Shaka Hislop presents his weekly Power Rankings and you’ll be quite surprised with a few glaring omissions.
The Champions League group stage is back, but who were the stars this week? Here’s the best XI from the first games.
The Champions League’s best performers from this week.
Goalkeeper: Marc-Andre ter Stegen (Barcelona)
Barcelona were well under par in their 0-0 draw against Borussia Dortmund so it was fortunate they had a goalkeeper in such fine form. Ter Stegen brilliantly saved Marco Reus’ second-half penalty, recovering smartly to gather the ball before anyone could gobble up the rebound, and also saved twice more from his countryman at close quarters….
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Club Brugge and Galatasaray played out a goalless stalemate in their opening Champions League Group A game at the Jan Breydelstadion on Wednesday.
Both teams hit the woodwork in an otherwise uneventful match ahead of the much-awaited clash between Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid in the same group.
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Brugge had the best chance in the first half when Federico Ricca’s strike hit the crossbar and the…
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ESPN FC’s Alejandro Moreno says Juventus’ defensive issues came to the forefront in a 2-2 draw against Atletico Madrid.
ESPN FC’s Alejandro Moreno says Brazil came together and proved that they were the best team at the Copa America despite Neymar’s absence.
After two glorious spells, more than 300 matches and plenty of titles, left back Filipe Luis left Atletico Madrid at the end of the last season to go home to Brazil. And, with typical modesty, he is inclined to believe that his successor will be better than him.
The club have signed his compatriot, 21-year-old Renan Lodi, and Filipe Luis has seen enough to be enchanted.
“I think he’ll be the best full-back in Atletico’s history,” Filipe Luis said. “He has all the conditions.”
Filipe Luis is not…
Steve Nicol says Tottenham’s performance against Olympiacos proves they haven’t put their early-season struggles behind them.
ESPN FC’s Steve Nicol details how Marcus Rashford has transformed into the most important piece of the puzzle at Manchester United.
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said he is “excited” about Red Bull Salzburg striker Erling Braut Haaland following his Champions League heroics.
Haaland, 19, has enjoyed an incredible start to the season and his hat trick in Salzburg’s 6-2 win over Genk in the Champions League on Tuesday made it 17 goals in nine appearances so far.
The youngster became the first teenager to score a hat trick on their Champions League debut since Wayne Rooney’s for United…
Alejandro Moreno picks his ultimate XI for the 2019-20 UEFA Champions League and is allowed only two player choices per club.
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Red Bull Salzburg striker Erling Braut Haaland introduced himself to the Champions League with a hat trick on his debut as Salzburg hammered Genk 6-2 on Tuesday.
The…
PARIS — The Spanish team had more Frenchmen (three) than the French team (one). The French team had more Spaniards (two) than the Spanish team (one). Real Madrid’s dark-hued kit looked, at least from a distance, like Paris Saint-Germain’s home outfit, and if you removed the vertical red-blue stripe then PSG’s retro uniform — harking back to the 1980s salad days of Safet Susic — appeared to the untrained eye a knock-off of Madrid’s iconic meringue get-up.
All of which was somehow fitting in a…
ESPN FC’s Steve Nicol cannot find a positive thing to say about Real Madrid’s performance in their 3-0 defeat at PSG.
Frank Leboeuf joins the ESPN FC crew to break down how Paris Saint-Germain came together as a team to defeat Real Madrid 3-0 in the Champions League.
Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane fumed at his team’s lack of intensity after the 13-times European champions started their Champions League campaign with a chastening 3-0 defeat at Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday.
Real, record European champions, were overwhelmed, especially in midfield, and failed to muster a single shot on target at the Parc des Princes.
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“Clearly they were better than us in…