The UEFA Champions League schedule has a number of interesting and exciting matchups going on for Wednesday's action and teams like Chelsea, Arsenal, AC Milan and Barcelona are all looking for positive results as they move along on the calendar and the Blues have already started off well, getting a goal against Steua, while Barca also struck early on the day.
Galatasaray won 1-0 over Juventus after a goal in the 85th minute from Wesley Sneijder and that came after the match was pushed into Wednesday after snow stopped it on Tuesday. Close to the half Marseille was 1 - 1 with Borussia Dortmund after goals from Robert Lewandowski and Souleymane Diawara, while Arsenal and Napoli were scoreless late in the first half of their match.
Atletico Madrid started off fast with a 2 - 0 lead on FC Porto after Raúl García and Diego Costa scored and AC Milan and Ajax were scoreless in the first half as well, while Zenit St Petersburg went 1-0 against Austria Vienna with a score from Alexander Kerzhakov. Barcelona was up after seven minutes on Celtic, while the round of 16 will be coming up soon and this could be the last chance for some teams to get points.
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Arsenal has been playing very well this season across all leads and now they have a chance to make some noise in UEFA along with the Premier League. Strong and powerful, the 20-year-old dominated the midfield as England manager Roy Hodgson watched on. Barkley released Kevin Mirallas in one early raid but he narrowly failed to pick out Lukaku.
Hodgson would have also noted the performance of Costa Rican fullback Bryan Oviedo who linked well with Steven Pienaar down the left to keep Arsenal pinned back.
Despite their territorial dominance, Everton failed to muster many clear chances and Arsenal ended the half in style.
Everton keeper Howard had to react sharply to deny Giroud and again when Ozil played in Jack Wilshere.
Arsenal began the second period at much higher tempo than they did the first and Santi Cazorla should have given them the lead but could only head straight at the grateful Howard.
Pienaar brought a good save out of Szczesny and the Pole beat away a fierce blast from Berkley after a mix-up in defence allowed him a sight of goal.
Wenger made a triple substitution with a little over 20 minutes remaining, taking off Cazorla, Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey with Walcott, Rosicky and Mathieu Flamini joining the fray.
Flamini almost made an instant impact, driving a left-footed shot just wide of the far post and Barkley forced a fine stop from Szczesny.
The game looked to be heading for stalemate until the furious finale concluded another hectic weekend in the Premier League which saw defeats for Manchester United and Chelsea.
(Reuters)
