisbon, they have seen their league play improve recently included this past weekends ...
Champions League Matchday 4 Preview: Sporting v. Шахтар Донецьк
By Greg | November 4th, 20082008/09 Champions League Group C, Matchday 4 Sporting v. Шахтар Донецьк November 4, 2008 @ 2:45 PM Eastern José Alvalade, Lisboa, Portugal TV: Delayed (5:45 PM ...
News And Notes: Cup Draw Pits Giants Against Minnows
By Yevy | October 31st, 2008Fortune did not smile on the underdog today. The only teams who have had the privilege of lifting the Ukrainian Cup in the past ...
Tavriya 1 - 3 Dynamo: Missed Penalties Don't Stop Leaders
By Yevy | October 27th, 2008Artem Milevskiy and Ismael Bangoura often seem to have a telepathic connection with each other on the pitch. On Saturday the Dynamo striker duo ...
Champions League Recap: Shaq D 0 - 1 Sporting
By Greg | October 23rd, 2008Another three points makes your fearless blogger a happy boy. Bento's tactics and a muddled midfield however, make me sad. Sporting Starting XI ...
late shocker sinks Shakhtar Donetsk
By sasha | October 22nd, 2008Head scoreless throughout the match Shakhtar Donetsk appeared to have found a way to control Sporting's tremendous attack. Mircea Lucescu's need to have Brandão's production ...
Shakhtar Donetsk v Sporting in Champions League
By sasha | October 22nd, 2008Following Dynamo Kyiv's great triumph over Porto yesterday, Shakhtar Donetsk takes on another of Portugal's great Football powerhouses, Sporting. With both clubs locked in a ...
Champions League Matchday 3 Preview: Шахтар Донецьк v. Sporting
By Greg | October 22nd, 20082008/09 Champions League Group C, Matchday 3 Шахтар Донецьк v. Sporting October 22nd, 2008 @ 2:45 PM Eastern RSC Olympiyskiy Stadium, Донецьк, Україна TV: Live on ...
Dynamo!!!
By sasha | October 21st, 2008With great pride I wanted all supporters of Ukrainian Football to be aware of Dynamo Kyiv's great victory today against Porto. This is Dynamo's first ...
Transfer talk heats up in Piraeus
By Peter Katsiris | October 15th, 2008The transfer window is still a few months away, but when it comes to Greek clubs the transfer talk starts months ahead of the actually ...
10 Things We Learned From Champions League Matchday 2
By chris | October 2nd, 20084 seeds are the new 3 seeds; or, Transylvanians, Cypriots & Belarusians are legit. BATE were very fortunate to be eying a blonde Austrian rather than ...
heart-breaking loss for Shakhtar Donetsk
By sasha | October 1st, 2008Shakhtar Donetsk suffered a heart-breaking 2-1 loss to Barcelona in the Champions League. Mircea Lucescu's Shakhtar were playing brilliantly with Brandão having a career night ...
Champions League Matchday 2: Sporting v. FC Basel 867-5309 Preview
By Greg | October 1st, 20082008/09 Champions League Group C Matchday 2 Sporting v. FC Basel 1893 October 1, 2008 @ 2:45 PM Eastern Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon, Portugal Preview Both teams ...
Midweek Update
By Yevy | September 24th, 2008Despite missing out on the full three points against Arsenal last Wednesday, the white-blue squad from Kiev have had a pretty good week. As ...
Champions League Day One Roundup!
By Rob | September 16th, 2008Big story of Day One is undoubtedly from Rome. Little known Romanian side Cluj pulled off a 2-1 win against Serie A runners up Roma ...
Champions League Groups Set
By Greg | August 28th, 2008With Guimarães losing to FC Basel 1893 last night, Porto and Sporting stand alone as the sole Portuguese representatives in this season's iteration of the ...
Champions League Group C
By Greg | August 28th, 2008That's the group we're in. We were in Pot B and were first out of the gate from that set of balls (hehe, set ...
Champions League Draw Armed & Ready
By chris | August 27th, 2008The final 32 clubs who will partake in this year's Champions League campaign have qualified and are all set for tomorrow's draw - set somewhere ...
Spontaneous flurry of transfers
By Peter Katsiris | August 4th, 2008*** Notice name change? It is still me, Takis, I just changed my display name to my actual name -- Peter Katsiris -- for future ...
Castillo set for comeback?
By Takis | July 28th, 2008Former Olympiacos star, Neri Alberto Castillo, says he wants to return to Greece if he is wanted. After leaving the Greek Champions before the start ...
Bernardo Corradi released
By j | July 28th, 2008It was only time and as noted on numerous occasions the Eastland's house-cleaning at Striker continues with the out-of-favour Bernardo Corradi released from his final ...
Two Strikers Desperate to Move
By Martha | January 10th, 2008As of this morning, Christian Riganò is still in Spain. He's stuck on the bottom of La Liga with the hapless Levante -- nine points ...
A Pair of Deals For 30-Somethings (Maybe) Nearing Closure
By Martha | January 8th, 2008Bright and early this morning, it was reported that Torino had more or less given up on their dream of bringing Cristiano Lucarelli back to ...
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