cwick (Chadwick Matlin, deputy editor): Now that I have spent the last 10 minutes making sure I know how to spell Mönchengladbach, I am eager to convene today’s gathering of the best soccer brains on the internet. We’re taking a break from the English Premier League this week to discuss the Champions League, which starts […]
Liverpool Football Club leads the Premier League in goals this season, but it has not scored a league goal in about a month. To be more precise, Liverpool has not scored a league goal since Sadio Mané netted in the 12th minute against West Bromwich Albion on Dec. 27, 2020, a game that the Reds […]
tchow (Tony Chow, video producer): Well, we made it, Grace and Ryan. The finale of what has been an eventful and unexpected (to say the least) European season will take place this Sunday when Bayern Munich plays Paris Saint-Germain in Lisbon in the UEFA Champions League final. Back in mid-February, before the Round of 16 […]
FiveThirtyEight’s club soccer prediction model favored Manchester City to win the Champions League for most of the 2019-20 season. The Cityzens were so good, in fact, that they spent 62 percent of the season at the top of the model’s probability table. Only Liverpool (the current holders of both the Champions League and Premier League […]
Leicester City looked destined for Champions League qualification for much of the Premier League season. Leading up to the intense stretch of matches held around Christmas, only Liverpool was outperforming the Foxes on the league table. Leicester won 12 of its first 16 matches and even had a better goal differential than the pace-setting Reds […]