Nicolas Anelka: "Hopefully, we'll add"

Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka has expressed hope that the course of the season "blue" be added. As said by the French footballer, assembled in London a great team.

"We have a good team. We know how to score and prove it on the field. It has a positive effect on the morale of the team, because the enemy knows: everyone can score." Chelsea had a good start, I hope it will be even better. Next week will be difficult because the matches will go a dense flow. I'm normally to what is sometimes left on the bench. We have a lot of class players, so you may have to stay out of the starting composition "- leads the London club's official website words Anelka.

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Zenith started with a victory in the League of Europe over Anderlecht

 

FC Zenit St. Petersburg won a major victory on the road in the opening match of group stage of European League of the Belgian Anderlecht.

Outright Group G, which was held in Brussels on Thursday, ended with the score 3:1 in favor of the team from the banks of the Neva. Hero of the match was formulated in first-half hat-trick and Alexander Kerzhakov (8 th, 33 rd, 44 th minute). Forward Zenit opened the scoring after a perfect flank overhang Sergei Semak, who acted in this match for himself in an unaccustomed position of right back. The second goal Russia striker scored after a one-on-one with the goalkeeper, which he organized the Roman Shirokov.The third ball into the goal Silva v. Kerzhakov organized itself, breaking through a powerful strike from 20 meters in nine.

The home a ball played, thanks to scoring from a corner defender Ronald Yuhas in the second half.

In a parallel match of Group G Greek AEK defeated Croat "Hajduk" - 3:1.

The next match Zenit hold on September 30 in St. Petersburg against AEKa. "Hajduk" will play at home to Anderlecht.

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The march of Chelsea, Real Madrid and Arsenal in the European Cup

 


Ligochempionsky tournament for English Chelsea began with the defeat of the visiting Slovak "Zilina". Marked duplicate of Nicolas Anelka, even on a goal from Michael Essien scored and Daniel Sturridge. Anelka scored his devoted French football federation, which disqualified player in 18 international appearances for the organization of the insurgency during the World Cup, but Carlo Ancelotti made no secret of joy for a good start in the tournament: "If you want to know my reaction, I must say that I am very very pleased, because we are in the Champions League started with a win. And even 1.4 on the road. "

The winner of Tuesday's Champions League Mourinho started with a victory and a new ligochempionskom cycle, and at the same stadium where he celebrated his victory with Inter Milan. " New Portuguese team Real Madrid defeated 2:0 at home, "Santiago Bernabeu" Dutch "Ajax." Mourinho said the good organization of the game and the complete domination of their squads. "Last year I saw a lot of matches of Real Madrid and well remember them.The best on the field was Iker Casillas. And in our last three games he hardly touched the ball. " 

Under the "H" London Arsenal took the scalp with Braga, leaving unanswered six holes in the hull Portuguese. Andrei Arshavin was noted by one of the heads and two more assists. Two goals against Braga had Cesc Fabregas and Carlos Vela, according to Euronews. Steering Arsenal Arsene Wenger was pleased with the play of his players and said that Fabregas has shown real leadership qualities. "We played as planned. Effectively. My players showed a well-organized command and more technical game. " Arsenal became a leader in its group. After 2 weeks of wards Arsene Wenger will go to Belgrade, where they were waiting for his next fight with the local "Partizan".

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Djokovic and Federer in a hurry to meet in a semifinal tennis tournament US Open

  

Djokovic figured out with American James Blake - 6:1, 7:6 (7:4), 6:3. And Federer easily beat Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu - 6:4, 6:3, 6:3. For access to the quarterfinals of the tournament Serbian tennis player to argue with another representative of the United States Mardy Fishem.But Federer will be the next rival Austrian Jurgen Melzer. Meeting a Serb and a possible Swiss in the semifinals, but on condition that these leaders are male tennis win the next two games.

Federer and Djokovic invariably occur on US Open the past three years. And in all three cases was stronger than the Swiss - twice in the semifinals and in 2007, the year in the final.

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Amerikanka dream to be like Sharapova.

Young American tennis players want to be like Maria Sharapova, and still they want to meet with her on the court and beat her. Rossiyanka just 23 years, but more often it occurs on the court with those who grew up looking at her poster on the wall.

"When they tell me that they want to be like me, this is not so disheartening and shocking, as at least strange. I know that is far from perfect. There are many things in which I was not good enough. I always tell them: "You should strive to be better than me or anyone else", - quotes its Associated Press. The match against idol

Rossiyanka to match the fourth lap US Open against 18-year-old Beatrice Capra, located in the world ranking at 371 th place. However, the low position has not prevented an American deal first with the Croat Karolina Shprem (6:1, 6:3), and then with the French Aravan Rezai (7:6, 7:6).

The match with his idol she called "an amazing experience." "I know that it will be very hard to compete. When I was younger, I tried to be like her, and I think this match will understand, I had reached the required level ", - told Capra about the upcoming game. In the footsteps of Udine

Young tennis player recognizes that carefully reviewed last year's game of his compatriot Melanie Udine, which was able to defeat Sharapova and reach the quarterfinals of the tournament.

As a pupil of the Academy of Florida Evert, Capra has received an invitation to a tournament, which played out wild-card at the US Open and won his qualifying for the first time in life to play in the tournament "Grand Slam". Not only in the U.S.

Alignment with Sharapova not only in the U.S., but in her homeland, Russia. In its quest to be like that at one time recognized Anastasia Pivovarova.

"I love her for real Russian nature - unyielding on the court and friendly in their daily lives. For all time of our conversation, I never had the feeling that in front of me a man, a former world number one player, who won three Grand Slam "- told in May, the young athlete" Soviet sport ".

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Physicists explain "the greatest" goal of Roberto Carlos.

News chunk brought to you the best report on this belated discovery.

Scientists found that one of the most spectacular goals in the history of football was not the result of mere luck. They confirmed that in 1997 the Brazilian Roberto Carlos sent the ball intentionally with a penalty kick into the goal by the French in particular arc of the curve.

Goalkeeper Fabien Barthez did not move from their seats and looked astonished. Fans and experts believed that this attack contradicts the laws of physics or turned accidentally.

However, a group of French researchers derived a formula that describes a similar trajectory.They argue that it can repeat, if you hit the ball hard enough to give it a certain rotation and, most importantly, if you stay far enough from the gate.

Carlos scored a legendary goal in the first leg of the international friendly tournament Tournoi de France, held in France on the eve of the 1998 World Cup.

Backspin and pruning

Results trajectory published in the journal The New Journal of Physics.

"We showed that the ball was not just podkruchen, but also flew in a spiral reminiscent of a snail shell - told BBC Christophe clan from the Paris Institute of Ecole Polytechnique. - And the closer to the target curve increased.

Since Roberto Carlos struck the ball with the outer side of the foot with a fairly large distance - about 35 feet - the ball going away from the gate right at the beginning, became more and more wrapped up the left and managed to fit in turn conceived player and touch the inside of the rod.The audience thought it unlikely.

It is believed that the ball can also give the rotation and on an inclined axis of a kick (kick "dry leaves"). Then he was on the last part of the trajectory falls sharply.

Christophe Clan and his colleague David KERE learned all this when studying the flight of plastic balls in a container filled with water. This eliminated the influence of eddies of air and reduce the earth's gravity to bring your motion to that which describes the formula.

"At present the pitch sometimes you see something like a perfect flight of a spiral, but its gravity bends, - the doctor said clan. - But if you hit so hard, as did Carlos, you can reduce the influence of Earth's gravity to a minimum."

The decisive factor, deceived Barthez and stunned the audience, scientists believe a large distance of ball flight.

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Sharapova, Wozniacki, Nadal and Djokovic enter into the struggle on US Open

Match with Maria Sharapova, Rafael Nadal, Caroline Wozniacki, and Novak Djokovic will be the main events of the second game of the day at the U.S. Open tennis.

On Tuesday evening, Sharapova won the US Open in 2006, will meet in the first round with the representative of Australia's Jarmila Grotto on the court named after Arthur Ashe. The first racket of the world, Spaniard Nadal Teimuraz Gabashvili proekzamenuet Russians, located in the tail of the first hundred of the world ranking. Dane Wozniacki, received the first issue of seeding on US Open-2010 after injury Serena Williams, will start his tournament way duel with American Chelsey Gullickson. The Serb Djokovic, seeded number three, will play against compatriot Viktor Troicki.

In addition to Sharapova and Gabashvili, their first round matches in singles will host the following representatives of Russia:

Vera Zvonareva (7) - Zuzana Kuçova (Slovakia)

Svetlana Kuznetsova (11) - Kimiko Date-Krumm (Japan)

Maria Kirilenko (23) - Barbora Zaglavova-Stryków (Czech Republic)

Anna Chakvetadze - Ursula Radwańska (Poland)

Nadia Petrova (17) - Andrea Petkovic (Germany)

Alla Kudryavtseva - Ioannina Vikmayer (Belgium, 15),

Regina Kulikova - Anastasia Sevastova (Latvia).

Also in the program on Tuesday it may be noted match Serb woman Elena Jankovic (4) against her Halep of Romania.

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