Barcelona drew a UEFA Champions League game against the minnows Werder Bremen…The Spanish camps were expected to win… But they only disappointed their supporters…Bremen would have surprised the visitors but Lionel Messi rescued them in the dying moments to give his team an equalizer. What has added to the agony of the squad is the [...]
Both the teams are League leaders in their respective home Leagues, if one is Spanish Champions; the other is supreme in English football. Yes, its Barcelona and Chelsea I am talking of. The two are set to face each other in yet another UEFA Champions League face-off. Of late, Barca had been struggling with form [...]
Is Arsene Wenger out of his mind!! He believes Gunners display against CSKA Moscow was their best-ever in the UEFA Champions League, despite the game ending in a goalless draw… I had only believed that this goal drought that Arsenal are going through was a sting for the side, but now I think it has [...]
Henrik Larsson the former Celtic marksman the latest induction to the Scottish Hall of Fame is in Barcelona’s contention. Barca is struggling with injuries, their strike force Samuel Eto’o will be out for the major part of the season. Though a 3-1 win at home to Real Zaragoza has seen them move to the top [...]
A draw would have been sufficient for the Premiership leaders to make it to the final sixteen in the UEFA Champions League – But to the dismay of the Reds’ they were handed a shocker… a 1-0 defeat to Celtic. Goalkeeper Artur Boruc saved an 89th min penalty from Louis Saha, to send the Scottish [...]
The horrendous run for Valencia continues at the La Liga – the side may have advanced to the knockout stage in the UEFA Champions League, but their poor run in the home League just doesn’t seem to end, the 2002 and 2004 Spanish Champions are placed eighth in the League with just two points from [...]
Alessandro Nesta a vibrant name in the World Champion’s defense line – has served Italia for years – injury and other knocks here n there have fractured the fascinating defender’s repertoire, which eventually costed him a number of appearance for the side. It’s a shocker to hear the AC Milan defender give up on his [...]
The richest club competition in the world, the UEFA Champions League, has often been branded as a money-minting machine for Europe’s richer clubs while the less privileged ones have often been relegated to feeding on the crusts and crumbs. To counter this increasing gulf between the richer and the poorer clubs, UEFA, European football’s governing [...]
Rosenborg are the perennial UEFA Champions League visitors but have never transcended beyond the borders of the group stages. It was a mismatch then when Chelsea, who have galloped into the semi-finals of the competition twice in the last four years, hosted the Norwegian champions at Stamford Bridge in Group B on Tuesday. Roman Abramovich [...]
Rafael Benitez might have taken Liverpool to two UEFA Champions League finals in the last three years but his team’s performance against FC Porto in Group A on Tuesday in their first match of the competition this season left much to be desired. Playing with the strongest line-up against the Portuguese champions in Oporto, Liverpool [...]
