The best footballer in the world, Lionel Messi will face his Argentine teammate, Angel Di Maria when Paris Saint-Germain face Juventus in this season’s UEFA Champions League. Apart from the French side and the Italian club, other teams in the group are Portuguese team, Benfica and Maccabi Haifa from Israeli Premier League. Both Messi and […]

Paris police chief Didier Lallement has apologised to Liverpool FC fans for using teargas at the 2021/2022 UEFA Champions League final match on May 28. Lallement also apologised for his wrong estimation of the number of fake tickets which were in circulation before and during the match. The European showpiece in Paris was twice delayed […]

By Emmanuel Okogba Marcelo has said he will not continue at Real Madrid after the club won a record 14th Champions League title on Saturday against Liverpool. The Brazilian who is the captain of the side was an unused sub but cheered from the sideline as they completed a season double. Marcelo has been at […]

Tottenham Hotspur secured a fourth-placed finish and Son Heung-min won a share of the Golden Boot award thanks to a 5-0 victory at Norwich City.  Spurs took a 16th-minute lead when Rodrigo Bentancur broke in behind the Norwich defence and squared for Dejan Kulusevski to tap in.  Bentancur was again the provider to cross for […]

By Emmanuel Okogba Former Manchester United forward, Louis Saha believes the club still has the chance of qualifying for next season’s Champions League despite their recent poor run of form that has left them in sixth position and six points behind fourth placed Arsenal. United’s loss to Arsenal at the weekend was their second consecutive […]

By Emmanuel Okogba Manchester City coach, Pep Guardiola has his eyes on the final of this year’s UEFA Champions League as he aims to clinch the trophy that has eluded him in his time at the Etihad club, but he must negotiate his way past Real Madrid to achieve this. Guardiola and his charges who […]

By Emmanuel Okogba Nigeria and Napoli forward, Victor Osimhen will only consider a switch to Premier League football with Arsenal if his condition is met. Osimhen who fired blank on Sunday as Napoli threw away a two-goal lead to lose 3-2, and most likely their chances of winning the Scudetto against Empoli, says the London […]

Manchester City showed their character in a tough contest in Madrid to celebrate their 100th UEFA Champions League game by securing their place in the semi-finals at the expense of Atlético de Madrid. It was the intense start Josep Guardiola had anticipated, as Diego Simeone’s spirited Atlético pressed quickly from the first whistle, spurred on […]

Liverpool will line up in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals for the third time in five seasons after Roberto Firmino’s second-half double all but wrapped up an aggregate triumph before Benfica hit back to remove some of the gloss. Next up: Villarreal. A much-changed Liverpool side were slow to get into this quarter-final second leg, […]

Samuel Chukwueze scored in the 88th minute to help giant killers, Villarreal qualify for the semi-final of the UEFA Champions League beating Bayern Munich 2-1 on aggregate. The onus was on Bayern following last week’s 1-0 defeat in Spain, and the home side took up the responsibility from the off, setting up camp in the Villarreal […]