Euro Champs League News

Liverpool manager Rafael Bentez praised his players for their “character and determination” after watching them claw back a two-goal deficit to grab a last-gasp 3-2 victory at Manchester City that keeps them joint-top of the Premier League with Chelsea.
The Liverpools unbeaten start to the season looked destined to end with 45 minutes gone at [...]

Juventus president Giovanni Cobolli Gigli is worried for the Bianconeri’s current crisis, but stressed there were no mistakes during the close-season.
The Old Lady’s current crisis has deepened on Sunday, with Palermo running away with all three points from the Stadio Olimpico.
After a narrow away victory at Cagliari, Juve seem to have lost their winning [...]

Florent Malouda has spoken out about his role within Luiz Felipe Scolari’s Chelsea.
Malouda struggled to make an impact in his first season as a Blue following his 13million move last summer. A knee injury forced him out of action early in the season, and then he failed to push himself in Avram Grant’s team [...]

Roma President Rosella Sensi has confirmed Luciano Spalletti’s position as the head coach of the club amid speculation that he could be given the chop.
Roma have started off the 2008/09 in poor fashion, collecting only seven points in Serie A so far and suffering an embarrassing loss to CFR Cluj at the Stadio Olimpico [...]

Juande Ramos is convinced he will be given the opportunity to revive Tottenham Hotspur’s season after holding talks with the club’s chairman, Daniel Levy, after Sunday’s loss to Hull City, a defeat which condemned Spurs to their worst start to a campaign in 96 years.
Tottenham remain anchored to the foot of the Premier League [...]

Portsmouth midfielder Lassana Diarra has pulled out of France’s forthcoming matches with a left knee injury, it was revealed on Monday.
Diarra will therefore neither play in France’s World Cup qualifier in Romania on October 11 nor four days later in a friendly against Tunisia at the Stade de France.
Team officials said they would make [...]

Fenerbahce’s Spanish international striker Daniel Guiza said Monday he believes his compatriot Luis Aragones will stay put as coach of the Turkish side despite its poor start to the season.
“After six matches without a win it is normal that a coach is affected but Luis‘ motto is to continue working day by day and [...]

Arjen Robben faces a race to be fit for Real Madrid’s UEFA Champions League trip to Juventus on 21 October after the winger suffered a left thigh injury during Sunday’s 2-2 Liga draw with Espanyol.
Bernd Schuster sent Robben on for Rafael van der Vaart at the start of the second half but was forced [...]

Fiorentina striker Adrian Mutu says that he will not quit the Romanian national team and he insists that the problems with coach Victor Piturca have been solved.
A number of reports in both Italy and Romania have suggested that Mutu was not seeing eye to eye with his national team coach following the Euro 2008 [...]