English Team in Champion League
England are 1 of the 3 nations which has 4 teams representing in the Champion League with top 2 from their league automatic qualify into the group phrase while 3rd and 4th of the league need to go through qualifying. But England as usual along with Italy and Spain, all the 4 clubs of their country managed to get into the CL group stages.
So far after 3 matches in the group phrase, only Liverpool doesn’t share the same fate with the rest. Man Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal all topped their group at the moment, with 9 points, 9 points and 7 points respectively. Liverpool only managed to get 3 points out of 3 matches, sitting on 3rd, behind Lyon and Fiorentina.
Last night results shown the current top 2 in EPL, Chelsea and Man Utd being held to a 2-2 and 3-3 draw against Aletico Madrid and CSKA Moscow. Both Chelsea and Man Utd come back from behind to get the points. Can Liverpool and Arsenal do a better job tonight against the like of Lyon and AZ Alkmaar.
It will be a do-or-die mission for Liverpool, as Fiorentina is likely to pick up 3 points from Debrecen. It will be a 6 points gap to 2nd with just 2 remaining matches left, if they fail to get a win out of Lyon. Liverpool has sufferd one of their worst row of form in recent history, to lost 6 of their last 7 matches, but surprisingly the only win was played against Man Utd. By going into this match by conceding 5 goals in last 2 matches and without their captain S.Gerrard, I predict a 2-2 draw for it.
On the other hand, Arsenal goes into this match with high morale after just defeating Spurs 3-0 and Liverpool 2-1 within a weeks. Striker Van Persie is on fire too, scoring 7 goals in last 7 matches. Arsenal home record this season so far have been magnificent, 9 out of 9 win, scoring a total of 29 goals and conceded just 6 goals. So i predict a 3-0 clear win for Arsenal.