At a party passed through the extreme cold, and conditioned by the dismal state of the pitch, Zenit St Petersburg suffered more than necessary to win in Russia Portuguese Benfica 3-2 at , that despite the defeat, won a major prize with two goals scored on the road, leaving the series open face the second leg to be played in three weeks Portugal

In the first leg of the knockout phase Europa League 2011-2012

Tuesday February 14

FK Rubin Kazan 0-1 Olympiakos 0-2 Besiktas Braga
Thursday February 16 Lokomotiv Moscow 2-1 Athletic Bilbao
Manchester United 0-2 Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar

Anderlecht 1-0 Atletico Madrid 1-3 Lazio
Sporting Lisbon 2-2 Legia Warsaw
SV Salzburg 0-4 Metalist Kharkiv FC Viktoria Plzen

Schalke 04 1-1 FC Porto 1-2 Manchester City
Hannover 96 2 – 1 Club Brugge 0-1 Steaua Bucuresti

Twente Enschede 0-1 Stoke City Valencia
Trabzonspor 1-2 PSV Eindhoven 0-0 Udinese

Easier thought it was the victory of Milan at the stadium before a stranger Arsenal This series of round of Champions Arsenal tried, but the search was rather unfortunate (in my opinion is the worst game that I have seen the Arsenal Champions League ), a team without ambition, delivered from the start of play, and without aspirations, the worst farewell to Thierry Henry who returns to soccer as the United States.

The German Bayer Leverkusen played a great task in the group stage of Champions League 2011-2012 , ranking second in the area E behind Chelsea English and leaving out of the competition to Valencia Now your opponent will be another Spanish team, nothing more and nothing less than a favorite of all, Barcelona The first leg will be played on Tuesday February 14 at the stadium BayArena of the city of Leverkusen Germany , while the leg will be played on Wednesday, March 7 at the Camp Nou

Real

will be key in a complicated second round of the Champions League , and also is always difficult to deal with the CSK Moscow , will fight in the game round the complications of low temperatures.

Real Madrid was the only teams in the group stage to achieve the 18 possible 18 points, becoming the absolute master of Group D, which were part French Lyon , Ajax Meanwhile, CSK Moscow

Italian and English star in a series Sexiest the knockout stages of Champions League 2011-2012

Two giants of European football will be the faces in the most striking series second round of the Champions League 2011-2012 The first match will be Wednesday, February 15 at the stadium Giuseppe Meazza Milan Milan must confront a high-ranking rival because he could not prevail in the group H (Barcelona finally won), so it necessarily had to wait in the drawing to a zone leader as an opponent, in this case, Arsenal

This Friday has made the draw for the knockout stages of the Champions League 2011-2012 , which has shed more attractive duels as the protagonists Napoli-Chelsea

event held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon from Barcelona and Real Madrid take on the role affordable rivals, Bayer Leverkusen and CSKA Moscow, Russian German, respectively, but the team will face a hard meringue over the harsh climate to be found in Russia.

The timing of the second round will be as follows:

Ida (14/15 or 21/22 February 2012) Olympique Lyon – Apoel
Napoli – Chelsea
Milan – Arsenal
Basel – Bayern Munich Bayer Leverkusen
– FC Barcelona CSKA Moscow
– Real Madrid Zenit St. Petersburg
– Olympique Marseille
Back (6 / 7 or 13/14 March 2012) Apoel – Olympique Lyon
Chelsea – N