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Match Focus: Real Madrid vs Atlético Madrid - Four Key Battles

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Match Focus: Real Madrid vs Atlético Madrid - Four Key Battles The upcoming installment of El Derbi madrileño is undoubtedly the biggest in recent memory. Real Madrid are out to secure La Décima, while Atlético Madrid are looking to cap off a sensational season on the back of their title win last weekend, in turn becoming the first team to ...

Dortmund vs Bayern: Where the Champions League Final will be Won and Lost

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Dortmund vs Bayern: Where the Champions League Final will be Won and Lost Bayern Munich fans mockingly sang football's coming home as they watched their side cruise to a 3-1 victory at the Emirates Stadium in the second round of this season's Champions League. Dortmund fans may well join them this weekend when the two sides meet at the same location (albeit at a rebuilt s...

WhoScored Champions League Team of the Group Stages

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WhoScored Champions League Team of the Group Stages With the Champions League group stages coming to an end, the fates of the 32 clubs involved have been decided, with a number of high-profile casualties, not least reigning champions Chelsea and Premier League winners Manchester City.Here, however, we focus on the players that have starred in their r...

Champions League Focus: Matchday 4 Round-up

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Champions League Focus: Matchday 4 Round-up I have never played a team as strong as that, Lille defender Franck Béria quivered. 5-0 down after just 33 minutes, a fate no one in Champions League history has ever had to chew on with their half-time oranges, Bayern Munich's blitz was, with Borussia Dortmund's display at Real Madrid and Sh...

Champions League Focus: Matchday 3 Round-up

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Champions League Focus: Matchday 3 Round-up In his programme notes ahead of Braga's visit to Old Trafford on Tuesday evening, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson posed his readers a question. Now be honest, he wrote, how many of you know where Borisov is, let alone how much about the Belarusian champions?Ferguson was alluding of cours...

Match Focus: Champions League Final

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Match Focus: Champions League Final The Champions League final is nearly upon us, with both Chelsea and Bayern to a lesser extent defying the odds in the last round to make it all the way. With the game pre-arranged to be staged at the Allianz Arena, Roberto Di Matteo's side go into the match as underdogs once again, which is perhaps ...

Arsenal's Udinese Task Eased by Departures

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Arsenal's Udinese Task Eased by Departures Yesterday's Champions League third qualifying round draw saw a few high profile ties emerge with the likes of FC Twente v Benfica, Bayern Munich v FC Zurich and Lyon v Rubin Kazan catching the eye. However, the clash of the draw sees Arsenal pit their wits against Udinese after both sides finished f...