Battle of Cardiff

The football weekend-in the review of the "newspaper" the next European weekend ended without obvious sensations. The leaders of the Italian championship win, the Spaniards and Germans lose their glasses, Lyon plays out two goals in the last minute, and the Arsenal and Chelsea are fighting, in a word, everything is fine. The most significant match is the Madrid derby.

Atletico pressed Real Madrid the whole game, but by tradition he could not win. In England, Chelsea and Arsenal played the Cup of the English League and finished off to three removals, three goals and ten compensated minutes. Emmanuel Adebayor was especially fierce - his rage almost destroyed to the founding of Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Well, the main news: John Terry, who received a blow to the head in this match, feels normally.

The current Madrid derby, Atletico football players will recall for a long time. No matter how “Real” performed in recent years, he beat the opponent in the city regularly, invariably putting “Atletico” in place. This time everything was different: the owners entered the field of the Vicente Calderon stadium with such a mood that “Real” seemed to not live. Already at the beginning of the match, Atletico captain Fernando Torres scored his first goal in the history of the Madrid derby - it looked symbolic. If El-Nigno was able to remove the hit curse, then the entire “Atletico” is simply obliged to win. But it turned out - not fate. The raw still team at Atletico, she did not hold Real, released the opponent, and the victory remained unattainable. Antonio Kassano, returned to Fabio Capello, brought to the gate Gonzalo Iguain, and the Argentine scored his first goal for Real. The removal of Fabio Cannavaro finally drove Real Madrid into its own penalty area, but it did not help to win the athletes - a draw 1: 1.

The next tour was most pleased with the Barcelona fans: the blue-granate recovered from the failure in the Champions League and already in the first half they scored three athletics from Bilbao. For the first time after the injury, Samuel distinguished himself. Valencia managed to solemnly sit in a puddle again: the Nastik outsider equalized the score in the last minute of the match and took the victory from the “bats”, which they thought to win with little blood. As for Seville, she had low chances of victory in the match with Hetafe from the very beginning, and in the end, the team of Alexander Kerzhakov was pleased with the zero draw. Barcelona again became the sole leader of the championship.

In Germany, only Bavaria won from the leaders, and not everyone considers it a leader. The match against Wolfsburg turned out to be strange: the case in Russia is taking place, the observers would have arisen. In any case, it was not necessary to see a more stupid penalty for a long time - defender Alexander Madlung entered the history of the season. Schalke 04 took the first step to miss the victory in the championship, which actually itself goes into their hands. The match ugly in the quality of the game against Bayer ended for blue with uniform embarrassment: striker Stefan Kissling easily dealt with the defenders and brought Bayer three points. The young goalkeeper Rene Adler, who replaced the disqualified Yorga Buta, played an equally important role in victory. The pursuers of Schalke did not take advantage of the gift: Stuttgart crashed against the Berlin wall set by Gertha, and Verder managed not to win the last team of the championship - Borussia from Menchengdbach.

The first trophy in the season was won by Chelsea. In the stubborn confrontation with the London Arsenal, the Jose Mourinho team still took possession of the treasured Cup of the English Premier League. The final match of one hundred percent justified its status.

The beginning of the game remained entirely and completely behind the nominal guests of the field (the final matches of the tournament are traditionally played at the Cardiff Stadium "Millennium") - football players of Arsenal. Arsen Wenger, apparently, still managed to mislead his Portuguese opponent, putting a hitherto unheard of starting composition. Already in the first minutes of the meeting, the goalkeeper of the blue Peter Czech was forced to save his gates twice from the imminent goal. Both dangerous points were created by the Brazilian Baptist, who replaced the Belarusian, Alexander Gleb Gleb. The most impressive blow was the Brazilian’s blow from 18 meters, which the Czech raked in a jump almost from the “nine” itself. Here, it seemed, “Chelsea” and it is time to take advantage of the rule ”you won’t score - they score you”, but no. Instead of trying to snap and punish the deceased “gunners”, the blue completely and irrevocably failed in the center of the field, allowing the opponent to play the attack as notes. Fabregas in the center of the field was supplied with the ball of Abu Diabi, he made a verified pass on the 17-year-old player of the English "Youth" Theo Walkott. The latter played an adult wisely: he threw the ball past the confused Terry and Carwallo, sent him to the net and scored his debut goal in the "gunners". It remains only to guess what epithets a Czech newly dressed in a helmet rewarded.

To the honor of "aristocrats" it is worth noting that they leveled the game quite quickly. And in the 20th minute, the efforts of Didier Drogb were completely equalized. The goal turned out to be a little awkward: the defenders of Arsenal deceived themselves, creating an artificial offside. After the Chelsea’s response, the game leveled a little, but the advantage of Arsenal was still tangible. The blue in turn helped out Czech and John Terry. The latter played for himself and for that guy until the 63rd minute of the meeting. The captain "Chelsea" perfectly playing his head tried to strike a jump in a jump, but instead of the ball he caught a diabian leg. 10 minutes unconscious and a trip to the hospital - Terry paid such a price for the Cup, which Chelsea received thanks to the blue of the same ubiquitous Drogb in the 84th minute.

In the very end of the meeting, which lasted as long as 107 minutes, hot African guys clashed on the field. The removal earned Michel, Tour and Adebayor.

In the Italian series A, the Milan "Inter" continues to mock the rivals. The next target team Roberto Mancini chose Katanya. Five goals scored, two missed: “International” as if he wants to prove to everyone that his championship ambitions can not only pragmatic minimal victories, but also open spectacular matches. By the way, the black and blue won the 17th victory in a row and are clearly not going to stop there.

The closest pursuer of Inter "Roma" also did not have any special problems in the last match. Three unrequited balls against the “Regina” (could have been four, forget the Francesco Totti Penalti) - and three points in your pocket.

The Palermo, who was walking on the third “Palemo”, was not able to replay “Atalanta”. If this goes further, the islanders can be forgotten about the third place. Lazio and Milan are already breathing in the back of the head, which won their last matches. Moreover, the Rossoneri literally with the meat tore out the victory from the Sampdoria in the 90th minute of the meeting.

In France, leaders continue to play a few infantile football. Or at least create the appearance of such football. “Lyon” scored three goals into the gate, having received the same amount in his own. The second “Lance”, which was going to keep the victory in the fight with the “Nancy”, letting the goal on his goal a minute to the final whistle.

Saint-Etienne brought many positive emotions to his fans, who for the first time in history beat PSG. By the way, the once formidable Parisians after the current defeat rolled back to 17th place in the standings.

02/26/2007 / Kirill Dementyev, Anton Filin material published in the newspaper No. 35 dated 02.27.2007.