FC Barcelona and Juventus both advanced into the group stage of the Soccer Betting Champions League based on their first leg wins last week. Barcelona routed Wisla Krakow 4-0 last week while Juventus won 4-0 against Artmedia. Tuesday’s second leg results were virtually meaningless as Barcelona lost 1-0 and Juventus played Artmedia to a 1-1 draw. Juventus and FC Barcelona both easily advanced on aggregate.

Greek side Panathinaikos advanced as well into the group stage of the Champions league with a 1-0 win over Sparta Prague. Panathinaikos had won 2-1 in the first leg last week.

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Juventus has not been to the group stage for two years because they were relegated to the second division because of the match-fixing scandal. They had no trouble in this qualifying matchup with Artmedia. Barcelona advanced even though they suffered a meaningless loss that gave new coach Pep Guardiola his first defeat. “I don’t think today we have taken a step backwards in our preparations,” Guardiola said. “Perhaps we weren’t so precise but we had an opponent which was also playing and we had five or six chances with only the goalkeeper to beat. We lost but we could have drawn or even won.” Since Barcelona really had things clinched with the 4-0 win in the first leg they rested Olympic champion Lionel Messi, who recently returned from Beijing after playing for Argentina.

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Italian Serie A club AS Roma played host to Reggina just recently for an Italian Serie A match. The AS Roma home side could made use of the home pitch advantage to earn a win. AS Roma dominated most of the possession, and eventually grabbed the 3 points for the Italian Serie A standings with a 2-0 victory.

Scoring for AS Roma were Alessandro Mancini and Christian Panucci. Also dishing out a fine performance for AS Roma were key players Francesco Totti and Ludovic Giuly.

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Liverpool head coach Rafa Benitez can breathe a little easier now as Liverpool crushed Luton 5-0 to advance to the 4th round of the FA Cup. Liverpool team captain Steven Gerrard scored a hat-trick with 3 amazing goals. Liverpool players Ryan Babel and Sami Hyypia also scored a goal each to the delight of the Liverpool fans gathered at Anfield, the home pitch of Liverpool.

Liverpool’s next football match will be against Aston Villa. Aston Villa will be visitors to Liverpool on their home pitch at Anfield.

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Italian Serie A champions Inter Milan still maintain a stronghold at the top of the Italian Serie A standings, earning 3 more points after a 3-2 victory in Siena.

Inter Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored two goals while Esteban Cambiasso also scored a goal to book the win against Siena. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored in the 26th minute on a penalty and in the 52nd on a powerful shot from outside the area.

“Ibrahimovic scored an extraordinary goal today,” Inter’s coach, Roberto Mancini, said of the striker’s second score. “He can do everything.”

Inter’s goalkeeper, Julio Cesar, made several difficult saves before Siena’s Fernando Forestieri scored in second-half injury time.

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Italian Serie A champions Inter Milan maintain their lead at the top of the Italian Serie A following a 2-0 victory against Fiorentina at Florence, Italy, over the weekend.

Inter Milan opened up the scoring in the 9th minute with a goal from Inter Milan midfielder Luis Antonio Jimenez, who received the pass from Inter Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Inter Milan’s Ibrahimovic played another asisst in the 44th minute to Inter Milan striker Julio Cruz who scored a goal to put Inter Milan up 2-0 against Fiorentina.

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The national football teams of Scotland and Italy are both in Grooup B of the UEFA Euro 2008. France leds the group with 25 points, followed by Scotalnd with 24 and Italy with 23. Only two of the top teams per group will advance to the Euro 2008 finals to be held in Austria and Switzerland.

On November 17, Scotland and Italy will face off for a group stage match of the UEFA Euro 2008. Last time Scotland faced Italy for a group stage qualifying match of the UEFA Euro 2008, Italy defeated Scotland 2-0 in Italy.

However, the upcoming Italy vs. Scotland group stage match will be held in Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland, which should provide a slight advantage for Scotland.

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Juventus vs. Inter Milan! Ranieri vs. Mancini! Trezeguet vs. Crespo! Del Piero vs. Ibrahimovic!

It’s called Derby D’ Italia, and this historic football rivalry features top Italian Serie A clubs Juventus and Inter Milan. Italian Serie A champions Inter Milan are currently leading the Italian Serie A standings with 24 points while Juventus is close behind in 4th spot with 20 points.

However, these point standings don’t matter when Juventus and Inter Milan clash this Sunday, November 4. What matters is pride as the fans of these two clubs are known to be very fanatic about the Derby D’ Italia, and the winner of this famous rivalry will win great confidence and momentum, which eventually can lead to more wins in the upcoming matches.

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Inter Milan are on track in defending their Italian Serie A championship title after they defeated Genoa 4-1 on their home pitch at the San Siro to collect 3 points and lead the Italian Serie A standings with a total of 24 points after 10 matches played. AS Roma are in second place with 21 points.

Inter Milan found its first goal through defender Ramiro Cordoba. Inter Milan’s Javier Zanetti crossed in a corner which was headed by team mate Hernan Crespo off the crossbar, but Inter Milan defender Ramiro Cordoba was at the right spot to nod in the rebound from Crespo’s crossbar deflection to put Inter Milan up 1-0 against Genoa.

Inter Milan’s Esteban Cambiasso extended the lead to 2-0 after he had tapped in a goal following a scramble in front of the Genoa goal. Genoa’s Abdoulay Konko was able to score for Genoa to make the score 2-1. However, David Suazo made a brilliant attack to score his first Inter goal and establish the score at 3-1.

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Italian Serie A league leaders Inter Milan improved their points standing with a 2-1 away win against Napoli at the Giuseppe Meazza.

On the 20th minute, Inter Milan were able to break through when Inter’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic cuts through the Napoli defense by the face of the box and plays through the ball to Inter Milan forward Julio Cruz, who sidefoots the ball past Napoli keeper Gennaro Iezzo.

On the 36th minute, Inter Milan’s Argentinian striker Julio Cruz adds another goal to his tally as he beats the offside trap and chests down a wonderful lob from Dejan Stankovic into the Napoli area. Without any defenders, Julio Cruz was able to pick his spot and fired a wicked left-footer to beat Iezzo to give Inter Milan a 2-0 advantage.
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There are exactly 4 matchdays left in the UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifiers, which means that there are points to be fought for, and eventually the top two teams of each group of the Euro 2008 Qualifiers will advance to the finals of Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland.

In Group B of the UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifiers, we have a very close race. So far in the standings, Scotland is the group leader with 21 points closely followed by Italy with 20 and France not so far behind with 19. Ukraine has 13 points. Lithuania has 10 points. Georgia has 7, and the Faroe Islands have yet to score a single point.

In the upcoming qualifiers for Group B of the UEFA Euro 2008 for October 13, we will have matches between Scotland vs. Ukraine, Faroe Islands vs. France and Italy vs. Georgia. 4 days after on October 17, it’ll be Ukraine vs. Faroe Islands, France vs. Lithuania and Georgia vs. Scotland.
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