Milan have a formidable home record in European Cup quarter-finals. This is their 15th appearance in the last eight and they have yet to lose a home leg at this stage, with ten wins and four draws. That record will be put to the test against a Barcelona side who have won their last six [...]
Morais played under Mourinho at Chelsea between 2004 and 2007, making just four league appearances including a 3-1 win at Ronaldo’s Manchester United FC in May 2005. Ricardo Carvalho was in the Chelsea team that recorded a 1-0 group stage victory against APOEL in Nicosia in September 2009. Facing him were Chiotis, Poursaitides, Morais, Charalambides, [...]
Benfica welcome Chelsea to Lisbon looking to take a major step towards their first European Cup semi-final appearance for more than 20 years. Roberto Di Matteo’s first European campaign as a player ended with defeat by Portuguese opposition as his S.S. Lazio team went down 2-1 on aggregate to Boavista FC in the 1993/94 UEFA [...]
Manchester City will hope to forge on towards the quarter-finals at the expense of Sporting Clube de Portugal, having won both of their previous home games against Portuguese opponents. Sporting are 1-0 up from the home leg. Drafted in to replace the injured Oguchi Onyewu, centre-back Xandao broke the deadlock with an inspired back-heel (51). [...]
Athletic Bilbao will look for a repeat of their last home result against Manchester United, over 50 years ago, as the sides bid for a place in the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals. United’s 2-1 home loss against AFC Ajax in the round of 32 decider was their first home defeat in the UEFA Cup or [...]
Real Madrid won all six of their UEFA Champions League group games and looked on course for a seventh victory in the first leg of their round of 16 tie at CSKA Moskva only to be pegged back at the last. Cristiano Ronaldo’s 28th-minute strike in Moscow gave Madrid the lead, but CSKA debutant Pontus [...]
Inter are aiming to make a third successive Champions League quarter-final as they welcome Marseille to San Siro, a venue where visiting coach Didier Deschamps was unbeaten against the Nerazzurri as a player. Deschamps‘ AS Monaco FC side beat Claudio Ranieri’s Chelsea FC in the 2003/04 semi-finals. Deschamps was in Marseille’s 1993 UEFA Champions League [...]
Manchester United‘s quest for an important piece of missing silverware continues as they take on Athletic Club for the first time in over 50 years in the UEFA Europa League round of 16. The clubs’ only previous meeting came over 50 years ago, in what was both sides’ third competitive two-legged tie in UEFA competition. [...]
Guardiola’s first four appearances in Europe’s premier club competition as a player came against FC Hansa Rostock and 1. FC Kaiserslautern in autumn 1991. Barcelona, that season’s eventual winners, won both home legs but lost both away. Ballack was in the Chelsea FC side denied a 2008/09 UEFA Champions League final place by Iniesta’s added-time [...]
At home in Group F Arsenal beat Olympiacos FC and Borussia Dortmund 2-1 while their meeting with Olympique de Marseille ended scoreless. Massimiliano Allegri’s Milan drew all three away games in Group H. The Gunners have suffered only one defeat in their last 42 home games, including qualifying rounds, in the competition – a 3-1 [...]