Champions League
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Paris Saint-Germain superstar, Ousmane Dembele, has revealed how Luis Enrique’s side will play Bayern Munich in the Champions League semi-final second leg clash in Germany next week. Dembele scored twice as PSG defeated Bayern Munich 5-4 in the Champions League semi-final first leg encounter on Tuesday night in Paris. Speaking to Canal+, the France international…
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Paris Saint-Germain clinched the Ligue 1 title on Saturday with a 1-0 win at home against Angers as they prepare for a Champions League quarter-final showdown with Aston Villa. PSG needed just a draw in front of their own fans to be confirmed as champions again, having started the day a huge 21 points clear…
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Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes said it is not the players’ fault for the contracts signed off by the club as he hit back at claims by co-owner Jim Ratcliffe that some are “overpaid”. Fernandes was singled out for praise by Ratcliffe, who also said some of the United squad were “not good enough” in…
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Perhaps the only Aston Villa player to come out with any credit in their 2-0 defeat to Wolves was Donyell Malen. The January signing who came on as a second-half substitute, was denied an equaliser following a controversial VAR call against Morgan Rogers. Malen also forced two more good saves from the goalkeeper in a…
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The assessment of Mohamed Salah’s decision to stop in the mixed zone – only the third time he has done so at Liverpool – was interesting. Jamie Carragher labelled it “selfish” and said it would be a distraction ahead of the Champions League tussle with Real Madrid. The counter-argument was: why should a player with…
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In June 2022, while holidaying on the turquoise-tinged waters of El Gouna along Egypt’s Red Sea, Mohamed Salah was forced to first contemplate leaving Liverpool. His contract was up the following summer and two years’ worth of negotiations between his advisor, or more appropriately his “partner” Ramy Abbas, and the club’s power brokers failed to…
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And so they come full circle. Real Madrid have gone 39 league games without defeat, more than an entire season’s worth of games. They have not been beaten in the league in almost exactly a year: not since Sept. 24, 2023. That was against Atlético Madrid. They have not been beaten in any competitive game since Jan. 18,…
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Cristiano Ronaldo has been honoured with the prestigious UEFA Champions League All-Time Top Scorer Award. The legendary forward received this accolade during the ongoing 2024/2025 UEFA Champions League draw, recognizing his remarkable achievement of scoring 140 goals in 183 games. Ronaldo’s extraordinary goal-scoring record cements his legacy as one of the greatest players in the…
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Former Chelsea striker, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has recounted what went down during his season-long ordeal at the club. Aubameyang joined Chelsea from Barcelona in the summer of 2022 and endured a tumultuous season at Stamford Bridge. The Gabonese, who left Arsenal for Barcelona just 6 months earlier, left Stamford Bridge for Olympique Marseille last summer. He…
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Arsenal’s round-of-16 curse in the Champions League is finally broken. Arsenal’s difficult journey to victory required a penalty shootout at the end of a gruelling 120 minutes — in which FC Porto tested the Gunners’ patience in almost every conceivable way — but they’ve reached the quarterfinals for the first time since 2010. As manager, Mikel Arteta inherited a glass ceiling…
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Absolute tranquility and astonishment. These are Barcelona’s two reactions to reports coming out of Germany that the Catalan club could potentially receive a sanction from UEFA to expel them from the Champions League for violation of financial regulations. Sources from inside the Blaugrana outfit say “there is no record” of any notice warning them they could be expelled before the publication…
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Europa League play-off draw The draw for the Europa League knockout round play-offs also took place on Monday, with the eight runners-up from the Europa League group stage being drawn against the eight third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage. Those ties are as follows… Feyenoord vs Roma AC Milan vs Rennes Lens vs Freiburg Young…
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Manchester City will play FC Copenhagen in the Champions League last 16, while Arsenal will take on Porto. After finishing top of both their respective groups, holders City will travel to Denmark and the Gunners will make the trip to Portugal for the first legs in February. They are the only two British sides involved…
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“Who cares?” Jurgen Klopp shrugged. When confronted with the prospect of Europa League football rather than competing against the continent’s elite in the Champions League, Klopp defiantly insisted: “Instead of Tuesday, Wednesday, it’s a Thursday.” However, those in charge of Liverpool’s accounts may be more than a little concerned, as Klopp reluctantly admitted: “This season…
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Jurgen Klopp has emphasised the significance of injury issues in Liverpool’s “difficult situation” as they attempt to find more consistency this season. The Reds are currently eighth in the Premier League after a 1-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest on Saturday, their third top-flight loss of the campaign. They have had a number of players unavailable…
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