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The Champions League quarter-finals for this year’s competition have officially been completed with the only English sides remaining in Manchester City and Chelsea both facing tough hurdles in their quest to make it to Istanbul. Graham Potter’s Chelsea side face a tough battle against Spanish juggernauts Real Madrid who knocked out Liverpool earlier this week […]
European Champions Chelsea travel to France this evening to face Lille in their Round-of-16 second leg tie amid on going controversy surrounding their owner Roman Abramovich. Thomas Tuchel’s men take a 2-0 aggregate lead with them to Lille, looking to progress into their third quarter-final in four seasons. The Blues will look to try and […]
UEFA have made the decision to void the initial Champions League last-16 draw with it set to be redone following an administrative error. Following a technical problem with the software of an external service provider that instructs the officials as to which teams are eligible to play each other, a material error occurred in the […]
With the round of 32 draw taking place tomorrow, Manchester City and Chelsea are the two English teams within contention. Changes have been made to the format of the draw, in line with Covid-19 protocols, and there are only four potential teams each of them could face. The English sides can only be drawn against […]
Marcos Llorente scored twice in extra-time to knock Liverpool out of the Champions League and see Atletico Madrid progress into the quarter-finals after a 3-2 win on aggregate. Llorente equalised after Roberto Firmino gave the Reds the lead of the tie in the 94th minute and scored again just before the break of extra-time. Alvaro […]
If UEFA dealt with racism as strictly as they do with financial fair play, then the beautiful game wouldn’t be so ugly. Manchester City were fined 30 million euros on Friday by UEFA for ‘serious breaches of financial fair play’. They were also handed a two-year ban from competing in the Champions League. Although City […]