Group A:
Chelsea – Bordeaux 4 – 0 (2 – 0)
Frank Lampard 14
Joe Cole 30
Florent Malouda 82
Nicolas Anelka 90
AS Roma [...]
Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari heads into his side’s opening Champions League fixture against Bordeaux insisting he doesn’t feel under pressure to win Europe’s top club prize.
Just four months after Chelsea beat a weary retreat from Moscow in the aftermath of their Champions League final defeat against Manchester United, the Blues return to European [...]
Real Madrid CF begin their 13th campaign in the UEFA Champions League hoping that it will prove a lucky one. Last season, Bernd Schuster’s team won all three home games in the section, scoring nine goals in the process, but were then second best at the Bernabu against AS Roma in the first knockout [...]
After an absence of two years, 1996 winners Juventus are back in the UEFA Champions League hoping to make up for lost time.
Before their enforced relegation to Serie B as a consequence of the sporting fraud scandal which hit Italian football two years ago, Juventus achieved successive quarter-final appearances in the UEFA Champions League [...]
Chelsea Midfielder Michael Essien will most likely be out for several months after injuring his knee during Ghana’s World Cup qualifier against Libya. The 25-year-old ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament and Chelsea expect him to undergo surgery in a week’s time when the swelling is reduced. Essien looks set to miss the UEFA Champions [...]
Defender has recovered earlier than expected from his knee injury and is hoping to return for the UEFA Champions League opener against Zenit St. Petersburg next Wednesday. The Italian international looked set for a long spell on the sidelines after suffering what appeared to be a serious injury to his left knee in [...]
Midfielder Dejan Stankovic could be out for several weeks after sustaining a knee injury during Serbia’s 2-1 World Cup qualifying loss in France on Wednesday. The 30-year-old had to leave the field after only four minutes following a collision with Thierry Henry. Tests revealed sprained ligaments in his right knee, although the injury is [...]
FC Dynamo Kyiv start their UEFA Champions League Group G presence against Arsenal FC with something to prove after a hugely disappointing performance in last season’s competition.
Dynamo, who finished second in the Ukrainian Premier League last season, reached this season’s group stage in some style, beating Russia’s FC Spartak Moskva 8-2 on aggregate in [...]
Midfielder Michael Carrick is expected to miss Manchester United’s UEFA Champions League opener against Villarreal on Wednesday. The 27-year-old left Saturday’s 2-1 loss at Liverpool with his right foot in plaster. United say Cristiano Ronaldo could be available for the visit of the Spanish runners-up as the Portuguese star winger is recovering well after [...]
This is the sixth consecutive group-stage campaign for Porto and only once in the past five seasons have they failed to progress to the knockout phase.
Last year, they finished at the top of a section containing next semi-finalists Liverpool FC, with a record of three wins, two draws and one defeat. They exited the [...]
