If you are looking for more certainty as to which clubs will advance to the knock-out round, Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League results did not help. Draws by the leaders of Groups B, C, and D drew trailing teams closer to the top, and while all the names at the top remain in the same, [...]

Groups A through D resume UEFA Champions League group play on Tuesday, as the tournament’s initial stage enters its home-stretch: the reverse fixtures; second-half of the schedule; the point after which we can start comparing teams with more certainty.
To this point, we can only be reasonably confident that (from these groups) Chelsea, Porto, and [...]

No teams exemplify the fluidity of the Top Ten better than Internazionale and Bordeaux. Two weeks ago, the clubs had either fallen out of the list (Inter) or were on the verge. Now each team is in the top five.
Part of that is attributable to strong league performances from José Mourinho’s and Laurent [...]

It was not as big an upset as Tuesday’s result at Camp Nou, but Milan’s late goal at the Santiago Bernabéu – handing Real Madrid their first home loss of the Galactícos 2.0 era – was enough of a shock to knock Rubin Kazan out of the headlines, earning the Italians a 3-2 win.
Perhaps as [...]

Between them, Real Madrid and AC Milan have 16 European titles, finishing second another seven times. In the 54-year history of the European Cup and Champions League, roughly two-fifths of the finals have featured one of these clubs. Milan’s presence has been slightly less frequent, having made eleven finals appearances (winning seven), but [...]

You’re going to hear a lot about FC Zürich over the next two days (and rightfully so), but they were not the only little-club-that-could on Wednesday. They were just the most successful. Today, two other clubs that would not have been in this competition last season almost made a name for themselves.
In Bordeaux, [...]

Group A is the only group that does not feature a team from England or Spain, part of the reason why it is quickly becoming the UEFA Champions League’s most interesting quartet. There is no clear favorite. Your expert of choice could be backing any of Bayern Munich, Juventus, or Bordeaux. It [...]

Nine of last week’s ten ranked teams return to WSR’s weekly club listing, with only previously tenth ranked Manchester City failing to return. If the list were one place longer, the Citizens would be on it, still holding strong (if now subdued) support amongst our writers.
If the list came out before Inter Milan’s most [...]

Between the international break and our decision to start releasing this article at the end of the week (to better fit against the Champions League schedule), it’s been a long time since we last released a WSR World Club Top Ten. With a nod to that delay, I’ll skip the expansive exposition and get [...]

What a difference three days made for Milan.
In that time, Leonardo revitalized the squad that only managed a scoreless draw Saturday at newly-promoted Livorno. Today, thanks to two goals from Pippo Inzaghi, Leonardo’s Champions League coaching debut ended with a 2-1 over Marseille and the Vélodrome.
This could be a crushing loss for Marseille and [...]