I had a complete disconnect from football while in Amdocs. I
stayed 3 years without a TV and as I have said before it was intentional so that
I could focus on some studies. Now I am living lavishly, independent room in a
fully furnished spacious flat. Really enjoying it.
We had not subscribed to sports channel before. However thanks to Tata Sky upgrade we got one month
access to all channels including HD. Coincidently the UEFA Champions League semi-finals
are going on. I got a chance to watch the same in HD. Off course I did not
watch it Live due to office timings, I saw recap the next day.
The first semi-final was between Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
Bayern Munich have had injury problems recently and missing their key players.
Barcelona had won the first leg at home 3-0, and that is a big advantage of 3
goals. In the second leg Bayern won at home but also conceded 2 goals. Barcelona
going to finals on 5-3 aggregate. One thing to highlight about Barca in second leg was a lot of unselfish play. Players playing for each other, one of the many such instance being Neymar a goal away from hatrick passed a ball when he had a good chance to go for goal in second half. Bayern had lost their away leg in quarters
too against Porto, but thrashed Porto 6-1 at home to reach semis.
The second semis between Juventus and Real Madrid. A very
high chance for an El-Classico Champions League finals. Juventus won the first
leg at home 2-1. Everyone expecting a thrashing by Ronaldo and company in the
second leg at Madrid. However Juventus put on an inspiring performance to hold
Madrid 1-1 at home to knock out the defending champions. Juventus have a good
team with a mix of experience and youth, and they work well together in defense
and have good strikers too. Not to the scale of Messi and CR7, but good enough
to give Barcelona a good fight in Berlin….looking forward!!!
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