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As all of you know the Champions League got rolling a couple weeks ago.
Eight groups of four, the best club teams of the 07-08 season in Europe, are battling to take the trophy from Manchester United, last year's victor. This is the most prestigious tournament in club soccer.
Since I track Manchester United most closely I'll catch you up on their situation.
They have found themselves in a challenging but still optimistic situation within Group E.
Group E:
Manchester United (07-08 English champions and 07-08 Champions League champions), Villareal (07-08 Spanish runner-up), Aalborg Boldspilklub (07-08 Danish champions), and Celtic (07-08 Scottish champions).
Each team will play their group opponents twice, once at home and once away. Tomorrow's games start the second of 6 games played within the group stage. Manchester United will be traveling to Aalborg after their 0-0 draw with Villareal at home. Fortunately the other two teams within their group (Aalborg and Celtic) also ended in a scoreless draw so little ground was lost.
After the first round of matches a couple formidable teams to watch are Chelsea and Inter.
Check back in later this week to find out how Manchester faired against Aalborg.
Manchester United after winning the 07-08 tournament.
***UPDATE***
3-0 Manchester, thanks to Wayne Rooney (22') and Dimitar Berbatov (55' and 79')
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