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Real Madrid’s Brazilian full-back Marcelo. (AFP)

Marcelo, Dani Alves Make Champions League Final a Battle of the Full-Backs

by Sid Lowe | May 30, 2017 | Sports

London – “Three months ago some people wanted to strangle him,” Massimiliano Allegri said with a smile, but that night they just wanted to hug him. The story goes that when Dani Alves arrived at Juventus, Gigi Buffon took him to one side and asked him to teach...

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Kasper Schmeichel is congratulated by team-mate Ben Chilwell after helping his team reach the Champions League quarter-finals. Photograph: Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images

Kasper Schmeichel’s Champions League Brilliance Confirms His Rise to the Elite

by Barney Ronay | Mar 20, 2017 | Sports

There was something a little eerie about Kasper Schmeichel’s penalty save towards the end of Leicester City’s uproarious Champions League defeat of Sevilla. Mainly it was the element of real-time deja vu about the whole thing. Not just because Schmeichel had also kept...

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Neymar celebrates after Barcelona’s triumph. Photograph: Andreu Dalmau/EPA

Neymar Stands Apart to Make the Impossible Possible for Barcelona

by Sid Lowe | Mar 11, 2017 | Sports

“As long as there’s a 1% chance, we’ll have 99% faith,” Neymar wrote in the aftermath of Barcelona’s 4-0 destruction in Paris – but by the time he stood over the ball the odds didn’t even look that good. They didn’t to everyone else, anyway. 1%? If only. Their first...

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Pep Guardiola, pictured with Sergio Agüero, says of the first leg against Monaco ‘it is special for football when two teams play like that’. Photograph: Lee Smith/Reuters

Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola: If We Do Not Score in Monaco We Will Go Out

by Andy Hunter | Feb 27, 2017 | Sports

Pep Guardiola said Manchester City will be eliminated from the Champions League if they fail to score in Monaco, despite holding a 5-3 lead from an extraordinary encounter at the Etihad Stadium. The City manager vowed to maintain his commitment to attack at Stade...

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Manuel Neuer has offered Bayern Munich reassuring stability during a period of upheaval. Photograph: Florian Jaenicke for the Observer

Bayern’s Manuel Neuer: ‘I’ve Seen Arsenal Play Quite Often. I’m Prepared’

by Raphael Honigstein | Feb 15, 2017 | Sports

It’s the morning after the night a minor earthquake tore through the club, but you would not know it from the languid mood at Bayern Munich’s Säbener Strasse training complex. An hour before a mildly paced training session that will be watched by a couple of hundred...