Barcelona pair Lionel Messi and Daniel Alves were restricted to substitute appearances at the weekend in order to rest for the tie against Bayern Munich. Veteran defender Carles Puyol made his comeback from injury against Valladolid on Saturday and should start for Barca. Bayern defender Lucio is likely to miss the first leg with a groin […]
Champions League
On a night of high drama at Old Trafford, Porto fought back to earn a 2-2 at Manchester United thanks to an 89th-minute equaliser from substitute Mariano. United looked to have snatched victory from this absorbing quarter-final first leg when their own substitute Carlos Tévez put them 2-1 in front with six minutes remaining but […]
Manchester United centre-half Rio Ferdinand and midfielder Anderson are set to miss Tuesday’s quarter-final first-leg tie against Porto. Both picked up injuries while on international duty last week and both sat out training on Monday. But suspended trio Nemanja Vidic, Wayne Rooney and Paul Scholes all return having missed Sunday’s Premier League victory against Aston […]
We mentioned it a week or so ago, but it is now official that Fox Soccer Channel has won the right to televise the Champions League games in the U.S. starting next season. “We are delighted to bring unprecedented coverage of this prestigious competition to American soccer fans,” said David Sternberg, Executive Vice President and General […]
Liverpool and Chelsea were drawn against each other for the fifth successive season in the Champions League. The teams met in last year’s semi-final, when a John Arne Riise own goal in the last minute of the first leg at Anfield shifted the momentum of the tie in favor of Chelsea, who advanced with a […]
Arsenal squeezed into the quarter-finals of the Champions League after a dramatic 7-6 penalty shoot-out win over Roma despite a 1-0 loss at the Stadio Olimpico. Brazilian defender Juan capitalised on some poor defending to fire the Italians in front and level the tie at 1-1 on aggregate after just 10 minutes. The Gunners grew in […]
Sir Alex Ferguson managed to get the better of long-time rival Jose Mourinho as Manchester United maintained their hunt for five trophies this season with a 2-0 win over Inter Milan at Old Trafford, going through on aggregate by the same score. Prior to this game, Ferguson had beaten Mourinho just once in their 13 […]
Barcelona booked their place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a 5-2 victory against Lyon on the night and a 6-3 success on aggregate. The hosts strolled into a 4-0 lead in the first half courtesy of a double from Thierry Henry and strikes from Lionel Messi and Samuel Eto’o. Jean Makoun pulled one […]
One English team has already knocked an Italian team out of the Champions League and tonight Manchester United and Arsenal will try and replicate what Chelsea did last night. The Italian papers have had a lot of coverage on these matches this week, and I thought that the gazettta.it had the best break-down and analysis […]