It was joy for England and despair for Italy as Premiership clubs, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur, did the needful to advance into the knockout phase of the UEFA Champions League at the expense of Serie A's Napoli and Inter Milan.Liverpool, needing to win by a lone goal and keep a clean sheet to qualify, defeated Napoli 1-0 thanks to Mohamed [...]
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Video assistant referee (VAR) will be introduced in the Champions League and other UEFA competitions from the 2019/20 season.The decision was reached on Thursday at a meeting of UEFA's executive committee in Nyon, Switzerland.According to UEFA, the VAR system will be used from the play-off stage of the Champions League while it will also be used for the 2019 UEFA Super [...]

UEFA is set to launch a third European club competition from the 2021-22 season.Andrea Agnelli, European Club Association president, confirmed the development on Tuesday.In his opening address at the ECA biannual meeting, Agnelli said: "Pending approval of the UEFA ExCo, the 'green light' has been given to introduce a third competition, bringing the overall number of clubs to 96, as of [...]

Real Madrid start a third consecutive defence of their UCL crown against Roma, CSKA Moscow and Viktoria Plzen in the group stage.The draws, handled by Real and Atletico Madrid players, Kaka and Diego Forlan respectively, placed the 13-time champions in the same group as Roma, the slayers of Barcelona last season.Barcelona, who have won their group in the last 11 [...]

European football governing body, UEFA, has announced that the 2020 Champions League final will be staged at Turkey's Istanbul stadium. The UEFA Executive Committee took the decision at its meeting held today in Kiev, Ukraine.The Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadı is the country's largest stadium and is home to the Turkish national team. This will be the stadium's second UCL final, [...]

Real Madrid and Bayern Munich joined Liverpool and Roma in the semi finals of the UCL after overcoming the challenges of Juventus and Sevilla respectively.Zinedine Zidane's wards were abysmal on the night but were saved by talisman Cristiano Ronaldo's last-minute contentious but clear-cut penalty kick as they suffered a shock 1-3 loss at the Santiago Bernabeu.Juventus, looking to emulate Roma's [...]

It is no more news that draws for the UEFA Champions League Quarter finals have been 'staged' as is done every year.Most fans of clubs handed tough draws (Juventus vs Real Madrid; Liverpool vs Man City; Sevilla fans) will never admit to the fairness of the event, while those with seemingly easy ties (Barcelona, Bayern Munich) are already booking [...]

Barcelona defeated an enterprising but error-strewn Chelsea 3-0 at the Camp Nou to advance into the Quarter final of the UEFA Champions League thanks to a brace and an assist from Lionel Messi.Both sides made one change apiece to their starting XI from the first leg, Oliver Giroud replacing Pedro for Chelsea. Barcelona replaced Paulinho with fit-again summer signing Ousmane [...]

Manchester United suffered an embarrassing 2-1 loss at Old Trafford to Sevilla and crashed out of the UEFA Champions League. Jose Mourinho's men were looking to qualify after a goalless first leg in Spain two weeks ago but were dominated by a spirited and attack-minded Sevilla side.On the heels of his two-goal showing against Liverpool on Saturday, Mourinho handed Marcus [...]

It was a mixed evening for English clubs in the UCL on wednesday evening as Tottenham Hotspur crashed out to last year's beaten finalist Juventus 2-1 at Wembley stadium, while Manchester City, despite losing 2-1 at home, took the easy street into the quarter finals with a 5-2 aggregate win over FC Basel of Switzerland.Pablo Dybala, Blaise Matuidi, and Giorgio [...]

Cristiano Ronaldo scored in a record-equaling ninth consecutive UCL game to lead Real Madrid to a 2-1 victory over ten-man PSG at the Parc de Princes stadium in France.Real Madrid made four changes to the team which won the first leg 3-1, surprise starts for wonderkid Marco Asensio, Lucas Vasquez and Mateo Kovacic, while Dani Carvajal returned from suspension to [...]