Jurgen Klopp is ready to make Liverpool winners after leading them to club football’s biggest game on a nerve-shredding night in Rome. Liverpool lost 4-2 in the Stadio Olimpico but it did not prevent them reaching their eighth European Cup final with a 7-6 aggregate victory over Roma. They will play Real Madrid on May […]
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Roma president Jim Pallotta has launched an attack on the “morons” whom he believes are tarnishing the name of the club and Italian football in general. In an explosive, expletive-laden interview posted on Roma’s website, Pallotta criticised those supporters who cause trouble at and around matches. He also labelled Tuesday’s assault on Liverpool fan Sean […]
Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane insisted progression to the Champions League final is no formality after his side won 2-1 in Wednesday night’s semi-final first leg at Bayern Munich. Two high quality opponents produced numerous uncharacteristic errors, with Joshua Kimmich beating Real goalkeeper Keylor Navas at his near post to give Bayern the lead. Marcelo […]
Mohamed Salah was hailed as ‘the best player on the planet’ after his extraordinary performance put Liverpool on the brink of the Champions League final. Steven Gerrard, the last Liverpool captain to lift the European Cup in 2005, led the praise on BT Sport for the newly-crowned PFA Player of the Year, who scored twice […]
Bayern Munich defender David Alaba will face a late fitness before the first leg of their Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid at the Allianz Arena. Alaba sat out Bayern’s final training session on Tuesday with a thigh strain, but coach Jupp Heynckes says a decision will be made early on Wednesday as to whether […]
Jurgen Klopp has issued a simple message to his team: Go and finish a brilliant job by winning in Rome. The Liverpool manager believes his side have proved they can do just that by producing an all time great performance – “the perfect game” for 80 minutes on a quite astonishing Anfield European night where […]
Cristiano Ronaldo has added yet another astonishing goal-scoring record to his remarkable collection of statistics after netting against Juventus in the Champions League. Ronaldo scored at the Bernabeu against the Italian champions in the second leg of their quarter-final on Wednesday night, in the most dramatic of circumstances. It was the Portuguese hitman’s 15th goal […]
Juventus president Andrea Agnelli blasted Michael Oliver after the English referee awarded Real Madrid a stoppage-time penalty on Wednesday evening. Two goals from Mario Mandzukic and another by Blaise Matuidi had put Juventus 3-0 up on the night and heading for extra-time after levelling the two-legged Champions League quarter-final at 3-3 on aggregate. But Premier […]
They had battled back from a three-goal deficit and were dreaming of a Miracle in Madrid. Then, deep into added time, Cristiano Ronaldo broke Juve’s hearts. In scenes of high drama, even by the standards of one of football’s greatest stages, Real were awarded a last-gasp penalty by English referee Michael Oliver, Juve goalkeeper Gianluigi […]