Spurs end City’s quadruple dreams
In a dramatic VAR dominated quarterfinal Spurs overcame Manchester City and eliminated them from the Champion’s League. Within the...
Category: Champions League
The balance tilts in Liverpool’s favour
The Champion’s League quarter finals saw Manchester City unexpectedly losing to Spurs in the first leg by a solitary...
Liverpool’s CL win highlights the decline of German Football
Liverpool totally outplayed Bayern and made them look like dummies in front of their home crowd.The last time there...
Ronaldo scores a Champion’s League hat trick
Just when pundits were thinking of writing him off as a has been Ronaldo has pulled a Champion’s League...
Liverpool reduce the deficit to one point
Will so near and yet so far be the Liverpool epitaph this season?They came from a goal down to...
Man Utd script their own version of the miracle at Istanbul
MI can stand for “Mission Impossible” or “Miracle at Istanbul” Solksjaer’s Manchester United pulled off both by securing a...
Ajax eliminate Real Madrid with 4 – 1 win
Real Madrid are out of everything now. Ajax inflicted the ultimate humiliation by beating them 4 -1 at home...
10 Man City come back to beat Schalke
Man City played like champions.They came back from a red card,a dodgy VAR decision and from being 2 –...
The long dark night with no goal
For only the second time in the history of the Champion’s League – two games played on the same...
Dortmund ship three goals again
Borrusia Dortmund are on a hat trick of games where they have shipped three goals.The first one was four...
PSG halt United’s winning run
The Solskjaer renaissance faltered at last.Manchester United’s unbeaten run finally came to an end when they went down 2...
Juventus finally lose an away match after about a year
Young Boys were the unlikely victors.Two goals from striker Guillaume Hoarau led Young Boys to a shock 2-1 Champions...
CSKA beat Real Madrid 3-0
Real Madrid,having already ensured a last 16 berth,played this game with a mostly second string team. The 3- 0...
Alisson’s 92nd minute heriocs take Liverpool into the last 16
Liverpool needed to beat Napoli by one goal to go through.Salah provided that eventually.Liverpool then missed a plethora of...
Lifetime Bans for Racist Fans
It’s simple. If you’re a bigot and you want to express your racist views, do it at home with...
Liverpool left with a mountain to climb
PSG beat Liverpool 2 -1 and so now to be sure of qualification,Liverpool need to beat Napoli in their...
Messi takes Barcelona past PSV
Barcelona have booked a place in the round of 16 thanks to a 2 -1 win over PSV. Messi...
Manchester City come back twice against Lyon
Aguero’s headed goal about 6 minutes from time ensured that City entered the knockout stage of the Champion’s League.Lyon...
Why the Champion’s League needs to introduce VAR
Raheem Sterling kicked the ground and fell down in the box against Shakhtar Donetsk yesterday. …and the Referee awarded...
City make short work of Shaktar Donetsk
A hat trick from Gabriel Jesus inside a second six-goal performance inside a week took Manchester City to the...
Juventus let United come back and beat them
Cristiano Ronaldo scored against his old team in the 65th minute but Mourinho’s men managed a 2 -1 comeback...
Two Italian teams draw their CL fixtures
Napoli held PSG to a 1-1 draw thanks to a bit of dodgy refereeing in part. And elsewhere Barcelona...
Liverpool get beaten in Belgrade
Liverpool succumbed to a shock 2- 0 Champions League defeat in the Serbian capital.The same team that they thumped...
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Champion’s League action is due to kick off in a little while from now.Here’s how things stand in the...
Clasico without Messi
Messi paints a pensive figure,arm in sling,pondering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. A clasico without Messi is...
Salah scores a half century
Mohammed Salah made it 50 goals for Liverpool when he scored two in their 4 – 0 win over...
Juventus too good for Manchester United
Manchester United were totally outclassed by Juventus at Old Trafford.The 1- 0 scoreline does not do justice to the...
Neymar shines but not bright enough
Neymar scored a brilliant hat trick against Red Star Belgrade and Messi got better press for his perfomance against...
Spurs beaten by Messi
Barcelona scored their first goal against Spurs before the game was gone two minutes and it started from a...
Napoli subdue a subdued Liverpool
Lorenzo Insigne scored a 90th minute goal to give Napoli the win over a Liverpool team that did not...
Messi starts new CL season with a hat trick
Lionel Messi chalked up hat trick number 48 of his career and Barcelona beat PSV Eindhoven 4 – 0...
Champion’s League Highlights
The highs and the lows of the CL games played on the 19th of September
Lyon hand City their fourth Champion’s League defeat
Pep’s City have chalked up a dismal record.They are the only english club ever to have lost four consecutive...
Ronaldo starts new CL season with shock red card exit
Not the start in Juventus colours that anyone expected.Juventus went on to win the game against Valencia without Ronaldo...
Liverpool beat PSG in injury time
It was an injured Firnmino who scored the winning goal for Liverpool in injury time. Some kind of poetic...
Champion’s League 2018 – 19 season draw
The teams clubbed together for the CL group stage were announced at Monaco on Thursday. Last times also rans...
Salah’s sad exit
After bringing so much joy to Liverpool this season what a devastating way to have to go.His Sergio Ramos...
Karius has a nightmare CL final
Poor Karius made not one but two horrendous goalkeeping errors that basically cost Liverpool the final.His team are standing...
Gareth bale stuns Liverpool
Cristiano Ronaldo,it turns out,is not the only one who is able to score spectacular scissor kicked goals in the...
Liverpool it is
Roma were heroic and they almost achieved a second three goal miracle – but Liverpool held on,held out and...
Sven Ulreich’s blunder sees Bayern crash out
Sven Ulreich made a terrible mistake early in the second half – gifting Real Madrid with a goal in...
Ronaldo chalks up another CL record
Real beat Bayern 2 -1 in Munich against the run of play.Bayern missed about a million chances to score.Ronaldo...
Roma need another 3- 0 miracle
Roma will need to beat Liverpool by three goals to qualify for the finals because Salah left them standing....
Champion’s League Semifinals
Germany,England,Italy and Spain are in the race to become the Champions of Europe.The draw for the semis took place...
Real Madrid eliminate Juventus with 97th minute penalty
Juventus nearly pulled off the impossible – by erasing a 3 – 0 deficit.But then came that 97th minute...
Roma pull off an incredible upset over Barcelona
Roma managed to do what Manchester City could not – overcome a three goal deficit.After trailing 4 – 1...
Liverpool dump City out of the Champion’s League
Hope flickered briefly when Jesus scored in the second minute reducing the deficit to two goals.But that is as...
Liverpool make City look silly
Liverpool beat Manchester City 3 – 0,all goals coming in the first 30 minutes of the game.Jurgen Klopp had...
Ronaldo’s brilliant scissor kick
Buffon hadn’t a chance.Totally awesome.Just when I had finally decided that Messi was better than Ronaldo I now have...
Liverpool draw City in CL quarters
The two english clubs in the quarter finals ended up getting drawn against each other unfortunately. So it will...
So much money and yet so poor
The spanish media have been unsparing in their criticism of Mourinho after Sevilla’s historic win. Here’s a sampling.. “one...
Twitter gives poor Courtois a hard time
He allowed Messi to nutmeg him for both goals that he scored against him – one at each goalpost....
Messi reaches 100 Champion’s League Goals
There was a time not so long ago when Chelsea was the only club that Messi had not managed...
Mourinho needs to watch his back.
The ides of March are upon us and Mourinho is surely in danger of getting bumped off by the...