Champions League

Porto scored in the first minute of each half to beat Juventus in their Champions League round of 16 first-leg tie. It was a crucial win for the hosts as Juventus have a lot to play for in the return leg in Turin. Mehdi Taremi scored after just 63 seconds in the tie to kick off the proceedings. Taremi pounced on Rodrigo Bentancur's poor back pass to slide in and convert the first. Juventus saw an Adrien Rabiot shot get saved after an

Erling Braut Haaland scored a brace for Borussia Dortmund as the Bundesliga side overcame Sevilla in their Champions League round of 16 first leg tie. Dortmund were trailing in the match 1-0 before Mahmoud Dahoud and Haaland helped them go 3-1 up. Howerver, Luuk de Jong scored late to keep Sevilla alive. Here we present the records broken. Sevilla took a lead with Suso's shot that deflected in off Mats Hummels. Dahoud leveled before Haaland got two goals in a space of 16

BARCELONA: Barcelona's crushing 4-1 home defeat by Paris St Germain in their Champions League last-16 first leg at Camp Nou on Tuesday underlined the scale of the rebuild the club needs to get back to their former glory days, coach Ronald Koeman said. Barca were back in the knockout stage of Europe's elite club competition for the first time since an 8-2 hammering at the hands of Bayern Munich in last season's quarter-finals and started well with Lionel Messi's opener from the penalty

BARCELONA: Kylian Mbappe ripped Barcelona apart on Tuesday by scoring a stunning hat-trick in a 4-1 rout to put Paris Saint-Germain on the brink of the Champions League quarter-finals. Mbappe underlined his status as the rising superstar of world football with a ruthless display of finishing at Camp Nou that will go down as one this competition's most devastating individual performances.The 22-year-old eclipsed Barca's Lionel Messi, whose opening goal from the penalty spot had been reduced to nothing more than a footnote by

Meet the teams ParisUEFA ranking: 7This season: P10 W8 D1 L1 F25 A5How they got here: Group A winners, 3-2agg Dortmund (R16), 2-1 Atalanta (QF), 3-0 Leipzig (SF)Last five games: WWDWWTop scorer: Mauro Icardi, Kylian Mbappé (5)Last season: round of 16European Cup best: final (2019/20) BayernUEFA ranking: 2This season: P10 W10 D0 L0 F42 A8How they got here: Group B winners, 7-1agg Chelsea (R16), 8-2 Barcelona (QF), 3-0 Lyon (SF)Last five games: WWWWWTop scorer: Robert Lewandowski (15)Last season: quarter-finalsEuropean Cup best: winners x5 (most recently 2012/13) Possible line-ups Volume 0% Great Neymar, Mbappé, Di María Paris combinations Paris:

UEFA Champions League: Serge Gnabry and Robert Lewandowski led Bayern Munich to a 3-0 win over Olympique Lyonnais and into the final. Bayern Munich powered into the Champions League final, where they will face Paris St Germain, as two goals from Serge Gnabry led them to an emphatic 3-0 win over Olympique Lyonnais on Wednesday. Bayern will bid for their sixth European Cup triumph when they come up against Neymar and Kylian Mbappe on Sunday and after convincingly beating Chelsea, Barcelona and now Lyon, Hansi Flick's side will surely start as

Paris Saint-Germain reached their first Champions League final with a dominant display to beat RB Leipzig 3-0 at the Estadio da Luz in Lisbon. Marquinhos set Thomas Tuchel's side on their way, heading home Angel Di Maria's free-kick (13) before Di Maria doubled PSG's lead three minutes before the break following a mistake by Peter Gulacsi.Sponsored link Juan Bernat glanced in PSG's third 11 minutes into the restart from another Di Maria cross while Neymar struck the post twice in a one-sided semi-final.

Tyler Adams struck two minutes from time to send Leipzig through to the semi-finals for the first time.Highlights: Leipzig 2-1 Atlético Leipzig will face Paris in the last four of the UEFA Champions League after sealing a late 2-1 victory against Atlético. Match in brief Marcel Halstenberg served early warning of Leipzig’s intent when he volleyed over in the fourth minute, though it was Yannick Carrasco’s powerful first-time shot which required the smartest stop of the first half; Péter Gulácsi was up to

The biggest match of the season is here. Can Barça finish the job at home and book a place in the Lisbon Playoffs? Competition/Round: 2019-20 UEFA Champions League, Round of 16, Second leg First leg result: Napoli 1-1 Barcelona Barcelona Outs & Doubts: Sergio Busquets, Arturo Vidal, Ousmane Dembélé, Samuel Umtiti, Martin Braithwaite, Arthur (out) Napoli Outs & Doubts: Nikola Maksimovic (out), Lorenzo Insigne (doubt) Date/Time: Saturday, August 8, 2020, 9pm CET (Barcelona), 8pm BST/WAT (UK & Nigeria), 3pm ET, 12pm PT (USA), 12.30am IST (India, Sunday) Venue:

Chelsea will be looking to bounce back from their FA Cup disappointment this evening as they face a difficult test away to Bayern Munich in the Champions League last-16. The Blues were beaten 2-1 by London rivals Arsenal in Saturday's final at Wembley to deny Frank Lampard his first piece of silverware since taking over as manager. Their chances of another European triumph are all but dead in the water after a 3-0 defeat at home to the Bayern in the first leg at Stamford Bridge back in

Pep Guardiola dethroned the “kings of the competition” — now his Manchester City side can claim the crown for themselves. Beating Real Madrid was the big win and the big performance in Europe that he has craved since taking over at the Etihad Stadium four years ago. Now, his side can have no nerves about taking on the rest of Europe. City were quicker, sharper, more intelligent and more threatening than a Madrid that had incredibly never tasted elimination in the Champions League before in Zinedine Zidane’s four campaigns as

Lyon qualified for the quarter-finals of the Champions League on Friday despite losing 2-1 to Juventus in Turin. A goal up after winning February's first leg, French side Lyon will face Manchester City at the final tournament in Lisbon after drawing 2-2 on aggregate and going through on away goals. Lyon squeezed past the Italian champions thanks to Memphis Depay's 12th-minute penalty which put Rudi Garcia's side two goals ahead in the tie and left Juve with a mountain to climb. Needing to score three unanswered goals

Football is a game of great emotion. It sometimes leaves you teary-eyes, sometimes makes you happy and sometimes leaves you wanting for more. There have been many fans over the years from a number of clubs who have expressed their support for their clubs, but none perhaps like a 10-year old boy named Daragh Curley, who is an avid Manchester United fan. He addressed the letter to Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp asking him to make his team lose. Now Klopp's Reply to United

The Liverpool squad for Champions League has been announced ahead of their clash against Athletico Madrid. The squad has one notable inclusion in the form of Takumi Minamino who was purchased by the club in the January transfer window for £7.25million. Minamino has replaced Sepp van den Berg, who was included for the group stage earlier in the season. Meanwhile, Minamino played against Liverpool for his earlier club Red Bull Salzburg during the group stage. However, as per the new UEFA rules, a

After they won 3-0 against Liverpool at the Camp Nou, the Barca players were very confident of repeating the same in the second leg at Anfield as well. Before the game, Messi delivered a motivational speech which spurred onto the players immediately and the result was there for everyone to see on the football field. The Barcelona vs Liverpool Champions League 2018 semi-final is a story that is fresh in the memory of every football fan and the supporters of these two clubs.

Tottenham Hotspur faced an uphill task in Amsterdam on Wednesday night; overturning a goal’s deficit against a rampant Ajax side after having exerted to the extreme against Bournemouth over the weekend. Spurs being Spurs, it wouldn’t be fitting if they didn’t exacerbate their own predicament by conceding to an early corner, and a tad later to a truly beautiful finish by Hakim Ziyech. At 2-0 down on the night, and 3-0 down on aggregate, with Kieran Trippier limping due to injury, Mauricio Pochettino

Liverpool welcome FC Barcelona to Anfield on Tuesday night, knowing that they must overturn a 3-0 deficit in order to have any chance of qualifying for the UEFA Champions League final in Madrid. A Luis Suarez goal was followed up by a Lionel Messi brace in the first leg of the tie, just before Ousmane Dembele missed a golden chance to finish the tie in Barcelona itself, when his shot from a glorious counter attack failed to hit the target. A 3 goal

Tottenham Hotspur welcomed Ajax to their new stadium on Tuesday in the first semi-final of the 18/19 Champions League. A small injury crisis was compounded by the suspension to Son Heung-Min, and Spurs were forced to start with a back 3 (3-5-2), made entirely of former Ajax players in Vertonghen, Sanchez and Alderweireld. It was a predictable, but a very defensive minded lineup, with the main attacking threat the wing backs, Trippier and Rose. Ajax started as we expected, in a 4-2-3-1, with

Liverpool take on FC Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur face Ajax in the Champions League semi-finals for the 18/19 season. Spurs and Barcelona play the first leg at home, and will have to travel to Amsterdam and Merseyside respectively for the return legs. Champions League Semi Final 1: Tottenham v/s Ajax Tottenham Hotspur qualified for the semi-finals, beating Manchester City on the away goals rule. The English side looks good value for their berth, and will be looking to beat this very young Ajax