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Matchday 2.2 — starting in mere minutes!

September 29, 2010 — by Suman

Matchday 2.2 - Wed Sept 29
Yesterday was UEFA Champions League Matchday 2.1, with 8 matches all across the continent. There were games in the west–highly touted Real Madrid going into Auxerre (Burgundy, Franc) and escaping with a 1-0 win–and games in the east–Shaktar Donetsk (eastern Ukraine) hosting and destroying Braga of Portugl (score: 3-0).

Matchday 2.2 is today, with 8 more matches featuring the other 16 teams. All of them kick off at 2:45pm ET, except for one: FC Barcelona goes even further east, to play FK Rubin Kazan on their home field (Kazan being the 6th largest city in Russia, and the capital of Tatarstan (see below the fixture list):

Wednesday, September 29

Group A
Internazionale v Werder Bremen @ Giuseppe Meazza (Milan, ITA)
Tottenham Hotspur v Twente Enschede @ White Hart Lane (London, ENG)

Group B
Hapoel Tel Aviv v Lyon @ Ramat Gan Stadium (Tel Aviv, ISR)
Schalke 04 v BenficaB @ Veltins-Arena (Gelsenkirchen, GER)

Group C
Rangers v Bursaspor @ Ibrox Stadium (Glasgow, SCO)
Valencia v Manchester United @ Mestalla (Valencia, ESP) – FSC & FSE @ 2:45pmET

Group D
FK Rubin Kazan v Barcelona @ Central Stadium Kazan (Kazan, RUS) FSC & FSE @ 12:30pmET
Panathinaikos v FC Copenhagen @ Athens Olympic Stadium (Athens, GRE)

From the Wikipedia entry for Kazan

Kazan (Russian: Каза́нь; Tatar: Казан, Qazan) is the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. The sixth largest city of Russia, it lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. The Kazan Kremlin is a World Heritage Site. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the right to brand itself as the “Third Capital” of Russia. In 2009 it was chosen as the “sports capital of Russia”.