Oguchi Onyewu got the start and went the full 90 minutes in Malaga’s 4-1 victory (5-2 on aggregate) over Eibar in Copa del Rey action.  Here are the highlights.

UEFA held its draw for the Round of 16 in Champions League this morning and both Jermaine Jones and Oguchi Onyewu’s teams got some “easier” opponents compared to the teams left in the competition.

Galatasaray AŞ (TUR) v FC Schalke 04 (GER)
Celtic FC (SCO) v Juventus (ITA)
Arsenal FC (ENG) v FC Bayern München (GER)
FC Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) v Borussia Dortmund (GER)
AC Milan (ITA) v FC Barcelona (ESP)
Real Madrid CF (ESP) v Manchester United FC (ENG)
Valencia CF (ESP) v Paris Saint-Germain FC (FRA)
FC Porto (POR) v Málaga CF (ESP)

Thoughts on the draw?

Oguchi Onyewu used his head in injury time to score the game-tying goal in Malaga’s 1-1 draw in Copa del Rey action.  Here are the highlights.

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The Colorado Rapids have a few players currently training at Derby County with all four of them starting for Derby County in a scrimmage against Notts County on Tuesday.  Midfielder Tony Cascio even scored the first goal of the game.

Clarence Goodson has returned to training at Brondby this week after suffering a concussion last week.

Ryan Miller is currently weighing his options between re-signing with Halmstads BK versus some opportunities in Germany.

Jon-Paul Pittman will be out a few weeks (up to a couple months) with an arm/shoulder injury he picked up in a recent game for Oxford United.

Michael Orozco Fiscal is headed to Puebla next season on loan with the club having the option to buy after the season ends in June.

Possible (or maybe not) USMNTer Aron Johannsson scored a hell of a goal this past weekend.

Brad Guzan played so well this past weekend that he was named to ESPN’s and BBC Sport’s Garth Crooks’ teams of the week.

BBC Sport also has a nice story up on Oguchi Onyewu.

Both Sacha Kljestan and Oguchi Onyewu went the full 90 minutes for their teams with Kljestan picking up the game-tying assist in this 2-2 draw.  Here are the highlights.

A couple quick links for your Friday morning reading pleasure.

Here is a quick write-up from Bobby Wood’s start for 1860 Munich earlier this week.

Ryan Miller looks back at his season with Halmstads BK.

Brian Sciaretta caught up with US U-20 forward Jack McBean the week of MLS Cup.

Clint Dempsey thinks he was undervalued at Fulham.  He will get his chance to score against Fulham this weekend.

Doug McIntyre of ESPN Insider wonders if Icelandic-American Aron Johannsson could bolster the US attack.

Seb Hines is hoping his recent strong play has caught the eye of Jurgen Klinsmann.

Greg Seltzer likes numbers.  We like numbers.  He looked at some numbers about Oguchi Onyewu.

I missed this last week, but Eric Lichaj has a pretty gnarly mustache going on right now.

Oguchi Onyewu got the start and went the full 90 minutes in Malaga’s 2-2 draw to Zenit St. Petersburg.  Here are the goals.

Oguchi Onyewu got the start, went the full 90 minutes, received a yellow card and scored a goal in Malaga’s 4-3 victory over Cacereño in the Copa del Rey.  Here is his goal (the second goal in the video).

Oguchi Onyewu came off the bench in injury time in Malaga’s 1-0 victory over AC Milan in Champions League action.  Here is the lone goal.

A few things to catch up on from the weekend.

Tim Howard’s performance over the weekend against QPR earned him Team of the Week honors over at ESPN.  He made a couple nice diving saves.

I missed this goal, but Alfredo Morales scored a goal in Hertha Berlin II’s 4-1 win over Torgelower SV Greif in German Regionalliga action.

A few things regarding the USMNT and the Hex.  CONCACAF will have a draw for the Hex within the next 30 days.  Steven Goff lists out all the fixture dates.  Jurgen Klinsmann told Alexi Lalas that Camp Cupcake (RIP?) should be shorter, fewer players and mainly players who will be participating in February’s qualifiers.  And here are some field-level highlights of the US’ win over Guatemala.

The last USMNT game of 2012 will be November 14 in Russia and Brian Sciaretta lists some “new” players he wouldn’t mind seeing getting a chance in that game.

Michael Adubato recently talked to Oguchi Onyewu about being patient at Malaga.

And this article is a few weeks old, but J.R. Eskilson introduces us to Maki Tall.  Tall is a 16-year-old French-American forward who is scoring goals for Le Mans’ U-19 team.