Emily Keogh, Yash Thakur and Sam Marsden answer some of our burning questions after the fifth round of the UEFA Women's Champions League action.
Here is the information you need to keep in mind if you are going to the Stade Louis-II for the match between AS Monaco and the Turkish.
After AS Monaco's important victory against Paris Saint-Germain (1-0), Thiago Scuro spoke in the mixed zone.
AS Monaco showed character to win against Paris at the Stade Louis-II in the big match of the 14th matchday of Ligue 1 (1-0).
After leading for a long time, AS Monaco players were held to a draw against Pafos (2-2) on the fifth matchday of the Champions League.
⚽ Goals, updates and news from the 8pm GMT kick-offs ⚽ Live scoreboard | Latest table | And you can email Scott Tottenham Hotspur make five changes after their 4-1 no-show at Arsenal. Archie Gray, Lucas Bergvall, Pedro Porro, Pape Matar Sarr and Randal Kolo Muani step up; Kevin Danso, Destiny Udogie, Mohammed Kudus, Wilson Odobert and João Palhinha drop to the bench. The on-loan Kolo Muani is starting against his parent club. Liverpool make two changes to their starting XI in the wake of the embarrassing 3-0 home reverse to Nottingham Forest. Alisson, who returned to the team last Saturday after a period out injured, is missing again, so Giorgi Mamardashvili takes his place. Up front, Hugo Ekitike is preferred to Alexander Isak, who drops to the bench. Continue reading...
Thomas Frank is "1,000% sure" he can build a team at Tottenham and promised to learn from this bad spell as he prepares for an ominous meeting with Paris Saint-Germain.
On the eve of AS Monaco's Champions League match against Pafos, Sébastien Pocognoli spoke to the press about what was at stake.
Ousmane Dembélé could return for Paris St Germain in Wednesday's Champions League home fixture with Tottenham.
The centre-back had a difficult start in Ligue 1 but now he is captaining the club and dreaming of winning the World Cup By Get French Football News Leonardo Balerdi bursts into laughter as he describes the moment a police van stopped in front of his car in Marseille, sirens blaring, only for four officers to jump out, shout and sing “Allez l’OM!” and drive off again. “It was just a normal day, but it was brilliant. I thought: OK, I’m good here now,” he says with a smile. Marseille is a city that lives and breathes for its football club. Yet that same volcanic passion can weigh as heavily as it lifts – and Balerdi has felt both sides of it. In his early days at Marseille, a supporter staged a hunger strike outside the club’s training ground to protest against his continued presence in the team after he made mistakes in defeats to Paris Saint-Germain and Annecy. “I learned and grew a lot mentally during these years,” says the 26-year-old. “Whatever happened, I knew I couldn’t let things get to me, or at least not as much.” Continue reading...
Tottenham manager can afford a midweek defeat in Paris, but the same does not apply to Fulham’s visit on Saturday Welcome, then, to another of those Spurs weeks, where the executives are deeply concerned and it is impossible to ignore the sense of foreboding. The 4-1 derby humiliation at Arsenal on Sunday ensured the club are playing a game of crisis-baton hot potato with Liverpool and surely the last thing that the manager, Thomas Frank, needs is a Champions League trip to Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday night. This is not the real fear because it is just about possible to paint the game against the European champions as a free hit. Even in the best of times, nobody would have expected much from Tottenham there and, with two wins and two draws from four matches in the competition, they can afford to lose this one. Continue reading...
Despite a good first half, AS Monaco succumbed after the break to a Rennes team who were very clinical (4-1).
Bayern Munich winger Luis Díaz has been banned for three games by UEFA following his red card against Paris Saint-Germain earlier this month.
Julien Laurens, Sam Marsden and Yash Thakur answer some of our burning UWCL questions.
