

Articles tagged with "zenit-st-petersburg"
Mateja Kežman update 4
By j | July 30th, 2008In continuation of prior updates to the Mateja Kežman saga, a variety of media sources and business parties are claiming that an agreement between ...
More Overpriced: Adebayor or Arshavin?
By chris | July 8th, 2008As with every summer, a few names have dominated the headlines and transitioned from transfer story to full on midday soap opera. You've got The ...
oh please tell me he's on the list
By j | July 7th, 2008If you are finding the news of the transfer window grinding to a day at the beach, summer-slowdown, you are not alone. With Ronaldinho apparently ...
Andrei Arshavin - the Next Token Russian at Chelsea
By Daryl | July 3rd, 2008Looks like Andrei Arshavin is being lined up as the new Golden Boy at Chelsea. It's no secret that the Russian facepuller/playmaker - twice brilliant ...
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. ...
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 ...
Football is the New Diplomacy as Ticket = Visa in Moscow
By Daryl | May 6th, 2008Remember how the Champions League Final was going to be a nightmare because it takes so long to get a Russian visa? There was pessimistic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
Lucio Does a Riise, Ribery Nearly Does a Ronaldo
By Daryl | April 24th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67zVlMI0Z4U[/youtube] Seems own goal fever is taking Europe by storm (a bit like the measles in that respect.) Just 48 hours after John Arne Riise's "what's ...
Bayern Munich 1 - 1 Zenit St. Petersburg
By Angela | April 24th, 2008I wasn't able to watch Thursday's DFB Pokal match so in order to make up for it, I watched this game twice. Once streaming ...
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. ...
Bayern Swag!
By Angela | April 23rd, 2008Be sure to drop Ian, who runs The Podcasts for The Offside an email for your chance to win a Bayern Jersey! Details are this: On Thursday, ...
The Offside Podcast, Episode 20
By Daryl | April 23rd, 2008On episode 20, the podcast crew discuss the Champions League semis (no one predicted John Arne Riise's header) the wonders of Leo Messi and the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ... ...
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 ...
Weekend Watch Recap: Let's Dance
By chris | March 17th, 2008Saturday Roma 2 - Milan 1: For the Giallorossi faithful, and probably some neutral observers, this one's going directly into the vault as one of the ...
Weekend Watch: When Maldini Met Totti, the finale
By chris | March 14th, 2008Saturday Roma v Milan: Because it's two of the biggest clubs in Europe fighting for two vastly different spoils, and not what you'd usually expect. Roma ...
UEFA Cup Draw: The Ignored Little Brother
By chris | March 14th, 2008UEFA Cup gets pushed down the ladder enough. Today it was going up against the Champions League draw anyway. Then some dude in Britain went ...
Russian Football Setting The Bar Mighty High
By chris | March 9th, 2008We here at The Offside love it when things go wrong on the pitch, especially for goalkeepers. We suspect it's some subconscious psychological issue regarding ...
Round of 16 First Leg Wrap-up
By Ian Rose | March 6th, 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 ...
The UEFA Cup "league table"
By Ian Rose | February 22nd, 2008I got to thinking last night about different ways to talk about the 16 remaining teams in the UEFA Cup. Which side really is ...
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, ...
The current situation in the UEFA Cup
By Ian Rose | December 6th, 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 ...
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 ...








