Tag: UEFA Champions League (Soccer)
Unai Emery Is Back for More
NEW YORK — It has been more than three years now, but Unai Emery still remembers the moment…
Bad Planning and Errors Led to Champions League Chaos, Report Says
PARIS — Faulty coordination, bad planning and multiple errors by French authorities were responsible for the chaos that…
Luis Díaz Is the Liverpool Star Who Never Should Have Made It
LIVERPOOL, England — Luis Díaz bares his forearm and places a finger on his wrist, as if taking…
Kylian Mbappé Will Stay at P.S.G., Rejecting Real Madrid
P.S.G.’s strategy of bringing the most exciting talents, whatever the cost, has had mixed results. The team continued…
How Real Madrid Beat Manchester City
Pep Guardiola’s team is not the first to experience that, of course. It is hard to tell whether…
How Liverpool’s Dream Was Delivered, and Villarreal’s Dashed
By halftime, its rhythm had been broken and its confidence sapped and then, just when it thought it…
Manchester City Beats Real Madrid in Champions League Semifinal
MANCHESTER, England — First thing Wednesday morning, Pep Guardiola’s staff will deliver to the Manchester City manager a…
With 10 Straight Titles, Has Bayern Munich Broken the Bundesliga?
That success is, of course, to Bayern’s great credit. It has long been Germany’s biggest, richest, most glamorous…
For Liverpool and Manchester City, a Showdown With Consequences
First, on Sunday, the teams will meet in the Premier League at the Etihad, in a game that…
Russia, Soccer and a Line Drawn Too Late
Everton and Chelsea, for example, have significant financial ties to Russian oligarchs who were named by a British…
How Sanctions on Russia Could Affect Champions League and Top Soccer Clubs
Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has exposed fissures in European soccer that are threatening multimillion-dollar sponsorship agreements and have…