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

Birmingham hold Arsenals to a draw

After 3 minutes in the first half, Birmingham were reduced to ten men when their captain Taylor was red carded for a tackle on Eduardo who had to be hospitalized.

Theo Walcott scored two goals which temporarily place the Gunners in command , however a technical mistake by Clichy in injury awarded Birmingham a penalty which resulted in the draw.

Manchester United narrowed the gap when they trounced Newcastle 5 - 1. They now trail Arsenals by three points .

Other results

Westham beat Fulham 1 goal to nil. Liverpool register a win at Anfield against Middlesbrough,
Portsmouth won against Sunderland one goal to nil and Wigan beat Derby 2 goals to nothing

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FA CUP semi finals on the way

Watford face an inform Manchester United in their semi final clash for the FA Cup. Manchester United beaming from their 7 - 1 victory over AS Roma take on Watford at Villa Park on Saturday.
The Red Devils will be going all out to ensure that they gain the advantage over Watford who are playing in the semi's for the first time since 1984 , however they do have a tall task to overcome an inform Man U

Chelsea take on Blackburn Rovers in the other semi final and the Blues with their energetic coach Jose Mourinho eyeing the FA Cup which is one cup that he has never won, will be ensuring that they are on the road to gaining silverware.
Drogba, Ballack and Shevchenko will be the players to watch and they certainly will be playing at their best for their coach.

Both Manchester United and Chelsea will be aiming to play at the new Wembley Stadium for the finals.