Mladá Boleslav, Paris Saint Germain Draw League Matches
Both teams' last rehearsals for UEFA Cup match did not exactly work out the way Mladá Boleslav and Paris Saint Germain (PSG) planned. The points to be distributed on Thursday are very important for the tournament. Both Mladá Boleslav and PSG only scored draw results in their home League duels. The Czech team had an uneasy fight when battling with the League's last standing team, FC Slovácko to gain a 2:2 result. Similarly, PSG, on a visit to FC Nantes, third from the end of their League standings, drew only a 1:1.
Both draw scores prove that neither Dušan Uhrin's nor Guy Lacomb's team quite performed to par. Mladá Boleslav had to fight hard for the draw in the end of their duel, a match in which the team were losing twice and had to follow the pace. The Paris squad, however, played a different sort of game, yet with the same point result. The game in Nantes started quite well, as Bonaventure Kalou, a Cote d'Ivoire National team member playing for Paris, scored a goal in the 2nd minute. They managed to hold their tight winning score for the most part of the match, only to receive a goal fifteen minutes before the final whistle. The Nantes captain Federico Da Rocha made a good use of his spectacular shot. Paris Saint Germain played the FC Nantes event with this team roster: Landreau - Mendy, Armand, Rozehnal, Drame - (70th Paulo César) - Yepes, Hellebuyck (83rd Cissé), Chantome, Kalou - Pauleta, Diane (69th Pancrate). After Round 15, PSG is standing on the thirteenth position; France's highest competition involves twenty teams.
To round the information, a short remark on the remaining UEFA Cup Group G contestants follows: In a match last Sunday, Rapid Bucharest very tightly defeated their municipal opponent National Bucharest, as the score went 2:1, allowing Rapid to hold their third position in the Group. The team is now headed for a very difficult meet with Panathinaikos Athens. The Greeks crushed the Kalmaria team 4:0 (the losing team is currently positioned on the 14th out of 16 in the Greek cup). The Athenians are still two points short of the national cup leader, Olympiakos Pireus.
