After passing beyond the group stage of UEFA Champions League for the first time in nine years, Olympiakos will look to take stock of home advantage in an attempt to topple Chelsea FC will have spent two English opponents legs. Olympiakos have not conducted an English team since 2004/05 when they met Liverpool FC in the group stage of UEFA Champions League and then, failing to progress, Newcastle United FC in the Round second round of the UEFA Cup 16. In home games, against Liverpool were 1-0, but lost 3-1 to Newcastle. Olympiakos lost 4-0 at Newcastle leg of previously lost 3-1 at Anfield. In September, he distanced himself from Chelsea José Mourinho, who led the team to two semifinal appearances and an appearance in the Champions League round of 16 in three seasons, after Claudio Ranieri brought the blues to a place in semifinals 2003/04 , arrival.
Well the season before Mourinho, Avram Grant has picked up where their predecessors had left off, with Chelsea in another place in the last 16. While this stage is nothing new to Chelsea fans, Olympiakos fans are certainly enjoying their part to progress stage.The this time last year they did here was in 1998-99, when advanced to the final quarterfinals and were minutes away from defeat at Juventus arrive semifinals.Both parties are in the midst of the challenges for the title and prepare to meet with them, as Chelsea are chasing Arsenal and Manchester United in the Premier League, and Olympiakos are tangling with their fierce rivals AEK Athens and Panathinaikos Greek Super League.This tried to solve the Chelsea, as they have been dealing with injuries to several key players, John Terry (when not injured?) Frank Lampard, Andriy Shevchenko, Didier Drogba and all times of significant expenditure of which up due to injury. Grant also be supported by the recent form of Shaun Wright-Phillips, who may be in the best race of his career, Chelsea, and his two attackers in Ivory Coast, Drogba and Salomon Kalou, who rest until a success ( individually - both had three goals), African Nations Cup campaign for next Tuesday.
His remarks will undoubtedly be a boost to the lineup of Chelsea, as Nicolas Anelka, good as he can not do everything himself, and Claudio Pizarro, who was the only form of additional / current recentlyand experienced front of the bank is more often it will be interesting to see how not.It Drogba and Anelka link, since the agreement was not completed until Drogba had gone to Africa, and depending on what you use sign grant Huddersfield in the FA Cup v Saturday, the party leg in Greece, the 19 might actually be the first time that the two partners. That in itself might be a frightening prospect for both Olympiakos, where the two towards the goals set in right off the bat, or Chelsea, who have not seen exactly that blows this season, and if your Get It Going On finally opponents attack, and they do not, then it could spell trouble for the blues.
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