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Real Madrid are the Favorites Against Manchester United
Does Alex Ferguson mind heading into a Champions League clash as the underdog? Probably not, but it does mean that he has the inferior team going into the round of 16 clash with Real Madrid, with the first leg taking place on February 13 at the Santiago Bernabeu.
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Liverpool Couldn’t Score Against a Bought Vukasin Poleksic
There is no confirmation, but it seems that the Champions League match on English soil under the suspicion of match fixing is Liverpool vs Debrecen from the 2009-2010 group stage, a match which the Reds won 1-0, but allegedly Debrecen goalkeeper Vukasin Poleksic was paid to concede at least three goals in the match.
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Champions League Match Fixing – Which One Was it?
Now that the cat is out of the bag, everyone is waiting to see what is the Champions League match that Europol referred to in their match fixing investigation, apparently taking place in England over the last three or four years. The 1-1 semifinal between Barcelona and Chelsea is the first that comes to mind, although others with slightly suspicious results have also occurred.
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How Corrupt is European Football? A Lot
An inquiry that began 18 months ago, diving into the belly of the beast, aka match fixing in European football, has revealed some ugly facts, which include a Champions League match; other corrupt matches included World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and several top football matches in European leagues.
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Champions League – Ranking the Knockout Stage Matches
Some matches are better than others, and it’s no different among the 8 clashes in the Champions League knockout stage. Real Madrid and Manchester United take center stage obviously, but the names of Arsenal, Bayern Munich, AC Milan and Barcelona don’t necessarily make their clashes better in quality than those with “smaller” names in them.
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Champions League – Knockout Stage Draw
The Champions League knockout stage always produces one super match-up, and this season, when play resumes in February 2013, it’ll be Real Madrid and Manchester United who will provide the major clash in the round of 16, while other big names facing each other feature Arsenal playing Bayern Munich and Barcelona playing AC Milan.
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Andre Villas Boas vs Chelsea & Champions League Teams
After a pretty disappointing yet good enough to qualify group stage campaign from Tottenham in the Europa League, Andre Villas-Boas decided it’s time to start mending some old wounds by attacking Chelsea and other Champions League teams joining the competition after the group stage.
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Champions League – All 16 Teams in the Knockout Stage
Of the final 16 teams that made it out of the group stage in the 2012-2013 Champions League and into the knockout round, we have 4 teams from Spain (Barcelona, Malaga, Real Madrid, Valencia), 3 from Germany (Bayern, Dortmund, Schalke), 2 from England (Arsenal, Manchester United), 2 from Italy (Juventus, Milan) and 1 from France (PSG), Portugal (Porto), Ukraine (Shakhtar), Scotland (Celtic) and Turkey (Galatasaray).
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Dinamo Zagreb – Still Not the Worst in Champions League History
While winning championships in Croatia haven’t been a problem for Dinamo Zagreb over the last 7 years, finding success in the Champions League is. They’ve been terrible over the last two years, but not bad enough to find themselves being part of two very humiliating records: The 0 points, 0 goals club and losing 12 consecutive group stage matches.
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Manchester City – The Worst English Team in the Champions League
This season, and ever: Manchester City, with only 3 points from six matches in the “group of death” delivered the worst performance by an English team in the history of the group stage in the Champions League.