P	W	D	L	F	A	PTS
Panathinaikos	6	4	0	2	8	3	12
Arsenal		6	3	0	3	9	9	9
Mallorca		6	3	0	3	4	9	9
Schalke		6	2	0	4	9	9	6

Phase 2
UEFA Cup


30 OCTOBER 2001

MALLORCA			1-0			PANATHINAIKOS
Biagini 57

Former prospect Biagini tapped in Eto'o's cross. Don't know what happened
to Pana's marking.


SCHALKE			3-1			ARSENAL
Mulder 2							Wiltord 71
Vermant 60
Moller 64

Sand flicked on Bohme's cross and Mulder tapped in. Luzhny was sent off
for elbowing Bohme. Matellan caught the £12 million flop Wiltord in
possession and sent the ball to Mulder who let it run under him with one
of the most awesome dummies I have ever seen, it was so good even
half the fans fell out of their seats, Vermant was left with a tap-in. The
best 'invisible' assist of all time! Moller added a third on the break.
Wiltord scored at the second attempt after his initial shot was blocked.

Wenger gave his usual excuses, blaming the sending off. Amazing how he
managed to forget Arsenal's almost 100% away record in Europe prior
to this match that is 100% lost.


24 OCTOBER 2001

ARSENAL			3-1			MALLORCA
Pires 61							Novo 74
Bergkamp 63
Henry 93

Pires made up for an earlier miss by giving Arsenal a long overdue lead from
Ljungberg's cross. Bergkamp got tremendous air time as he leapt to head
home Van Bronckhorst's cross. Campbell got caught ball watching as Campano
picked out Novo with a simple pass, he dummied Wright and passed the ball
into an empty net. Van Bronckhorst's quickly taken free kick released Henry
to race downfield and slot the ball into the corner.

Assists : Ljungberg, Van Bronckhorst (x2)


PANATHINAIKOS			2-0			SCHALKE
Olisadebe 31
Konstantinou 60

Karagounis swung a stunning cross into the box and Olisadebe timed his leap
to perfection as he climbed between two defenders to head in. Konstantinou
dribbled past a few players before unleashing a shot into the corner, great
goal.

Karagounis is absolutely class.

Assist : Karagounis


16 OCTOBER 2001

ARSENAL			2-1			PANATHINAIKOS
Henry 23, 52 (Pen)					Olisadebe 50

A brilliant tackle by Vieira in midfield lead to the opening goal. He slid in and
stripped the ball from a midfielder before releasing Henry, 1-0. Panathinaikos
were awarded a penalty when Olisadebe went down under Upson's challenge.
Basinas stepped up but Wright made a fantastic save. Arsenal then typically
(in Europe at least) made things difficult for themselves by gifting
Panathinaikos an equaliser. Olisadebe picked up the ball after a terrible
clearance by Campbell, humiliated Cole and his shot deflected in off Campbell.
Wiltord ran down the other end and won a penalty when sandwiched between
two defenders. Henry sent Nikopolidis the wrong way.

Assists : Vieira, Wiltord


MALLORCA			0-4			SCHALKE
							Van Hoogdalem 15
							Hajto 22 (Pen)
							Asamoah 77
							Sand 84

Sand knocked down Wilmot's cross and Van Hoogdalem knocked it into the net.
Hajto converted a penalty awarded for a foul on Asamoah. Asamoah headed in
a third after a serious of rebounds and Sand put Mallorca out of their misery
with another header.

Assists : Sand, Asamoah, Buskens


26 SEPTEMBER 2001

PANATHINAIKOS			1-0			ARSENAL
Karagounis 25

Pretenders Arsenal fell to the Greeks as many expected. Paulo Sousa (yes, he's
still playing!) stole the ball off Henry and sprayed it wide to Karagounis.
Karagounis returned Sousa's pass and continued his run forward, Sousa passed
to Bassinas, he released Michaelsen on the right wing and his cross was
spectacularly headed past a very SLOW Seamen by Karagounis. Fantastic
team goal.

Arsenal were made to look naïve at times. Seaman is an absolute liability.

Assist : Michaelsen


SCHALKE			0-1			MALLORCA
							Eto'o 66

A fantastic goal on the counter attack gave Mallorca the points.

Assist : Luque


19 SEPTEMBER 2001

ARSENAL			3-2			SCHALKE
Ljungberg 33						Hoogdalem 43
Henry 36, 47 (Pen)					Mpenza 59

Ljungberg's shot took a wicked deflection off Waldoch leaving Reck wrong footed.
Brilliant play by Van Bronckhorst gave Arsenal what should have been a
comfortable lead. He chipped a ball into Wiltord who returned it with a beautiful
flick, Van Bronckhorst ran through Vermant's challenge and centred for Henry who
turned and squeezed the ball inside the post. Wiltord tried to break from a corner
but Muller intercepted the ball and Arsenal watched his cross sail into the box,
Agali attempted an overhead kick but missed and Hoogdalem lashed the ball
Seamen via a deflection off the equally ancient Keown. Vieira threw himself over
Reck to win the penalty. Henry scored with ease. Mpenza capitalised on more
horrendous defending to head in Hajto's cross.

"I think the goalkeeper touched me. I can understand why they are upset but it's a
penalty. The referee gave it and it's part of the game."
Vieira's response to claims he dived

"The penalty was not really a penalty of course but Vieira is very clever and he
went down.  The referee does not have slow motion though so we cannot accuse
him of anything." Schalke Coach Huub Stevens

Assists : Van Bronckhorst, Muller, Vieira, Hajto


PANATHINAIKOS			2-0			MALLORCA
Vlaovic 25
Konstantinou 28

A brilliant opening goal. Michaelsen picked out Vlaovic with a superb 30yd cross
down the right, he waited for the ball to bounce and dropped a half volley into
the net. Three minutes later Mallorca were done on the right again. Vlaovic
headed on Michelsen's cross, Konstantinou flicked the ball over Nino, Leo Franca
again came off his line and Konstantinou poked the ball past him.

Assists : Michaelsen, Vlaovic


11 SEPTEMBER 2001

MALLORCA			1-0			ARSENAL
Engonga 11 (Pen)

Cole was sent off for a clumsy challenge on Luque in the box. Engonga made
Seaman look a complete twat with a cheeky penalty.

Assist : Luque
Red Card : Cole 11 (Arsenal)


Dennis
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SCHALKE			0-2		PANATHINAIKOS
						Vlaovic 75
						Basinas 80

In the wake of today's bombing the innagural European match at the
Gelserchihen stadium came into second perspective.  A moments silence was
held before kick-off in memory of the fallen in the attacks.

Turning to the match both teams seemed reluctant to attack early on with
few clear cut chances in the first half in general.  The second half offered
a bit more with the two teams raising their tempo and Panathinaikos opened
the scoring in the 75th minute with a direct free-kick from Croat Vlaovic
who slid the ball under the Schalke wall and into "grandfather" Reck's
corner after Konstantinou had won the foul near the edge of Schalke's box. 
Having scored Schalke tried to push forward but created few chances most 
long shots outside the box from Haito and Djordjevic.  This gave
Panathinaikos the chance to cap a great team performance on the night with a
great team effort for the second goal.  Cypriot hit-man Konstantinou was
able to turn and leave Waldoch standing, he dashed down the right flank,
crossed the ball low across the face of the goal with Vlaovic taking one of
the defenders with him leaving an unmarked Basinas to cap a wonderful move
with a cool finish placing the ball into Reck's bottom left corner.
Panathinaikos could have added to their goal tally had Vlaovic and Karagounis
been more careful in the closing minutes with their finishing.

Overall Panathinaikos deserved the win on the night, being by far the better
side keeping Schalke at bay, a Schalke team that disappointed not being able
to show any attributes of their exciting and attacking play that
distinguishes them as a team.

Attendance :  52,000
Assists :  Konstantinou (x2)