It was a Champions League mission that was supposed to be impossible for Chelsea. And yet it was one that they thought they had pulled off. They refused to wallow when, two goals to the good thanks to Mason Mount and Antonio...
Manchester City are the favourites to win the Champions League. Again. Consult whatever you like: expert opinion, the bookmakers or sophisticated predictive modelling by some sort of supercomputer. You get one answer. No other team has a better chance of going all...
Manchester City face an awkward start to their latest attempt to win the Champions League under Pep Guardiola after drawing a Lionel Messi-enhanced Paris Saint Germain in this season’s group stage. Liverpool were also handed a difficult group at a protracted draw...
Liverpool will face Real Madrid in the Champions League last eight in a rematch of their acrimonious 2018 final. It was Madrid who triumphed in a bitter clash three years ago in Kyiv when Mohamed Salah was forced off in the early stages owing to...
The purity of Kylian Mbappe’s crowning goal at Camp Nou should bring clarity to a lot of wider questions. That is the persuasive force of such preternatural finesse. For one, any club thinking about investing fortunes in Lionel Messi should instead be investigating...
On Tuesday night, in the aftermath of Istanbul Basaksehir and Paris Saint-Germain showing the football world that the ‘zero tolerance’ approach to racism isn’t just an empty phrase by walking off the pitch during the first half of their Champions League game, came the typical defences to a racial incident....
Manchester United are behind Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Phil Neville has claimed. The Norwegian has been tipped for the sack by many supporters in the wake of his side’s 3-2 Champions League defeat to RB Leipzig on Tuesday night. The Red Devils have been...
With elimination from the Champions League group stages, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has experienced his first major, unequivocal failure as Manchester United manager, a week-and-a-half short of his two-year anniversary in the job. Two years is more than twice as long as David Moyes lasted. Louis van...
Uefa has announced it has launched an investigation after players from Paris Saint-Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir left the pitch in the 23rd minute of their Champions League fixture in the French capital following alleged racism by the fourth official, Sebastian Coltescu. Play...
Olivier Giroud's four-goal salvo in Chelsea's win over Sevilla on Wednesday evening has led to calls for Frank Lampard to bring him back into the starting line-up, but there's a good reason for the Blues boss not to give into the...
