Today we look back at the champion league matches which took place this week. Let's start with Lyon versus Real Madrid. This game finished with a scorline of 1-1 in France. The issue definitely surrounding Emannuel Adebayor who started for Madrid and Benzema who came off the bench and it took him just 43 seconds to get himself on the scorsheet. So, the big question is "Who should start?" We all know Jose Murinho is a great manager but has accepted the fact that he doesn't like Benzema. Therefore Adebayor geeting the start. Today, he looked out of his depth completely while on the other hand Benzema comes off the bench and scores and put Real Madrid in the driving seat. With Adebayor coming in the team, this will drive Benzema on and will probaly bring out the best in him. Real Madrid getting a priceless away goal is very good but keep in mind that they have not beaten Lyon in the last seven attempts. After seein that Lyon got the equaliser puts a huge pressure for them to deliver at the Bernebau. Now they ahve to beat the psycological blow. Perhaps the manager will be saying to them that keep doing what you are doing and just focus. Keeping i n mind that Real Madrid olay a different game Adebayor cannot be fed the balls he want and that's why Benzema is more effective than him. I think going forward Real Madrid don't have any problems and will have a comfortable time in the second leg.
Now we will discuss Chelsea's trip to Copenhagen. Nicolas Anelka with a brace to give Chelsea a 2 - 0 victory over their opponents. Let's look at some facts here. Nicolas Anelka has score 7 goals in his last six champions league appearences while in premier league he has scored only 6 goals in 23 games. Chelsea definitely looked better compared to their recent form and their are couple of reasons for that. First of all Copenhagen looked very poor after coming back from winter break. They lacked the sharpness and energy in them. Today, Chelsea played a different system. They played a normal 4-4-2 formation. As far as I recall they haven't used this formation for quite a while. It was Anelka and big signing Torres who started the game. Although Torres didn;t score he did look very good off the ball. Meaning his movements and positioning was perfect. On the other hand Anelka looked faultless today. He was very good on and off the ball. This keeps Chelsea the favourites for winning this tie but the most important match will be next week when Chelsea take on Manchester United.
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