Celtic welcome Europe's in-form team to Celtic Park on Wednesday night in match day 2 in the Uefa Champions League. It will be Brendan Rodgers' first taste of a Group Stage fixture at Celtic Park and it's also the first time his opposite number, Pep Guardiola, has visited Glasgow in his time as a manager. [...]
Celtic take on Barcelona in the Nou Camp tonight straight off the back of Saturday's 5-1 derby triumph. Barcelona, on the other hand, suffered an uncharacteristic 1-2 home defeat to newly promoted Alaves in La Liga. Contrasting emotions for both sides entering this encounter then, but both can have equally positive and negative hangover effects. [...]
Friday will see the four remaining clubs in this season's Champions League drawn into the biggest two-legged tie in world football; Chelsea, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid complete the semi-final quartet. It's crunch time in Europe's premier competition and no club can get a favourable draw at this stage. Chelsea Chelsea did exist [...]
Bayern Munich are starting to take to London as a second home. The Bavarians returned to the English capital, where they were crowned Champions of Europe in May, last night to earn a vital 0-2 win at the Emirates - exactly a year on from a 1-3 triumph on their way to that victory at [...]
Just eight years ago, Borussia Dortmund were staring in to the financial abyss. The once European Champions had fallen from the dizzy heights of 1997 and were clinging on. Around this time five years ago, after climbing back onto their financial feet, they would finish the Bundesliga season in 13th place - a mere nine [...]
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