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Chelsea are back. After a one-year absence from Europe’s premier competition Chelsea come flying straight into Group C with the momentum of a Premier League title win and a record signing behind them. Well, except they don’t. Despite Antonio Conte’s three-at-the-back revolution, star players re-finding their mojo and ‘lesser’ players hitting unforeseen peaks, the wind…

Year after year, Liverpool fans have seen reasons to hope shattered by one or two events, from the 2014 league loss to Chelsea to the Europa League Final against Sevilla. But this season feels like it will be different. After a positive 2016-17 season that culminated in a 4th place finish and Champions League qualification,…

The Champions League and Tottenham Hotspur don’t always mix well together. The North London club are set to make their third appearance in the competition in its current form and the first two campaigns were quite contrasting, as any Spurs fan will attest to. The first, under Harry Redknapp and more importantly at White Hart…

Dani Alves, Eric Abidal, Seydou Keita. When you consider three names that loom large in team folklore, only one of those is the one on culer lips at present. But the profiles of all three have been sorely missing from FC Barcelona, a significant part of the reason that even though the team got great…

When Maribor lost their main man Dare Vrsic in summer not many fans expected Maribor can actually do something in Europe this season, especially considering they failed to make it to a group stage in last two seasons. They had a pretty bad preseason as well, losing last two friendlies against Croatian Inter Zapresic and…

When you’re a Celtic fan, only three things in life are certain – death, taxes and your club needing to play three qualifiers to enter the UEFA Champions League. Of course, it didn’t used to be like this, but the overall performance of Scottish football in Europe has slipped resulting in a reduction of places…

Pot 4 team Sporting were drawn into one of the toughest groups in the competition, with last year’s finalist Juventus, the mighty Barcelona and the tough Olympiakos. You might think that sporting don’t have a chance in this group, and you might be right, however, there could be a possibility that Os Leões and Jorge…

It’s a season of transition for FC Basel, as no stone was seeminlgy left unturned this summer. First, the beloved chairman Bernhard Heusler and his crew stepped down to free their posts to a younger generation. This generation being former players Marco Streller, Massimo Ceccaroni and Alex Frei. Then, the manager Urs Fischer was let…