We're giving you10 minutes to name all 55 players- that's every playerto have featured in the 2005, 2007, 2018 and 2019 finals.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwo, and challenge some friends while you're at it.NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name Jose Mourinho's most played players at Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham? Liverpool have been one of the most successful British sides in the Champions League, reaching four finals and winning it twice.Can you name every player to have featured in any of those games? Subs too!Klopp's boys are looking to make it three finals on the bounce this seaosnbut first they'll have to navigate their way past Atletico Madrid in the last 16 on Tuesaday. Get in the mood for that clash...
Sparks will fly during the Champions League contest between Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday night: pn the pitch, in the stands and even on the touchline.PSG manager Thomas Tuchel returns to Signal Iduna Park for the first time since being sacked by Dortmund in 2017, despite helping the club win their first trophy in five years just days before his dismissal.Despite being the only Dortmund manager to win a major honour - excluding the German Super Cup - since Jurgen Klopp’s successful tenure at the club, Tuchel’s return will not necessarily be the warmest of occasions.His dismissal three years ago was largely down to his falling-outs with several behind-the-scenes figures at the Bundesliga club. In fact, the German...
Barcelona are reportedly set to sign former Middlesbrough striker Martin Braithwaite for €20 million, weeks after the January transfer window closed.An injury crisis at the La Liga giants has resulted in a league ruling that has caused some controversy in Spain.So what’s going on, and who is involved?How can they sign a player in February?The story begins with Ousmane Dembele’s injury. The forward was ruled out for around six months after tearing hishamstring in training on 3 February, joining long-term absentee Luis Suarez in the treatment room.This left Barcelona in a bit of a pickle, with just three fit forwards left in their ranks: Lionel Messi, Antoine Griezmann and 17-year-old Ansu Fati.The Catalan club subsequently sent official documentation to La...
Football has reached the edge of the precipice. UEFA’s decision to charge Manchester City and ban them from the Champions League for two years will be appealed, but would seem to mark a point of no return, regardless of outcome.The considerable momentum for a Super League, a desireshared by a cabal of the game’s wealthiest clubs, is now only likely to increase. In attempting to preserve the integrity of Financial Fair Play, UEFA is casting itself as an obstacle to sporting megalomania and that, inevitably, will bring the threat of revolution even closer.What an incredibly selfish movement that is, too. So much time is spent pondering the form and constitution of a trans-continental league, that not nearly enough energy is...
Twelve minutes on the clock, 160 teams to get. Let's get to work!Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwo, and challenge some friends while you're at it.NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name Jose Mourinho's most played players at Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham? The Champions League returns this week with a mouth-watering fixture list. In celebration of this, we're taking a look back at the previous decade's knockout participants.There are 160 to get, though obviously not actually that many as a host of usual suspects have played in many of them.Now read...EXCLUSIVEMateo Kovacic explains why Frank Lampard is “similar” to Zinedine Zidane – and why he’s working out better than Maurizio Sarri at ChelseaCHELSEASomething isn't working for Kepa Arrizabalaga at Chelsea – can...