Champions League news

• Massimiliano Allegri calls for intensity from Juventus in order to get past Ajax

  15-04-2019 23:57 via theguardian.com
  • First leg ended 1-1 in Amsterdam
  • Mandzukic and Chiellini ruled out for JuventusThe Juventus coach, Massimiliano Allegri, wants his team to show the same intensity they displayed in beating Atlético Madrid in the last 16 when they face Ajax in their Champions League quarter-final on Tuesday.Juventus overturned a 2-0 deficit from the first leg with a 3-0 second-leg win over Atlético and, although a goalless draw will suffice this time after last week’s 1-1 draw in
  
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• Ole Gunnar Solskjær preaches belief on historic return to Camp Nou

  15-04-2019 22:20 via theguardian.com
  The manager thinks Manchester United can raise their level again in the Champions League second leg in Barcelona on TuesdayIt is, as everyone knows by now, 20 years since Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored that goal in European football’s biggest stadium and on European football’s biggest night. And, if it has often felt inescapable over the last fortnight, inevitably it was there again when he finally returned two decades later, playing on the screens of the press room as he got up an
  
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• Ole Gunnar Solskjær insists his strikers must step up against Barcelona

  15-04-2019 21:21 via theguardian.com
  • Manchester United trail 1-0 in Champions League quarter-final
  • Alexis Sánchez among forwards who travelled to BarcelonaOle Gunnar Solskjær called on his strikers to step up as Manchester United look to overcome a 1-0 home defeat to beat Barcelona at the Camp Nou and progress to the Champions League semi-finals, describing doubts over who could provide goals as “the $100m question”.United need to score at least once at the Camp Nou, with Solskjær insist
  
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• Ajax head for Turin knowing time is nearly up for another prize crop | Ed Aarons

  15-04-2019 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Frenkie de Jong is unlikely to be the last of this team to depart in the summer after their Champions League exploits“Every year one or two big names leave,” acknowledged Michael van Praag, the Ajax president, in March 1997. “It is sad, especially for me. But we are used to it. There is absolutely no panic.” More than two decades on from the last time the four-times European Cup winners reached the semi-finals, the faces may have changed but there is still no hiding from
  
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