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Post by White Lightning on Mar 12, 2015 20:46:37 GMT
Round of 16 11th March 2015 Chelsea FC 2 - 2 Paris Saint-Germain Aggregate: 3 - 3 Paris win on away goals Referee: Björn Kuipers (NED) – Stadium: Stamford Bridge, London (ENG)FC Bayern München 7 - 0 FC Shakhtar Donetsk Aggregate: 7 - 0 Referee: William Collum (SCO) – Stadium: Fußball Arena München, Munich (GER) WL
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Post by White Lightning on Mar 18, 2015 22:11:30 GMT
Round of 16 : 10th - 18th March 2015 17th March 2015 AS Monaco FC 0 - 2 Arsenal FC Aggregate: 3 - 3 Monaco win on away goals Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen (NOR) – Stadium: Stade Louis II, Monaco (FRA)Club Atlético de Madrid 1 - 0 Bayer 04 Leverkusen Aggregate: 1 - 1 Atlético win 3 - 2 on penalties Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (ITA) – Stadium: Estadio Vicente Calderón, Madrid (ESP) 18th March 2015 Dortmund 0 - 3 Juventus Aggregate: 1 - 5 Referee: Milorad Mažić (SRB) – Stadium: BVB Stadion Dortmund, Dortmund (GER) Barcelona 1 - 0 Man. City Aggregate: 3 - 1 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (ITA) – Stadium: Camp Nou, Barcelona (ESP) WL
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Post by White Lightning on Mar 20, 2015 13:58:01 GMT
Holders Real Madrid CF face neighbours Club Atlético de Madrid in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, while there is also a repeat of the 1987 European Champion Clubs' Cup final. UEFA Champions League quarter-final draw Paris Saint-Germain v FC Barcelona – 15th/21st April Club Atlético de Madrid v Real Madrid CF – 14th/22nd April FC Porto v FC Bayern München – 15th/21st April AS Monaco FC v Juventus – 14th/22nd April Draw highlights • Madrid beat Atlético 4 - 1 in last season's UEFA Champions League final in Lisbon, although it took a last-gasp equaliser from Sergio Ramos to cancel out Diego Godín's first-half opener and take the final into extra time. Gareth Bale, Marcelo and Cristiano Ronaldo all scored in the 30 extra minutes to give Madrid a tenth European title. • Madrid and Atlético have played six times already this term in the Spanish Super Cup, Liga and Copa del Rey; Atlético won four of those ties with two draws. • This will be the sides' third European Cup tie, following their 2 - 2 aggregate draw in the 1958/59 semi-finals; on that occasion, Madrid prevailed 2 - 1 in a replay. • Paris and Barcelona met in this season's group stage, Paris triumphing 3 - 2 at the Parc des Princes but losing 3 - 1 at the Camp Nou. • They also faced off in the 2012/13 quarter-finals, Barcelona progressing on away goals after a 3 - 3 aggregate draw, and in the 1997 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final, when Barcelona's Ronaldo got the only goal in Rotterdam. • Porto overcame Bayern 2 - 1 in the 1987 European Champion Clubs' Cup final in Vienna, scoring twice in the last 13 minutes to claim their first European title. Bayern got a measure of revenge by eliminating Porto in the 1990/91 and 1999/2000 quarter-finals. • Juventus were 6 - 4 aggregate victors against Monaco in the 1997/98 UEFA Champions League semi-finals, Alessandro Del Piero hitting a hat-trick in the Bianconeri's 4 - 1 first-leg win. Road to Berlin • The semi-final draw follows in Nyon on 24th April, and those games will take place on 5th/6th and 12th/13th May. The 2014/15 UEFA Champions League final will be held on Saturday 6th June at the Olympiastadion, Berlin. ©UEFA.com 1998-2015. All rights reserved. WL
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Post by White Lightning on Apr 15, 2015 21:32:01 GMT
Quarter-finals : 14th - 15th April 2015 14th April 2015 Club Atlético de Madrid 0 - 0 Real Madrid CF Referee: Milorad Mažić (SRB) – Stadium: Estadio Vicente Calderón, Madrid (ESP) Juventus 1 - 0 AS Monaco FC Referee: Pavel Královec (CZE) – Stadium: Juventus Stadium, Turin (ITA) 15th April 2015 Porto 3 - 1 Bayern Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (ESP) – Stadium: Estádio do Dragão, Porto (POR) Paris 1 - 3 Barcelona Referee: Mark Clattenburg (ENG) – Stadium: Parc des Princes, Paris (FRA) WL
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Post by White Lightning on Apr 23, 2015 20:56:09 GMT
Quarter-finals : 21st - 22nd April 2015 21st April 2015 FC Bayern München 6 - 1 FC Porto Aggregate: 7 - 4 Referee: Martin Atkinson (ENG) – Stadium: Fußball Arena München, Munich (GER) FC Barcelona 2 - 0 Paris Saint-Germain Aggregate: 5 - 1 Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen (NOR) – Stadium: Camp Nou, Barcelona (ESP) 22nd April 2015 AS Monaco FC 0 - 0 Juventus Aggregate: 0 - 1 Referee: William Collum (SCO) – Stadium: Stade Louis II, Monaco (FRA) Real Madrid CF 1 - 0 Club Atlético de Madrid Aggregate: 1 - 0 Referee: Felix Brych (GER) – Stadium: Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid (ESP) WL
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Post by White Lightning on Apr 24, 2015 19:02:19 GMT
Josep Guardiola will face FC Barcelona for the first time as a coach after his FC Bayern München team were drawn against his former club in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals, with holders Real Madrid CF paired with Juventus in the other last-four tie. Guardiola led Barcelona to UEFA Champions League victories in 2009 and 2011, two of the 14 trophies his side won during his four years in charge at the Camp Nou. Real Madrid and Juventus, meanwhile, have a rich European history of their own; the semi-final will be their 17th and 18th meetings in UEFA competition, the most famous the 1998 UEFA Champions League final. UEFA Champions League semi-final draw FC Barcelona v FC Bayern München 6th & 12th May Juventus v Real Madrid CF 5th & 13th May UEFA Champions League final draw Winners of semi-final 2 v Winners of semi-final 1 6th June Draw highlights • Barcelona and Bayern have met in eight previous European ties, all since 1996. Their most recent encounter came in the 2012/13 semi-finals, when Bayern triumphed 4 - 0 in Munich and 3 - 0 at the Camp Nou – the biggest aggregate victory in a UEFA Champions League semi-final. • Bayern also got the better of Barcelona in the 1995/96 UEFA Cup semi-finals, following up a 2 - 2 first-leg draw in Munich with a 2 - 1 success at the Camp Nou. • Indeed, Bayern have won on three of their four visits to Barcelona, posting a 2 - 1 victory in the 1998/99 group stage. However, their other trip produced a 4 - 0 first-leg defeat in the 2008/09 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals; Barça went on to lift the trophy. • Juventus are in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals for the first time in 12 years; in 2002/03 their last-four opponents were also Real Madrid. Then, the Serie A side went down 2 - 1 in Madrid but won 3 - 1 in Turin to set up an all-Italian final against AC Milan, which they lost on penalties at Old Trafford, Manchester. • Juve and Madrid share a European history going back to 1962, when the Spaniards won their European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-final 3 - 1 in a replay after each team had prevailed 1 - 0 away. Their overall record could scarcely be closer, with eight Madrid victories to Juve's seven. • Their most recent tussle, in last term's group stage, ended in a 2 - 2 draw – the first stalemate between the sides – at the Juventus Stadium, with Madrid having edged it 2 - 1 at the Santiago Bernabéu through Cristiano Ronaldo's double. • The clubs' most famous head-to-head was the 1998 UEFA Champions League final in Amsterdam, Predreg Mijatović scoring the only goal in the 66th minute to give Madrid their seventh European title. • The 2014/15 UEFA Champions League final will be held on Saturday 6th June at the Olympiastadion, Berlin. ©UEFA.com 1998-2015. All rights reserved. WL
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Post by White Lightning on May 7, 2015 13:41:44 GMT
Semi-finals : 5th - 6th May 2015 5th May 2015 Juventus 2 - 1 Real Madrid CF Referee: Martin Atkinson (ENG) – Stadium: Juventus Stadium, Turin (ITA) 6th May 2015 FC Barcelona 3 - 0 FC Bayern München Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (ITA) – Stadium: Camp Nou, Barcelona (ESP) WL
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Post by White Lightning on May 14, 2015 18:57:34 GMT
Semi-finals : 12th - 13th May 2015 12th May 2015 FC Bayern München 3 - 2 FC Barcelona Aggregate: 3 - 5 Referee: Mark Clattenburg (ENG) – Stadium: Fußball Arena München, Munich (GER) 13th May 2015 Real Madrid CF 1 - 1 Juventus Aggregate: 2 - 3 Referee: Jonas Eriksson (SWE) – Stadium: Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid (ESP) WL
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Post by White Lightning on May 14, 2015 19:09:46 GMT
The semi-final victories for FC Barcelona and Juventus mean that the 2015 UEFA Champions League final will be the first for 17 years between clubs from Spain and Italy, the most recent being Real Madrid CF's 1 - 0 win over Juventus in Amsterdam in 1998. The competition's only other Spain v Italy final in the UEFA Champions League era was in 1994, when Barcelona lost 4 - 0 to AC Milan in Athens. • While Juve have yet to win a European Cup final against Spanish opponents, Barça claimed the trophy for the first time in 1992 against Italian opposition, defeating UC Sampdoria 1 - 0 after extra time at Wembley. • Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty for Real Madrid against Juventus took his goal tally for the 2014/15 season to ten goals. It is the fourth successive season that he has reached double figures in a UEFA Champions League campaign, extending his own competition record. Only two other players have managed the feat two seasons running – Ruud van Nistelrooy for Manchester United FC in 2001/02 and 2002/03 and Lionel Messi in 2010/11 and 2011/12. • Messi holds the record for being crowned UEFA Champions League top scorer on most occasions – four (to Ronaldo and Van Nistelrooy's three apiece). He is level at the top of this season's standings with Ronaldo going into the final, but his team-mate Neymar, who scored three times in the semi-final, is now just one back on nine and could yet become the first player other than Messi and Ronaldo to top the standings – either jointly or alone – since another Brazilian, Kaká, in 2006/07. • Should Messi score against Juventus in Berlin, he will become the first player to find the net in three UEFA Champions League finals, having done so already on his two previous appearances, in 2009 and 2011. Raúl González (2000, 2002), Samuel Eto'o (2006, 2009) and Ronaldo (2008, 2014) are the only others to have scored in two. • Should Patrice Evra feature against Barça, he will join Clarence Seedorf in making his fifth appearance in a UEFA Champions League final. Only Paolo Maldini – with six outings for Milan – has played in more. • Evra is also bidding to become the 13th player to win the competition with more than one club. • Having featured for Real Madrid in the 2014 final, Juventus striker Álvaro Morata could become only the fourth player to appear in UEFA Champions League final victories in successive seasons with two different clubs. Marcel Desailly (Olympique de Marseille 1993, AC Milan 1994), Paulo Sousa (Juventus 1996, Borussia Dortmund 1997) and Samuel Eto'o (Barcelona 2009, FC Internazionale Milano 2010) are the others. • Xavi Hernández and Iker Casillas both reached the milestone of 150 UEFA Champions League appearances in the semi-final second legs, the Barcelona midfielder beating the Madrid goalkeeper to the figure by 24 hours thanks to his substitute appearance in Munich. • Juventus's 1 - 1 draw against Madrid made it five out five UEFA Champions League semi-final triumphs for the Turin club after they had won the home leg of the tie. • Barcelona's semi-final success means they will match Real Madrid's record of 74 matches played in the knockout phase in the UEFA Champions League when they take on Juventus in Berlin. • Barça and Juve are both through to their fifth UEFA Champions League final, matching the feat of FC Bayern München. The record number of participations still belongs to AC Milan, with six. • Barcelona will be bidding in Berlin to equal Real Madrid's record of four UEFA Champions League triumphs, while Juventus will be seeking to become only the sixth club to claim multiple wins. • Should Juventus lose against Barcelona in the Olympiastadion, they will become the first team to be defeated in four UEFA Champions League finals after previous reverses in 1997, 1998 and 2003. They currently share that unenviable record with Milan and Bayern. • Barça and Juve are both currently on course for a treble of domestic championship, domestic cup and UEFA Champions League. Should the Catalan club achieve it, they will become the first club to do so twice, following their success in 2008/09. There have been three other treble winners – Manchester United (1998/99), Inter (2009/10) and Bayern (2012/13). ©UEFA.com 1998-2015. All rights reserved. WL
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Post by White Lightning on Jun 21, 2015 11:38:07 GMT
Final 6th June 2015 Juventus 1 - 3 FC Barcelona Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (TUR) – Stadium: Olympiastadion, Berlin (GER) FC Barcelona have been crowned European champions for the fifth time – and the fourth in the past ten years – after seeing off a determined Juventus challenge in Berlin. In an unusually open start to a final, Juve might have scored themselves before Barça did, Ivan Rakitić rounding off a slick passing move in the fourth minute. For a while the roof looked set to fall in on Juve, Gianluigi Buffon producing a sensational stop to deny Daniel Alves – yet the Italian champions are nothing if not obdurate and drew level ten minutes into the second half through Álvaro Morata. Now it was Barcelona under pressure, but Luis Suárez restored their advantage and, with Juve throwing everything forward, Neymar blasted in a third with the final kick of the game. The final began at breakneck speed and both teams might have scored twice inside the first ten minutes. First, Paul Pogba failed to connect with a header and then Arturo Vidal fired over after sterling work down the Juve right from Morata. By then, however, the Bianconeri were behind, undone by a typical Barcelona move. Lionel Messi's crossfield pass to Jordi Alba wrongfooted the Juve defence and, though it looked like the chance had gone when Neymar's touch carried him away from goal, the Brazilian turned and found Andrés Iniesta. A touch into the path of Rakitić and Barcelona were ahead, Iniesta the first player to provide assists in three UEFA Champions League finals and Barcelona notching their 29th goal in this season's competition – just the fourth not scored by Messi, Suárez or Neymar. It could quickly have got worse for Juve, Neymar shooting just too high, and soon after it took an astounding reaction stop from Gianluigi Buffon to keep it at 1 - 0. The 37-year-old looked to have been sent the wrong way by Daniel Alves' shot, yet stuck out a left hand to parry – a stop that drew gasps and applause from both ends of the crowd when it was replayed on the big screen – and then got a touch of fortune as Messi's follow-up header landed on the roof of his net rather than dropping under the crossbar. Rakitić's clever low corner found Alba for a shot that flew over, before Juve finally got a foothold in the game. Pogba, an increasingly prominent presence as the half wore on, would have picked out Morata but for a crucial Javier Mascherano interception, while Morata curled an effort past the post as Juve pressed high. Barça, however, were equally adept at pressuring the Juventus defence and came within centimetres of extending their lead before half-time as Suárez's shot flicked the outside of Buffon's post. The goalkeeper then pushed an effort from the Uruguay striker over the crossbar to ensure there was only a goal between the sides at the break. Four minutes after the interval, Buffon came to Juve's rescue again, after Barcelona had broken at lightning speed. Rakitić slid in Suárez, but Buffon stood tall and blocked at the near post. Suárez and Messi fired just too high as Barça threatened to take command – yet instead the next goal came from the team in black and white. Claudio Marchisio was the architect, his clever back heel playing in Stephan Lichtsteiner. The right-back's cross allowed Carlos Tévez to turn Gerard Piqué and, though Marc-André ter Stegen blocked the shot, the ball fell for Morata, who made no mistake. Now Barcelona were rocking, Tévez shooting just too high and Pogba straight at Ter Stegen as Juve looked to make their momentum count. Once again, however, the pendulum swung back to their opponents; in the 68th minute, Messi picked up the ball and worked space to unleash a shot that Buffon could only parry; Suárez did the rest. Neymar also had an effort chalked off for handball before Piqué just cleared the bar with a fierce effort after turning well as Barcelona sought a clinching third. Their failure to find it meant the door remained ajar for Juve, Roberto Pereyra losing his footing at the crucial moment before Marchisio's effort was turned behind by Ter Stegen. With Juve piling forward, Barcelona found openings on the counter and finally clinched the title with the final kick of the evening. Substitute Pedro Rodríguez unselfishly played in Neymar, and the unerring finish meant the celebrations could begin in earnest. ©UEFA.com 1998-2015. All rights reserved. WL
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