I did pretty well yesterday. Producer Andy and I stopped working in the afternoon, fired up FIFA 09 and played last night's Chelsea and Liverpool games. It was fun, and totally justified because we used our games to write a blog which made it Actual Work, as opposed to, say, Slacking Off.

So Liverpool's victory last night was considerably more emphatic than predicted, but we got the result right at least. As for the Chelsea game, we said it'd be brilliant and end 2-2, and we nailed it.

So here's what will happen tonight. It will.

Manchester United vs Inter Milan

Manchester United start brightly, clearly full of confidence playing at home. They launch waves of attacks at the Inter goal but there's nothing much doing once it gets busy in the visitors' box, with Julio Cesar handling things comfortably.

Totally against the run of play, it's Inter who strike the first blow on 21 minutes. In their first real strike at goal, a smooth passing move ends with Javier Zanetti prodding home a simple, well-worked goal.

All that does, however, is make the Red Devils angry. Man Utd spend the rest of the half remorselessly hammering on Inter's door. The breakthrough finally comes courtesy of Cristiano Ronaldo. Just before the half-time break, Ronaldo latches onto a bobbling ball let loose after a bit of a Sunday League kickabout in the Inter box and toe-pokes it in under the stretching Cesar.

The second half sees much of the same - a pretty static Inter defence making like King Canute before an incoming red tide. Barely has the second half begun before United have it in the net once more. It comes from a preposterous error on the part of the Inter keeper, who throws the ball directly at the back of his own defender's head. The ball rebounds to the feet of Wayne Rooney, who happily volleys the ball into an open goal.

Six minutes later Rooney slashes another shot into the top-right corner of Inter's goal to make it three, Ronaldo the provider with a delicate dissecting through ball. Inter seem powerless to threaten United's hold on the game for the remainder of the second half, and their unworthiness is highlighted on 84 minutes with Rooney's third. Marching through Inter's back-line, Rooney goes one-on-one with the keeper, takes a step to the left and strokes it home with ease.

The result: 4-1. Almost as good as Liverpool's result, which will make them happy, and certainly no less than a rampant Old Trafford side deserved.

Roma vs Arsenal

Arsenal cling to a slender 1-0 advantage as they travel to the Italian capital to take on Roma and their slightly frightening fans.

As usual, Arsenal manager Rom Wenger sits on the sideline tutting to himself for the opening half, thinking: "Now I know Arsenal are good, but I can never seem to get it working! Arrgh. I just need to pass more, that's all. Passpasspasspass..."

A couple of crossbar shavers from Roma and a decent long-range effort from Emmanuel Adebayor aside, there's not much to talk about in the first half. The second half, however, gets underway with a bang. Clearly not heeding his manager's mantra, a hopelessly optimistic punt up the field from Robin van Persie somehow finds itself at the feet of Adebayor, who lollops towards Doni in the Roma goal and passes it past him off the post and into the goal.

The fact Arsenal had bagged their away goal seems to deflate the Italian side considerably. The fact that goal had been scored by a striker who was in reality recuperating in London with a hamstring injury probably just rubbed salt in the wound.

But Roma battle through the remainder of the second half manfully, without ever seriously threatening a goal. Arsenal put the game well and truly to bed in injury time at the end of the game. A tasty in-swinging free kick causes panic in the Roma box as several Gunners make to get their heads on it. But it's Eboue who manages it, of all people, nodding in The Arsenal's second and sealing the tie.