Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus sent Manchester City into the Champions League quarter-finals as a 2-1 defeat of Real Madrid on Friday sealed a 4-2 aggregate win.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s brace could not rescue Juventus’ Champions League campaign on Friday as they crashed out to Lyon on away goals at the last-16 stage, despite a 2-1 win in Turin.
Real Madrid midfielder Casemiro said playing behind closed doors at Manchester City can help the La Liga holders overturn their Champions League deficit.
Frank Lampard thinks his side won’t be ready to start playing football again on 12 September as he has called on the Premier League to go easy on Chelsea for next season’s scheduling.
Allegations that Manchester City artificially inflated commercial agreements with their main sponsor Etihad were ‘not established to the comfortable satisfaction’ of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which also concluded the Premier League club showed a ‘blatant disregard’ for Uefa’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) investigation principles.
Chelsea manager Frank Lampard is targeting an improvement on the fourth-place finish his side achieved in the Premier League.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has revelled in highlighting his critics’ misjudgement as he celebrated Manchester United’s third-place finish and qualification for the Champions League.
A Bruno Fernandes penalty helped Manchester United to a 2-0 win over Leicester City to send Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side into the Champions League.
Chelsea secured their place in the Champions League in convincing fashion as Mason Mount and Olivier Giroud sealed a 2-0 win over Wolves on the final day of the Premier League season.
Frank Lampard does not believe qualification for the Champions League is critical to Chelsea’s mission to close the gap on their Wednesday night opponents Liverpool, but he admits the competition’s ‘prestige’ would help that process.