Well, as I write this post, there is only three English teams left in European competitions, so here's a little round up of us Brits against the rest...
Of course everyone knows by now of Arsenal's glorified but overall fruitless win against Bayern Munich last night, if they played like that in the first leg they would probably still be in the competition but as it is, that was the end of any English club competing for the champions league so lets move on.
The Europa league fixtures were played tonight and in one of the most exciting fixtures Inter Milan went about repairing that 3-0 loss to Spurs. In a thrilling match Inter went 3-0 up to take it to extra time only for that man Adebayor to come along with a goal made for the born and bred poacher, it ended 4-1 with Tottenham through on away goals.
Newcastle also left it late with pretty much the last move of the match Cisse popping up to connect with a fine cross to head them through against the Russian money men of Anzhi Makhachkala. So two of the three teams in England through leaving just Chelsea to battle it out against Stauer Bucharest.
After suffering to a 1-0 defeat in Romania, the blues had it all to do, but much like at the weekend in Manchester, they had a poor first half followed by an inspired second, with Torres, no that's not a mistake, scoring the winner for Chelsea to hold on to a 3-1 win.
As much as it gets slated as a smaller European competition, in my opinion, the Europa league can yield just as much excitement as its big brother. So as we head into the quarter finals, expect some good football and a good chance for all three English clubs to go all the way!
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