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Guardiola: Totti is phenomenal

Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola has admitted that he cannot believe that former Roma team-mate Francesco Totti is still playing at the highest level.

The Catalan joined the Giallorossi in the summer of 2002 but left halfway through the season after failing to nail down a regular berth in the starting line-up and eventually hung up his boots for good four years later.

Totti, though, is still going and, at 38, became the oldest goalscorer in Champions League history when he netted in Roma's 1-1 draw at Manchester City a fortnight ago.Guardiola has now returned to the Italian capital as a coach and the former playmaker was quick to lavish praise on his old colleague.

"It's good to be back," the Bayern boss enthused. "Here in Rome I was a player just for six months. It was a short but great time.

"Of course, when I played for Roma I sat on the bench and Totti was on the field. And it's still the same!"Anyone still playing at the age of 38 has a great passion for this sport. That's phenomenal."Normally at the age of 38, a professional player has earned enough money and quits. Totti still plays and that's because he loves this game."

Despite his enduring admiration for both Totti and Roma, Guardiola is desperate to lead Bayern to victory in the first part of their crucial double-header with the Serie A side.The former Barca boss is well aware of the threat posed by Rudi Garcia's men but he feels that the Bavarians, who have won five games on the bounce in all competitions, are playing better now than they were at this point last season.

"We have a great opportunity here," Guardiola argued. "If we win both matches against Roma, we will reach the knockout stage."But if we do not play well, we will not win. Roma are a good team and they have many fast players.

"But, at the moment, are playing better than we were at the same stage last year."
Bayern top Group E with six points, two clear of second-placed Roma.

 

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WBA vs Manchester United 2-2 2014 All Goals

 

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UEFA Champions League Group Stage Fixtures 2014.10.21

UEFA Champions League Group Stage Fixtures 2014.10.21

CSKA Vs Manchester City

Roma Vs Bayern

Barcelona Vs Ajax

Schalke Vs Sporting

APOEL Vs PSG

BATE Vs Shakhtar

Chelsea Vs Maribor

Porto Vs Athletic

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After 30th Minute

Roma 0 Vs 4 Bayern


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Penalty for Bayern

5-0?
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Muller Scores............

& Now 5-0 Bayern up
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Half Time

Roma 0 Vs 5 Bayern
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BATE 0-7 Shakhtar: Adriano equals Messi record in rout

Luiz Adriano hit a record-equalling five goals as Shakhtar Donetsk hammered BATE 7-0 in Borisov on Tuesday night.

The Ukrainian champions struggled in their opening two group games, letting slip of a two-goal lead in the final four minutes of their previous match against Porto to draw 2-2.

But there was little danger of that happening in Borisov on Tuesday as they blitzed BATE in the opening 45 minutes and became the first team to score six times in the first half of a Champions League game.

Luiz Adriano plundered a 12-minute hat-trick - the third-fastest in Champions League history - adding a fourth just before the break, after Alex Teixeira had opened the scoring in the 11th minute.

Douglas Costa also netted, seven minutes after Luiz Adriano got his first from the penalty spot before the latter added another from the spot late on.The striker is only the second player to score five times in a Champions League game after Barcelona's Lionel Messi.

Luiz Adriano's haul means Shakhtar coach Mircea Lucescu will now be relishing the return game in two weeks as he eyes a place in the knockout stages.

BATE had initially appeared in control of a scrappy opening, with their visitors camped behind the ball early on.

That was until it was given away cheaply in midfield in the 11th minute and Taison skipped away to thread the perfect through-ball for Teixeira to round the goalkeeper and open the scoring.

Taison almost repeated the trick at the wrong end five minutes later, as his loose backpass was picked up by Maksim Volodko, who beat goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov - only for Darijo Srna to produce an impressive diving clearance.

Shakhtar duly doubled their lead in the 28th minute when Taison and Teixeira combined in almost identical circumstances to the opening goal. However, this time goalkeeper Sergey Chernik felled Teixeira as he raced through and Luiz Adriano tucked away from the penalty spot.BATE began to chase the game and were picked off on the break.

Shakhtar's third goal, in the 35th minute, came from a BATE corner, with Taison instrumental once again. The Brazilian took the ball into the BATE half before exchanging passes with Luiz Adriano and slipping through for Costa to finish.

The hosts had barely regained possession when yet more poor defending allowed Luiz Adriano to run across his defender and convert Vyacheslav Shevchuk's low cross from the left at the front post two minutes later.

The striker completed his hat-trick on 40 minutes as he reacted quickest as the ball dropped and defenders watched, to thrash in from close range.And he took his tally for the night to four one minute before half-time when two BATE defenders followed the ball instead of tracking the on-rushing Shevchuk, who squared for Luiz Adriano's easiest strike of the lot.

Shakhtar looked the most likely to score after the break as Luiz Adriano hit the post with a powerful header from Bernard's cross in the 66th minute.But his fifth did arrive from the penalty spot in the 82nd minute after being brought down in the box himself.

 

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Barcelona 3-1 Ajax: Messi leads Blaugrana past Dutch champions

Neymar and Lionel Messi helped Barcelona get their Champions League campaign back on track with a 3-1 win over Ajax at Camp Nou.

The star forward duo have now both scored in each of Barca's past five matches and Neymar gladly accepted a pass from his partner in crime to net an early opener on Tuesday.

Messi doubled the advantage in the 24th minute - his ninth goal of the season - and the prospect of Luis Enrique's team bouncing back from their surprise 3-2 loss at Paris Saint-Germain last time out in the Champions League was rarely in doubt until substitute Anwar El Ghazi struck in the 88th minute to set up a tense finale.

Ajax pressed for an equaliser, allowing Neymar's replacement Sandro to seal the points on the break.

Barcelona can now look ahead to Saturday's eagerly anticipated La Liga showdown with Real Madrid - where Luis Enrique will finally have the enviable option of combining Luis Suarez with Neymar and Messi in a formidable attacking trio.

Ajax - now without a win in nine away matches in Europe's premier club competition - handed a first Champions League start to left winger Ricardo Kishna, while Barcelona again selected Marc-Andre ter Stegen for European action despite the goalkeeper's shaky showing in Paris.

Messi started the night three goals shy of Raul's all-time record of 71 Champions League goals, but the mercurial Argentine played the role of provider in the seventh minute.

Some slick one-touch play from Barca allowed Messi to drive at the Ajax defence and thread a perfectly-weighted pass into the path of Neymar, who passed the ball home first-time.

Messi snatched at an opening of his own four minutes later but he made no mistake midway through the half, just as Ajax appeared to be growing into the contest.

Niki Zimling struck an aimless pass into midfield and Andres Iniesta needed little invitation to thread a trademark through-ball to Messi, whose shot squeezed home despite goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen’s best efforts.

That goal forced Ajax into the unenviable position of having to chase Barca, and the visitors were almost picked off on the break after 29 minutes when Messi found Pedro, the Spain international shooting against the base of the right-hand post.

Iniesta sauntered through the Ajax defence six minutes before half-time, only for Cillessen to deny him, and Ajax almost had a lifeline before the break when Kolbeinn Sigthorsson's shot spun wide having taken a deflection off Gerard Pique.

Barcelona resumed on the front foot and Messi prodded the ball into the net from an offside position when Cillessen parried Pedro's well-stuck 49th-minute drive, before the Barca talisman weaved through several challenges to shoot into the side netting.

Ricardo van Rhijn then sent a low effort narrowly wide from Lasse Schone's pass and Ajax were offered another moment of encouragement in the 63rd minute when Pique nervously sliced a left-wing cross from Arkadiusz Milik onto the roof of his own net.

Either side of that scare, Neymar and Messi departed to standing ovations but Barcelona appeared to shift focus to their weekend engagement as they closed the match in disjointed fashion.

El Ghazi bundled the ball home from close range and then Jordi Alba was forced into a desperate challenge to stop the teenage winger from levelling matters, before Sandro scored his vital third goal of the season in stoppage time.

 

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Chelsea 6-0 Maribor: Drogba & Hazard strike in Blues romp

Didier Drogba scored his first goal for Chelsea since the 2012 Champions League final as the Blues thrashed Maribor 6-0 at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday.

The veteran striker, who netted with both a late equaliser and the deciding penalty versus Bayern Munich in Germany two-and-a-half years ago, obliged from the spot again in a welcome easy win.

Chelsea had begun their European campaign with a lacklustre draw against Schalke and a hard-fought victory at Sporting Lisbon, but they are now firmly on course to top their group for the ninth time in 12 seasons.

The one negative on a comfortable night for Jose Mourinho's side was a groin injury suffered by opening scorer Loic Remy.

With Diego Costa nursing a hamstring problem, the Premier League leaders could now be short of attacking options for Sunday's domestic trip to Manchester United.

Maribor were unbeaten in eight Champions League games this term prior to this, including a win at Celtic and two draws in Group G, but they were outclassed by Chelsea's slick passing and movement on this occasion.

Captain John Terry also netted for the hosts and Eden Hazard scored a late double, while the visitors' misery was compounded by an own goal from Mitja Viler and a missed spot-kick by Agim Ibraimi.

Petr Cech enjoyed his second start of the season, with Thibaut Courtois rested on the bench alongside Gary Cahill, as Kurt Zouma also came in.

Filipe Luis featured at left-back in front Cesar Azpilicueta – sent off against Crystal Palace on Saturday - with Remy up front as Costa and Andre Schurrle missed out through injury and illness.

Chelsea survived an early scare when Damjan Bohar headed over from a Viler cross, but they were in front after 13 minutes when Remy latched onto a through ball from Terry, cut inside and clinically found the bottom-right corner of the net.

However, the France forward suffered a groin injury in making that shot and had to be replaced by Drogba, who doubled Chelsea's advantage when sending the goalkeeper the wrong way with a 23rd minute spot-kick after Ales Mertelj was somewhat harshly penalised for handball.

It was three on the half-hour mark as Chelsea broke away from defending a corner and a superb move involving Hazard and Cesc Fabregas was rather surprisingly finished off by Terry at the far post.

The fourth came nine minutes into the second period when Filipe caused havoc by surging down the left and his cross was cut back by Hazard, before deflecting into the net off Viler for an own goal.

Maribor were offered a chance to hit back when Nemanja Matic bundled over Ibraimi in the box, but the striker then hit the post with his penalty.

England youth international Dominic Solanke was given his Chelsea debut shortly after his 17th birthday when replacing Oscar.

Willian hit the crossbar with a thunderous long-range strike before Branislav Ivanovic went down in the area and this time Hazard coolly slotted home from the spot.

The Belgium international then put the icing on the cake in the 90th minute when racing onto a long throughball from Nathan Ake before firing in his second and Chelsea's sixth.

 

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Schalke 4-3 Sporting: Choupo-Moting settles seven-goal thriller

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting's 93rd-minute penalty earned Roberto Di Matteo's Schalke an incredible 4-3 win over Sporting Lisbon.

Choupo-Moting was the beneficiary of a questionable decision from referee Sergey Karasev, who felt Jonathan Silva handled the ball in his penalty area.

And the Cameroon forward held his nerve, slotting home the stoppage time spot-kick to give Schalke all three points in an incredible Champions League match on Tuesday.

Sporting took a 16th-minute lead through Nani, but Patricio's second yellow card - given 17 minutes later after he barged into Marco Hoger - swung the match in Schalke's favour.Chinedu Obasi first levelled proceedings, and further goals from Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Benedikt Howedes after the break gave Schalke a seemingly unassailable 3-1 lead.

Adrien Silva had other ideas, though, first scoring a penalty before he headed in a 78th-minute equaliser for the 10 men from Portugal.But just when Di Matteo - who saw his side beat Hertha Berlin 2-0 on Saturday in his first match in charge - was contemplating how his side snatched a draw from the jaws of victory, Choupo-Moting stepped up, giving Schalke their first Group G triumph of the campaign.

The result marked a successful return to the Champions League for Di Matteo, who led Chelsea to glory in Europe's premier club competition in 2012, only to be sacked later that year.

Sporting - buoyed by a 3-1 Taca de Portugal win over Porto on Saturday - started brightly, with Nani and Islam Slimani having early efforts on goal.

The hosts, meanwhile, were lacklustre and could have few complaints when Sporting took the early lead.Joao Mario's corner - rolled along the ground towards the top of the penalty area - caught Schalke napping and Nani pounced, sending a deflected 15-yard effort beyond Ralf Fahrmann.

Julian Draxler almost produced an immediate response, volleying just wide at the back post, while Slimani's night ended early when he limped off clutching an apparent hamstring injury - Fredy Montero replacing him in the 25th minute.Mauricio's red card swung the match in Schalke's favour, though, and they levelled proceedings from the resultant free-kick.

Dennis Aogo's free-kick was nodded towards goal by Obasi from 10 yards and, despite getting two hands to it, Sporting goalkeeper Rui Patricio could not keep it out.Schalke took the lead five minutes into the second half, when from a quick break, Draxler burst down the left and found Obasi, who slipped a neat pass through to Huntelaar.

And the Netherlands man made no mistake, holding his nerve to slot into the bottom-left corner from 12 yards.Obasi shot just wide four minutes later but Schalke did not wait long to extend their lead - Howedes heading Kaan Ayhan's free-kick in on the hour mark.

Sporting kept themselves in the contest when Ayhan brought Andre Carrillo down in the box, Adrien Silva coolly dispatching the resultant penalty.And the goalscorer was not done yet, heading in Cedric's excellent cross with 12 minutes left to set up a grandstand finish.

Schalke surged forward in search of a fourth goal, but looked like they may have to settle for a draw until Karasev pointed to the spot, as Choupo-Moting saved the day for his new coach.

 

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Porto 2-1 Athletic Bilbao: Quaresma bypasses the Basques with late winner

Ricardo Quaresma's late strike helped strengthen Porto's grip on Group H of the Champions League as they beat Athletic Bilbao 2-1.

The experienced winger struck 15 minutes from time at the Estadio Do Dragao on Tuesday to keep the hosts two points clear of Shakhtar Donetsk, who moved into second with a 7-0 trouncing of BATE.

Julen Lopetegui's side created the better chances early on and were rewarded when Hector Herrera opened the scoring shortly before the interval.

The Mexico international coolly fired home after a sublime ball from Juan Quintero, butGuillermo Fernandez's first goal since February brought Ernesto Valverde's men level.

Quaresma eventually grabbed the decisive strike, cutting in from the left-hand side and firing in an effort that goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz failed to keep out.

Winless Athletic remain rooted to the bottom of the group ahead of the return fixture at the San Mames Stadium next month.Porto showed the most attacking intent early on without initially managing to get behind the Spanish side's defence.It took 16 minutes for a first effort on target to arrive as Quintero's curled strike from distance was collected by Iraizoz.

Bilbao were denied a penalty when Bruno Martins Indi clattered into Aritz Aduriz with referee Damir Skomina instead awarding a free-kick for a foul on the Netherlands international.

Cristian Tello dragged a shot wide for Porto seven minutes before the half-hour mark but Athletic's Mikel San Jose came closest in a first half of few chances when he rattled Fabiano's right-hand post with a deflected strike from outside the area.

The Porto goalkeeper then gave coach Lopetegui a minor scare when he flapped at Markel Susaeta's delivery, but the hosts claimed the lead shortly before the break courtesy of Herrera's swept finish.After taking care to remain onside, he had time and space to dispatch Quintero's clever pass.

Athletic pulled level 13 minutes into the second half when Fernandez got onto the end of Benat's incisive pass before cutting inside Maicon and beating Fabiano to restore parity.With a draw looking likely, Quaresma was Porto's hero late on as he registered his first Champions League goal since scoring against Besiktas in December 2007 during his first spell with the club.

Fabiano was required to keep out Aymeric Laporte's header late on as Porto held out to extend their advantage at the summit.

 

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Roma 1-7 Bayern Munich: Robben rampant as Bavarians send out Champions League warning

Bayern Munich produced a scintillating display to batter Roma 7-1 and take firm control of Champions League Group E on Tuesday.

The Germans were expected to face a difficult task in Rome, but Pep Guardiola's men made a mockery of those predictions as they ran riot.

Roma had lost just one competitive home match in 2014 and conceded only once in five wins at the Stadio Olimpico this term, but Rudi Garcia's side were left shell-shocked by Bayern's blitz of five goals in the space of 28 first-half minutes.Arjen Robben started the rout before Mario Gotze - who scored twice in Bayern's 6-0 demolition of Werder Bremen on Saturday - doubled the advantage.

Robert Lewandowski's header made it 3-0 after 25 minutes before Robben's second and a contentious Thomas Muller penalty added further gloss.

Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer had kept clean sheets in his last eight matches and appeared destined to extend that run with superb saves in the second half from Alessandro Florenzi and Gervinho before the latter scored a consolation in the 66th minute.

It proved brief respite for Roma, though, as substitutes Franck Ribery and Xherdan Shaqiri capped a wonderful evening for the Bundesliga champions, who can now reach the knockout stages by beating Roma in the return match at the Allianz Arena on November 5, as Manchester City could only draw 2-2 at CSKA Moscow earlier on Tuesday.

It took Bayern just eight minutes to find the breakthrough as Robben played a swift one-two with Philipp Lahm before cutting inside former Chelsea team-mate Ashley Cole down the Roma left and providing a trademark curling finish into the far corner.Roma almost found a quick response when Gervinho latched on to Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa's through ball, but he was thwarted by a smart stop from Neuer.

However, Roma's evening soon unravelled in stunning fashion.First, Gotze finished a wonderfully crafted move after 23 minutes, receiving a flick from Muller and side-footing into the left-hand corner from the edge of the box.

It became 3-0 less than two minutes later when the unmarked Lewandowski adjusted his feet well in the penalty area to head home Juan Bernat's left-wing cross.

Lewandowski then turned provider for the fourth with a well-weighted pass for Robben and his strike was too powerful for Roma goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis.

The fifth arrived 10 minutes before the break when Kostas Manolas was harshly adjudged to have handled while sliding to block David Alaba's low cross and Muller placed the resulting penalty into the bottom right-hand corner.

With the game essentially over as a contest, Bayern relaxed after the break and Roma almost capitalised when Gervinho's shot rebounded off the post in the 54th minute.Shortly after, substitute Florenzi's half-volley brought the best out of Neuer, who stood tall to beat away the shot.

Neuer then showed why he is considered one of the best goalkeepers in the world when he somehow kept out Gervinho's point-blank shot inside the six-yard box after he met Miralem Pjanic's free-kick.Gervinho finally got the better of Neuer, though, when he nodded home Radja Nainggolan's cross at the back post.

Bayern were not finished, though, and Ribery's sublime deft chip restored his side's five-goal lead before De Sanctis spilled Rafinha's 20-yard shot and Shaqiri rounded the goalkeeper to slot home.

 

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CSKA Moscow 2-2 Manchester City: Pellegrini's men throw away two-goal lead to leave Champions League hopes in tatters

A late Bibras Natkho penalty earned CSKA Moscow a 2-2 draw with Manchester City on Tuesday and left the Premier League champions' European hopes in tatters in the process.

City manager Manuel Pellegrini had described the Group E clash as a must-win game, but Natkho's late strike denied the visitors at an Arena Khimki without supporters due to UefA sanctions following issues of racism and crowd trouble.

Goals from Sergio Aguero and James Milner had looked set to prove the difference for City in the first match of their double-header against the Russian side.

The English champions moved ahead after 29 minutes when the in-form Aguero continued his goalscoring streak with a simple finish, before Milner added a second seven minutes prior to the break.

With City on course for a first European win since last December, Seydou Doumbia pulled one back for Leonid Slutsky's side and, as the home side increased the pressure, they were rewarded when a sloppy challenge from Aleksandar Kolarov on Ahmed Musa resulted in a spot-kick being awarded with four minutes remaining.

Natkho converted to rescue his side's first point of the campaign and ensure City missed the chance to apply pressure to Bayern Munich and Roma.

Musa scored twice in CSKA's 6-0 win over Kuban Krasnodar at the weekend and almost opened the scoring on Tuesday with a fizzed effort that veered wide of Joe Hart's left-hand post.

Former Manchester United man Zoran Tosic was next to threaten 10 minutes in as City, having made five changes from Saturday's 4-1 win over Spurs, looked somewhat disjointed early on.

Pablo Zabaleta - among the players who returned to the starting XI - shot wide after expertly controlling Yaya Toure's lofted ball but, in an opening half-hour of few clear-cut chances, it was Aguero who again provided the breakthrough for City.

Silva slipped in Dzeko, whose square ball laid on Aguero's eighth goal in his last five outings.

The Argentina international then played a key role as City doubled their advantage, his wayward strike - following Zabaleta's knockdown - finding Milner at the far post, who turned home to double the visitors' lead.

Milner subsequently struck the post with the goal at his mercy, having seen Dzeko's appeals for a penalty turned down following a tangle with Sergei Ignashevich.

CSKA's day looked set to worsen when Doumbia appeared to pick up an injury, but the Ivorian then gave the hosts hope by turning home Musa's cross from the right five minutes after the hour.

City's failure to put the game to bed was then punished when Musa went down under a challenge from Kolarov, giving Natkho the opportunity to equalise with a nerveless penalty that beat Hart as the goalkeeper dived to his left.

CSKA were therefore able to get off the mark at the third attempt and inflict a heavy blow to their opponents' hopes of reaching the last 16.

 

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1.Bayern
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Bale ruled out of El Clasico

Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti has confirmed that Gareth Bale will miss Saturday's Clasico against Barcelona due to injury.

The Wales star was on the bench for the 5-0 victory over Levante on Saturday, with the club revealing he had picked up a gluteal problem on international duty, which had already ruled him out of Wednesday night's Champions League group-stage clash with Liverpool.

However, it was hoped Bale would recover in time for this weekend's Liga showdown with Barca at the Santiago Bernabeu, only for Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti to reveal the full extent of the 25-year-old's injury on the eve of the game at Anfield.

"Bale got an injury in training on Friday, so he is not available for tomorrow or the game on Saturday," he told reporters at his pre-match press conference on Tuesday.

"Bale travelled to Valencia as it didn't seem serious; it seemed to be a strain. But when we returned he had a scan which showed a tear."

Bale's place in the starting XI against Liverpool is expected to be filled by Isco, who impressed in the 5-0 win at Levante, while Ancelotti will also need to draft in a replacement for centre-back Sergio Ramos, who also misses the trip to Anfield through injury.

The Spain international was left out of the travelling party as he recovers from a calf injury, meaning Nacho could feature in his place.However, despite the loss of two key players through injury, Ancelotti is in no doubt that Madrid have sufficient strength in depth to cope and the Italian was annoyed by the suggestion that they could struggle to beat Barca without Bale.

"It’s incredible to be talking about the injured players and the game on Saturday when we're at Anfield," the Italian exclaimed."James and Isco did very well on Saturday without Gareth Bale.

"We have a very competitive squad with a lot of quality to cover Bale's absence."
Liverpool, of course, secured their return to the Champions League by finishing second in the Premier League last season but their form so far this term has been inconsistent at best.

The Reds are also in need of a positive result against Madrid after losing to Basel to last time out, while there is mounting pressure on summer signing Mario Balotelli to step up to the mark in the absence of the injured Daniel Sturridge.Ancelotti, though, retains the utmost respect for the threat posed by Brendan Rodgers' side, and Balotelli in particular.

"Balotelli has the quality to play at the top level," the former AC Milan boss argued. "He has a lot of ability."But we are not worried about only him because Liverpool has quite a dynamic attack.

"It [the Liverpool game] will be a very good game between two great sides, and we will try to win it."