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No wonder people call football a girly sport
Roma suffer Chelsea loss
Friday 30 July, 2004
Olivier Dacourt was sent off for Roma as the Giallorossi began their American tour with a 3-0 loss to Chelsea.
The Italian side were already two down when the Frenchman was dismissed after a mini-brawl.
Dacourt was shown the red card on 66 minutes following a tussle with Mateja Kezman - who reacted angrily to a foul by the international on Arjen Robben.
The two men grappled with each other before the intervention of teammates and match officials. Both Dacourt and Kezman were sent for an early bath.
It was a bad night for Roma in Pittsburgh as the Premiership side wasted little time in taking the lead.
Joe Cole netted after just 11 minutes following some good work with former Real Madrid midfielder Geremi.
Serbian ace Kezman made it 2-0 on 63 minutes by slotting home a Robben cross past goalkeeper Carlo Zotti.
Didier Drogba ended the scoring as he claimed his first for the club five minutes later following a Frank Lampard shot.
http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/jul30b.html
Friday 30 July, 2004
Olivier Dacourt was sent off for Roma as the Giallorossi began their American tour with a 3-0 loss to Chelsea.
The Italian side were already two down when the Frenchman was dismissed after a mini-brawl.
Dacourt was shown the red card on 66 minutes following a tussle with Mateja Kezman - who reacted angrily to a foul by the international on Arjen Robben.
The two men grappled with each other before the intervention of teammates and match officials. Both Dacourt and Kezman were sent for an early bath.
It was a bad night for Roma in Pittsburgh as the Premiership side wasted little time in taking the lead.
Joe Cole netted after just 11 minutes following some good work with former Real Madrid midfielder Geremi.
Serbian ace Kezman made it 2-0 on 63 minutes by slotting home a Robben cross past goalkeeper Carlo Zotti.
Didier Drogba ended the scoring as he claimed his first for the club five minutes later following a Frank Lampard shot.
http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/jul30b.html
Maniche,Costinha,H.Postiga,Seitaridis ,Nuno Valente are just back from holidays...haven't trained with the rest of the squad so far!
Diego arrived yesterday in Portugal...
Most likely all of them will be in the starting eleven during the season...so...
Anyway , from what I've seen so far,this season's Porto is totally different from Mourinho's..
Del Neri is trying to get the team to play a classical 4-4-2..with a offside trap defense (is going to take a lot of hard work to get that in shape!and tonight with Owen and Cissé...uff!PERICOLOSO )
2 wingers and 2 central midfielders (basically defensive midfielders..)
One striker(tall one) and a very offensive number 10 playing on his back..
Is this how Del Neri did with Chievo??
Guess that tonight's match might be quite entertaining!
Greetings to everyone
Liverpool started the better and had the opening chances of the game coming from Michael Owen headers. Cisse's pace was a major concern for the Porto defenders in the first half but Pool played too many hopeful long balls.
At times Porto have played some majestic football with glorious build-up play, and Quaresma alone has made this match worth watching with his dribbling. He also hit the crossbar and the post.
0-0 at half time, looking forward to the next 45 minutes.
At times Porto have played some majestic football with glorious build-up play, and Quaresma alone has made this match worth watching with his dribbling. He also hit the crossbar and the post.
0-0 at half time, looking forward to the next 45 minutes.