All posts tagged "Europe"

  • MOTD: Paris Saint-Germain 2-1 Chelsea

    This was not the blowout win that Paris Saint-Germain had envisioned after weeks of preparation for their Champions League Round of 16 tie with Chelsea.  Nor, however, did the narrow, 2-1 win for the home side particularly...

    • Posted February 16, 2016
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  • PSG sharpen the knife ahead of Champions League clash with Chelsea

    “It’s never easy,” said Paris Saint-Germian midfielder Marco Veratti, per The Guardian. “We can’t say we are going to win the Champions League.” With hundreds of millions of Euros poured into the Parisian club over the last...

    • Posted February 15, 2016
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  • Is Pep Guardiola destined to move to Manchester?

    Pep Guardiola joined Bayern Munich in 2013 with the object of improving on perfection. Yet after two-and-a-half of almost eerily mechanical diligence, two league titles, two Champions League semifinal appearances and a win rate even higher than...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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  • Euro 2016 Qualifying Play-offs Analysis: The Final Four

    That’s all, folks; the qualifying stage for Euro 2016 has officially concluded with the final play-off games taking place over the course of the the international break of 2015. For some nations, the qualifiers have been more...

    • Posted November 18, 2015
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  • Ronaldo’s eyelids: Sparking transfer rumors for ten years

    There is a certain way to wink with maximum effect and swagger; just a gentle bat of the eye, so the subject(s) of your trickery can’t tell if you have actually winked or not. Cristiano Ronaldo has...

    • Posted November 5, 2015
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  • That’s so Spursy: Tottenham Hotspur fall 2-1 to Anderlecht in the Europa League

    It is widely understood that the word “Spursy” originated as a loving cliché to describe a technically, possession-oriented football team; a neat little flick from David Ginola or cool-as-you-like finishes from Teddy Sheringham, Jurgen Klinsmann or Gary...

    • Posted October 22, 2015
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  • MOTD: Paris Saint-Germain 0-0 Real Madrid

    Tonight’s clash between European football royalty Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain was made possible by UEFA’s new seeding system, but the scoreless draw was disappointingly won by conservatism and reminded one far too much of a high...

    • Posted October 21, 2015
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  • MOTD: Arsenal 2-0 Bayern Munich

    London cabbies are famous for their knowledge of their city and to an only-slightly lesser extent, of their football. Last November, I traversed across the pond to England and whilst in London caught Manchester United’s Premier League...

    • Posted October 20, 2015
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  • The Grateful Eight: Eight more teams book tickets to Euro 2016

    Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, “The Hateful Eight” won’t be released in theaters until December, but one only has to look as far as the latest Euro 2016 qualification matches to find the grateful eight nations to have...

    • Posted October 13, 2015
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  • Assessing the first twelve Euro 2016 finalists

    The qualification process for Euro 2016, the fifteenth edition of the competition, is almost over and twelve out of twenty-four spots in the final have been taken with the remaining set to be claimed in the coming...

    • Posted October 11, 2015
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