A dramatic night in Munich as Bayern drag themselves back from the brink to progress to the Champions League Quarter Finals Juventus will be asking themselves how they ending up throwing this one away after cruising into a 2-0 lead in the first half The Old Lady were gifted the …
Read More »Manchester City vs Dynamo Kiev a few quick thoughts
Manchester City progress to the Quarter Finals of the Champions League for the first time but it comes at a price with two Centre Backs coming off injured Vincent Kompany is ruled out for a month after a recurrence of his calf injury While Nicolas Otamendi also came off injured …
Read More »Aston Villa vs Tottenham a few very late thoughts
Apologies for the delay but I thought I would wait until after the Leicester game to give the thoughts a bit more context After closing the gap to two points and putting a bit more pressure on Claudio Ranieri’s side, frustratingly for us they have managed to pull that gap …
Read More »Leicester vs Newcastle a few quick thoughts
The Rafaloution may have been televised but it was obviously delayed as Leicester extended their lead to 5 points over Tottenham Shinji Okazaki’s Bicycle Kick was worthy of winning any game and that goal was the sole difference at The King Power Stadium last night. A 5 point difference with …
Read More »Las Palmas vs Real Madrid in less than 3 minutes
Real Madrid keep the gap to Barcelona at 12 points, with the win here at Las Palmas yesterday. Here is all you need to know
Read More »Liverpool vs Manchester United a few quick thoughts
First blood to Liverpool in this all English Europa League tie A miserable night for Manchester United at Anfield who had David De Gea to thank for keeping the defeat at a respectable score line Although it looked like a Premier League clash it definitely was one of those “European …
Read More »Borussia Dortmund vs Tottenham a few quick thoughts
A disappointing night in Germany as Borussia Dortmund breezed past Tottenham in the first leg of the Europa League Round of 16 tie Mauricio Pochettino rung the changes and with that has made clear that winning the Premier League is the main priority this season But a 3-0 defeat wouldn’t …
Read More »Chelsea vs PSG a few quick thoughts
Firstly before I give any thoughts can I just have a quick rant about Michael Owen and the fact he kept referring to PSG as ‘Paris’. No Michael that’s just wrong it’s like me referring to Manchester United as simply ‘Manchester’ any way rant over PSG deliver a knock out …
Read More »Zenit vs Benfica a few quick thoughts
Benfica progress to the Quarter Finals of the Champions League with a late late winner in St.Petersburg The tie looked set to be going into Extra Time thanks to Hulk’s opening goal which leveled the tie on aggregate at 1-1 But Benfica had other ideas with Nicolas Gaitan restoring their …
Read More »Real Madrid vs Roma a few quick thoughts
A 40th Goal of the season for Cristiano Ronaldo as Real Madrid eased into the Quarter Finals of the Champions League Already having a 2-0 advantage from the first leg after winning away in Rome, the Madrid side were very much the favourites to advance from the tie going into …
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