It is better to to congratulate the young boys of Arsenal who destroyed Slavia Prague yesterday. It was really an eye catching football at London, where Arsenal defeated Slavia for 7-0 score line. Above all the score and performance, they contributed a genuine striker for England in Teo Walcott. The holding premier league champions Manchester United also marked an authoritative victory against Dynamo Kiev and performance of your young stars Christiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney were quiet impressive.

In general, the two days of European Champions League was more comfortable for the leading European teams from England, Italy and Spain. Liverpool, the runner up of last year, along with Valencia, the Spanish giants remained as only losers among top flying European teams. They lost to Turkish team Besiktas and Norwegian team Rosenburg respectively. Spanish league champion Real Madrid fought out a home victory against Greek club Olympiacos after trailing for 1-2 by the beginning of halftime. Real converted the deficit of one goal as a profit of two goals by the end with a score line of 4-2.

It was Barcelona, who didn't live up to the expectations. The team playing with the best strikers in the world failed to find a goal against Scottish club Rangers. In the absence of Eto'o, their attacking line up contained three best players in the world -Henry, Messi, and Ronaldinho- but failed to open the score sheet. Here the defense tactics of Rangers reaped the success. At the end of the game, Lionel Messi of Barcelona declared that Barca lost to the 'anti-football' of Rangers, but in reality, they lost to a good team who utilized their maximum resource efficiently. On the other hand, it was Barca who disapponited the people who watched the game.

Chelsea's performance was really great. They found their rhythm back after dismissal of their charismatic manager Jose Mourinho. Avram Grant is not a media entertainer like Jose but he is slowly tightening his grip on the team and coming out with a better result than expected. Interestingly, one should congratulate him for playing Chelsea an entertaining football. Chelsea lost their Jose, but they still have all ingredients in the team to win matches and most of their players are world class.

Liverpool, i don't know what to say. No idea, whether it was the pressure on the team from expectations or a tactical approach of Rafel Benitez to prepare their team for making a league victory against Arsenal by losing an in between game??? But, this lose made their position weak for the second round. After spending huge money to rebuild the squad, it is a very disappointing result from a club like Liverpool. Sorry to say another thing, Rafa is also moving towards the footsteps of Jose Mourinho. Liverpool was playing much better entertaining game under Gerald Houllier, the manager before Rafa and they reached in better position in the league than Rafa reached. Only gain Rafa made was winning Champions League in 2004-5 and taking them to the finals of 2006-07. If they lost another game and come out from CL, i am sure, the fans of Liverpool will ask for another manager.

Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger are doing well in the CL and Premier League with their expensive and inexpensive squads respectively. Sir Alex spent more than 50 million GBP to rebuild the squad and added fire power in the attack by buying Carlos Tavez. An attacking formation combines Ronaldo, Tavez and Rooney can terrorize any team in the Premier League and CL. On the other side, Wenger assembled an inexpensive squad which is based on the performance of young players from various countries. With such an young squad, he produced a great entertaining football for the viewers. In Tuesday’s game, 5 of Arsenal goals come from players who were not completed their teens. Walcott, the 17 year English striker Fabregas the 19 year old Spanish midfielder and Bendtner, the 18 year tall striker from Denmark marked their goals along with Alexander Hleb, one of the senior member of the squad. It was a great achievement.

This weekend, the youngsters of Arsenal is going for a touch match against Liverpool at Anfield. This will be litmus test for them and if they win it, one can easily say, the magician in Wenger is ready to add another feather in his cap.