Short summary:- Porto won first leg 3-1 at home. 2-0 second leg win will do for Bayern as they will win on away goals (if aggregate is 3-3 after two legs). If Porto score, Bayern will have to score four times to win the game.

FC Porto are on the verge of making history. The Portuguese side upset Bayern 3-1 in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal tie at the Estadio do Dragao, and Julen Lopetegui’s side will certainly feel that they can complete the job in Munich on Tuesday evening.

When the ties for the last eight were made, Porto, despite their domestic pedigree and fine form in Europe this season, were hardly expected to trouble Bayern. Their 3-1 result has been the talk of the European sporting world for the last few days and Porto fans will remember that the last time they made the semis of this competition, they won the trophy (back in the 2004 Mourinho era). Continue reading →

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS ATLETICO MADRID VS REAL MADRID DOWN

Played on 14.4.2015 in 2014/15 CL season at Estadio Vicente Calderon

Gareth Bale’s early miss proves to be crucial as Real and Atletico draw in the first leg of their Champions League tie Continue reading →

Seventy-seven teams who entered this season’s Champions League tournament have been whittled down to just eight, with all of them now beginning to believe that it could be their year. A few of the most prestigious and famous clubs in Europe are still standing, but somewhat surprisingly, there is NO English team in the last eight. Liverpool failed to make it past the group stages, while Arsenal, Chelsea and Man City all suffered exits in the last 16. There is no English team in the last eight of the second tier Europa League competition either (first time it’s happened in over 20 years!), but that’s a subject we’ll touch upon later.

If we analyse the quarterfinalists, we can see that Spain have three- Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid. Bayern are the solitary German team standing, with Dortmund, Leverkusen and Schalke all bowing out in the last 16. France, whose stocks in international football have fallen in the last decade, surprisingly have two clubs- Paris Saint-Germain and Monaco. Portugal and Italy have one representative each in the form of Porto and Juventus respectively.

Which one of these eight will be crowned champions in Berlin?

Berlin awaits for two of the quarter finalists who produce the quality when it matters and make it all the way to the final in May Continue reading →