Champions League

158 articles tagged with "Champions League"

Sep 10, 2026

Mac Allister said Liverpool would not offer him a new contract, and a day later he beat Atletico from 20 yards

Liverpool came from behind to win their Champions League opener 2-1 at Anfield. Marcos Llorente scored against them for the fifth time, all five at th...

Sep 10, 2026

Arsenal took 26 shots in Naples, the most they have had in a Champions League match, and won by one goal

Martin Odegaard settled it in the 75th minute at the end of a 29-pass move. Everything before that was Arsenal missing, and everything after it was Na...

Sep 9, 2026

Marin’s free-kick was the only goal, and LASK’s first Champions League night ended with a header over the bar

LASK reached the Champions League by overturning a four-goal aggregate deficit against Celtic. Their first match in the competition ended with Kalajdz...

Sep 9, 2026

Guirassy scored at both ends on his 100th Dortmund appearance, and Villarreal still lost

Serhou Guirassy marked his 100th Borussia Dortmund appearance with two goals and an own goal, and Dortmund opened their Champions League campaign with...

Sep 9, 2026

Betis trailed at half-time in Lille, and Troy Parrott’s first Champions League goal won it

Marc Bartra scored twice either side of the interval and Troy Parrott struck four days after beating Real Madrid, as Real Betis came from behind to wi...

Sep 9, 2026

Haaland has 59 Champions League goals in 59 games, and Porto did not have a shot on target

Erling Haaland scored twice at the Estádio do Dragão as Manchester City opened the league phase with a 2-0 win. Francesco Farioli’s first night as a C...

Sep 9, 2026

Villa’s first three goals of the season all came before half-time in Bruges

Aston Villa had not scored a goal in the Premier League this season. In Bruges they scored three inside 43 minutes, and John McGinn’s opener made him...

Sep 9, 2026

Real Madrid had 35 per cent of the ball, and Mourinho still would not celebrate beating Inter

Two Inter errors inside 23 minutes settled Real Madrid’s Champions League opener. Courtois made seven saves on his 100th night in the competition, and...

Sep 9, 2026

Arteta was sent off in Naples in 2013, and he goes back with a defence that has conceded once

Napoli sit 12th in Serie A with McTominay and two centre-backs unavailable. Arsenal have won four in a row and let in one goal all season. The Champio...

Sep 8, 2026

Marcos Llorente has scored four goals at Anfield, and Atletico lost both games

Liverpool open the Champions League league phase against Atletico Madrid on Wednesday, with Andoni Iraola still on one win and Diego Simeone’s side co...

Sep 8, 2026

Francesco Farioli has never managed a Champions League match, and his first is against Manchester City

Porto have won all five league games and conceded once. Manchester City arrive at the Dragao without Pep Guardiola for the first time since 2015-16.

Sep 8, 2026

Aston Villa have not scored a league goal all season, and tonight the Champions League starts

The Europa League holders begin their league phase in Bruges at 22:15 IST, sitting 17th in England with one point and an empty goals column.

Sep 8, 2026

Mourinho won a treble at the Bernabeu with Inter, and Chivu was his left-back that night

Sixteen years after the 2010 final, the two men are back at the same ground on opposite benches. Real Madrid host Inter at 12.30am IST on Wednesday.

Sep 7, 2026

Sabah were founded in 2017, and on Thursday they play Manchester United in the Champions League

Matchday 1 runs across three nights from Tuesday, six games a night, and four clubs are about to play the first Champions League match in their histor...

Sep 5, 2026

Como beat Genoa 4-1 with a debut assist from Moise Kean, and they are top of Serie A

Genoa scored first and then conceded four at the Ferraris. Como have seven points from three games, and Moise Kean’s first act as a Como player was to...

Sep 2, 2026

McTominay needs a heart procedure, and Napoli lose Serie A’s player of the season for a month

Napoli say the Scotland midfielder has a mild benign arrhythmia and will be back after the international break. He misses the Inter game, the Arsenal...

Sep 2, 2026

Liverpool have not won in six, and the case for keeping Iraola is his own first season at Bournemouth

Two draws, two points, and a winless run that stretches back into last season. Liverpool have spent again, and the best argument for keeping faith wit...

Aug 31, 2026

Leao has gone to Galatasaray for 45 million euros, and Aston Villa would not raise their offer

AC Milan confirmed Rafael Leao’s permanent transfer on Sunday, ending seven seasons. Aston Villa had him talked round to the Premier League and then s...

Aug 28, 2026

Arsenal drew Real Madrid and Bayern, and PSG got Barcelona and Manchester City

The 2026/27 Champions League league phase draw was made in Monaco on 27 August. Arsenal, beaten in the final in May, host Real Madrid and travel to Ba...

Aug 26, 2026

The Champions League draw is on Thursday, and four of the 36 places are still open

Monaco hosts the league-phase draw at 9.30pm IST on Thursday. Five English clubs are in the pot, PSG go in as back-to-back winners, and four ties on W...

Aug 18, 2026

The Champions League play-offs start tonight, and Fenerbahce vs Lyon is the tie to stay up for

Seven places in the league phase are still open. Three first legs kick off at 00:30 IST tonight, with Celtic and Bodo/Glimt among four more on Wednesd...

Aug 13, 2026

Lukaku leaves Napoli for Fenerbahce after 64 minutes in a year

Fenerbahce have signed Romelu Lukaku from Napoli for six million euros, days before a Champions League playoff against Lyon. He played seven times las...

Aug 12, 2026

PSG vs Aston Villa: Emery has lost three Super Cup finals, and Luis Enrique beat him in one

Unai Emery has reached four Super Cup finals and lost the first three, one of them to Luis Enrique. He gets another go in Salzburg, where both manager...

Jul 27, 2026

Celtic break their transfer record for Kasper Hogh days after selling Maeda to Ipswich

Two days after agreeing a deal worth up to 10 million pounds for Daizen Maeda, Celtic have gone past their club record to sign Bodo/Glimt’s Denmark st...