WILL LAZIO EQUALIZE TO MAKE IT 3-3 BETWEEN ITALY AND GERMANY IN UCL

Lazio won again against Bologna to extend the taste of victory to two wins out of two. Having won the first game of the Uefa Champions League tie against Bayer04 Leverkusen, Lazio’s win would be a massive boost and a strong psychological build-up towards facing the match.

       The weekend would soon elapse and the second legs of the Uefa Champions League would come to life and Lazio would play Bayer04 Leverkusen again. There are so many things up for grabs as Lazio would seek to make it 3-3 for Italian football so that Italian football would be represented by Juventus, Roma and Lazio, German football would be represented by Bayern Munich, Schalke and Wolfsburg.

        Lucas Biglia, Mauri and Antonio Candreva would be seeing to make it to the group stages of the Uefa Champions League proper. Bayer04 Leverkusen were no mean tasks last time round at the Estadio Olympico in Rome and would not be a mean side playing at home and having the twelfth man on the pitch.

         Whatever comes out of this game, an equalizer that makes it three all for Italian and German football from Lazio would see the Champions league lighten up with enough competition from across Europe and not centred around Spanish and English football. A win by a wide margin would see Bayer04 Leverkusen and Germany extend their representatives to four and make it 4-2.

         Both teams should prepare well and give fans the game that would thrill them and make it the tie of the qualifying phase aside from Valencia and AS Monaco.

WERDER BREMEN MUST WAKE UP

Great teams have come and gone Napoli did play their part, Deportivo La Coruna also did well but amongst others the 2009 UEFA CUP finalists are nowhere the places they deserve to be and they should fight back and come to the very top of the German Bundesliga and then transform their energies into the UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE.

  

After the 2010 Champions League qualification, their tie against Sampdoria proved to be the match of the qualifying round and they did not disappoint, eliminating Sampdoria at the Estadio Luigi Ferrari in Genoa with two goals from Claudio Pizzaro and Arnautovic. Their qualification to the group stage where they drew Internazionale Milano and Tottenham Hotspurs proved to be the real performances they have churned out in the limelight in as many years but they could only manage third place and back to the renamed Europa League.

Werder Bremen seems to be gradually losing the spirit that saw them play against heavyweights Barcelona, Milano and Internazionale in recent seasons and would need to get that love back as soon as possible.

After losing 3-0 to Schalke 04 at the Weserstadion and with a trip to the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on Friday night, Bremen have an uphill task and would have to do more to realize the first points of the season.

The current players of Werder Bremen should know how it feels like to play for Bremen, although they cannot compete financially with the powerhouses of Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, the current players can do more to make the team attractive so that the team gets back to its former state.

The fans at the Weserstadion would support the team no matter what but unlike footballers who get paid whether win or lose, fans joy only comes when the team performs well.

 Raphael Wolf, Clemens Fritz and the other members who make the core group of the Werder setup should step up their game so that smiles start covering the faces of the faithful Werder supporters.