Tuesday night’s Champions League action represented a changing of the guard in European football. Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe upstaged Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi respectively. Given the ages of Messi and Ronaldo, it won’t be long before the young stars replace them as the dominant goalscorers of the age. The world has known about
Kylian Mbappe scored a hat-trick as PSG ran out 4 – 1 winners against Barcelona at the Camp Nou on Tuesday. Lionel Messi opened the scoring with an emphatic penalty, but Barcelona’s lead was short lived. Mbappe latched onto a Veratti flick in the box, controlled the ball and lashed in the equaliser with his
The PSG players have in the week leading up to the Barcelona game taken turns to say they’d love to play with Lionel Messi. I mean, who wouldn’t? The future of the Barcelona icon has dominated the build up to the tie. The greatest player the world has ever seen is leaving Barcelona come the
A.C Milan has for the last decade been a sleeping giant of European Football. They’re currently in the mix for the Serie A title with a new, young team. The unexpected catalyst for their rebuild is the returning Zlatan Ibrahimovich – a literal giant. Zlatan Ibrahimovich returned to A.C Milan halfway through last season. In
Jurgen Klopp loves being an underdog. Unfortunately for the Liverpool manager, he’s not an underdog anymore. He’s a winner. You might assume that winning the Champions League, the Premier League after 30 years and generally restoring Liverpool to their former glory might make Jurgen Klopp happy. Instead, it seems to be making him increasingly irate.
Leeds United striker Patrick Bamford scored his 100th career goal to help his team to a 2 – 0 win against Crystal Palace. It was Bamford’s 12th Premier League goal of the season and with the win, Leeds head into the top half of the table. Under Bielsa, Leeds have massively over achieved in the
The Premier League has a problem with VAR, and it’s not clear how it’s going to solve it. The figures show that VAR does it’s job. Since its implementation, close to 99% of refereeing decisions are correct compared to 91% before VAR. If that was the only effect it had on the game, it would
The last time Manchester City won at Anfield was in 2003. Midfielder Phil Foden was just two years old. He’s still a baby, at least in footballing terms, which is a scary prospect for the rest of the league. Phil Foden was sublime as Manchester City seized control of the Premier League title race with
It’s ludicrous to suggest that a game when Arsenal had two red cards was their best performance of the season. However, the 2 – 1 defeat to Wolves at Molineux probably was. Arsenal started in a confident mood, and had a Bukayo Saka goal disallowed early for a VAR offside call. They hit the bar
The appointment of Jose Mourinho as Tottenham Hotspur manager was one that raised a few eyebrows. The Portuguese looked to be finished in top level football after another patented Jose Mourinho implosion at Manchester United. After crashing and burning at Chelsea (twice) and United, his time in the Premier League was over. That Tottenham hired
