No Ghanaian Left In UEFA Champs League

No Ghanaian player is left in this years UEFA Champions league. Michael Essien's Chelsea and Eric Addo's PSV were knocked out in the 1/16 stage.

Inter Milan and Ajax Amsterdam have a couple of players with Ghanaian roots, but none of them has declared an intention to play for Ghana

Spanish outfit Barcelona dumped English champions Chelsea out. Essien did not play due to a 2-match suspension

Eric Addo was in PSV's defence as French side Olympique Lyon demolished the Dutch side 4-0 to reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League on Wednesday. PSV played the second half with 10 men after skipper Philip Cocu was sent off after picking up two yellow cards inside 42 minutes.

Lyon went through 5-0 on aggregate to avenge last season's quarter-final defeat to PSV with Tiago scoring twice and Sylvain Wiltord and Fred adding the others.

Benfica, Milan, Arsenal and Lyon join Barcelona, Villarreal and Juventus, who all came through on Tuesday, in the last eight, while the final first knockout round tie between Inter Milan and Ajax Amsterdam will be decided in Italy next Tuesday.

The draw for the quarter-finals takes place in Paris on Friday -- the venue for the final on May 17.

Those matches are scheduled for March 28/29 and April 4/5 with the semi-finals on April 18/19 and March 25/26.