As the dust settles on the 2020/21 UEFA Champions League season, Chelsea’s win over Manchester City in the final has been digested by all that the Blues are Champions of Europe. The Londoners were resilient and hungry, as their sensational mix of youth, experience, and Thomas Tuchel’s tactical savviness – most importantly – saw them…
Cesar Azpilicueta leapt for joy as he hoisted the 2021 Champions League Trophy with huge relief from the nine years of immaculate service to Chelsea Football Club. The blues were crowned European champions for the second time as they beat Pep Guardiola’s side for the third consecutive game and first loss in this season’s Champions…
It is that time of the year when the biggest game in club football officially closes the European season. Porto’s Estádio do Dragão will host the 2021 UEFA Champions League Final as Manchester City seek to end years of European mediocrity against domestic rivals Chelsea. This is the third installment of their end-of-season squabbles in…
Villarreal and their perennial UEFA Europa League-winning manager, Unai Emery, will tonight vie for the title against Manchester United in Gdańsk, Poland. Despite Emery reaching his fifth Europa League Final in eight seasons, the prepotency of the predictions have been tilting towards the Red Devils. Rightly so, United since being knocked out of the Champions…
We are finally at the 38th and final gameweek of the 2020-21 season and that can only mean crunch time for those managers looking for a final climb up their mini leagues. With all games kicking off at the same time on Sunday, it is FPL squeaky bum time. Three sides will still be in…
The world of football keeps on giving. The Pandemic was horrible for several reasons all over the world, but the general excitement about the 2020/21 season is its unpredictability and the protracted title challenges witnessed in each of Europe’s top five leagues. In the Spanish top-flight, the Barcelona – Real Madrid duopoly was shaken to…
The La Liga title race will go down the wire. But of course, it’s already become a two-horse race between the Madrid sides as Barcelona are out of the race following their 1-2 loss at the Camp Nou in the hands of Celta Vigo last Sunday. While the loss to the Sky Blues did not…
Utility players are those that have the ability to thrive playing in different positions, not just as a makeshift, but delivering in their emergency position like their natural position. However, it could be extremely difficult for managers to convince a player that he would have a fantastic career playing in another position entirely, especially when…
With less than a fortnight and three sets of fixtures to go, the Premier League 2020/21 campaign will be over. Man City have been crowned the Premier League champions meanwhile, Sheffield United, West Brom and Fulham have all been relegated. The race for European qualification takes centre stage, with the final Champions League set to…
The Premier League season brought an unprecedented range of new challenges for players, managers and fans as a convoluted and congested season was navigated without the most important factor in a football game, the fans. The drama in the English top-flight was at its typically high level as a total of nine different teams spent…
