UEFA Champions League
Old Trafford
Tuesday, 27 November 2007; KO: 19:45 BST

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Standings:


The only UEFA Champions League participants with maximum points,

are already assured their place in the knockout rounds and enter their home game against

seeking a fifth straight victory that would guarantee their progress as Group F winners.

However, they can expect fierce resistance from a Sporting side who need a positive result to maintain their hopes of pipping AS Roma to second place in the section.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Nemanja Vidic
are in line to return for Manchester United after missing the defeat at Bolton.

Defender Vidic (back) and winger Ronaldo (thigh) took part in training with the rest of the squad which travelled to the Reebok Stadium.

With United already through, fringe men such as Gerard Pique, Anderson, Jonny Evans and Danny Simpson could feature.

from:

Van der Sar, Kuszczak,Heaton
Brown, Simpson, Ferdinand, Vidic, Pique, Evra, Evans, O'Shea
Nani, Ronaldo, Fletcher, Hargreaves, Anderson, Eagles, Carrick, Giggs
Saha, Tevez

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• The last-minute equaliser that Roma scored at Sporting's Estadio José Alvalade on Matchday 4 left Paulo Bento's team facing an uphill task to qualify for the last 16.
They sit three points behind Roma, with an inferior head-to-head record, and so need to better the Italian club's result at FC Dynamo Kyiv if they want to keep their challenge alive going into Matchday 6.

• After their opening defeat by United, Sporting responded by winning 2-1 at Dynamo where Tonel and Anderson Polga both struck in the first period.

• Sporting's hopes were dented subsequently by their yield of just a single point from the double-header with Roma.
They went down 2-1 in the Italian capital on Matchday 3, Mirko Vučinić's 70th-minute goal consigning them to defeat after Liedson had cancelled out Juan's opener.

• Although Liedson struck twice in the return on 7 November, a Polga own goal on 90 minutes cost them victory as the game finished 2-2.

• Despite beating Dynamo, Sporting have a disappointing record on the road in the UEFA Champions League, with seven defeats and three draws in their ten other away games.
Before that victory in Ukraine, their last away success in Europe's élite club competition came in 1970/71 – 4-0 at Malta's Floriana FC in the first round of the European Champion Clubs' Cup.

• Sporting's six previous visits to England have brought two wins, one draw and three defeats.
The more recent of those two wins was a 3-2 success at Middlesbrough FC in the UEFA Cup Round of 16 in March 2005.

• Prior to this season, the teams' only previous encounter came in the 1963/64 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals and it ended happily for Sporting who recovered from a 4-1 first-leg deficit with a spectacular 5-0 victory in the return.
The Lisbon club went on to lift the trophy with a 1-0 final replay win against MTK Budapest.

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• For United, the pressure may appear off but Sir Alex Ferguson will want his charges to sew up first place in the group.
With a five-point lead over Roma, this will happen regardless of events at Old Trafford if Roma fail to beat Dynamo.
If the Giallorossi win in Kiev, however, United will have to take three points themselves to secure top spot prior to their visit to Rome next month.

• United were comfortable 4-0 winners against Dynamo on Matchday 4, Gerard Piqué, Carlos Tévez, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo the scorers.
That success followed a 4-2 away triumph in Kiev a fortnight earlier when Rio Ferdinand, Rooney and Ronaldo (2) got the goals.

• United had previously recorded victories at Sporting and at home against Roma.
A second-half header by Sporting old boy Ronaldo settled the Matchday 1 fixture in Lisbon, while Rooney got the winner against Roma.

• A fifth successive win would represent United's best run in the UEFA Champions League since 2002/03, when they last managed the feat.

• United have won eight straight home games in the UEFA Champions League and lost just one of their last 32 fixtures at Old Trafford.
The solitary defeat of that sequence came against AC Milan in February 2005.

• United's squad features two former Sporting players in Ronaldo and Nani and an previous coach of the club in Sir Alex Ferguson's assistant Carlos Queiroz.

• Ronaldo had one season in Sporting's first team after graduating from the junior ranks, making 25 appearances and scoring three goals during the 2002/03 campaign.
He subsequently joined United for a fee of more than

[ 本帖最后由 吉格斯 于 2007-11-28 07:55 编辑 ]

水货董会上吗？

引用:

原帖由 黄天 于 2007-11-27 12:09 发表
水货董会上吗？

没进名单

不过肯定会去罗马

真饭驾到

淫呢

相马直树

听说被里斯本进了，过来看看

砸场子？:D

来慰问一下，喊句口号，MU必胜

晕死！！ 没状态啊！

睡觉

1:1:D

巨星就是巨星！！

谁才是国王???????!!

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原帖由 C罗 于 2007-11-28 05:40 发表
谁才是国王???????!!

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