Chelsea will take a 1-0 lead into the second leg of their Champions League tie with Atletico Madrid after Olivier Giroud’s superb strike. Olivier Giroud’s stunning overhead kick gave Chelsea a slender 1-0 advantage in their Champions League last-16 tie with Atletico Madrid.
Champions League holders Bayern Munich have one foot in the quarter-finals after easing to victory against Lazio in their last-16 first leg.
UEFA have held discussions regarding the reformatting of the Champions League, with one proposal seeing the competition expanded to include 36 teams – six of which could be from the Premier League.
Mauricio Pochettino looks poised to be named head coach of Paris Saint-Germain, and a former World Cup colleague thinks he will be a hit.
Paris Saint-Germain forward, Kylian Mbappe, has become the youngest player in Champions League history to reach 20 goals.
Paris Saint-Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir staged an unprecedented joint walk-out over alleged racism by a Champions League match official on Tuesday, prompting UEFA to suspend the game and launch an investigation.
Another Tuesday night, another gigantic helping of Champions League football. Matchday five treated us to a couple of ‘shocks’ that are happening so frequently this season they weren’t actually that surprising. We had Real Madrid falling to a(nother) defeat, Inter making it hard for themselves and Manchester City being a bit boring. Here’s all of that – as well as everything else – rounded up in one neat little package.
Steven Gerrard has predicted Mohamed Salah to go on and embarrass his Champions League goal record at Liverpool.