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 [...]

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 [...]

This weekend proved to be a series of unexpected results with not much of a change to the table.

Bayern Munich got back to their winning ways with a 2-1 defeat of SC Freiburg.  A goal in the 42nd minute from Thomas Muller sent Bayern into the half with an early although fragile lead.  In the [...]

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 [...]

The world’s most prestigious club competition starts its tournament proper in a couple of hours, and while there is a a certain hum of anticipation around the footballing world, it is difficult to get too excited about a group phase that will last month amidst our beloved league competitions. To cut through that fog, [...]

What if I said this week’s list would have have three new teams, see the return of a team from beyond Europe, and see another serious threat to top three hegemony?
Would that be something you would be interesting in?
Football fans in London, La Plata, and Kazan might not care about antiquated Entourage references, but they [...]

The opening weekend of England’s Premier League caused the first major shake-up to World Soccer Reader’s rankings, with the previously highly-rated Reds from Liverpool seeing the first drop of the season. For their contributions to that sink, Tottenham Hotspur came close to breaking into the list, but in their stead the rankings see the [...]