The draw for the knockout stage of the UEFA Champions League took place on Thursday with some interesting pairings: There are 16 teams remaining in the competition Eight are seeded, eight are unseeded The draw pits a team from the seeded pot against a side from the unseeded pot No team can play a club […]
European Champions Chelsea made history for all the wrong reasons when they become the first defending champions to be knocked out of the Uefa Champions League in the round robin stage, despite a convincing 6-1 win over FC Nordsjaelland at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night. They needed Juventus to lose or at least get a […]
After Tuesday night’s final round robin matches in the Uefa Champions League we know who the teams are in groups A,B,C and D who have qualified for the knockout stage of the competition. Biggest losers had to be the current English Premier League champions Manchester City who ended up bottom of group D with a mere three points, […]
Manchester City had to beat Real Madrid at home to stand any chance of reaching the knockout stage of the UEFA Champions League and true to the prediction of Jose Mourinho, City would be the first big team to fall as they could only manage a 1-1 draw with the Spanish Champions, who were reduced […]
Defending champions Chelsea, Spanish champions Real Madrid, Premier League champions Manchester City and Arsenal were the big losers on match day three of the UEFA Champions League, while United managed one of their usual Houdini tricks to come back from 0-2 down at home to SP Braga. Chelsea had a shocker, looking all at […]
Defending UEFA champions Chelsea threw away a two-goal advantage at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night after their new Brazilian signing Oscar had scored them in as many minutes to complete dream debut for the club in Europe, but as the home crowd revelled in scoreline, it was a defensive lapse by the Blues that let […]
It was the UEFA Champions League final which neither team seemed too interested in winning. Chelsea adopted a similar style to the semi-final against Barcelona – block everything and wait for the penalty shoot-out. It was as exciting as watching paint dry for 83 minutes, then Bayern Munich scored a goal through Muller, suddenly Chelsea […]
Chelsea took a 1-0 lead into Wednesday’s UEFA Champions League second-leg quarterfinal against Benfica at Stamford Bridge. A Frank Lampard penalty after 20 minutes meant that the Portuguese club had to score twice, but when Maxi Perreira received a second yellow card resulting in an automatic red card after 39 minutes, Benfica were down to […]
After their surprising goalless draw in Milan last week, two penalties from Lionel Messi and a goal from Andrés Iniesta gave Barcelona a 3-1 home win and a passage to the semifinals of this year’s UEFA Champions League. The Argentine converted from the spot just 11 minutes into the quarterfinal second-leg clash in Catalunya, after […]
In first leg quarter-final UEFA Champions League action this week, Chelsea, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich all scored valuable away goals while AC Milan and Barcelona played to a surprising goalless draw at the San Siro. Spanish league leaders Real Madrid, took on the Cypriot giant-killers Apoel Nicosia on the island as Cyprus and beat them […]