Inter Milano were given a shock when they were last at home in the UEFA Champions League, but victories in their last two games have taken the 2010 winners top of Group B and Claudio Ranieri’s side will be looking for another success when LOSC Lille Métropole visit. The first competitive meeting between the teams [...]
Borussia Dortmund are still without a win after three Group F matches and will be looking for an improvement when they face Olympiacos FC for the second time at the BVB Stadion. The reverse fixture on 19 October gave Olympiacos their first points in this season’s competition, a 3-1 victory in Piraeus taking the Greek [...]
Having first met 14 years ago, AEK Athens take on Sturm Graz again in UEFA Europa League Group L, in what will be the visitors’ 50th game in the competition. The sides met in the 1997/98 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup second round, with Dumitru Dumitriu’s AEK getting the better of Ivica Osim’s Sturm, winning 2-0 [...]
CSKA Moskva’s first home game in the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League reunites them with familiar opponents in FC Internazionale Milano. The clubs met in the quarter-finals two seasons ago having also crossed paths in the 2007/08 group stage, the Italian team coming out on top in all four games. While the Russian side fought back [...]
Ajax and Olympique Lyon, two teams who have previously met in the UEFA Champions League on matchday one, get their Group D campaigns under way as they come face to face at the Amsterdam ArenA. The clubs met in the 2002/03 edition’s opening set of fixtures, Ajax winning 2-1 at home and then following it [...]
On their last appearance in the UEFA Champions League, in 2009/10, Olympiacos FC progressed from the group stage for only the third time in 12 participations. They hope to at least match that achievement as they begin a new campaign at home to Olympique de Marseille. The teams have met only once, in the 1994/95 [...]
Manchester United only need one point in the next two Premier League games in order to secure the title, as Chelsea has squandered the huge title chance it had yesterday. United has won the home game against Chelsea 2-1, after it had a 2-0 advantage at halftime. Manchester United couldn’t have asked for a better [...]
Chelsea has every reason to dream of the Premier League title in what could be one of the most dramatic league finishes in the history of the Premier League, before the Sunday shocker against Manchester United at Old Trafford. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and his boys must be looking at the table without [...]
If Barcelona beat Madrid on Tuesday they will set a new club record for successive home wins in UEFA competition. They equalled their previous best of nine, set from 1977 to 1979 and matched between 1993 and 1994, against FC Shakhtar Donetsk on Matchday 9. FC Barcelona Injury news Andrés Iniesta has not played since [...]
SL Benfica and SC Braga are sure to make history in their UEFA Europa League semi-final opener as they become the first Portuguese sides to meet in a UEFA club competition game. Previous meetings This is the first all-Portuguese tie in a UEFA club competition, and could potentially result in a second, with Liga champions [...]