The First Week of the Champions' Round of 16

The 2011-12 UEFA Champions League Round of 16 is on and some have just got generally beaten.

By Camilla Mancini

The initial eight clubs from the Knockout Phase of this renowned competition met between Tuesday fourteenth and Wednesday fifteenth for the first leg installations. On every one of the four matches there was a triumphant club that presently has a foot in the quarterfinals, either with a limited preferred standpoint like Lyon, or with a nearly unsurpassable one, similar to Milan. This first part of the last 16 will now need to hold up until March sixth and seventh to proceed with the test and search up for the possibility move over to the following stage; yet first the rest of the 8 will meet amongst tomorrow and this Wednesday. All the same, here is a short audit of the principal matches:

February fourteenth - Lyon 1-0 APOEL: these two had their experience at the Stade de Gerland, where the Cypriots appeared to be in inconvenience against Olympique Lyonnais, which commanded amid the entire amusement. In spite of the fact that Les Gones still have a higher UEFA coefficient than APOEL, the Cypriots have been enhancing a considerable measure amid this season and in reality it has turned into the principal Cypriot club to come to the round of 16. APOEL's execution has been great amid the opposition however on Tuesday it wasn't sufficient and Alexandre Lacazette saw a possibility in this to put the objective that gave his group the present lead.

Bayer Leverkusen 1-3 Barcelona FC: at the BayArena were playing the Werkself and the as of late most threatening club in the Champions, Barça, which presently is most of the way into quarterfinals. Amid the primary a large portion of the Germans stood up solid obstructing the Spaniard squad, however at 41' Alexis Sanchez scored his first Champions League objective, giving the prompt guarding champions couple of minutes before the break. In second half Leverkusen respected the guests with an objective from Michal Kadlec, anyway this simply spun the enthusiasm of the guests to battle back and after 3 minutes Sanchez was scoring once more, to then be trailed by Messi at 88'.

February fifteenth - Zenit St. Petersburg 3-2 Benfica: A very late objective from Shirokov broke the tie supporting the Russians. Notwithstanding the brutal low temperature (- 10 C) the two groups completed an awesome activity and kept things very even. The first to score was Maxi Pereira at the 20', however after 7 minutes was trailed by Roman Shirokov's first objective of the day. By the 71st moment an opportunity to score landed for Sergei Semak, yet there was likewise one for the Portuguese Oscar Cardozo at 87' to achieve a draw; anyway a moment following a second objective from Shirokov gave Zenit the lead.

Milan 4-0 Arsenal: the harshest of the outcomes from this week has been the 4-0 that Milan nailed on Arsenal. The Italians had less ownership of the ball than the Gunners, however that didn't have any effect, at last the 53% of ball ownership that Arsenal had didn't implied anything. Kevin-Prince Boateng got in the score sheet at 15', trailed by Robinho scoring once on every half (38', 49') and to close the overwhelming thrashing a punishment was put by Zlatan Ibrahimovic after his comrade, Djourou, thumped him over.

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