P	W	D	L	F	A	PTS	GD
Arsenal			6	3	1	2	9	6	10	3
Lokomotiv		6	2	2	2	7	7	8	0
Inter			6	2	2	2	8	11	8	-3
Dynamo Kyiv		6	2	1	3	8	8	7	0

Qualify for knockout stages
UEFA Cup


10 December 2003

ARSENAL				2-0			LOKOMOTIV
Pires 12
Ljungberg 67

Pires shouldn't have scored as he ran onto Henry's pass but Ovchinnikov failed
to cover his near post. Lekcetho was sent off at the end of the first half for a
reckless two footed foul on Ljungberg. Henry juggled a Bergkamp pass off his
knee before volleying the ball into the path of the onrushing Ljungberg who
chipped over Ovchinnikov. Excellent goal.

Assists : Henry (x2)


DYNAMO KYIV				1-1			INTER
Rincon 85							Adani 68

Adani headed in Emre's free kick. Husyev should have equalised on the break.
Cordoba's horribly sliced clearance fell to Sabic, his shot bounced off Adani
and landed at the feet of Rincon, 1-1. Both teams wasted a glut of chances in
a manic 9 minute spell.

Assist : Emre (fk)


25 November 2003

INTER					1-5			ARSENAL
Campbell 33 (og)							Henry 25, 85
								Ljungberg 49
								Edu 87
								Pires 89

The Inter defence ball watched as Cole, Pires and Henry swapped passes around the box
before Henry fired into the corner. Vieri equalised against the run of play with a deflected shot.
Cygan intercepted a throw in and sent Henry down the left flank, he threaded a pass between
Materazzi and Cordoba and Ljungberg lifted the ball over Toldo, who dived way too early.
Arsenal should have been out of sight before the supposed, game changing incident took
place in the Arsenal penalty area. Materazzi threw himself down in the box looking for a
pen, the ref ignored his penalty appeals and Arsenal suckered them on the counter attack,
Ljungberg found Henry with a long, headed ball, Henry teased Javier Zanetti before a quick
turn of pace and precise shot into the corner gave him his second goal. Toldo and Cordoba
made a hash of clearing Henry's pass allowing Edu to get on the scoresheet. Aliadiere had an
immediate impact after coming on as a sub for Henry. He forced Pasquale? into conceding
possession and pulled the ball back to Pires who profited from Zanetti's hurried clearance
to score Arsenal's FIFTH.

Thought I would that Zaccheroni was sacked as coach of Milan for the teams continual failure
in Europe. Arsenal, the Deportivo of English football, finally get it right.

Assists : Cole, Henry, Ljungberg



LOKOMOTIV				3-2			DYNAMO KYIV
Buznikin 28							Belkevich 37
Ignashevitch 45 (pen)						Shatskikh 64
Parks 89

Buznikin finished off a brilliant passing move to give Lokomotiv the lead. Belkevich volleyed
Dynamo level before Ignashevitch restored Lokomotiv's lead from the penalty spot, total
dive by Buznikin. Shatskikh got the visitors second equaliser with an exquisite lob only to
see Kyiv's eternal achilles heel, the awful Shovkovskiy, piss away the points when he dropped
a cross at Parks feet.

Assists : Khokhlov, Gusev, Buznikin (won pen), Dmytrulin

Everyone can qualify from this group.


5 November 2003

ARSENAL				1-0			DYNAMO KYIV
Cole 88

Arsenal had a 101 chances but failed to take any of them until a rare cross into the box
unlocked Dynamo Kyiv. Henry flicked on Wiltord's cross and short arse Cole headed past
Shovkovskiy.

Great, now we have to endure World Class bullshitter Wenger a bit longer.

Assist : Henry


INTER					1-1			LOKOMOTIV
Recoba 14							Loskov 54

Christian Zanetti cleared off the line then Recoba gave Inter the lead with a blistering shot
on the turn. Vieri had another of those $1 million misses, this time he sent Kily Gonzalez's
perfect pass into outer space with his famed left foot. Lokomotiv goalkeeper Ovchinnikov's
attempts to clear the ball from a corner almost ended in disaster when he punched the ball
against his post. Loskov tried his luck from distance, the ball clipped off Materazzi leaving
Toldo with no chance. Helveg found Vieri with a superb long pass, even after his volley was
saved he managed to hit the rebound straight at the 'keeper.

Assist : C Zanetti


21 October 2003

DYNAMO KYIV				2-1			ARSENAL
Shatskikh 27							Henry 80
Belkevich 64

Arsenal fell to two defensive blunders. Leko tried his luck after the Arsenal defence failed three
times to clear a hopeful lob into the box, Leko's shot ricocheted off Toure, the awful, awful Cole
raised his hand appealing for offside while Shatskikh volleyed past Lemon. Lemon then did a
Cudicini. Lemon came off his line to clear Gusev's through pass but kicked the ball straight to
a Kyiv player, Lemon managed to block his shot but Shatskikh ran in and tackled him, the ball fell
to Belkevich and he curled into the bottom corner. What goes around, comes around. Henry gave
Arsenal hope when he turned in a Pires centre. Rincon, with a terrible miss, and Shatskikh failed
to take chances and Arsenal almost snatched a draw in injury time when Shovkovskiy spilled a shot
by Henry and Toure volleyed the rebound against the crossbar.

Assist : Pires


LOKOMOTIV				3-0			INTER
Loskov 2
Ashvetia 50
Khokhlov 57

Captain Loskov shot slammed in Evseev's cross after the Inter defence forgot to mark him and
everyone else who was waiting for the cross, that's always a good idea. Evseev also laid on the
second, Loskov stepped over his centre and this time Ashvetia was on hand to slam the ball in
unmarked at the back post. Khokhlov made it 3-0 with a bullet header from a free kick.

There's nothing to add as Zaccheroni doesn't take charge until Wednesday.

Assists : Evseev (x2), Loskov (fk)


30 September 2003

LOKOMOTIV				0-0			ARSENAL

Boring match. Good technical football by Lokomotiv but a lack of quality in attack
meant they failed to take several presentable first half chances. Arsenal had the better
of the second half but poor finishing by Cole, Pires and Henry, let them down.


INTER					2-1			DYNAMO KYIV
Adani 22								Federov 34
Vieri 91

Cannavaro forced Shovkovskiy into a save from a Kily Gonzalez free kick, the ball fell to Adani,
he controlled with his arm before scoring. Seconds after making a brilliant save from Leko,
Toldo spilled Ghioane's cross and Federov equalised. Vieri headed in a last minute winner.

Assist : Kily Gonzalez (fk)


17 September 2003

ARSENAL				0-3			INTER
								Cruz 22
								Van der Meyde 24
								Martins 41

The thing with shit stirring is that is usually comes back to bite you in the arse. In the lead up
to this match Kily Gonzalez had been ridiculing Arsenal's record in Europe. Arsenal failed to
prove him wrong. Arsenal's defence and Toure in particular, got caught ball watching when
Martins' headed down Cordoba's throw in, with a brilliant first touch Cruz took the ball away
from the defence and lobbed in off Lehmann. Two minutes later Highbury was stunned into
silence. Kily Gonzalez fired a cross into the box and van der Meyde met Campbell's sloppy header
with an explosive left foot volley. Ljungberg made the most of a typically stupid Materazzi
challenge to win a penalty but the last 'keeper you want to face when you're a goal down (let
alone two) is Toldo and he parried Henry's weakly struck penalty out for a corner. Emre danced
around the Arsenal defence before finding Martins with a beautiful disguised pass, Campbell
went straight through Martins but the kid is a freak and managed to stay on his feet before
blasting into the net. Henry and Kanu (on for cheater, cheater pumpkin eater Pires) had chances
in the second half. Henry with a limp wristed effort and Kallon forced Toldo into a world class save.
Kallon should have added a fourth but shot against the post and Martins blazed over the rebound.

Assists : Martins, Emre


DYNAMO KYIV				2-0			LOKOMOTIV
Rincon 84, 92

Rincon bounced himself off the back of a defender to head in Belkevich's cross and a
magnificent 40yd pass from Belkevich sent him on his way to #2.

Assists : Belkevich (x2)