jag87
02-10-2003, 02:55
Todays Scores:
Panathinaikos 1-1 Rangers
Stuttgart 2-1 Man United
FC Porto 1-3 Real Madrid
Marseille 3-0 Partizan Belgrade
Chelsea 0-2 Besiktas
Lazio 2-2 Sparta Prague
Ajax 2-0 Club Brugge
Celta Vigo 0-0 Milan
Stuttgart's 2nd half on-slaught paid off straight away with 2 quick goals by Szabics (50) & Kuranyi (52). Man Utd were awarded a dubious penalty in the 67th minute converted by Ruud Van Nistelrooy. Stuttgart were awarded a penalty of their own in the 81st minute when Ferdinand bought down Kuranyi. Man Utd shot-stopper Tim Howard palmed the ball out for a corner with a good save. Even if he was a yard or two astray of his line. Stuttgart held on for all 3 points.
Chelsea 0-2 Besiktas
Reluctant travellers they may be but Besiktas claimed the prize scalp of the world's most expensive team as Chelsea slumped to a first defeat in the Roman Abramovich era.
The Turkish team had never previously won away in the Champions League but a Sergen Yalcin double condemned the £111 million side to defeat at Stamford Bridge.
Excessive tinkering and defensive errors took their toll as, for all the European experience of Claudio Ranieri's expensively assembled side, they were undone on the counter-attack.
Chelsea were architects of their own downfall. They reacted slowly to a quick free kick and Sergen swept in the opener from Ilhan Mansiz's cross, a touch off John Terry wrongfooting Carlo Cudicini.
Marcel Desailly has won the Champions League twice. His prospects of a hat-trick receded as he left a through ball for Cudicini and the alert Sergen nipped in for his second, aided by a post and an aimless leap from the keeper.
Desailly was not alone in having a match to forget as Ilhan Mansiz handed Chelsea a lifeline with an innocuous red card. Twice, he booted the ball away; twice, pernickety referee Lucilio Cardoso Cortez Batista reached for yellow cards. But having gone two goals down to 11 men, Chelsea could not break down ten.
Claudio Ranieri's chosen 11 provokes endless debate and, not content with swapping his players, Tinkerman decided to change formations as Chelsea went 3-5-2. His ongoing quest to give Juan Sebastian Veron a pivotal role appeared grounds for change; for 20 minutes, the Argentine was influential as Chelsea cruised.
Strike partners Hernan Crespo and Adrian Mutu each fashioned themselves a chance and came close from long-range. Veron and Lampard had better opportunities, but indecision and a poor touch respectively meant Oscar Cordoba was not troubled.
Then Sergen struck twice and Chelsea were floundering. For 15 minutes, their response was muted until Lampard, their sole source of drive from midfield, volleyed wide. Veron, with a low drive, and Mutu, with a shot the outstanding Okan Koc did well to block, also threatened.
Time for a £60 million double substitution. Off went Crespo and Mutu, Damien Duff and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink coming on. But how Ranieri must have wished that Crespo, rather than the new second striker, Veron, was on the end of Lampard's inviting cross. The wrong Argentinian headed wide.
Ranieri must have regretted his double change - which followed the enforced withdrawal of Celestine Babayaro - when William Gallas was injured in the first minute of the second half.
Gallas limped off, limped back on again and headed wide, a feat Desailly equalled. Then Geremi drew the sole save from the injured Cordoba and both he and Hasselbaink put free kicks past the Colombian's post.
But with Ronaldo Guiaro defiant in defence and Hasselbaink the sole specialist striker on for Chelsea, they suffered just a second home defeat in Europe. Their cheaper predecessors fared rather better - at Stamford Bridge, anyway.
(Sky Sports)
Panathinaikos 1-1 Rangers
Stuttgart 2-1 Man United
FC Porto 1-3 Real Madrid
Marseille 3-0 Partizan Belgrade
Chelsea 0-2 Besiktas
Lazio 2-2 Sparta Prague
Ajax 2-0 Club Brugge
Celta Vigo 0-0 Milan
Stuttgart's 2nd half on-slaught paid off straight away with 2 quick goals by Szabics (50) & Kuranyi (52). Man Utd were awarded a dubious penalty in the 67th minute converted by Ruud Van Nistelrooy. Stuttgart were awarded a penalty of their own in the 81st minute when Ferdinand bought down Kuranyi. Man Utd shot-stopper Tim Howard palmed the ball out for a corner with a good save. Even if he was a yard or two astray of his line. Stuttgart held on for all 3 points.
Chelsea 0-2 Besiktas
Reluctant travellers they may be but Besiktas claimed the prize scalp of the world's most expensive team as Chelsea slumped to a first defeat in the Roman Abramovich era.
The Turkish team had never previously won away in the Champions League but a Sergen Yalcin double condemned the £111 million side to defeat at Stamford Bridge.
Excessive tinkering and defensive errors took their toll as, for all the European experience of Claudio Ranieri's expensively assembled side, they were undone on the counter-attack.
Chelsea were architects of their own downfall. They reacted slowly to a quick free kick and Sergen swept in the opener from Ilhan Mansiz's cross, a touch off John Terry wrongfooting Carlo Cudicini.
Marcel Desailly has won the Champions League twice. His prospects of a hat-trick receded as he left a through ball for Cudicini and the alert Sergen nipped in for his second, aided by a post and an aimless leap from the keeper.
Desailly was not alone in having a match to forget as Ilhan Mansiz handed Chelsea a lifeline with an innocuous red card. Twice, he booted the ball away; twice, pernickety referee Lucilio Cardoso Cortez Batista reached for yellow cards. But having gone two goals down to 11 men, Chelsea could not break down ten.
Claudio Ranieri's chosen 11 provokes endless debate and, not content with swapping his players, Tinkerman decided to change formations as Chelsea went 3-5-2. His ongoing quest to give Juan Sebastian Veron a pivotal role appeared grounds for change; for 20 minutes, the Argentine was influential as Chelsea cruised.
Strike partners Hernan Crespo and Adrian Mutu each fashioned themselves a chance and came close from long-range. Veron and Lampard had better opportunities, but indecision and a poor touch respectively meant Oscar Cordoba was not troubled.
Then Sergen struck twice and Chelsea were floundering. For 15 minutes, their response was muted until Lampard, their sole source of drive from midfield, volleyed wide. Veron, with a low drive, and Mutu, with a shot the outstanding Okan Koc did well to block, also threatened.
Time for a £60 million double substitution. Off went Crespo and Mutu, Damien Duff and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink coming on. But how Ranieri must have wished that Crespo, rather than the new second striker, Veron, was on the end of Lampard's inviting cross. The wrong Argentinian headed wide.
Ranieri must have regretted his double change - which followed the enforced withdrawal of Celestine Babayaro - when William Gallas was injured in the first minute of the second half.
Gallas limped off, limped back on again and headed wide, a feat Desailly equalled. Then Geremi drew the sole save from the injured Cordoba and both he and Hasselbaink put free kicks past the Colombian's post.
But with Ronaldo Guiaro defiant in defence and Hasselbaink the sole specialist striker on for Chelsea, they suffered just a second home defeat in Europe. Their cheaper predecessors fared rather better - at Stamford Bridge, anyway.
(Sky Sports)