Champions League news

• Is it any surprise Sancho is shining away from Manchester United circus? | Barney Ronay

  02-05-2024 19:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Although he was superb for Dortmund against PSG, this is not the time to start clamouring for a Euros place or United return for player who has had a tough two yearsPerhaps the most telling Jadon Sancho clip to emerge from a wonderfully creative attacking performance during Borussia Dortmund’s Champions League semi-final first leg was the one that appeared after the match.This was Sancho’s interview on CBS sports with a visibly buzzed-up Jamie Carragher, who had spent the evening pus
  
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• Aston Villa secure Champions League spot to end 41-year wait after Spurs’ loss

  14-05-2024 23:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Tottenham defeat by Manchester City guarantees fourthClub last played in the tournament in 1982-83Aston Villa have qualified for the Champions League after Tottenham’s defeat at home against Manchester City on Tuesday night. The result confirms that Villa will finish fourth and take the final place on offer to an English club.Villa last played in the tournament, known then as the European Cup, in the 1982-83 season, when they were knocked out by Juventus in the quarter-finals. They had qua
  
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• Real Madrid’s unshakeable faith feels like a dark art for defeated Bayern | Sid Lowe

  09-05-2024 16:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Late Champions League semi-final comeback was merely the latest escape act for the Spanish giants led by Carlo AncelottiAt some moment somewhere amid the mayhem, that symbol of the ridiculousness of Real Madrid returned. The players who had just made another European Cup final had sprinted from one goal to the other, throwing themselves to the floor in front of their fans; Carlo Ancelotti had belted out the club’s anthem with its line about history made and history to be made, the coolest
  
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• Real Madrid’s unshakeable faith feels like a dark art for defeated Bayern

  09-05-2024 16:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Late Champions League semi-final comeback was merely the latest escape act for the Spanish giants led by Carlo AncelottiAt some moment, somewhere amid the mayhem, that symbol of the ridiculousness of Real Madrid returned. The players who had just made another European Cup final had sprinted from one goal to the other, throwing themselves to the floor in front of their fans; Carlo Ancelotti had belted out the club’s anthem with its line about history made and history to be made, the coolest
  
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• Champions League team of the week: Joselu and Hummels steal the show

  09-05-2024 14:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund booked their spots in the final at Wembley thanks to a pair of unlikely match winnersTwo second legs that both reached a dramatic crescendo, one with late goals, the other with late misses, set up a Wembley final between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund.Goalkeeper: Andriy Lunin, Real Madrid Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Wembley 2.0 dream is over’: German media react to Bayern’s dramatic defeat

  09-05-2024 11:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Bild reflects on ‘bitter defeat’ caused by late ‘double shock’Tuchel’s selection questioned and comparison drawn to 1999 Germany mourned dashed hopes for an all-German Champions League final after Bayern Munich’s calamitous 2-1 defeat at Real Madrid, and a 4-3 loss on aggregate, with the Spanish side now going on to face Borussia Dortmund in London on 1 June.Bild gave a minute-by-minute account of the agony before the “bitter defeat just before the end&r
  
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• Carlo Ancelotti brushes aside Bayern complaints as Real Madrid make Champions League final – video

  09-05-2024 04:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Real Madrid will face Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final after substitute Joselu struck twice late on to snatch a 2-1 victory (4-3 agg) and end Bayern Munich's hopes of lifting the European Cup for a seventh time, as their manager Thomas Tuchel was left fuming over an offside call that denied the German side a late equaliserReal Madrid find a way to final again as late Joselu double breaks Bayern hearts Continue reading...
  
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• 'It's against every rule': Tuchel fumes at late offside call as Bayern go down in Madrid – video

  09-05-2024 03:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Six-times European champions Bayern Munich missed out on returning to the Champions League final for the first time since winning the competition in 2019-20. The 2-1 defeat in Madrid left manager Thomas Tuchel ruing an offside decision that denied his side a late equaliser and meant there will be no rematch of the all-German final in 2013, when Bayern beat Dortmund to win their fifth European title‘Disastrous’: Tuchel rues contentious offside call as Bayern cave in Madrid Continue re
  
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• Vinícius Júnior lights up Real Madrid to give Joshua Kimmich nightmares | Barney Ronay

  09-05-2024 01:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Logical brilliance of attacker stood out as he played with startling sense of freedom to lead team back to another finalAt what point, exactly, does the relentlessly unpredictable start to become oddly routine? As ever, this was an absolute nut‑show of a football match inside Real Madrid’s steamy Centre Court‑style megadrome.Every ex-Stoke, Newcastle and Eintracht Frankfurt journeyman has his day. And this was the day of Joselu, Madrid’s 34‑year‑old own-brand
  
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• ‘Disastrous’: Tuchel rues contentious offside call as Bayern cave in Madrid

  09-05-2024 00:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Matthijs de Ligt had 103rd-minute equaliser flagged offside‘We accept that we lost, but it should not have happened’Carlo Ancelotti shrugged and called it “something magical, without much explanation”, after Real Madrid scored two goals in two and a half minutes to complete another astonishing Champions League comeback.But Thomas Tuchel insisted that there was a more tangible reason for a dramatic defeat at the Bernabéu: a “very unusual” individual erro
  
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• Real Madrid 2-1 Bayern Munich (4-3 on agg): Champions League semi-final – as it happened

  08-05-2024 23:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Alphonso Davies’ screamer put Bayern in front but the hosts found another late fightback to book a Champions League final with Dortmund2 min: Sane tries to bring down a long pass but Mendy hassles him from behind and the Bayern man loses control.38 sec: Kroos, making his 150th Champions League appearance tonight, sends in an aimless corner. Bayern clear their lines easily. Continue reading...
  
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• Real Madrid 2-1 Bayern Munich (4-3 on agg): Champions League semi-final – live reaction

  08-05-2024 23:14 via theguardian.com
  Joselu’s late double books Wembley final date with DortmundLive scoreboard | Read Football Daily | And you can mail Scott2 min: Sane tries to bring down a long pass but Mendy hassles him from behind and the Bayern man loses control.38 sec: Kroos, making his 150th Champions League appearance tonight, sends in an aimless corner. Bayern clear their lines easily. Continue reading...
  
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• Real Madrid stun Bayern Munich through late Joselu double to reach final

  08-05-2024 23:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Just ridiculous. Just Real Madrid. The team that appears to own this competition, that has some mystical hold over it and has lifted that trophy 14 times, are in the final again because, well, because of course they are. Late, very late on another wild, magical night here, the Santiago Bernabeu launched into a familiar chant. “That’s how Madrid win,” it goes, and so they do. Again, and again and again, each time more epic, more absurd than the last, this football team force tha
  
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• Real Madrid find a way to final again as late Joselu double breaks Bayern hearts

  08-05-2024 23:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Just ridiculous. Just Real Madrid. The team that appears to own this competition, that has some mystical hold over it and has lifted that trophy 14 times, are in the final again because, well, because of course they are. Late, very late on another wild, magical night here, the Santiago Bernabéu launched into a familiar chant. “That’s how Madrid win,” it goes, and so they do. Again and again and again, each time more epic, more absurd than the last, this football force th
  
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• Real Madrid book Wembley final as late Joselu double stuns Bayern Munich

  08-05-2024 23:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Just ridiculous. Just Real Madrid. The team that appears to own this competition, that has some mystical hold over it and has lifted that trophy 14 times, are in the final again because, well, because of course they are. Late, very late on another wild, magical night here, the Santiago Bernabéu launched into a familiar chant. “That’s how Madrid win,” it goes, and so they do. Again and again and again, each time more epic, more absurd than the last, this football force th
  
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• Real Madrid v Bayern Munich: Champions League semi-final second leg – live

  08-05-2024 19:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Champions League semi-final, 8pm BST kick-off (first leg: 2-2)Live scoreboard | Read Football Daily | And you can mail ScottReal Madrid make one change to the XI that started the first leg. Dani Carvajal comes in for Lucas Vázquez, who drops to the bench.Bayern make three changes to their starting line-up of last Tuesday. Matthijs de Ligt returns from injury in place of the hapless Kim Min-jae, while Serge Gnabry and Aleksandar Pavlovic replace Thomas Müller and Leon Goretzka. All th
  
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• Emre Can and fellow cast-offs make Dortmund’s fantasy thrillingly real | David Hytner

  08-05-2024 13:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Captain hails belief and togetherness that has powered an often written-off squad to the Champions League finalEmre Can is not the most obvious example in the Borussia Dortmund team but he is an example nonetheless; a player who has experienced rejection, who has had to battle to re-establish himself.It is probably easier to see the narrative strand in, say, Jadon Sancho, who was pushed out of Manchester United in January and back to Dortmund after his falling-out with the manager, Erik ten Hag.
  
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• Can and fellow cast-offs make Dortmund’s fantasy thrillingly real

  08-05-2024 13:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Captain hails belief and togetherness that has powered an often written-off squad to the Champions League finalEmre Can is not the most obvious example in the Borussia Dortmund team but he is an example nonetheless; a player who has experienced rejection, who has had to battle to re-establish himself.It is probably easier to see the narrative strand in, say, Jadon Sancho, who was pushed out of Manchester United in January and back to Dortmund after his falling-out with the manager, Erik ten Hag.
  
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• Disappointed Mbappé urges team to 'keep working' despite Champions League loss – video

  08-05-2024 12:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Kylian Mbappé admitted he was 'sad' and 'disappointed' after Paris Saint-Germain were knocked out of the Champions League, having lost 2-0 on aggregate to Borussia Dortmund in the semi-final. The forward however urged his team to keep working towards success. 'There's still the French Cup final and that's an important objective for the club and for us players. We're going to keep on working to try and win this final and another trophy.'Dortmund bring down curtain on Kylian Mbappé&r
  
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• Five years on from the Ajax 2-3 Tottenham epic: where are they now?

  08-05-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Spurs’ fightback to book a spot in 2019 Champions League final was one for the ages. Where have the players ended up since?André Onana
  Of all the Ajax players, perhaps Onana has been on the wildest ride since 2019. Just over two years separated a 2021 doping suspension after a positive test for Furosemide – a substance he says was his wife’s and taken mistakenly – and his appearance in the 2023 Champions League final with Internazionale. A £44.1m move to Manc
  
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• Eric Dier’s renaissance at Bayern Munich silences the haters

  08-05-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Defender left Spurs having fallen out of favour but has become a mainstay for Tuchel and could still have England value“Are you serious? Why? Just why? Now we know Bayern won’t be getting a trophy this season. Kane needs a friend. Thank you for taking him, love from north London.”This was the kind of thing that Eric Dier would have seen on his Instagram page on 11 January – were he inclined to read the comments. The centre-half had posted for the first time as a Bayern Mu
  
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• 'The woodwork helped us a bit': Dortmund triumph in Paris to reach Champions League final – video

  08-05-2024 04:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Borussia Dortmund's 1-0 victory over Paris St Germain, which secured a 2-0 aggregate win and a place in the Champions League final, was thanks to 'teamwork and maybe a little bit of luck,' said Dortmund coach Edin Terzić. His counterpart Luis Enrique rued hitting the woodwork six times over the two legs and failing to score despite 31 attempts at the Parc des Princes. 'I think if there is a team that had bad luck in this match, it’d be Paris Saint-Germain,' said the PSG coach.Hummels
  
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• Kylian Mbappé’s PSG legacy is lost in the blur of another European exit | Barney Ronay

  08-05-2024 00:49 via theguardian.com
  
  With a summer exit on the horizon, the world’s biggest talent leaves Paris with a sense that his prime years have been wastedFarewell then, project superstar. By the end of this Champions League semi-final second leg it seemed oddly fitting that the final act across 180 minutes should be Kylian Mbappé falling over his own feet.Mbappé was through on goal at the time, the most beautifully balanced footballer on the planet haring away from a clutch of yellow shirts in emergency
  
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• Dortmund bring down curtain on Kylian Mbappé’s lost years at PSG | Barney Ronay

  08-05-2024 00:49 via theguardian.com
  
  What was the point of such a spectacular player spending eight years of his wonderful prime playing for Paris Saint-Germain?Farewell then, project superstar. By the end of this Champions League semi-final second leg it seemed oddly fitting that the final act across 180 minutes should be Kylian Mbappé falling over his own feet.Mbappé was through on goal at the time, the most beautifully balanced footballer on the planet haring away from a clutch of yellow shirts in emergency battery
  
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• ‘Indescribable’: Reus relishing Wembley return after Dortmund triumph in Paris

  08-05-2024 00:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Midfielder was part of side beaten in 2013 Wembley final‘How we won the game, no one will ask tomorrow. It’s incredible’Marco Reus’s Borussia Dortmund career is coming to an end and what better way to sign off at the club than with a return to Wembley for another shot at Champions League glory 11 years after he lost there in the final.Dortmund beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 on Tuesday to complete a 2-0 aggregate win and reach the Champions League final for the first time si
  
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• PSG 0-1 Borussia Dortmund (0-2 agg): Champions League semi-final, second leg – as it happened

  07-05-2024 23:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Mats Hummels secured a return to Wembley for Dortmund, as PSG hit the woodwork four times but couldn’t find a way through5 min: More room for Hakimi on the right wing. He looks for Gonçalo Ramos in the middle, but shanks his cross towards Kobel at the near post. The keeper gathers. Some positive early moves by the hosts.4 min: Some space for Hakimi down the right. A low cross is met by Gonçalo Ramos, who hands out a leg and steers a shot straight at Kobel. Not enough power to
  
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• Hummels seals Champions League final place for Dortmund as PSG crash out

  07-05-2024 23:11 via theguardian.com
  
  It was a night when Borussia Dortmund penned one of the finest chapters in their history, a seemingly unremarkable team – low on stellar names – doing something utterly astonishing.It has felt as though they have been written off repeatedly this season, starting with when they were plunged into the Champions League group of death. They won that with a measure of comfort, ahead of Paris Saint-Germain, Milan and Newcastle. Continue reading...
  
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• PSG v Borussia Dortmund: Champions League semi-final, second leg – live

  07-05-2024 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Champions League semi-final, 8pm BST kick-off (first leg: 0-1)Live scoreboard | Read Football Daily | And you can mail ScottLast Wednesday this happened …… and if tonight’s second leg at the Parc des Princes proves to be even half as entertaining, we’ll be lucky people indeed. Will Niclas Füllkrug score another peach? Can Kylian Mbappé and Achraf Hakimi hit the inside of both posts in the space of ten seconds again? Will referee Daniele Orsato (Italy) prove
  
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• Years of bad blood can spur on Madrid to give Ancelotti chance at revenge | Sid Lowe

  07-05-2024 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Italian formerly managed Bavarian club and claims he was not supported. He hopes to stake claim in deep-seated rivalry againCarlo Ancelotti said he was on the “good side” of European football’s grandest rivalry and, on the eve of the Champions League semi-final second leg between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, revealed the Bavarian club did not support him when he was coach.The Italian, though, insisted he remained friends with Uli Hoeness and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the former
  
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• Years of bad blood can spur on Madrid to give Ancelotti chance at revenge

  07-05-2024 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Italian formerly managed Bavarian club and claims he was not supported. He hopes to stake claim in deep-seated rivalry againCarlo Ancelotti said he was on the “good side” of European football’s grandest rivalry and, on the eve of the Champions League semi-final second leg between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, revealed the Bavarian club did not support him when he was coach.The Italian, though, insisted he remained friends with Uli Hoeness and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the former
  
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