Uefa Champions League - Quarter Final Draw

FIRST LEG - 1 st and 2nd APRIL 2008
The draw was made this afternoon at Uefa's head office in Switzerland and as anticipation, two great English teams were drawn against each other. Arsenals host Liverpool at the Emirates.

Arsenals will be playing against their rivals three games within a space of a week. They meet Liverpool in the Champions League Quarter Finals home and away and in between they travel to Anfield for a league encounter.

Barcelona will travel to Germany to play against Schalke . The Germans after ousting FC Porto on penalties play in the Quarter finals for the first time

Chelsea will travel to play against first time Quarter Finalist Fenerbache.

After defeating Real Madrid, the Italian team AS Roma host Manchester United in their Quarter final match.

Draw

April 1st AS Roma v Manchester United
April 1st Sclake v Barcelona

April 2nd Fenerbache v Chelsea
April 2nd Arsenals v Liverpool

Machester United and Chelsea knocked out

Two of the top guns from the Premiership were bundled out from the Fa Cup a great surprise to the two top trainers namely Sir Alex and Avant grant

Portsmouth with a 78th minute penalty by Sulley Muntari gave Portsmouth a smooth passage into the semi finals at Wembley at the expense of Manchester United.

The men from Old Trafford piled on the pressure only to be denied by some excellent goal keeping from David James.

Barnsley used their home ground advantage and stopped the progress of Chelsea and instead booked their place at a spot in the semi's at Wembley.

Odejayi scored from a header for Barnsley


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Liverpool v Newcastle - 8 March 2008

Liverpool are on the boil at the moment with three wins from three matches and they will be pinned on their recent form to outfox Newcastle today.

Mascherano is out of today's match with an injury to his muscle and the rest of the squad are ok for this match.

Newcastle will be without Joey Barton due to his bail conditions. Further injuries to Viduka, Emre and Carr places Kevin Keegan in a bit of bother since he would like to have a full strength squad against Micheal Owen's old team mates.

The confidence in the Liverpool camp is high at the moment and they will have to win this game and at the same look aft defeating Inter to round up a good ran of form

Liverpool to win.

Other matches to watch out for today in the EPL is the matchup between Blackburn and Fulham whilst Fulham will be looking at playing to win to steer themselves away from the drop zone, Blackburn have their eyes set on improving their position on the log and even more.

Blackburn to win

Reading host Manchester City and they will have the services if Micheal Dubery will strengthen the squad and also help them get away from the bottom part of the log.

Elano has fully recovered and Sven will be keeping his eye firmly on the game today since he is also viewing for a crack at Europe.

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