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Steven Gerrald taking penalty kick in Carling cup first leg tie with Manchester City

City went to the game without defense back bone Vicent Kompany who saw his appeal for four matches ban after two feet tackle on Nani on FA Cup third round turned down. Steven Gerrard converted a penalty kick on 12th minute have Daniel Agger fouled by Stefan Savic.

City also lacked the service of David Silva (Injured), Ivorian internationals Yahaya Toure, Kolo toure who went to the African Cup of Nations. Having being knocked out of Champion league and FA cup, City boys have to pull their socks and try win the second leg Carling cup tie or else they will be knocked out in third title challenge. Mancini and his boys also have to concentrate on winning the Barclays premier league and have advantage of being three points ahead of Manchester United and Tottenham Spurs. Man City manager is expecting to sign new face in January Premier league transfer window to cover for African players.

szólj hozzá: City v Liverpool 0:1 EXTENDED

Chelsea FC avoided being knocked out at Champions league group stage for the first time in history by beating Valenci 3-0 thanks to Drogba's goals on either side of Ramirez's.

Chelsea vs Valencia Video highlights (3-0)
szólj hozzá: Chelsea 3-0 Valencia

In another game, Marseille late show against Borussia Dortmund paid as they scored two later goals to come from 2-1 down to win 3-2 and book a place in champions league knock-out stage.
Borussia Dortmund vs Marseille Video highlights (2-3)
szólj hozzá: CL: Borussia Dor-OM 2-3 061211

The second round carling cup fixtures took Liverpool to League One club; Exeter while their rivals, Everton will start the campaign at home by facing Sheffield United. The Carling cup second round draw have been scheduled to start on the week commencing 22 August 2011. The 7 times Carling cup champions; Liverpool will be coming from premier league match against Arsenal at Emirates stadium, scheduled on 20 August 2011. Most of first team Liverpool player might be rested for this tie. The eight premier league club taking part in Champions league or Europa cup will join league cup on third round. The Carling cup competition involve 20 premier league clubs and 72 clubs from football league. The new starting season is going to be very competitive and Carling cup will be more vital cup as a winner will qualify for UEFA Europa League if has not qualify through premier league and not won FA cup.

Carling cup rules, unlike FA cup, only one match will be played, draw match will be decided on extra time and penalty shoot-out. Liverpool FC needs to try and finish the game during 90 minutes or even at extra time to avoid embarrassment they suffered last season after being knocked out by Northampton in third round. Liverpool have strengthen their squad by signing Charles Adam, Alexander Doni, Stewart Downing and Jordan Henderson and hope to perform better this season. In the last Carling cup match, Sheff Wed beat Blackpool 4-2 on penalty after 0-0 score in 120 minutes and they will play Blackburn on second round.

Carling Cup second round draw for 2011-2011
Aston Villa v Hereford
Blackburn v Sheffield Wednesday
Bolton v Macclesfield
Bournemouth v West Brom
Brighton v Sunderland
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Bristol City or Swindon v Southampton
Burnley v Barnet
Bury v Leicester
Cardiff v Huddersfield
Crystal Palace or Crawley v Wigan
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Doncaster v Leeds
Everton v Sheffield Utd
Exeter v Liverpool
Leyton Orient v Watford or Bristol Rovers
Milwall v Morecambe
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Norwich City v MK Dons
Northampton v Wolves
Peterborough v Middlesbrough
QPR v Rochdale
Reading or Charlton v Preston
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Scunthorpe v Newcastle
Shrewsbury v Swansea City
West Ham or Aldershot v Carlisle
Wycombe v Nottingham Forest

Lionel Messi have been named the European Club Footballer Of The Year Award 2009 beating Cristiano Ronaldo (2008 European Footballer) and Former award winner Samuel Etoo. The Argentina International also won the European forward of the year award after having contribute to treble wins for European champions Barcelona FC. Barcelona FC had six player nominated for awards.

The Champions league draw fro group stages took place today in Monaco. Samuel etoo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be meeting their former teams (Barcelona FC and Inter Milan) in group stages. The even also names winner of UEFA player awards in different categories.

Champions League group stage draw

No	TEAM GROUP A	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Bayern Munich	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Juventus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Girondins Bordeaux	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Maccabi Haifa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

No	TEAM GROUP B	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Manchester United	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	CSKA Moscow	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Beskitas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	VfL Wolfsburg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

No	TEAM GROUP C	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	AC Milan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Real Madrid	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Olympic Marseile	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	FC Zurich	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

No	TEAM GROUP D	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Chelsea FC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	FCPorto	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Atletico Madrid	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	APOEL Nicosia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

No	TEAM GROUP E	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Liverpool FC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Lyon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Florentina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Debrecen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

No	TEAM GROUP F	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Barcelona FC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Inter Milan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Dynamo Kiev	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Rubin Kazan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

No	TEAM GROUP G	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Sevilla FC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Ranger FC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	VfB Stuttgart	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	AFD Unirea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

No	TEAM GROUP H	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Arsenal FC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	AZ Alkmaar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Olympiakos FC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Standard Liege	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

10 qualified teams have join list of 22 automatically qualified to make a list of 32 teams ready for champions league groups stage selection. Recently qualified teams includes; Arsenal FC VfL Wolfsburg, FC Rubin Kazan, AZ Alkmaar, R. Standard de Liège, AFC Unirea Urziceni, Debreceni VSC, APOEL FC and FC Zürich. This make list of 32 teams from 18 different countries.

Arsenal FC have win second match against Celtic 3-1 and see-off the Scotland team after winning 2-0 in first match. The Wembley cup champions were not strong enough to resist Arsenal pressure and easy allowed a 5-1 aggregate for Arsenal.

CHAMPIONLEAGUE QUALIFICATION PLAY OFF
TEAMS			Score1	Score2	Aggregate
Anderlecht		Lyon FC	1-5	1-3	2-8
Atletico Madrid		Panathinaikos	3-2	2-0	5-2
Debrecen		LevsikSofia	2-1	2-0	4-1
FC Zurich		Ventispils	3-0	2-1	5-1
Maccabi Haifa		Salzburg	2-1	3-0	5-1
Arsenal FC	vs	Celtic FC	2-0	3-1	5-1
APOEL Nicosia	vs	Copenhagen	0-1	3-1	3-2
Florentina	vs	Sporting CP	2-2	1-1	3-3
Olympiakos	vs	FCSheriff	2-0	1-0	3-0
VfB Stuttgart	vs	Timisoara	2-0	0-0	2-0