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Sir Alex Ferguson will have to wait for another chance to win the Super Cup as Dick Advocaat’s Zenit Saint Petersburg easily defeated Manchester United 2-1 to win the UEFA Super Cup.
Pavel Pogrebnyak and new-man Danni contributed goals each to give the defending Russian Premier League and UEFA Cup a 2-0 lead before Nemanja Vidic drew one back for Man Utd. However the slick passing ...
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I’ve been posting for quite some time now
that if any club seriously wanting to bring in
Andrei Arshavin, it was easy. Pay the money , which given current market conditions, wasn’t that extraordinary. However the (english-speaking) media ...
A fatigued CSKA Moscow squad, many who were exhausted from international duty for Russia, let a golden opportunity get away from them last week as the played to a nil draw against Spartak Nalchik. However with a full week of recovery and human wall Igor Akinfeev, with over five-hundred minutes of not letting a ball behind him, Koni is ready to get on their winning ways.
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The UEFA Cup draw was held this morning with eighty teams still in the competition. Winners of the next round, held on September 18 and October 2, will advance to the group stage round.
FC Moscow will face FC Copenhagen (København) of the Danish Superliga in the next round.
I will be providing a review of FC Københav prior to the match.
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CSKA Moscow announced today the signing of nineteen year-old Czech U-19 star Tomáš Necid from Slavia Prague. The young striker has produced at a stunning pace at the international level as well as the club level and has been one of most heavily sought after Footballers from the UEFA U-19 Euros. He will join Koni in January 2009.
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The UEFA Cup draw was held this morning with eighty teams still in the competition. Winners of the next round, held on September 18 and October 2, will advance to the group stage round.
CSKA Moscow will face Croatia’s Slaven Koprivnica in the next round.
I will be providing a review of Slaven Koprivnica prior to the match.
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The UEFA Cup draw was held this morning with eighty teams still in the competition. Winners of the next round, held on September 18 and October 2, will advance to the group stage round.
After bowing out of the Champions League , Spartak Moscow will play Baník Ostrava of the Czech Republic.
I will be providing a review of Baník Ostrava prior to the match.
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For those that like the relegation battle matches, this is it. Both clubs are nestled at the bottom of the table and staring firmly at relegation with likely only Luch-Energiya Vladivostok within reach.
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Shinnik Yaroslav - combined (1 W, 1 D, 3 L)(5 GS, 9 GA)
Jul 23 Saturn Moscow Oblast 4 - 0 Shinnik Yaroslav
Jul 27 Shinnik Yaroslav 1 - 1 Terek Grozny
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Zenit Saint Petersburg has been drawn into Group H of the Champions League which contains Serie A Juventus , La Liga’s Real Madrid and the surprise entry, FC BATE Borisov. Matches are as follows:
Matchday One - Sep 17
Juventus - FC Zenit St. Petersburg
Matchday Three - Oct 21
FC Zenit St. Petersburg - FC BATE Borisov
Matchday Five - Nov 25
Zenit St. Petersburg - Juventus
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This is a curious match to preview as while I am hoping for a never-say-die effort by both clubs, I can’t be sure that it is being taken as serious as I’d like. This particularly so in considering Man Utd ’s Sir Alex Ferguson’s commentary that has given contradictory indications of his intent:
“I remember the last time we went there I only played half a team. When I ...
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The first leg of the FC Moscow - Legia Warsaw UEFA Cup qualifier match, could not have ended any sooner for the Citizens and they were very lucky to come out with a 2-1 victory. Legia Warsaw, with it’s tremendous midfield, seemed to come out in a daze, with little attacking inspiration and let FC Moscow dictate the play. After giving up a second goal and going down 2-0, Legia ...
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This has little to do with Football but just a fun marketing program Zenit Saint Peterburg is running with artistic renderings of the club as super-hero’s. I appreciate the program, it’s a lot of fun and I’m sure the kids like it so I thought it best to share with readership.
Anatoly Tymoschuk - super-hero!
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The destruction of Spartak Moscow at the hands of old-rival Dynamo Kyiv is complete as they obliterated them 4-1 in a Champions League qualifier match for the second time in as many weeks.
This wasn’t even as close as the horrible score-line reads as the Ukraine squad were in-front at the four-minute mark as Oleksandr Aliev waltzed through a seemingly hypnotized Spartak defense and ...
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“ Somewhere else ” is starting to look at lot like north London as Juande Ramos is readying to finalize the £12m swoop of Russian international Roman Pavlyuchenko with an additional coup of Andrei Arshavin to instantly provide Tottenham with one of the Premier League’s most formidable attacking combinations. Word on the street is this deal is getting very close to being ...
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Ahead of this weeks Zenit Saint Petersburg versus Manchester United showdown at Stade Louis II in Monaco, there were some early concerns how serious each club would be taking the match. However those issues seem to have been dispelled by Sir Alex Ferguson’s most recent commentary.
Recalling Manchester United’s 1-0 loss to Lazio, after they had won the 1999 Champions League, Sir ...
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Club officials of Spartak Moscow have confirmed that Roman Pavlyuchenko is set to join Tottenham.
“A deal has been agreed between the clubs and the transfer may be concluded by Thursday,” said a club spokesman.
Spartak Moscow’s general manager Valery Karpin told Soviet Sport:
“There is a concrete sum which Tottenham proposed and we have agreed the amount,” ...
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After coming off a 4-1 destruction at home , the second leg of the Champions League qualifier between Spartak Moscow and Dynamo Kyiv at Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium is without any suspense as the Ukrainian club should easily advance to the next round. Spartak’s talismanic Roman Pavlyuchenko announcement to the media that he is heading to Tottenham and not making the trip to Kyiv, have ...
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Dick Advocaat’s job of getting Zenit Saint Petersburg back in the race for a European spot is taking on a new problem of significant absences next month with International duty that will leave the squad decimated. At present upwards of six members of the club, Aleksandr Anyukov, Andrei Arshavin, Konstantin Zyryanov, Pavel Pogrebnyak, Roman Shirokov and Vyacheslav Malafeev, are likely to ...
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Dynamo Moscow has just announced the signing of Australian international, Luke Wilkshire from Steve McClaren’s FC Twente of the Eredivisie. The twenty-six year-old full-back signed a deal that will see him with the Russian powerhouse through the end of 2011 and will join the squad immediately.
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The long awaited move of Roman Pavlyuchenko to Tottenham is apparently in its final stages as a variety of Russian media sources are claiming he is not in the lineup for the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and is waiting for his visa to travel to England to sign the deal. Please note this has not been substantiated by the club and this is a very late hour for this news to ...
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