UEFA Champions League Round-of-16: Team Prospects after First-Leg Matches
February 27, 2015 R K Gupta
Champions League, FIFA, Football, UEFA, UEFA Champions LeagueDuring February 17-25, 2015, 8 round-of-16 first-leg matches were played in different European venues. Playing at home at Lviv on February 17, FC Shakhtar held visitors Bayern Munich to a goalless draw and made the second-leg match crucial for both teams. On the same day, PSG staged a second-half revival to draw against Chelsea FC […]
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Football Fans’ Speculations Begin as UEFA Champions League Round-of-16 Draw Are Announced
December 23, 2014 R K Gupta
FIFA, Football, UEFA, UEFA Champions LeagueThe beauty of UEFA Champions League is inherent in expectations. The die-hard football fans think far ahead into future and they just don’t mind waiting for months and months on end. Apart from World Cup Finals that take place every four years, UEFA Champions League final, every year, is also awaited like a baby to […]
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Brazilian boys help Shakhtar Donetsk to progress in Champions League
December 11, 2014 John Welsh
Champions league 2014, FIFA, Football, Shakhtar Donetsk, UEFAAfter the conclusion of the group matches in the 2014-15 Champions League competition, it is apparent that the Western European football teams are dominating once again to the detriment of their Eastern counterparts. Four qualifying teams from Germany plus three apiece from Spain and England underline the strength of the Premier League, Bundesliga and La […]
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Late Champions League drama offers Manchester City a lifeline
November 26, 2014 John Welsh
Bayern Munich, Champions League, FIFA, Football, Manchester CityIt has often been quoted that fine margins can settle the outcome of football matches and tournaments with Tuesday evenings contests in Champions League Group E proving no exception. Bayern Munich had already clinched the group ahead of the fifth set of matches with CSKA Moscow, Roma and Manchester City vying for the second qualifying […]
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Slovan Bratislava may yet claim an unwelcome statistic in Europa League
November 7, 2014 John Welsh
Europa League, FIFA, Football, Slovan BratislavaAmid all the high profile matches in this week’s Champions and Europa League encounters, there was one game in Group I of the latter competition which was both symbolic in terms of the occasion and which also completed another chapter in a fairly disastrous set of European fixtures for the beaten team. The meeting between […]
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Didier Drogba proves that there is still life in his ageing legs as Chelsea draw at Old Trafford
October 27, 2014 John Welsh
Chelsea, Didier Drogba, FIFA, Football, Manchester UnitedIn the 2012 UEFA Champions League cup final, Didier Drogba headed home a Chelsea corner in the final minutes to equalise an earlier Bayern Munich goal to force the game into extra-time. Drogba had been first to react to a ball arriving at the near post as he out-jumped the opposing defence. Chelsea subsequently won […]
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Roma must refocus after being exposed by a ruthless Bayern Munich team
October 22, 2014 John Welsh
Bayern Munich, Football, Roma, UEFAWhen Germany beat Brazil 7-1 in the 2014 World Cup Semi-Final, it was described as an awesome attacking performance against a woeful defence. The Germans were 5-0 ahead at half-time in that match and just three months later, Bayern Munich replicated the display of the national team by winning a Champions League tie 7-1 at […]
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UEFA Champions’ League Group-Stage Preview
September 16, 2014 Paranjoy Goswami
Champions League, Champions league 2014, Football, UEFAThe race for the grandest prize in European football, the UEFA Champions’ League gets underway this week. Here we take a quick look at all the 32 teams in the 8 groups as we try to figure out what to expect in the coming months of the tournament. Group A: Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Olympiakos […]
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Falcao loan deal demonstrates a means of manipulating Financial Fair Play Rules
September 3, 2014 John Welsh
Falcao, Manchester United, Transfer news, UEFAAs the European football leagues pause for the international break, it allows some time to reflect on another transfer window in which the rich clubs have once again spent extravagant sums of money on players. As the closure of the window approached on September 1st, the impending transfer of one player in particular seemed to […]
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Celtic lifeline disguises the decline in Scottish club football
August 9, 2014 John Welsh
Celtic, Champions League, FootballWhen Celtic slumped to a 2-0 home defeat by Legia Warsaw in the second leg of their Champions League third qualifying round tie at Murrrayfield, it epitomised the recent slump in Scottish football especially as Celtic lost the first leg by a resounding 4-1 scoreline. Only two years previously, a capacity crowd at Parkhead had […]
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