Manchester City FC have their backs to the wall as they host FC Bayern München in their final UEFA Champions League Group A fixture. City slipped to third with their 2-1 defeat at SSC Napoli on 22 November and will only prolong their first UEFA Champions League campaign into the knockout stages if they beat [ Read More ]
Archive for December, 2011
A first defeat of the campaign has put Chelsea FC in jeopardy of missing out on the UEFA Champions League knockout rounds for the first time since 2002/03 as Valencia CF visit Stamford Bridge. An away win or a scoring draw would be enough to take the visitors through. Chelsea are in this position having [ Read More ]
With FC Barcelona already assured top spot and AC Milan second, the only remaining question in Group H is which club will take third place and BATE Borisov visit the Camp Nou with it all to do if they are to avoid the wooden spoon. Viktor Goncharenko’s men sit two points below third-placed FC Viktoria [ Read More ]
FIFPro, the worldwide players’ union, and FIFA announced the 55 players shortlisted for the FIFA FIFPro World XI 2011 (see full list below), which is to be revealed at the FIFA Ballon d’Or in Zurich on 9 January 2012. The 50,000 professional footballers belonging to the players’ unions across the world that form FIFPro took [ Read More ]
Schalke 04 host Steaua Bucuresti in Group J knowing victory will take them through to the round of 32, while the visitors will have to overcome an unenviable record in Germany. Ralf Rangnick’s Schalke had the best of proceedings in the sides matchday one meeting in Cluj-Napoca but could not find a way through Roni [ Read More ]