As part of our Champions League Final coverage, we turned to some football writers for their opinion. ———– Red Robbery – A Bayern Munich Blog Winning the Champions League is special, even if it’s for the fifth time. When you have the rare chance to do that in your own stadium, it’s a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity. This Saturday, Bayern will try [...]
AccuScore is the premier sports simulation engine. AccuScore simulated the Champions League final 10,000 times based on projected lineups using historical individual and team statistics to arrive at Champions League predictions . For more sports predictions, visit AccuScore.com With the Champions League final taking place in Bayern Munich’s home stadium, the AccuScore computer projects Bayern Munich to hold a decisive 70% probability of [...]
The Champions League Final takes place in Munich this weekend between the two teams who were meant to be the underdogs in their respective Semi-Finals. Real Madrid and Barcelona were supposed to advance to add another chapter to the battle they have been having all season in La Liga. However, Chelsea’s dogged defensive display in both legs was enough to [...]
Chelsea’s route to the Champions League Final in Munich has not been straightforward but the 2008 runners-up will go into their second final on a high having eliminated holders FC Barcelona in the last four. Interim manager Roberto Di Matteo has transformed The Blues since he took over from the deposed Andre Villas-Boas, guiding the side to their second Champions [...]
It was absolutely incredible. Some City fans, after waiting 44 years for a top-flight title, left with minutes to play. Stunned by their inability to beat a relegation-threatened QPR, it seemed City were destined for a widely-expensive failure. Goals from Dzeko and Aguero in stoppage-time were astonishing. Many quipped that Mark Hughes had led QPR to a famous result akin [...]
A weary Chelsea side were soundly beaten 4-1 by Kenny Dalglish’s Liverpool at Anfield to end their Champions League qualification hunt in the Premier League – of course, they will qualify as winners if they beat Bayern Munich in the Champions League Final. Roberto Di Matteo was quick to ensure that the Chelsea hierarchy knew that their Premier League season was [...]
Should Chelsea lift the Champions League trophy on May 19th, and finish outside the top four of the Premier League, UEFA will grant them the opportunity to defend their crown next season. But is this right? The likelihood is that if Chelsea finishes 5th or 6th, it will be either Newcastle or Tottenham that will miss out on that coveted [...]
Chelsea Virtually no Chelsea fans would have predicted a Champions League Final berth when Andre Villas-Boas left the club at the beginning of March. It’s been a remarkable run since Di Matteo took the reigns on a temporary basis. The story so far Chelsea were shell shocked. Andre Villas-Boas had selected a side that many pundits deemed ‘suicidal’; Lampard, Torres, [...]
One of the greatest strikers in Premier League history has reached his first Champions League Final. Fernando Torres, the punch-line of endless jokes, clinched Chelsea’s passage into the pinnacle fixture of European club football. His goal may have been superfluous to proceedings, but it meant a lot. Torres has rounded a keeper and missed on the big stage before – [...]
The match had it all. Penalties missed, dives, red cards, and stunning goals – an impossible script. Chelsea defending Missing the linchpins, Cahill and Terry, after 10 and 36 minutes respectively Di Matteo had to reshuffle their back-line. Centre-backs Mikel & Ivanovic did remarkably well to keep Messi and co. quiet in attack. Heroics from Petr Cech, in the course [...]
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