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Juve wins on return to Champs
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 14 - 08 - 2008

Juventus marked its return to the Champions League after a two-year break with an easy 4-0 win over Slovakia's Artmedia on Wednesday.
The Turin club was one of three former European champions to win their first-leg matches in the third qualifying round, with FC Barcelona defeating visiting Polish side Wisla Krakow 4-0 and Marseille winning 1-0 at Brann of Norway with a crucial away goal.
Another former European champion, Liverpool, should still advance to the lucrative group phase but was lucky to escape with a 0-0 draw at Belgian champion Standard Liege.
But it was Juventus, making its return to European football's top competition because of its part in Italy's match-fixing scandal, that racked up arguably the best win in the night's 15 matches.
Mauro Camoranesi opened the scoring in the seventh minute. Alessandro Del Piero doubled the advantage in the 26th, Giorgio Chiellini made it 3-0 10 minutes later and Nicola Legrottaglie rounded off the scoring in the final minute.
Juventus should easily negotiate its second-leg match in Slovakia on Aug. 26 to complete its return to the competition proper.
Samuel Eto'o and Thierry Henry appear likely to stay with Barcelona for the season after playing and scoring in the Catalan side's one-sided victory at Camp Nou. If Barcelona had wanted to sell either striker, as had been rumored, it would have been expected to leave them on the sidelines to ensure they were eligible to play in the competition for another club.
Barcelona's emphatic win made it virtually certain to reach the group phase and gave new coach Pep Guardiola a promising start in his first competitive match in charge.
Marseille won through a goal by Bruno Cheyrou, but Standard Liege was unlucky not to beat five-time European champion Liverpool.
Goalkeeper Pepe Reina saved Liverpool twice, first clearing the ball when it had appeared to be over the line and then stopping Dante Dalmat's penalty kick.
The other English side in action, Arsenal, eased to a 2-0 win at FC Twente through second-half goals by William Gallas and Emmanuel Adebayor.
In other games, Schalke beat 10-man Atletico Madrid 1-0 when Christian Pander curled a 20-meter free kick over the wall and into the top left corner of goalkeeper Leo Franco's net in the 20th minute.
Schalke could not capitalize on the advantage and faces a tough return leg.
The biggest shock came when Cypriot champion Anorthosis Famagusta beat Greece's Olympiakos 3-0.
In other games, it was: Shakhtar Donetsk 2, Dinamo Zagreb 0; Levski Sofia 0, BATE 1; Spartak Moscow 1, Dinamo Kiev 4; Aalborg 2, Kaunas 0; Sparta Prague 1, Panathinaikos 2; Partizan Belgrade 2, Fenerbahce 2; Galatasaray 2, Steaua Bucharest 2; Guimaraes 0, Basel 0.
Fiorentina beat Slavia Prague 2-0 in Tuesday's third round, first-leg match. – AP __


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