Brendan Rodgers and Celtic broke Pep Guardiola’s perfect record at Man City with a 3-3 draw in the Champions League group stage. The following is a transcript of Rodgers’ conversation with Guardiola after the match.
Tag: Champions League
Legia Warsaw fans produce the most intimidating Champions League tifo display
For their first Champions League group-stage match since 1995, Legia Warsaw fans knew they had to do something special. And they did so by marrying pyro with tifo in an intimidating display.
Arsene Wenger doesn’t care about Champions League success anymore
In the film Groundhog Day, after Bill Murray’s character lived the same day over and over and over again, he eventually lost his will to live and began to try and end his life so his repetitive torment would finally be over. Only it didn’t work, and the same day began anew regardless of his fatal actions. Well, this appears to be the position in which Arsene Wenger currently finds himself in the Champions League.
Man City-Gladbach got washed out, but Gladbach fans didn’t mind
Man City’s Champions League curtain raiser against Borussia Monchengladbach was flooded/lightning’d into postponement (until Wednesday). This time-lapse video shows the impact the weather had on the pitch and why this decision had to be made:
Andy King’s expert analysis of the Champions League group stage draw
Hi. I’m Andy King. I’ve played for Leicester City since 2006 and I’ve won League One, the Championship, and now the Premier League with the club. It’s been a crazy ride and it’s about to get crazier as we prepare to play in the Champions League — a thing I was pretty sure Claudio Ranieri made up, like that “dilly-ding dilly-dong” stuff. Anyway, here’s my expert analysis of this amazingly real competition.
2016/17 Champions League ball features odd phrases from Mesut Özil, Gareth Bale, and more
Ahead of the Champions League group-stage draw, Adidas unveiled the new match ball and it looks like they pulled it off the roof of a primary school.
Adding a strange twist to this year’s design: word scribbles.
Roma deny Francesco Totti a final appearance in the Champions League, Totti not amused
Francesco Totti’s final season is off to a less than ideal start. Porto beat Roma 4-1 on aggregate in Champions League qualifying and Totti didn’t make it off the bench in either leg of the tie. During the final minutes of the second leg, with Roma down to nine men after red cards to Daniele De Rossi and Emerson in the first hour of play, Totti’s displeasure with his status as an unused substitute was evident as he stopped warming up and leaned on corner flag, staring daggers at the pitch.
Dinamo Bucharest fans sabotage Steaua Bucharest choreography
As if losing 5-0 to Man City in a Champions League qualifying match where Kun Aguero missed two penalties and still had a hat trick wasn’t bad enough, Steaua Bucharest also suffered a prank from local rivals Dinamo Bucharest.
Mark Clattenburg follows Sergio Ramos’ lead on body art
Mark Clattenburg was the referee for both the 2016 Champions League final and the Euro 2016 final — an impressive combination of honors that few people would ever talk about since, you know, he’s a referee. But the never attention shy Clattenburg came up with a way to make this a topic of conversation amongst anyone who sees his left arm by getting tattoos of the competitions’ logos/trophies.
Red Bull Salzburg player wears Red Bull Leipzig shirt during Champions League qualifier
Oh, the problems of modern football. Red Bull Salzburg played a Champions League qualifier against Latvian champs FK Liepaja and defender Andreas Ulmer was caught wearing a Red Bull Leipzig shirt. If you’re wondering how this could go unnoticed before it ended up on Ulmer’s back, let’s compare the two shirts.