After the convincing victory against Barcelona, Juventus will be looking to reach their second Champions League final in three years against Ligue 1 leaders, Monaco. The French have been the revelation of the competition topping their group and defeating Borussia Dortmund and Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City en route to the semifinals. They are also in…

The road to Cardiff continues with Real Madrid taking on crosstown rivals Atletico Madrid in the Champions League semi-final. Madrid derbies in the Champions League have become a common occurrence lately, with the two Madrid clubs meeting each other three times in the last three Champions League campaigns, twice in the final and once in the quarter-final.…

Here we go again, I was convinced that the quarterfinals preview was my last one. But it seems like Leonardo Jardim and his boys like my writing. So they defeated Dortmund in both legs, even though the first one was played in a disturbing context. So, here we are again. But this time, it’s the…

Before the Champions League semi-final draw, there was almost an expectation as to what was about to happen. When Atlético were drawn to face Madrid yet again, nobody was surprised. Having seen three Madrid derbies in the last three editions of the Champions League (final, quarter-final, final again), this fixture has almost become an expected…

And so we meet again: Los Vikingos against La Bestia Negra, the European Clásico. After three years since their last encounter, Real Madrid will take on Bayern Munich today. Los Blancos reached the Champions League quarter-final toppling Maurizio Sarri’s Napoli in a convincing manner (6-2 on aggregate). Real Madrid look like a completely different team in the Champions…

I sit here writing this with the Sevilla preview in front of me. I remember writing that thinking a mixture of things – I’m going to watch Leicester in Europe and it’s going to be great, and… well, actually, it’s not going to be great, we’re going to be battered, being the main two. That…

“The unstoppable force meets the immovable object” doesn’t get more literal than this. Juventus host FC Barcelona in a repeat of the 2015 Champions league final. Previous encounters between the two sides have been fairly even. Both teams have faced each other 10 times, each team with 4 wins, and 2 draws. Both teams couldn’t…

As soon as the Champions League draw for the quarter finals of this year edition was revealed, there were two games that took all the attention: Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich and Barcelona vs Juventus. While the two Spanish giants and the Bavarians were undoubtedly the three greatest European sides for the past few years,…

Since they drubbed Arsenal in the Round of 16, Carlo Ancelotti’s Bayern Munich have reached new levels of eye-catching form that matches up against the best of Europe’s super clubs. Along with a handful of convincing wins in the last couple of months (most notably the 4-1, 8-0, and 6-0 drummings of Dortmund, Hamburg, and Koln and an impressive…

It has been a season of ups and downs for Atlético Madrid, but after a terrible run of form that saw them fall out of top four and lose 3-0 to their crosstown rivals, they now have a great chance at winning the elusive piece of European silverware that has escaped them for so long.…