UEFA Cup: Spurs 0-1 PSV
Tottenham Hotspurs are back to loosing matches as the club’s coach, Juande Ramos, admitted they are still suffering from the Carling Cup hangover. Yesterday, they lost to PSV Eindhoven in the UEFA cup match by 1-0 at home. So this makes it tough challenge for Spurs to qualify for to the quarter finals of UEFA cup as they’ll be facing PSV at their home ground next.
Oliver Kahn is back!!!
Oliver Kahn, Bayern Munich’s captain, returned in the clash with Karlsruhe, the club where Kahn started his career. The sentiments he’ll have for his old club is snatching the 3 crucial points for Bayern Munich.
Lampard is back!
Football Association has agreed the Chelsea’s claim for Lampard booking. Lampard ban is revoked by the Football Association after they accepted the wrong decision against Lampard. Football Association statement states: “A claim for wrongful dismissal from Chelsea’s Frank Lampard was upheld. As a result, Lampard’s three-match suspension has been withdrawn.”
Previously, Chelsea appealed against the booking of; John Obi Mikel, Michael Essien and Ashley Cole, which all were rejected by Football Association.
After the Football Association, Lampard can now play in the FA cup match this Saturday against Barnsley.
Juventus targets Lampard!
Italian club Juventus, which re-established it’s self after promoting to Italian serie A are targeting Chelsea superstar, Frank Lampard.
The Juventus boss, Claudio Ranieri, said that he is interested in the English midfielder. Ranieri brought Lampard to Chelsea from West Ham when he was in charged of Blues.
Juventus director Gianluca Pessotto said: “He is an excellent player. I feel we will be able to buy players of his class in the summer.”
It is being estimated that the deal would worth round about 20 million pounds.
Petr Cech is injured!
Chelsea’s late pull-out!!!
Chelsea is up for the clash between Olympiakos at Stamford Bridge without their anti-goal shield Petr Cech. Cech strained his ankle in the training session on Tuesday and now he is out for the Champions League second-leg crunch against Olympiakos.
At first it didn’t looked serious don’t want to risk it. Avram Grant is hopeful that Cech would recover for the FA cup match against Barnsley on Saturday.
Carlo Cudicini is for the replacement of Cech to let the Blues through to the quarter finals of Champions League.
