For all the talk around Jose Mourinho's position as Manchester United manager, and the speculation that has swirled around Old Trafford for most of this season, there has been a quiet (well, as quiet as you can get with Mourinho) turnaround occurring in the red half of Manchester. United, in...
This match analysis was first featured on our dedicated Manchester City site, manchestercityanalysis.com. Another Manchester City's game comes and goes, and with it brings another six City goals - I think I’m quite liking this trend at the moment. Shakhtar Donetsk arrived at the Etihad Stadium in the Champions League with expectations...
This match analysis was first featured on our dedicated Serie A site, serieaanalysis.com. In a week filled with controversial leaks, Group C’s drama continued after Liverpool unexpectedly lost against Red Star Belgrade 2-0, putting themselves in a difficult situation and making the game between Napoli and PSG less of a...
This match analysis was first featured on our dedicated Barcelona site, barcelonaanalysis.com. Barcelona travelled to the iconic San Siro this Tuesday and met Inter Milan in the fourth leg of the Champions League group stage. After securing the win at the Camp Nou two weeks ago, the Catalans were on...
This Champions League match analysis first featured on our network site, barcelonaanalysis.com. Barcelona welcomed Inter Milan at the Camp Nou for the game that settled the group leaders (for now), but also for a game that, in many ways, paved the road for the future. It was also a big...
From time to time there will be a fixture that shows us a genuine clash of styles, this past week we saw one such fixture in Group A of the Champions League as Diego Simeone and Atletico Madrid travelled to Germany to face Borussia Dortmund. The Spanish side are well...
It was a special Tuesday evening for Cristiano Ronaldo and Juventus as they completely outplayed his ex-team Manchester United in the Champions League. It was even more special because Ronaldo played his part in the win, assisting Paulo Dybala for what turned to be the winning goal of the night....
This post was initially featured on serieaanalysis.com our comprehensive analysis site, which covers players, matches and much more from Serie A. Group B’s third round big match saw an Inter side on the back of a derby win take on Barcelona, first in La Liga after dispatching Sevilla in a 4-2...
This post originally featured on our network site which covers players, matches and more involving Manchester City - manchestercityanalysis.com Manchester City were at their scintillating best when they met Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday night in the UEFA Champions League. City romped to a 3-0 victory, in the process becoming the...
When it comes to youth development and attacking football there are two sides within European football who would come at the top of any conversation, Ajax and Benfica. This week saw the two sides meet in Group E of the Champions League. The path that both sides have taken to...
This Real Madrid match analysis was first featured on our network's Real Madrid site, realmadridanalysis.com. Following defeat to CSKA Moscow in the Champions League and defeats to Levante and Alaves in La Liga, Julen Lopetegui and Real Madrid really had very little room for error up against Viktoria Plzen on...
Group C in this season’s Champions League features two of the tournament favourites in French Champions Paris Saint-Germain and last year’s beaten finalists Liverpool. It’s an uphill task for Serie A’s runner-up and biggest entertainers from last season, Napoli to qualify from the group and an opening game 0-0 draw...
One of the most anticipated clashes in this season’s UEFA Champions League group stage, five times European champions and Lionel Messi travelled to Wembley to play Mauricio Pochettino’s exciting young Tottenham Hotspur side. With Spurs losing their opening game away to Internazionale, this game at home to one of the...
The second matchday of the 2018/19 Champions League gave us the tantalising prospect of a clash between Hoffenheim and Manchester City, or more appropriately between Julian Naglesmann and Pep Guardiola. The two coaches are known to admire one another having publicly admitted to having meals together on several occasions where...
It’s been a disastrous week in Monaco as the team continued their bad form with by losing to Borussia Dortmund 0-3 down Wednesday evening. The Monegasques have no point after two games in the group stage of Champions League (losing to Atletico Madrid in the first round). And the worse news is...
Ajax emerged victorious from the first leg, with a convincing 3-1 victory over Dynamo Kiev at the Johan Cruyff Arena - going into the second leg in Ukraine knowing victory or keeping Dynamo Kiev out would result in them making the Champions League group stages for the first time in...
Last season was a difficult one for Ajax Amsterdam. Their pre-season preparations were thrown in to disarray by the decision of coach Peter Bosz to depart for Borussia Dortmund. We then saw the club look inwards for the coaches replacement with Marcel Keizer moving up from his role with Jong...
A large part of the pre match discussion about this tie, the second in the space of a year, was mostly about Celtic's supposed defensive issues. The other dominating story leading up to this first leg was Rosenborg's decision to sack Kare Ingrebrigtsen after progressing past Valur in the opening...
