Champions League news

• Arsenal are talking the talk after PSG loss but can they walk the walk in Paris?

  30-04-2025 15:18
  Mikel Merino says team have the quality, motivation and mentality to turn Champions League semi-final on its headThe fighting talk comes as standard. Arsenal are down after Tuesday night’s 1-0 home defeat against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League semi-final first leg – but not out.“This team … you can never give up on us,” Mikel Merino says. “Because I think we proved that we are always going to fight until the end. We have the technical quality and
  
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• Champions League review: Bayern shine, Cypriot history and Rooney v Van Dijk

  06-11-2025 14:44
  This week’s action saw Vincent Kompany’s men roll on, surprise results and a brilliant performance from a Liverpool defender• Vincent Kompany’s Bayern Munich. They rule supreme in Germany and are on a 16-match winning streak. Beating the defending champions, Paris Saint-Germain, on Tuesday was further proof of Bayern’s credentials. Luís Diaz, whose combativeness is sorely missed by Liverpool, scored two, but he took the aggression too far when his challenge on
  
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• Meet the new, fun Erling Haaland: he’s laughing but he’ll still destroy you | Barney Ronay

  06-11-2025 00:58
  The Norwegian’s goalscoring feats have become so vast they hardly need chronicling, but at least he’s now doing it with a smileWith 27 minutes gone, and Manchester City 1-0 up, Erling Haaland did an extraordinary and also very funny thing. Strolling with feigned disinterest away from a free‑kick in the centre circle, Haaland turned, took the ball, and decided to run straight at the Borussia Dortmund defence, dragging with him a pair of desperate yellow shirts, grabbing and stum
  
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• Pep Guardiola urges Manchester City’s Phil Foden to push for England recall

  06-11-2025 00:27
  Foden scores twice in 4-1 win over Borussia Dortmund‘No one in the world doesn’t know about his quality’Pep Guardiola said that “no one in the world” could deny Phil Foden’s quality and urged Manchester City’s playmaker to push himself to be recalled by Thomas Tuchel for England after he scored twice in the 4-1 home Champions League win over Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday.Foden’s sumptuous strikes, on 22 and 57 minutes, were complemented by a raspi
  
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• Champions League roundup: Club Brugge hold Barcelona in six-goal thriller

  06-11-2025 00:27
  Inter maintain perfect start with win over Kairat AlmatyPafos beat Villarreal to earn first Champions League winBarcelona had to settle for a share of the spoils at Club Brugge after a thrilling 3-3 draw but were fortunate the English referee Anthony Taylor ruled out Romeo Vermant’s stoppage-time effort for a foul on the Barça goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny.In a thriller at Brugge’s Jan Breydel Stadium, the home side opened the scoring through Nicolò Tresoldi in the sixth
  
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• Manchester City 4-1 Dortmund, Newcastle 2-0 Athletic, and more: Champions League – as it happened

  05-11-2025 23:08
  Manchester City and Newcastle United eased their opponents aside, while Brugge and Barcelona shared six goals in a wild affair in BelgiumTeams are emerging from tunnels all across Europe. Zadok the Priest (Version) blaring out hither and yon. We’ll be off in a couple of minutes!Going into the 8pm kick-offs, here’s how the league phase currently looks. When it’s all completed after eight games, the top eight will go through to the round of 16, positions nine to 16 will be seeded
  
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• Phil Foden’s double downs Borussia Dortmund as Manchester City sparkle

  05-11-2025 23:03
  If Phil Foden performs so do Manchester City is a truism reiterated by this two-goal show that helped sweep Pep Guardiola’s improving team to 10 points from four games at the stage’s halfway juncture.Factor in Erling Haaland who decorated his captaincy for the eve with a 27th goal (for club and country) and Waldemer Anton’s 72nd-minute jab home was solely an irritation. Continue reading...
  
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• Burn and Joelinton use their heads to give Newcastle win over Bilbao

  05-11-2025 22:59
  The gloom of the London Stadium was soon forgotten. Newcastle may have been abject on Sunday, but in a run of six wins in eight games, one aberration is perhaps permissible.This was a third successive Champions League success, all without conceding, and Eddie Howe’s side can now look forward to the playoff round at least, perhaps even a top‑eight place and automatic passage to the last 16. Quite apart from anything else, they are bigger than most opponents they face in Europe and tha
  
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• Qarabag 2-2 Chelsea: Champions League – as it happened

  05-11-2025 21:25
  Alejandro Garnacho scored off the bench as Chelsea escaped from Azerbaijan with a point after being given a scare1 min: No Caicedo or Enzo in midfield for Chelsea, and that’s going to be a test of Romeo Lavia and Andrey Santos. The young visitors get booed on every touch. Boos are very much in fashion in football, as Trent Alexander-Arnold will tell you.Here we go in Baku, the teams are out, the jewel of the Land of Fire take on west London’s finest. The weather looks much the same a
  
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• Garnacho spares Chelsea shock Champions League loss at Qarabag

  05-11-2025 21:02
  This was not a night for Enzo Maresca’s trademark control. Chelsea invited pressure by starting with a weakened team against dangerous opposition and were anything but measured as they battled in vain to douse Qarabag’s spirit and skill at a raucous Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium.Those lucky enough to be there were treated to a wonderfully absorbing contest. It finished 2-2, Alejandro Garnacho coming off the bench to spare Chelsea’s blushes with a fine equaliser, but it coul
  
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• Qarabag v Chelsea: Champions League – live

  05-11-2025 20:28
  ⚽️ Champions League updates, 5.45pm GMT kick-off
  ⚽️ Live scores | Chelsea’s epic trek to Qarabag | Mail John1 min: No Caicedo or Enzo in midfield for Chelsea, and that’s going to be a test of Romeo Lavia and Andrey Santos. The young visitors get booed on every touch. Boos are very much in fashion in football, as Trent Alexander-Arnold will tell you.Here we go in Baku, the teams are out, the jewel of the Land of Fire take on west London’s finest. The we
  
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• Manchester City v Dortmund, Newcastle v Athletic, and more: Champions League – live

  05-11-2025 20:10
  ⚽️ Champions League updates from the 8pm GMT games
  ⚽️ Live scores | Qarabag v Chelsea – live | And email ScottAjax: Pasveer, Gaaei, Sutalo, Baas, Wijndal, Klaassen, Regeer, Mokio, Godts, Weghorst, Gloukh.
  Subs: Jaros, Rosa, Heerkens, Itakura, Moro, McConnell, Edvardsen, Konadu, Fitz-Jim, Alders, Bounida.
  Galatasaray: Cakir, Singo, Sanchez, Bardakci, Sallai, Lemina, Torreira, Jakobs, Sane, Gabriel Sara, Osimhen.
  Subs: Sen, Baltaci, Guvenc, Icardi, Elmali, Kutlu, Ku
  
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• Max Dowman leads charge for ever younger stars at Arsenal and beyond

  05-11-2025 15:30
  Champions League history-maker has benefitted from growing emphasis on youth and club’s fast-track approachIf Mikel Arteta had any doubts that Max Dowman is equipped for the big stage they will have been dispelled in a few seconds on Tuesday night. Dowman, having just become the first 15-year-old to play in the Champions League when he replaced Leandro Trossard in the 72nd minute against Slavia Prague, received the ball on the right flank from Declan Rice and immediately drew a foul from h
  
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• Van de Ven brushes off Frank snub and reflects on his Spurs wonder goal

  05-11-2025 11:01
  Incident with manager after Chelsea loss ‘nothing big’Defender says Tottenham ‘needed to bounce back’Micky van de Ven has played down the furore over his standoff with Thomas Frank after Tottenham’s Premier League defeat by Chelsea on Saturday, insisting it was misinterpreted and blown out of proportion. The centre-half preferred to focus on how the team had bounced back to thrash FC Copenhagen in the Champions League on Tuesday – a game in which he scored a t
  
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• Enzo Maresca must decide to stick or twist on Chelsea’s epic Qarabag trek

  05-11-2025 09:00
  Finding the right balance with rotation will be key as head coach faces tricky Champions League task on WednesdayEuropean away days were not so taxing for Chelsea last season. They were too good for the Conference League and were able to win it even though Enzo Maresca often used those Thursday assignments to play his reserves and keep his best players fresh for the Premier League.This time, though, the physical demands are tougher. Competing in the Champions League has been more sapping and Mar
  
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• ‘All those silly things – do them’: Guruzeta’s journey from gurney to goals with Athletic

  05-11-2025 09:00
  The Basque club’s striker has flourished on their return to the Champions League after a decade away – on Wednesday his side face NewcastleThe first time Gorka Guruzeta played in England, an 18-year-old appearing for Athletic Bilbao B against Borussia Mönchengladbach Under-23s at Adams Park in September 2015, he scored. The second time he played in England, against Sunderland two months later, he scored. The third time, against Manchester City six weeks after that, well, he scor
  
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• Arne Slot turns focus to Manchester City clash after ‘impressive’ Real Madrid win

  05-11-2025 00:55
  ‘We lost many points in the league. We need to do better’Liverpool visit City on Sunday after 1-0 win over MadridArne Slot urged Liverpool to carry their Champions League form into their defence of the Premier League title after recording another impressive win against Real Madrid at Anfield.The Liverpool head coach hailed the “outstanding” Conor Bradley for nullifying Vinícius Júnior and claimed the performances of the full‑back plus the match-winner
  
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• Bradley shuts down Vinícius and shows Liverpool he can be right-back for future | Nick Ames

  05-11-2025 00:49
  Real Madrid’s world-leading winger was nullified by Trent Alexander-Arnold’s possible successor on his Anfield returnAs a seething, soaking wet Anfield braced itself for one last Real Madrid fling, a narrative that had assumed pantomime quality throughout the evening threatened to turn more consequential. Trent Alexander-Arnold shaped to unfurl one of those dipping deliveries that have more than paid the Kop their due over the years and the thought flickered that, were it executed co
  
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• Champions League roundup: two-goal Luis Díaz sent off as Bayern edge PSG

  05-11-2025 00:24
  Díaz shown straight red for scissor challenge in 2-1 winJuventus held by Sporting, Atlético see off Union SGBayern Munich made it 16 wins from 16 games this season to underline their credentials as early Champions League favourites, beating the holders, Paris Saint-Germain, 2-1 away as Luis Díaz scored two goals and was shown a red card.The Colombia winger struck twice before being sent off for a violent tackle on Achraf Hakimi on the stroke of half-time. Continue reading...
  
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• Liverpool 1-0 Real Madrid: Champions League – as it happened

  04-11-2025 23:35
  Alexis Mac Allister’s second-half header secured Liverpool a deserved victory, as Trent Alexander-Arnold copped some expected flak on his return1 min: Liverpool are playing towards the Kop in this first half. They prefer it the other way round; Xabi Alonso has clearly given his captain Federico Valverde the heads-up on that.Liverpool get the ball rolling. The Anfield faithful chant the name of Andy Robertson in the pointed style. His old full-back friend looking on from the benches. Contin
  
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• Tottenham 4-0 Copenhagen, PSG 1-2 Bayern Munich, and more: Champions League – as it happened

  04-11-2025 23:26
  Micky van den Ven scored an amazing solo goal for Spurs, while Luis Diaz hit two and was sent off for Bayern in ParisThomas Frank has called for better support from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium crowd after revealing that Micky van de Ven and Djed Spence had apologised to him for their reaction to the 1-0 home defeat against Chelsea on Saturday.Van de Ven and Spence were incensed when the full-time whistle sounded and the Spurs fans booed, as they had done at half-time with their team trailing t
  
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• Van de Ven stunner inspires 10-man Spurs to emphatic win over Copenhagen

  04-11-2025 23:04
  It was the moment when the Tottenham home crowd could forget about their recent frustrations and lose themselves in the joy of it all; the glorious release. Their team had been too good for Copenhagen, who showed virtually nothing – certainly not in a positive sense.Spurs were 2-0 up after Wilson Odobert’s goal but there was a glitch when Brennan Johnson, who had opened the scoring, was sent off in the 57th minute. The foul on Marcos López was more clumsy than sinister yet whe
  
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• Mac Allister sinks Real Madrid to ruin Alexander-Arnold’s return to Liverpool

  04-11-2025 23:02
  Ultimately it was not about who was back at Anfield but what was back. The Liverpool of Arne Slot’s title‑winning debut season was the answer and, on their second successive November visit, Real Madrid did not have one of their own.Alexis Mac Allister opened the scoring last season in the 2-0 defeat of the Spanish giants – though giant would be a huge exaggeration of their latest display on Merseyside – and settled the reunion of the European heavyweights as Liverpool, al
  
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• Slavia Prague 0-3 Arsenal: Champions League – as it happened

  04-11-2025 21:01
  Arsenal made it eight clean sheets in a row as Mikel Merino struck twice and Max Dowman made Champions League history7 mins: After a spot of head tennis in midfield, Mbodji has a go from 30-odd yards, which flies wide of David Raya’s goal.4 mins: Another opening for the hosts, with Sanyang’s shot blocked and Raya springing to his left to palm away Chory’s effort on the rebound … but the Slavia striker was offside anyway. Continue reading...
  
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• Arsenal make it 10 wins in a row as they cruise past Slavia Prague with Merino double

  04-11-2025 20:56
  Another game, another slew of records for Arsenal’s defensive machine. This time it included one that stretched back more than 55 years, when Leeds were the last English team not to concede a goal in their opening four matches, in the 1969‑70 European Cup campaign, under Don Revie.A determined Slavia Prague side, that came into this game unbeaten in all domestic competitions, gave it their best shot and thought they had been awarded a late penalty, only for the referee to overturn hi
  
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• Moukoko’s arrival at FC Copenhagen offers a cautionary tale for any wonderkid

  04-11-2025 09:00
  Once labelled ‘the biggest talent in the world’, the former Borussia Dortmund forward has endured form fluctuations, controversy and criticismWhen Tottenham fans look at the attacking lineup of their opponents, FC Copenhagen, before Tuesday’s Champions League tie, a few familiar names may spring out. Mohamed Elyounoussi, formerly of Southampton and Celtic, has probably been the Danish club’s most dangerous player this season, topping their scoring and assists charts. Jord
  
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• Match made in Munich: King Kane has redefined the role of a Bundesliga striker | Philipp Lahm

  04-11-2025 09:00
  Forward has had historic start to career in Germany but will his style stand up against PSG’s system-driven philosophy?Harry Kane is a perfect fit for Bayern Munich. He is tailor-made for the Bundesliga, which has been the top league in Europe in terms of goals scored for years. German football is characterised by exchanges of punches, with the ball moving back and forth and plenty of chances on both sides; and Bayern are in the penalty area more often than any other team. Because Kane is
  
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• Alonso tells Alexander-Arnold to ‘enjoy’ Liverpool return no matter how fans react

  03-11-2025 21:17
  Defender may face hostile reception from Anfield crowdSlot says he has ‘great memories’ of Real Madrid full-backXabi Alonso has told Trent Alexander-Arnold to enjoy his “nice” return to Liverpool as the Real Madrid defender prepares to face his boyhood club for the first time since his acrimonious summer departure.Alexander-Arnold is likely to receive a hostile reception at Anfield after he angered Liverpool fans by leaving at the end of his contract last season. The Engl
  
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• Slot insists Wirtz has ‘brought exactly what we expected’ before Real Madrid tie

  03-11-2025 20:47
  Liverpool manager says playmaker will justify £116m feeXabi Alonso backs ‘really special player’ to come good Arne Slot has defended Florian Wirtz before Real Madrid’s visit in the Champions League and insisted the £116m signing has produced “exactly what we expected” at this stage of his Liverpool career.The playmaker was on the bench for the win against Aston Villa on Saturday and also omitted from Slot’s starting lineup against Manchester United
  
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• Frank calls for better support from Spurs crowd after Van de Ven and Spence apologise

  03-11-2025 19:58
  Defenders fail to acknowledge fans after Chelsea defeatFrank: ‘During the game, we need a little bit of help’Thomas Frank has called for better support from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium crowd after revealing that Micky van de Ven and Djed Spence had apologised to him for their reaction to the 1-0 home defeat against Chelsea on Saturday.Van de Ven and Spence were incensed when the full-time whistle sounded and the Spurs fans booed, as they had done at half-time with their team traili
  
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