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 »

Celtic suffered the cruellest of Champions League exits after Alphonso Davies scrambled an equaliser for Bayern Munich in the final minute of stoppage time in the Allianz Arena.The Scottish champions looked set to take the play-off into extra time after Nicolas Kuhn put them ahead in the second half from the latest in a series of good chances they created.Bayern belatedly exerted some sustained ...Full Story »

Manchester City are fighting for their Champions League future after a damaging 2-0 defeat at Juventus left them facing a humiliating early exit from Europe's elite competition. Ederson was recalled to the starting line-up after sitting out the last three games and Pep Guardiola was soon left ruing that decision as the Brazilian bungled Dusan Vlahovic's towering header across his own line. Th...Full Story »

Kylian Mbappe achieved a massive Champions League feat only bettered by Lionel Messi with his goal for Real Madrid against Atalanta. Mbappe on target in Real's 3-2 win It was his 50th strike in the Champions League Became the second-youngest player to reach the milestone WHAT HAPPENED?The French superstar netted his 50th goal in the prestigious competition, achieving the feat at the age ...Full Story »

Arsenal’s turbulent run took another twist when they were dealt a 1-0 defeat by Inter Milan at the San Siro.Mikel Arteta’s side dominated large spells of the match but were left to rue a controversial penalty in first-half stoppage time when Mikel Merino was adjudged to have handled the ball.Hakan Calhanoglu converted the ensuing spot-kick, and, despite bravely pushing for an equalis...Full Story »