Aston Villa’s Champions League dream is hanging by a thread after losing 3-1 at Paris St Germain in the first leg of their quarter-final.Villa, playing at this level of European football for the first time since 1983, had enjoyed a serene run to the last eight but faced their toughest challenge yet against the recently crowned French champions.They were dreaming of another famous night whe...Full Story »

Declan Rice scored two sensational free-kicks to send Arsenal on their way to a remarkable 3-0 win over Real Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final clash.Rice delivered his first stunning set-piece with 58 minutes gone before striking again 12 minutes later. Mikel Merino grabbed a third to send the Emirates into dreamland ahead of next week’s return fixture at the ...Full Story »

Davide Frattesi grabbed a late winner as Inter Milan snatched a 2-1 victory in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final at Bayern Munich.Frattesi turned in from close range two minutes from time at the Allianz Arena just moments after veteran Thomas Muller looked to have rescued a draw for the hosts.Muller had come off the bench to cancel out Lautaro Martinez’s superb first-ha...Full Story »

Oleksandr Zinchenko and Declan Rice were on the scoresheet as Arsenal booked their place in the Champions League quarter-finals following a 2-2 draw with PSV Eindhoven to win 9-3 on aggregate.The visitors needed a miracle after losing their home leg 7-1, but Zinchenko added another nail to the Eredivisie side’s coffin when he scored six minutes after kick-off at the Emirates Stadium.Ivan P...Full Story »

Aston Villa continued their dream debut Champions League campaign as Marco Asensio sent them on their way to a quarter-final with his parent club Paris St Germain.Asensio climbed off the bench to score a second-half double as Villa won their last-16 tie with Club Brugge 6-1 on aggregate after a 3-0 second-leg victory at Villa Park.Ian Maatsen also got on the scoresheet as Villa hit three goals i...Full Story »

Liverpool’s Champions League dreams were ended by Paris St Germain in a penalty shoot-out after the French champions won their last-16 tie at Anfield.Ousmane Dembele made it 1-1 on aggregate with an early goal and the teams played each other to a standstill over 120 minutes.Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones were the unfortunate ones who were denied by Gianluigi Donnarumma as PSG won the shoot-...Full Story »

Liverpool pulled off a barely comprehensible 1-0 victory over Paris St Germain as substitute Harvey Elliott struck late on after the Ligue 1 champions had dominated for 87 minutes.How Arne Slot’s side came through their Champions League last 16 first leg will take some analysing but it came down to sheer force of will, an outstanding performance from goalkeeper Alisson Becker and seizing t...Full Story »

Record-breaking Arsenal all but secured their place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a stunning 7-1 win over PSV Eindhoven in the first leg of their last-16 clash at the Philips Stadion.Jurrien Timber opened the scoring after 18 minutes before teenager Ethan Nwaneri and Mikel Merino extended Arsenal’s advantage inside half an hour.Noa Lang gave PSV hope from the penalty s...Full Story »

Aston Villa hit two goals in the final 10 minutes to put one foot in the Champions League quarter-finals after a 3-1 win against Club Brugge in the last-16 first leg.Villa are enjoying a dream debut season in Europe’s premier club competition and only a second-leg collapse on home soil next Wednesday will deny them a last-eight meeting with either Liverpool or Paris St Germain.The tone for...Full Story »

Manchester City were dumped out of the Champions League after a display of world-class finishing from Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe.Mbappe scored a brilliant hat-trick to power the holders to a 3-1 victory in the second leg of their play-off tie against City on Wednesday and an overall 6-3 aggregate success.Without the injured Erling Haaland, City laboured under the closed roof at the magnif...Full Story »