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PSG players celebrate after the Champions League semifinal, second leg soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal at the Parc des Princes in Paris, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Paris joins Inter in Champions League final after extraordinary two days of football

Paris Saint-Germain defeated Arsenal 2-1 on Wednesday night, sealing their place in the Champions League final at the end of May in Munich. They will face Inter Milan, the…

Liverpool receive over 5 000 complaints about Champions League chaos

Reds supporters were tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed by police as they gathered in large and slow-moving queues prior to the showpiece match at the Stade de France.

Dany Priso of La Rochelle, celebrates after their victory during the Heineken Champions Cup Final match between Leinster Rugby and La Rochelle at Stade Velodrome on May 28, 2022 in Marseille, France. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

A tale of two cities and two European cups

It was a day on which one could see the best and worst of France. And the best and worst of modern sport.

A perfect world tour that would strike the perfect balance between travel and sport. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Around the world in 80 games

A perfect world tour that would strike the perfect balance between travel and sport

Complete domination: Pep Guardiola, manager of Manchester City, has drilled positional play into his team — but so has Chelsea’s Thomas Tuchel, which will make the Champions League final on 29 May particularly interesting. (Tom Flathers/Manchester City FC/Getty Images)
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Positional play 101: Why City vs Chelsea is the perfect tactical storm

The Champions League final hosts two sides that have perfected the art of controlling space

Harry Maguire of Manchester United celebrates scoring their second goal during the Premier League match between Chelsea FC and Manchester United at Stamford Bridge. (Matthew Peters/Manchester United via Getty Images)

Race for Champions League descends into madness

Predicting who will qualify for Europe next season is now shamefully a fool’s errand

Man City boss Pep Guardiola. (Reuters/David Klein)

Can Guardiola salvage Man City’s season?

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola conceded the Premier League title to Liverpool long ago, but his side’s profligate attack and porous defence are becoming worrying trends. A…

Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp. (Alberto Lingria/Reuters)

Chaos theory: How Jürgen Klopp has harnessed the unpredictable

The Liverpool manager has his side playing unstoppable football but it’s the attention to detail off the field that has bred the success

Former Manchester United midfielder Nicky Butt. (Getty Images)

Butt urges patience over ‘exciting’ Man Utd youngsters

The former player warned against expecting too much, too soon, from young players

Predator: Mohamed Salah is on the hunt (Reuters)

Guile vs power in all-English Champions League final

The final is increasingly shaping up to be power versus guile

Barcelona have the opportunity to achieve something unprecedented this season, despite the current image of a team carried by a debilitated Lionel Messi (Reuters)

Women’s team may rescue Barça’s season

The club could become the first in history to win the men’s and women’s highest European honours

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrates scoring their second goal with Luis Suarez and team mates. (Reuters/Albert Gea)

Messi shows Barcelona the way

Messi has shown many facets during his spell-binding career but in Barcelona’s win over Liverpool on Wednesday, the dominant one was of a leader

Ajax Amsterdam are 90 minutes away from reaching a historic final.(Getty Images)

Ajax must fight the status quo

Winning the Champions League may be the only way that the young squad can be kept together

Should City fail to win at Old Trafford, Liverpool — historically United’s fiercest rivals — will be just three games away from a first league title in 29 years. (Getty Images)

Title, top four and pride at stake in massive Manchester derby

The days of dominance are long gone for the Red Devils with just a place in the top four and Champions League qualification their target

A brace from Lionel Messi in the first half and a second half strike from Philippe Coutinho saw the Catalan giants blow the Red Devils away on Tuesday night(Marcelodel Pozo/Reuters)

Messi fires Barca into Champions League semis

The Argentine struck twice as the Blaugrana beat Man United 3-0 to end their quarterfinal drought

Should City fail to win at Old Trafford, Liverpool — historically United’s fiercest rivals — will be just three games away from a first league title in 29 years. (Getty Images)

Guardiola relishes quadruple quest as City seek to conquer Europe

Two weeks on from smashing Chelsea 6-0, City will be heavy favourites to retain the League Cup this weekend

When Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben hang up their boots, young stars waiting to fill them. (Boris Streubel/Getty Images)

The Bayern renaissance: Of old friends and new foes

Four semifinal fails in the past five iterations of the competition prove their nearly-there-but-not-quite status

‘Then you realise: ‘Wow, we can do something special.’ But we are not right now in that position because this month is terrible, in terms of the fact that every game is a final and we have to wait,’ says Pep Guardiola (Reuters)

Guardiola gearing up for ‘terrible’ fixture congestion in February

Pep Guardiola has some experience of being involved in a tight title race while contending in six competitions as Barcelona manager

Lyon’s Nabil Fekir in action with Shakhtar Donetsk’s Maycon (Valentyn Ogirenko/Lyon)

Lyon reach Champions League last 16, Bayern top group

Bruno Genesio’s Lyon needed to avoid defeat against Shakhtar to progress from Group F with Manchester City

Paris St Germain’s Thiago Silva and Gianluigi Buffon celebrate with coach Thomas Tuchel at the end of the match (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)

‘Humble’ PSG keeping cool heads after making Champions League last 16

PSG finished the group stage on 11 points, two ahead of second-placed Liverpool and Napoli, who were eliminated due to their defeat at Anfield