Who deserves praise and who deserves a smackdown in the Champions League this week?


It was another interesting week in the UEFA Champions League as the championship entered its third day, producing the usual fireworks that come with it. Many ups and downs were experienced, with results both expected and some rather astonishing being reported from various European cities. We have compiled an award list for some categories and selected winners in each of them:


The biggest winners: Arsenal's 7-0 humiliation of Slava Prague stands out. The English premiership side wins this award for the Champions League match day 3.


The biggest losers: Fellow English side, Liverpool, who are firmly rooted at the bottom of their group with only one point after suffering yet another defeat at the hands of Turkey's Besiktas.


The luckiest team: Real Madrid, having gone 2 goals down at their home ground against Greek club Olympiakos, who they were expected to crush without resolve, but almost ended up being crushed before Brazilian superstar Robinho stepped up his game to score two great goals and set up a third one to add to the first goal earlier scored Madrid.


The unluckiest team: FC Barcelona, having had 70% of possession and 17 shots at goal against only 4 by Glasgow Rangers as well as hitting the post with Ronaldinho's spectacular free-kick, among numerous chances and yet not finding the net for once in a 0-0 draw at Ibrox.


The biggest Comeback: AC Milan have suffered a lot this season, playing dreadfully and losing to visiting Empoli at the feared San Siro over the weekend. However, the defending champions roared to life and spanked second placed Shakhtar with 4 goals. The Ukrainians could only responded with one goal. Lyon also deserve mention here for winning away to Stuttgart after losing both at home and away to Rangers and FC Barcelona respectively.


The most relieved coach: Bernd Schuster of Real Madrid will be thanking his stars, and of course Robinho for probably saving his job after the Los Merengues were almost humiliated at the Bernebeu. Avram Grant of Chelsea FC will also sleep well till the next Champions League match day, after the embattled coach secured his second victory in the championship, a victory that was made sweeter by a goal from the prodigal son, Didier Drogba who has also offered his apologies to Chelsea for his mischievous comments last week. Good times seem to be here for Avram.


The Best football: Arsenal wins this with their clean performance against Slava Prague, closely followed by FC Barcelona who held the hosts hostage at their backyard and peppered the much touted Glasgow Rangers to near submission. Manchester United also deserve a mention here, as the Old Trafford lords played well against Dynamo Kiev , but had a clear penalty against them denied which would have tilted the game if the referee had rightly awarded it to Kiev before the English side came up with more goals against a discouraged opponent.


The worst football: We shall leave this to Lionel Messi to make his pick for the worst footballing team of the Champions League Match Day 3.


Players deserving mention: Ronaldinho ( FC Barcelona ), Fabregas ( Arsenal ), Seedorf ( AC milan ), Kaka (AC Milan )Theo Walcott ( Arsenal ), Figo ( Inter Milan ), Ronaldo ( Manchester United ), Robinho ( Real Madrid ), Gilardino ( AC Milan ), Arikan ( Besiktas )