Tuesday and Wednesday’s second leg Champions League matches marked the exhilarating conclusion of the round-of-16. The victors moved on to the Quarter Finals alongside last week’s four previous winners. Only the final eight teams of the tournament remain: Ajax, Porto, Manchester United, Tottenham, Barcelona, Juventus, Liverpool, and Manchester City. With the Quarter Final draws finally complete on Friday morning, the world’s largest footballing clubs will face the next phase of competition.

The results of this week’s matches gave proof to the unpredictable brilliance of the Champion’s League — not only a campaign of European giants, but a footballing spectacle erupting…

The UEFA Champions League round-of-16 continued with the second leg matches of the competition. The first four of eight matches were played this Tuesday and Wednesday, resulting in astounding football and four tantalizingly unexpected scoreboards:

• Real Madrid 1–4 Ajax
• Dortmund 0–1 Tottenham
• Porto 3–1 Roma
• PSG 1–3 Manchester United

The matches resulted in the first half of teams who will continue onto the quarter-final stages of the Champions League: Ajax, Tottenham, Porto, and Manchester United.

Ajax conquers the Kings of Europe

Real Madrid — three-time consecutive winners of the UEFA Champions League and the all-time most successful team in the competition — fell to Netherland’s second…

The Premier league is charging full steam into its much anticipated culmination, and the stakes are high. Table leaders, Liverpool, have lost their breathing space as Manchester City inch one point away. Meanwhile, Tottenham maintains its position as the ‘best of the rest,’ although the sheer gravity of their upcoming matches means that the Spurs will have a fight on their hands. Besides the nail-biting title race, there seems to be tremendous pressure building behind the esteemed fourth place position — deciding which English team will earn Champions league aspirations in next year’s iteration.

This is the harrowing fate of…

The most-viewed European Championship ensued these past two weeks with the first leg of the Champions League round-of-sixteen matches. The draws pitted big-name teams against each other — culminating in several hours of extraordinary football. Amongst the more exciting match-ups was the fateful encounter between Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain; the nail-biting match between Liverpool and Bayern Munich; and the stunning battle between Atlético Madrid and Juventus.

Manchester United Suffers Heavy Defeat

Ole Gunnar Solskjær received his first loss as Manchester United interim manager at the hands of Thomas Tuchel’s PSG. The game resulted in a 2–0 defeat for the Norwegian, along with a troublesome…

Chelsea’s match against Manchester City last Sunday marked their largest defeat in the past 28 years. The 6–0 hammering left major questions regarding Maurizio Sarri’s future in the club, and how the Blues will fare in the upcoming weeks. An inspired performance from the Manchester side, along with a failed “Sarriball” schema, left supporters of both clubs baffled with the scoreboard after the final whistle; the question on everyone’s minds: was the manager or were the players at fault for Sunday’s indelible result? Although not much is certain, recent preparations for Chelsea’s match against Malmo suggests that Sarri will keep…

In less than three years Zinedine Zidane became arguably one of the most successful European football coaches in the history of the game. Was it tactical genius that polished the Madrid side’s trophy cabinet, or did fortune favor the Frenchman’s club?

With 22 league matches and a round-of-16 placement under their belt in the absence of the French giant, this new season has revealed a lot about Zinedine’s motives for leaving; Real Madrid were heading downhill. …

Wednesday’s league match ended up becoming a historic loss for Sarri’s main squad. Despite a lucrative loan signing in forward Gonzalo Higuaín for a sum of £31 million, the Blues fell heavily to a confident Bournemouth side. Not since 1996 had Chelsea lost a match by such a goal deficit; in fact, Bournemouth relished in their second-ever competitive home-win against Chelsea.

Conte’s Chelsea vs Sarri’s Chelsea

Sarri came out strong in Wednesday’s matchup, with the usual 4–3–3 lineup that he had assumed in previous matches. Lining the defensive line were the two fullbacks — Emerson and Azpilicueta; in the center stood David Luis and Antonio…

Despite being one of the top 5 leagues in Europe and home to arguably the two greatest sporting clubs in the world, LaLiga has often been critiqued for being a 3-team campaign. The statistics don’t lie either: in the past 6 iterations only Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, and Barcelona have placed in the top three spots. Not since the 2011/2012 season has another team joined the head of the race; Valencia settled for third 21 points behind Real Madrid.

Yet, as the 2018/2019 began unfolding fans were surprised to see Spain’s giants stumbling. …