Portuguese champions SL Benfica were drawn into group A of the Champions League with Manchester United, FC Basel and CSKA Moscow. Benfica and Manchester United are clearly the two better teams in this group, however don’t sleep on Basel or CSKA, playing away in either Russia or Switzerland is never easy, especially during the fall/winter.…

When the midweek lights turn on at the Parc des Princes for the first time since valentine’s day, the fans filling the stands and the players on the pitch will have gone through a rollercoaster of emotions. Since the mauling of FC Barcelona in February, PSG have gone from the elation of that night to…

After eighteen long years, Dutch giants Feyenoord Rotterdam finally won a league title again, which directly means their return into the famous Champions League. The UEFA Cup winners in 2002, will be back on the highest level of club football, where in they only participated in the qualification round a few times in the last…

Could it finally be? After 4 long grueling years without any titles I think it can be the year finally win something whether it’s the Taca de Portugal if they fail the league title or vice versa they certainly have the potential to do so. Now, I know Sporting fans will say 4 years is…

The summer transfer market seemed to leave a bit of a bittersweet taste for Juventus, with some important quality signings being made but with the feeling that a few more additions could have arrived to further strengthen the team. The highest profile players that were purchased for the upcoming season are both wingers, Federico Bernardeschi…

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…