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Four years after imploding, Barcelona are back
There is an argument to be made that Barcelona’s Champions League semi-final against Inter is one of the greatest ties in football history. It had everything: goals, drama and the sort of pace many have realised can’t be taken for granted in the modern age.
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Chelsea steady the ship in Champions League race
If Chelsea are to finish in the top five and qualify for next season’s Champions League, they might look back on Sunday’s win over Liverpool as one of their most important results of the whole season.
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PSG are nearing Champions League glory
PSG have one foot in the Champions League final. Their 1-0 away win over Arsenal means Luis Enrique’s team are now just one game away from a meeting with Barcelona or Inter Milan. The way the French giants have played in 2025, they may be the favourites against either opponent.
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Parallel Projects: Amorim and Potter Under Scrutiny
When Ruben Amorim welcomes Graham Potter’s West Ham United to Old Trafford on Sunday, there will be nothing riding on the match. Two of the Premier League’s biggest under-performers will be licking their wounds and fulfilling a fixture neither will really want to play.
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Liverpool prove they are the best-run club in the Premier League
Not long after clinging his first Premier League title, Arne Slot took the opportunity to honour his predecessor, leading Anfield in a chant of Jurgen Klopp’s name. This season was predicated to be a difficult one for the Reds after Klopp left.
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Mikel Arteta has built his Arsenal team for European glory
As statement wins go, Arsenal away victory over Real Madrid was about as impressive as they come. Away to the defending European champions, in a stadium with the aura of the Santiago Bernabéu, Mikel Arteta’s team came of age as they eased through to the Champions League semi-finals with relative comfort.
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Ancelotti a tough act to follow at Real Madrid
For the past year, Carlo Ancelotti’s future at Real Madrid has been an open secret. The Italian has been expected to depart the Santiago Bernabeu this summer, and Bayer Leverkusen’s Xabi Alonso is the man in the frame to replace him.
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Merino has given Arsenal a different attacking dimension.
There was a point not so long ago when Arsenal’s season looked as good as over. Injuries to Bukayo Saka, Kai Havertz, Gabriel Jesus, Gabriel Martinelli and Martin Odegaard saw the Gunners lose the bulk of their attacking unit just as supporters were plotting the route to titles and trophies.
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Morgan Rogers would have been perfect for Man City’s rebuild
Morgan Rogers once called the Etihad Stadium home, not that anyone at Manchester City remembers much of his contribution there. That’s because Rogers failed to make a single senior appearance in four years on City’s books.
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Ekitike could prove value to those clubs on the hunt for a striker
This summer, strikers are going to be in high demand. All the top clubs are chasing them; but the trouble is, there aren’t enough to go round. These days, strikers are like gold dust, more so than ever, and the it will be an extremely interesting market, seeing who will go where and for how much.
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Arsenal’s Champions League hopes rest on Saka
Declan Rice had the night of his life against Real Madrid last week. The midfielder’s two freekicks in the first leg of Arsenal’s Champions League quarter-final were the highlight of a momentous evening for the North London club, but it was another player in red who makes the Gunners genuine European contenders.
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