CHAMPIONS LEAGUE:A REVISION OF THE MATCHDAY 2 (This article is available in English and Español)

The top European teams have played another Champions League´games yesterday and tonight and now it is time to revise the main points.

On the one hand, the time-and the player- is giving us the reason and Sebastiano Giovinco continues to claim with his excellent level a place at Juventus, this Tuesday he had an important role and he assisted 2 times to Iaquinta and obviously the Juventus´s fans want that Claudio Ranieri trusts in this player, cause they want to see the “atomic ant” in the field, since the "Vecchia Signora” needs something more-it needs fantasy, mobility, freshness, speed and nowadays only Giovinco has all these qualities, since for example the great Alex Del Piero can show his best level during punctual moments of the game, since he is an old player and he can not be 100% all the games, although of course he is still an important and key player and he can resolve any game, like for example the Zenit´s game, when he scored in the last minute of the game, but if Juve wants to be an important club this season, it needs the Giovinco´s show-.
We must also remark the good game of the great Kun Agüero –he showed a good level during the Atlético´s victory (2-1)against Olympique Marseille, since he showed a constant danger and quality- excellent control during the play of his goal( we must also emphasize the great work of the Atletico Madrid´s midfielder Paulo Assunção and the details of the 2 best of Olympique Marseille´s player, the smart and technical Valbuena and the good striker Mamadou Niang –this player is one of my favourite striker, because he shows many things as work, goal, pressure, good shots, quality) and the good sensation of the Olympique Lyonnais-since it drew(1-1) at the difficult Allianz Arena-the French team is much stronger since Claude Puel arrived to the Gerland´s bench and it will not a surprise if Olympique Lyonnais arrive far away in this Champions League ( Claude Puel showed his big potential as coach at OSC Lille and he can be the necessary element for the Jean Michel Aulas´s team) -.

We have also seen the solvency of teams like Manchester United(0-3), Villarreal(1-0), Arsenal FC(4-0), Liverpool FC(3-1)and the doubts of others such as FC Barcelona-it continues with the defensive problem, ¿is it possible a game where FC Barcelona do not receive a goal?they need to tidy up, because it is very difficult to see again a lucky play to FC Barcelona like the mistake of the Schakhtar Donetsk´s goalkeeper, Andry Pyatov(of course we must criticise the Bojan Krkic´s attitude during the play of the first Messi´s goal, because the most important thing is the Fair play and therefore he had to return the ball to Schakhtar in this concrete play)-or as the Real Madrid-¿where is the excellence that the president Ramon Calderon promised? Obviously it is not in St. Petersburg, where we saw a lucky Real Madrid, since it won the game thanks to the unlucky / bad marksmanship of the Zenit´s strikers-, or as the Inter Milan -once again we watched the same (a team without wingers and with a lot of central midfielder players and of course playing in this way it is very difficult to beat Werder Bremen and therefore the result (1-1) is normal,so we think that José Mourinho should change his ideas)-.

The most negative thing of the day was the injury of Didier Drogba-we will wait the diagnosis to see if the Chelsea´s fans must worry, because this team without Drogba and with the apathetic Anelka alone, will have many difficulties-also the poor level, specially during the first half, of Fenerbaçhe-it seems that Luis Aragones forgot his "wisdom" in Spain, because the Istanbul´s team plays horrible, as it showed in different games like against Sivasspor or Hacettepe SK-and even the level shown by the AS Roma-although it won(1-3), it played bad until the send off of the Girondins de Bordeaux´s central defender, Henrique- .

Finally, we can not conclude obviously this article without reference to the excellent level of the 3 modest teams of the competition: Anorthosis Famagusta-it scored again 3 goals to an Athens ´s team(remember that this club beat the Olympiakos Piraeus at the first round of the Champions Leaguest) and it already has 4 points (it should not be so surprising, since it has experienced players such as theEuropean champion Dellas, the Portuguese Paulo Costa and Brazilian Savio Bortolini)-, the CFR Cluj -today it has played without fear against Chelsea and the result was a good 0-0- and Bate Borisov -excellent 20 first minutes of the game against Juve! -.

And this Thursday, it is time of the Uefa Cup, where we can watch an exciting Benfica-SSC Napoli at 20.15 G.M.T(Napoli won 3-2 in the first leg).

Cheers,

J&F