August 1st, 2008 
Marian 
A very interesting draw was today, for the UEFA Champions League 3rd round. Let’s take a look at the matches:
Anorthosis / Rapid Wien – Olympiacos
Guimares – Goteborg / Basel
Shakhtar – Domzale / Dinamo Zagreb
Schalke 04 – Atletico Madrid
Aalborg / FK Modrica – Rangers / Kaunas
Barcelona – Beitar / Wisla
Levski – Anderlecht / BATE Borisov
Standard Liege – Liverpool FC
Inter Baki / Partizan – Fenerbahce / MTK Budapest
FC Twente – Arsenal
Spartak Moscow – Drogheda / Dynamo Kyiv
Juventus – Tampere Utd / Artmedia
Brann / Ventpils – Ol. Marseille
Fiorentina – Slavia Prague
Galatasaray – Steaua Bucharest
Panathinaikos / Dinamo Tbilisi – Sheriff / Sparta
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John Terry, who missed the 5th shot on goal which could have given the Champions League by Chelsea in the final against Manchester United, will be “forever haunted” by the memory of that failure. “I’m so disappointed to have missed the penalty and deprive you and you, fans, teammates, families and friends, a chance to become champions of Europe,” Terry wrote in an open letter to fans published on the site Internet Chelsea. “Many people told me that I need not say that, but I want to do so. It is in my habits. I have relived that moment every minute. I have not slept and only a few hours each morning, I hoped that it would be a bad dream, “adds Terry. 
The Argentinian striker Lionel Messi announced Thursday it had decided to play the Olympic tournament in Beijing in August with the selection of less than 23 years, thus renouncing the 3rd preliminary round of the Champions League with FC Barcelona. 
They cried as kids. Professionals adults, football players are big children. For John Terry, Chelsea captain symbol, the night of May 21 in Moscow remain tragic. Worse than the elimination of the England team for Euro 2008. When it moves to take the fifth penalty of Blues, where Didier Drogba, before getting stupidly expel, had been appointed, Terry has the trophy after his right foot. Concentrate, it will mark. He Captain courage to Chelsea, who saved his family a head in front of his miraculous line in overtime. Edwin Van der Sar chooses to dive to his right, Terry has chosen to capitalize on the left of goalkeeper mancunien. But the English defender and slid his shot struck the post left by Van der Sar. For the third time in the evening, Chelsea found the amounts of Manchester United. It’s too much to hope for winning a final of the Champions League. Terry is only the hapless hero of this final with Nicolas Anelka, author of the shooting but failed to offer the victory to MU (1-1, ap, 6 tab 5). 
The Chelsea captain, John Terry, whose shot missed the goal has claimed the Champions League his team face Manchester United Wednesday, attended the meeting in place of Didier Drogba, excluded at the end of match, “said the assistant coach Henk Ten Cate. 
Manchester United won the 2007-2008 Champions League final by beating Chelsea (1-1, 6 tab 5). A equality at the end of regulation time and then extensions, the two English clubs were départagés the sudden death of the meeting of shots on goal. The shooting of Nicolas Anelka, stopped by Van der Sar, seals the victory of the Red Devils. MU won the 3rd Champions League history and directed the doubled-C1 Championship in England. 
The Welshman Ryan Giggs broke the record for the number of matches played for Manchester United held by Sir Bobby Charlton, to come into play during the final Champions League against Chelsea on Wednesday in Moscow. 
Some 40.000 English fans at Manchester United and Chelsea arrived in Moscow, Wednesday, which will play in the evening finals of the Champions League between the two clubs. They will be joined in the stands of the stadium Loujniki by one of the most wanted men in Britain, Andrei Lougovoï.
Manchester United ahead of Chelsea in a league for two points. But the Blues do not care. Their chairman, Roman Abramovich, would dream of the Champions League. In Moscow, venue of the finale, a setback is unimagin
