tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53712211191961072792024-03-27T23:54:42.367+00:00The European Football Club LeagueWho would be the best football club in Europe if they played in a league system? Find out in this blog.Rogornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981420921547893526noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371221119196107279.post-15341664418562133752023-06-11T12:59:00.002+01:002023-06-11T13:07:13.455+01:00The 2022-23 season<p> The EFCL table at the end of the 2022-23 season</p><p>01 - 154+112 - Bayern München</p><p>02 - 150+80 - Real Madrid</p><p>03 - 137+56 - FC Barcelona</p><p>04 - 127+55 - Liverpool FC</p><p>05 - 123+35 - Arsenal London</p><p>06 - 120+57 - Paris Saint-Germain</p><p>07 - 115+36 - Manchester United</p><p>08 - 113+31 - Juventus Torino</p><p>09 - 113+18 - Internazionale Milano</p><p>10 - 109+21 - Valencia CF</p><p>11 - 108+35 - Manchester City</p><p>12 - 107+19 - Borussia Dortmund</p><p>13 - 106+16 - Olympique Lyonnais</p><p>14 - 102+5 - FC Porto </p><p>15 - 101+12 - Atlético Madrid</p><p>16 - 99+18 - AC Milan</p><p>17 - 97+13 - Chelsea London</p><p>18 - 95-10 - AS Roma</p><p>19 - 89-5 - Benfica Lisboa</p><p>20 - 88+6 - Ajax Amsterdam</p><p>21 - 85-21 - Bayer Leverkusen</p><p>22 - 81-22 - CSKA Moskva</p><p>23 - 77-18 - AS Monaco</p><p>24 - 74-21 - PSV Eindhoven</p><p>25 - 70-27 - Shakhtar Donetsk</p><p>26 - 68-33 - Olympique Marseille</p><p>27 - 68-47 - Anderlecht Bruxelles</p><p>28 - 67-32 - Glasgow Rangers</p><p>29 - 67-50 - Spartak Moskva</p><p>30 - 66-37 - Olympiacos Pirea</p><p>31 - 64-36 - Sparta Praha</p><p>32 - 64-41 - Panathinaikos Athens</p><p>33 - 63-54 - Galatasaray Istanbul</p><p>34 - 61-50 - Dynamo Kyiv</p><p>35 - 60-41 - Rosenborg Trondheim</p><p>36 - 51-70 - Celtic Glasgow</p><p>--</p><p>Elite 18</p><p>01 - 72+29 - Real Madrid</p><p>02 - 67+44 - Bayern München</p><p>03 - 59+20 - Manchester City</p><p>04 - 56+18 - Liverpool FC</p><p>05 - 56+9 - FC Barcelona</p><p>06 - 51+8 - Paris Saint-Germain</p><p>07 - 51+0 - Arsenal London</p><p>08 - 50+1 - Manchester United</p><p>09 - 48-1 - Internazionale Milano</p><p>10 - 39-4 - Ajax Amsterdam</p><p>11 - 39-12 - Borussia Dortmund</p><p>12 - 38-15 - Olympique Lyonnais</p><p>13 - 37-12 - Chelsea London</p><p>14 - 37-13 - Benfica Lisboa</p><p>15 - 36-15 - Juventus Torino</p><p>16 - 33-15 - AC Milan</p><p>17 - 33-25 - FC Porto</p><p>18 - 31-17 - Atlético Madrid</p>Rogornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981420921547893526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371221119196107279.post-20536069228226846772022-06-15T12:25:00.001+01:002022-06-15T12:25:13.815+01:00The 2021-22 season<p>01 153+111 GER Bayern München</p><p>02 148+74 SPA Real Madrid</p><p>03 144+70 SPA FC Barcelona</p><p>04 134+60 ENG Liverpool FC</p><p>05 124+44 ITA Juventus Torino</p><p>06 122+54 FRA Paris Saint-Germain</p><p>07 115+30 ENG Arsenal London</p><p>08 115+22 ITA Internazionale Milano</p><p>09 110+20 FRA Olympique Lyonnais</p><p>10 107+18 SPA Valencia CF</p><p>11 107+16 SPA Atlético Madrid</p><p>12 104+25 ENG Manchester City</p><p>13 103+17 ENG Manchester United</p><p>14 102+23 ITA AC Milan</p><p>15 101+13 GER Borussia Dortmund</p><p>16 99+19 ENG Chelsea London</p><p>17 99+00 POR FC Porto</p><p>18 92-08 GER Bayer Leverkusen</p><p>19 90-09 NET Ajax Amsterdam</p><p>20 87-18 ITA AS Roma</p><p>21 83-13 POR Benfica Lisboa</p><p>22 81-22 RUS CSKA Moskva</p><p>23 79-19 FRA AS Monaco</p><p>24 74-24 NET PSV Eindhoven</p><p>25 70-41 UKR Shakhtar Donetsk</p><p>26 68-47 BEL Anderlecht Bruxelles</p><p>27 67-25 SCO Glasgow Rangers</p><p>28 67-50 RUS Spartak Moskva</p><p>29 65-40 GRE Panathinaikos Athinai</p><p>30 64-36 CZE Sparta Praha</p><p>31 64-38 GRE Olympiacos Pirea</p><p>32 63-54 TUR Galatasaray Istanbul</p><p>33 62-47 UKR Dynamo Kyiv</p><p>34 60-41 NOR Rosenborg Trondheim</p><p>35 59-38 FRA Olympique Marseille</p><p>36 53-64 SCO Celtic Glasgow</p><p>--</p><p>Elite 18</p><p>01 69+33 ENG Liverpool FC</p><p>02 68+21 SPA Real Madrid</p><p>03 65+42 GER Bayern München</p><p>04 61+19 SPA FC Barcelona</p><p>05 55+10 ENG Manchester City</p><p>06 50+05 FRA Paris Saint-Germain</p><p>07 48+01 ITA Internazionale Milano</p><p>08 44+04 ITA Juventus Torino</p><p>09 44+07 ENG Arsenal London</p><p>10 39-02 NET Ajax Amsterdam</p><p>11 39-06 ENG Chelsea London</p><p>12 38-18 ENG Manchester United</p><p>13 37-12 SPA Atlético Madrid</p><p>14 36-13 GER Borussia Dortmund</p><p>15 36-16 FRA Olympique Lyonnais</p><p>16 36-22 POR FC Porto</p><p>17 33-18 POR Benfica Lisboa</p><p>18 32-13 ITA AC Milan</p><p><br /></p>Rogornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981420921547893526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371221119196107279.post-70524327141945682902021-03-11T20:23:00.009+00:002023-06-11T12:59:48.561+01:00The 2020-21 season<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">End of 2020-2021 season (1 June 2021)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz1g_J0XmNcwpmR_-WOaHEmI9ry3zvRRfN1ZZPIX35M1rqhDQvRrrkQ5ZLoDrJGZb7BzRCAX-_iw4zM5EssWMxK2X_wy8kjlQNeXv5SyjZ84qBczdGfRcSKfcQ2cnfgllgpCv3p9I6oaeul8JPEp-XBR_FMFBsUjUHyubkzrkVNKBTEqQIQx-xHA/s711/EFCL%2021-22.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="393" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz1g_J0XmNcwpmR_-WOaHEmI9ry3zvRRfN1ZZPIX35M1rqhDQvRrrkQ5ZLoDrJGZb7BzRCAX-_iw4zM5EssWMxK2X_wy8kjlQNeXv5SyjZ84qBczdGfRcSKfcQ2cnfgllgpCv3p9I6oaeul8JPEp-XBR_FMFBsUjUHyubkzrkVNKBTEqQIQx-xHA/w354-h640/EFCL%2021-22.PNG" width="354" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">(For more information about how this works, click on "About the EFCL", on the right-hand side)</span></div>Rogornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981420921547893526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371221119196107279.post-5580856498795556492020-09-14T09:54:00.003+01:002020-09-14T09:57:15.130+01:00The 2019-20 EFCL Season<p><br /></p><p>01 GER 96+65 Bayern Munich</p><p>02 ESP 93+42 FC Barcelona</p><p>03 ESP 86+31 Real Madrid</p><p>04 ITA 84+27 Juventus Turin</p><p>05 FRA 73+18 Paris Saint-Germain</p><p>06 ESP 69+13 Atlético Madrid</p><p>07 ENG 68+09 Manchester United</p><p>08 ENG 67+08 Liverpool FC</p><p>09 ENG 67+07 Arsenal London</p><p>10 GER 66+04 Borussia Dortmund</p><p>11 ESP 66+00 Valencia CF</p><p>12 ITA 64+04 Internazionale Milan</p><p>13 ENG 61+08 Manchester City</p><p>14 ENG 61-01 Chelsea London</p><p>15 NET 60+03 Ajax Amsterdam</p><p>16 FRA 59-07 Olympique Lyonnais</p><p>17 ITA 57-18 AS Roma</p><p>18 ITA 56-05 AC Milan</p><p>19 POR 46-18 Benfica Lisbon</p><p>20 POR 44-29 FC Porto</p><p>21 GRE 41-33 Olympiacos Pireus</p><p>22 UKR 40-43 Shakhtar Donetsk</p><p>23 NET 36-33 PSV Eindhoven</p><p>24 UKR 24-52 Dynamo Kiev </p>Rogornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981420921547893526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371221119196107279.post-66557693275017036912019-06-17T15:20:00.001+01:002019-06-17T15:20:20.643+01:00The 2018-2019 EFCL seasonAfter missing out last season, the EFCL returns with a revamped system: we still take into consideration only the last two competitive matches played between all the teams in the league, but the selection has been limited to 24 clubs, and they have been hand-picked by yours truly, using a mixture of number of overall champions league appearances since 1992 and current importance and performance of the clubs in question. This means that although Manchester City, Atlético Madrid and Shakhtar Donetsk are not among the 24 clubs with the most Champions League appearances, they have been included in the EFCL, to the detriment of Anderlecht, Leverkusen and Galatasaray, who have been dropped. Also missing are Tottenham Hotspur, whose European pedigree is still much lower than those of the other teams included, even if they have had a great season last time around. This is the final 2018-2019 EFCL table:<br />
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W D L F A P+GD<br />
01 30 10 06 94 36 100+58 SPA FC Barcelona<br />
02 26 10 10 84 53 88+31 SPA Real Madrid<br />
03 24 12 10 65 39 84+26 ITA Juventus Turin<br />
04 24 11 11 85 58 83+47 GER Bayern Munich<br />
05 20 12 14 76 58 72+18 ENG Liverpool FC<br />
06 18 16 12 72 57 70+15 FRA Paris Saint-Germain<br />
07 16 21 09 64 37 69+27 ENG Manchester City<br />
08 18 14 14 55 49 68+06 GER Borussia Dortmund<br />
09 17 16 13 52 44 67+08 SPA Atlético Madrid<br />
10 16 18 12 52 51 66+01 ITA Internazionale Milan<br />
11 18 11 17 56 50 65+06 ENG Manchester United<br />
12 15 20 11 55 52 65+03 SPA Valencia CF<br />
13 17 11 18 66 65 62+01 ENG Arsenal London<br />
14 13 13 15 60 60 59+00 NET Ajax Amsterdam<br />
15 14 17 15 57 64 59-07 FRA Olympique Lyonnais<br />
16 16 10 20 51 65 58-14 ITA AS Roma<br />
17 12 21 13 50 54 57-04 ENG Chelsea London<br />
18 11 20 15 53 60 53-07 ITA AC Milan<br />
19 13 12 21 48 64 51-16 POR Benfica Lisbon<br />
20 11 08 27 49 79 41-30 POR FC Porto<br />
21 09 14 23 36 75 41-39 GRE Olympiacos Piraeus<br />
22 06 20 20 30 61 38-31 NET PSV Eindhoven<br />
23 04 22 20 33 82 34-49 UKR Shakhtar Donetsk<br />
24 04 14 28 33 83 26-50 UKR Dynamo Kyiv<br />
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Some match-ups have never been played, and in that case a double 0-0 draw has been introduced as a current result. This is the case in Atlético v Man City, Lyon, Shakhtar and Dynamo (one match missing only, after they faced each other at the 1986 Cup Winners' Cup final), Valencia v Milan, Dortmund and Benfica, Man City v Inter, Benfica, PSV and Olympiacos, Chelsea v Dortmund, Lyon, Ajax and PSV, Liverpool v Shakhtar, Juventus v PSV, Milan v Dynamo, Inter v PSG and Olympiacos, Roma v PSG, Dortmund v Lyon, PSG v PSV, Shakhtar v Ajax and PSV and Olympiacos v PSV.<br />
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Barcelona top it with a considerable 12-point margin over Real Madrid. Barça have the biggest goal difference, are the top scorers and they also have the meanest defence. Were it not for that 4-0 defeat at Liverpool in the 2019 Champions League semifinal, they'd probably be European Champions too, with an even bigger EFCL margin. The bottom five are the teams from Ukraine, Greece and Portugal. Liverpool are the best English team in 5th, and Chelsea are a lowly 17th, with Milan, the 7-time European champions, at 18th.<br />
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Rogornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981420921547893526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371221119196107279.post-56939350461222943962018-10-16T12:48:00.001+01:002023-02-07T16:44:32.658+00:00World Rugby LeagueI started this blog as a way to publish a few thoughts and home-brewed statistics about football, but I think that one of the ideas I put forward could work for rugby too, so here it is: a very simple league table made in the most traditional way there is: by compiling the last two games played by the participating sides against each other, in this case the world's top 14 rugby teams. Since draws are quite rare in rugby, I haven't bothered with number of points for a win or bonus points for types of victory. A win is a win is a win. The result doesn't look too different from the official world rankings, but at least this one has a consistent, fair, easy-to-understand basis. As of 7 February 2023:<br />
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I'm not a rugby expert at all, but thirteen games seems to be a fairly doable number for each of these international sides to play every twelve months, so why not play each other once a year? The Northern Hemisphere already has a yearly tournament in the Six Nations and the Southern in the four-team Rugby Championship, so why not add four more teams (Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and Japan), and play it as a single global round-robin tournament? You wouldn't even have to scrap the Six Nations or the Rugby Championship: they could still be played inside this global tournament, in the same way that the Calcutta Cup, for example, is contested as part of the Six Nations. After tallying all the results up, you can still give awards for the best team in each Hemisphere and proclaim a Six Nations champion, a Rugby Championship winner, a wooden-spooner, etc. Also, you could introduce promotion and relegation, so that the 14th team changes every year. As the table stands, that's bad news to Tonga, but hey, maybe you could soften the blow by having the bottom team play off against the best from anywhere else in the world for the right to compete among the top nations the following year. Meanwhile, the remaining 13 teams could be using that play-off international date to play one team each outside of the Top 14. If rugby really is serious about developing other nations, nothing does more for the cause than inviting the best in the world to play against those other countries just bubbling under the surface. The kids attending those games one day will be answering questions in the future saying that they really got their desire to play rugby on that day when New Zealand, or England, or South Africa, came to play my nation and I became... hooked.<br />
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So, does rugby have 14-15 dates a year to play internationals? That's for them to decide. If not, maybe the top division could be trimmed to 12, but that would mean losing a couple of deserving teams every season.<br />
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As for logistics, especially travelling and venues, that's for someone else to decide. Maybe small groups of three or four so that over 12-14 days they play one another at one of the participant countries? For example, England, Italy, Japan and Australia playing each other in Japan, while Scotland, France, Argentina and South Africa play in South Africa, while Ireland, Wales, Fiji and New Zealand play in Ireland? Something like that. I know that matches involving the smaller Pacific teams (Tonga, Fiji and Samoa) are difficult to organise due to a variety of issues, both economic and otherwise, but if there is a will there will be a way. The Six Nations and the Rugby Championship have got big because they have been doggedly playing every year, and the World Cup has captured everybody's imagination in a very short time of existence. If this idea is implemented with vigour and insisting on it every year, it will become great and memorable very quickly.<br />
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Rogornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981420921547893526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371221119196107279.post-20026113544038992272018-10-16T09:55:00.004+01:002022-12-19T15:06:57.416+00:00World League of NationsAfter the European Nations League started in 2018, I thought that the tournament should be expanded to include the best teams from all over the world. However, this probably means, in strict terms, Western Europe and South America. To get the ball rolling, I have compiled the last two matches of the top 11 football international teams, and here is the resulting table.<div><br /></div><div>Why eleven? Well, because it's hard to see who else, right now, would be able to get sustained results against all these eleven. Uruguay? Maybe a few years ago. Anyone else from Europe? Switzerland or Poland is maybe the best of the rest right now. Mexico? Not really. And no-one from the rest of the world is at this level. I hand-picked the teams according to a mixture of footballing tradition, current standing and staying power for generations. So, other international teams who come and go, like the Bulgaria or Romania of 1994, unless they prove themselves to be a team who consistently deliver for many years, will remain aside for now. According to FIFA, Norway were once number 2 in the world. In three separate months. The same applies to all the other teams in the world: when you beat Brazil, Germany, Italy or Argentina on a regular basis, we'll see about inclusion.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is the current table, up to 19 December 2022, the day after the World Cup final. Matches that go to penalty shoot-outs count as a draw for both teams, regardless of who won it.<br />
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All teams are on Games Played: 20<br />
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W D L F A P GD</div><div>12 03 05 34 30 39+04 - 01 France</div><div>09 06 05 32 16 33+16 - 02 Netherlands</div><div>09 05 06 42 24 32+18 - 03 Spain</div><div>09 05 06 35 29 32+06 - 04 Argentina</div><div>08 05 04 28 22 32+06 - 05 Brazil</div><div>08 06 06 25 25 30+00 - 06 England</div><div>07 06 07 41 36 27+05 - 07 Germany</div><div>05 06 09 19 33 21-14 - 08 Croatia</div><div>04 08 08 20 32 20-12 - 09 Italy</div><div>04 07 09 15 25 19-10 - 10 Portugal</div><div>04 02 14 13 32 14-19 - 11 Belgium</div><div><br /></div><div>France are clearly on top, six points ahead, with five other teams closely bunched up behind them. It is remarkable how low Italy are. Their European title win in 2021 masks many things indeed, among them how much they owe to draws, almost half of their games: they have only got four current wins in this table, two of them against Belgium. Spain, reputed to find it hard to score, have the most goals for and a massive +18 goal difference, courtesy mainly of two huge wins against Argentina (6-1) and Germany (6-0). Belgium, though, at the tail end of their golden generation, look in risk of falling way behind and of being removed from this simulation soon. Can anyone find another team in the world who would come last in this table?</div><div><br /></div><div>So, this is what a World League, group A1 could look like. I will update this regularly.</div>Rogornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981420921547893526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371221119196107279.post-29808874489353927462018-06-26T10:49:00.035+01:002024-03-27T09:58:28.426+00:00Every penalty shoot-out in full internationalsThis is a list of every penalty shoot-out in full, senior, male internationals in major competitions since this rule was introduced in the 1970s. The major competitions included (and their qualifying stages) are the World Cup (WC), the Confederations Cup (CC) and the regional tournaments for each football confederation: the European Championship (EC), the different confederations' Nations League (NL) the Africa Cup of Nations (AN), the Copa América (CA), the CONCACAF Gold Cup (GC), the Asian Cup (AC) and the Oceania Football Cup (OC). No Olympic teams or smaller regional competitions have been included. After the list and the summary, you can find a brief analysis of the results.<br />
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Competition - Stage - Date - Result after 120 minutes - Shoot-out result - Winner - Loser<br />
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EC Fn 1976-06-20 (2-2) 5-3 Czechoslovakia - West Germany<br />
AN SF 1980-03-19 (2-2) 4-2 Algeria - Egypt<br />
EC 3P 1980-06-21 (1-1) 9-8 Czechoslovakia - Italy<br />
AN Fn 1982-03-19 (1-1) 7-6 Ghana - Libya<br />
WC SF 1982-07-08 (3-3) 5-4 West Germany - France<br />
AN SF 1984-03-14 (2-2) 8-7 Nigeria - Egypt<br />
AN SF 1984-03-14 (0-0) 5-4 Cameroon - Algeria<br />
EC SF 1984-06-24 (1-1) 5-4 Spain - Denmark<br />
AC SF 1984-12-13 (1-1) 5-4 Saudi Arabia - Iran<br />
AC 3P 1984-12-16 (1-1) 5-3 Kuwait - Iran<br />
AN Fn 1986-03-21 (0-0) 5-4 Egypt - Cameroon<br />
WC QF 1986-06-21 (1-1) 4-3 France - Brazil<br />
WC QF 1986-06-21 (0-0) 4-1 West Germany - Mexico<br />
WC QF 1986-06-22 (1-1) 5-4 Belgium - Spain<br />
AN SF 1988-03-23 (1-1) 9-8 Nigeria - Algeria<br />
AN 3P 1988-03-26 (1-1) 4-3 Algeria - Morocco<br />
AC 3P 1988-12-17 (0-0) 3-0 Iran - China<br />
AC Fn 1988-12-18 (0-0) 4-3 Saudi Arabia - South Korea<br />
WC 8F 1990-06-25 (0-0) 5-4 Ireland - Romania<br />
WC QF 1990-06-30 (0-0) 3-2 Argentina - Yugoslavia<br />
WC SF 1990-07-03 (1-1) 4-3 Argentina - Italy<br />
WC SF 1990-07-04 (1-1) 4-3 West Germany - England<br />
GC Fn 1991-07-07 (0-0) 4-3 USA - Honduras<br />
AN SF 1992-01-23 (0-0) 3-1 Ivory Coast - Cameroon<br />
AN Fn 1992-01-26 (0-0)11-10Ivory Coast - Ghana<br />
EC SF 1992-06-22 (2-2) 5-4 Denmark - Netherlands<br />
AC 3P 1992-11-08 (1-1) 4-3 China - UA Emirates<br />
CA QF 1993-06-26 (1-1) 5-3 Colombia - Uruguay<br />
CA QF 1993-06-27 (1-1) 6-5 Argentina - Brazil<br />
CA SF 1993-07-01 (0-0) 6-5 Argentina - Colombia<br />
AN SF 1994-04-06 (2-2) 4-2 Nigeria - Ivory Coast<br />
WC 8F 1994-07-05 (1-1) 3-1 Bulgaria - Mexico<br />
WC QF 1994-07-10 (2-2) 5-4 Suecia - Romania<br />
WC Fn 1994-07-17 (0-0) 3-2 Brazil - Italy<br />
CC 3P 1995-01-13 (1-1) 5-4 Mexico - Nigeria<br />
CA QF 1995-07-16 (1-1) 5-4 Colombia - Paraguay<br />
CA QF 1995-07-17 (0-0) 4-1 USA - Mexico<br />
CA QF 1995-07-17 (2-2) 4-2 Brazil - Argentina<br />
CA Fn 1995-07-23 (1-1) 5-3 Uruguay - Brazil<br />
AN QF 1996-01-28 (1-1) 4-1 Tunisia - Gabon<br />
EC QF 1996-06-22 (0-0) 4-2 England - Spain<br />
EC QF 1996-06-22 (0-0) 5-4 France - Netherlands<br />
EC SF 1996-06-26 (0-0) 6-5 Czech Republic - France<br />
EC SF 1996-06-26 (1-1) 6-5 Germany - England<br />
AC SF 1996-12-18 (0-0) 4-3 Saudi Arabia - Iran<br />
AC 3P 1996-12-21 (1-1) 3-2 Iran - Kuwait<br />
AC Fn 1996-12-21 (0-0) 4-2 Saudi Arabia - UA Emirates<br />
CA QF 1997-06-22 (1-1) 4-3 Mexico - Ecuador<br />
AN QF 1998-02-21 (1-1) 8-7 Burkina Faso - Tunisia<br />
AN QF 1998-02-21 (0-0) 5-4 Egypt - Ivory Coast<br />
AN 3P 1998-02-27 (4-4) 4-1 DR Congo - Burkina Faso<br />
WC 8F 1998-06-30 (2-2) 4-3 Argentina - England<br />
WC QF 1998-07-03 (0-0) 4-3 France - Italy<br />
WC SF 1998-07-07 (1-1) 4-2 Brazil - Netherlands<br />
CA QF 1999-07-10 (3-3) 4-2 Mexico - Peru<br />
CA QF 1999-07-10 (1-1) 5-3 Uruguay - Paraguay<br />
CA SF 1999-07-13 (1-1) 5-3 Uruguay - Chile<br />
AN 3P 2000-02-12 (2-2) 4-3 South Africa - Tunisia<br />
AN Fn 2000-02-13 (2-2) 4-3 Cameroon - Nigeria<br />
GC QF 2000-02-19 (2-2) 2-1 Colombia - USA<br />
EC SF 2000-06-29 (0-0) 3-1 Italy - Netherlands<br />
CA 3P 2001-07-28 (2-2) 5-4 Honduras - Uruguay<br />
GC QF 2002-01-26 (1-1) 6-5 Canada - Martinique<br />
GC QF 2002-01-27 (0-0) 4-2 South Korea - Mexico<br />
GC SF 2002-01-30 (0-0) 4-2 USA - Canada<br />
AN Fn 2002-02-10 (0-0) 3-2 Cameroon - Senegal<br />
WC 8F 2002-06-16 (1-1) 3-2 Spain - Ireland<br />
WC QF 2002-06-22 (0-0) 5-3 South Korea - Spain<br />
AN SF 2004-02-11 (1-1) 5-3 Tunisia - Nigeria<br />
EC QF 2004-06-24 (2-2) 6-5 Portugal - England<br />
EC QF 2004-06-26 (0-0) 5-4 Netherlands - Sweden<br />
CA SF 2004-07-21 (1-1) 5-3 Brazil - Uruguay<br />
CA Fn 2004-07-25 (2-2) 4-2 Brazil - Argentina<br />
AC QF 2004-07-30 (2-2) 4-3 Bahrain - Uzbekistan<br />
AC QF 2004-07-31 (1-1) 4-3 Japan - Jordan<br />
AC SF 2004-08-03 (1-1) 4-3 China - Iran<br />
CC SF 2005-06-26 (1-1) 6-5 Argentina - Mexico<br />
GC QF 2005-07-17 (1-1) 5-3 Panama - South Africa<br />
GC Fn 2005-07-24 (0-0) 3-1 USA - Panama<br />
AN QF 2006-02-04 (1-1)12-11Ivory Coast - Cameroon<br />
AN QF 2006-02-04 (1-1) 6-5 Nigeria - Tunisia<br />
AN Fn 2006-02-10 (0-0) 4-2 Egypt - Ivory Coast<br />
WC 8F 2006-06-26 (0-0) 3-0 Ukraine - Switzerland<br />
WC QF 2006-06-30 (1-1) 4-2 Germany - Argentina<br />
WC QF 2006-07-01 (0-0) 3-1 Portugal - England<br />
WC Fn 2006-07-09 (1-1) 5-3 Italy - France<br />
CA SF 2007-07-10 (2-2) 5-4 Brazil - Uruguay<br />
AC QF 2007-07-21 (1-1) 4-3 Japan - Australia<br />
AC QF 2007-07-22 (0-0) 4-2 South Korea - Iran<br />
AC SF 2007-07-25 (0-0) 4-3 Iraq - South Korea<br />
AC 3P 2007-07-28 (0-0) 6-5 South Korea - Japan<br />
EC QF 2008-06-20 (1-1) 3-1 Turkey - Croatia<br />
EC QF 2008-06-22 (0-0) 4-2 Spain - Italy<br />
GC SF 2009-07-23 (1-1) 5-3 Mexico - Costa Rica<br />
AN QF 2010-01-25 (0-0) 5-4 Nigeria - Zambia<br />
WC 8F 2010-06-29 (0-0) 5-3 Paraguay - Japan<br />
WC QF 2010-07-02 (1-1) 4-2 Uruguay - Ghana<br />
AC SF 2011-01-25 (2-2) 3-0 Japan - South Korea<br />
GC QF 2011-06-18 (1-1) 4-2 Honduras - Costa Rica<br />
GC QF 2011-06-19 (1-1) 5-3 Panama - El Salvador<br />
CA QF 2011-07-16 (1-1) 5-4 Uruguay - Argentina<br />
CA QF 2011-07-17 (0-0) 2-0 Paraguay - Brazil<br />
CA SF 2011-07-20 (0-0) 5-3 Paraguay - Venezuela<br />
AN QF 2012-02-05 (1-1) 5-4 Mali - Gabon<br />
AN Fn 2012-02-12 (0-0) 8-7 Zambia - Ivory Coast<br />
EC QF 2012-06-24 (0-0) 4-2 Italy - England<br />
EC SF 2012-06-27 (0-0) 4-2 Spain - Portugal<br />
AN QF 2013-02-02 (1-1) 3-1 Mali - South Africa<br />
AN SF 2013-02-06 (1-1) 3-2 Burkina Faso - Ghana<br />
CC SF 2013-06-27 (0-0) 7-6 Spain - Italy<br />
CC 3P 2013-06-30 (2-2) 3-2 Italy - Uruguay<br />
WC 8F 2014-06-28 (1-1) 3-2 Brazil - Chile<br />
WC 8F 2014-06-29 (1-1) 5-3 Costa Rica - Greece<br />
WC QF 2014-07-05 (0-0) 4-3 Netherlands - Costa Rica<br />
WC SF 2014-07-09 (0-0) 4-2 Argentina - Netherlands<br />
AC QF 2015-01-23 (3-3) 7-6 Iraq - Iran<br />
AC QF 2015-01-23 (1-1) 5-4 UA Emirates - Japan<br />
AN 3P 2015-02-07 (0-0) 4-2 DR Congo - Equatorial Guinea<br />
AN Fn 2015-02-08 (0-0) 9-8 Ivory Coast - Ghana<br />
CA QF 2015-06-26 (0-0) 5-4 Argentina - Colombia<br />
CA QF 2015-06-27 (1-1) 4-3 Paraguay - Brazil<br />
CA Fn 2015-07-04 (0-0) 4-1 Chile - Argentina<br />
GC QF 2015-07-19 (1-1) 6-5 Panama - Trinidad and Tobago<br />
GC 3P 2015-07-25 (1-1) 3-2 Panama - USA<br />
OC Fn 2016-06-11 (0-0) 4-2 New Zealand - Papua New Guinea<br />
CA QF 2016-06-17 (0-0) 4-2 Colombia - Peru<br />
EC 8F 2016-06-25 (1-1) 5-4 Poland - Switzerland<br />
CA Fn 2016-06-26 (0-0) 4-2 Chile - Argentina<br />
EC QF 2016-06-30 (1-1) 5-3 Portugal - Poland<br />
EC QF 2016-07-02 (1-1) 6-5 Germany - Italy<br />
AN QF 2017-01-28 (0-0) 5-4 Cameroon - Senegal<br />
AN QF 2017-02-01 (1-1) 4-3 Egypt - Burkina Faso<br />
CC SF 2017-06-28 (0-0) 3-0 Chile - Portugal<br />
WC 8F 2018-07-01 (1-1) 4-2 Russia - Spain<br />
WC 8F 2018-07-01 (1-1) 3-2 Croatia - Denmark<br />
WC 8F 2018-07-03 (1-1) 4-3 England - Colombia<br />
WC QF 2018-07-07 (2-2) Croatia - Russia<br />
AN 8F 2019-01-20 (1-1) 4-2 Vietnam - Jordan<br />
AN 8F 2019-01-21 (0-0) 4-2 Australia - Uzbekistan<br />
NL 3P 2019-06-09 (0-0) 6-5 England - Switzerland<br />
CA QF 2019-06-27 (0-0) 4-3 Brazil - Paraguay<br />
CA QF 2019-06-28 (0-0) 5-4 Chile - Colombia<br />
CA QF 2019-06-29 (0-0) 5-4 Peru - Uruguay<br />
GC QF 2019-06-29 (1-1) 5-4 Mexico - Costa Rica<br />
AN 8F 2019-07-05 (1-1) 4-1 Benin - Morocco<br />
AN 8F 2019-07-07 (2-2) 4-2 Madagascar - DR Congo<br />
AN 8F 2019-07-08 (1-1) 5-4 Tunisia - Ghana<br />
AN QF 2019-07-11 (1-1) 4-3 Algeria - Ivory Coast<div>EC PO 2020-10-08 (0-0) 4-2 Slovakia - Ireland</div><div>EC PO 2020-10-08 (0-0) 5-3 Scotland - Israel</div><div>EC PO 2020-10-08 (1-1) 4-3 Northern Ireland - Bosnia</div><div>EC PO 2020-11-12 (1-1) 5-4 Scotland - Serbia</div><div>EC 8F 2021-06-28 (3-3) 5-4 Switzerland - France</div><div>EC QF 2021-07-02 (1-1) 3-1 Spain - Switzerland</div><div>CA QF 2021-07-03 (0-0) 4-2 Colombia - Uruguay</div><div>EC SF 2021-07-06 (1-1) 4-2 Italy - Spain</div><div>EC SF 2021-07-06 (1-1) 3-2 Argentina - Colombia </div><div>EC Fn 2021-07-11 (1-1) 3-2 Italy - England</div><div>AN 8F 2022-01-23 (1-1) 7-6 Burkina Faso - Gabon</div><div>AN 8F 2022-01-26 (0-0) 5-4 Egypt - Ivory Coast </div><div>AN 8F 2022-01-26 (0-0) 6-5 Equatorial Guinea - Mali</div><div>AN SF 2022-02-05 (0-0) 3-1 Egypt - Cameroon</div><div>AN 3P 2022-02-05 (3-3) 5-3 Cameroon - Burkina Faso</div><div>AN Fn 2022-02-06 (0-0) 4-2 Senegal - Egypt</div><div>WC QP 2022-03-29 (1-1) 3-1 Senegal - Egypt</div><div>WC QP 2022-06-13 (0-0) 5-4 Australia - Peru</div><div>WC 8F 2022-12-05 (1-1) 3-1 Croatia - Japan</div><div>WC 8F 2022-12-06 (0-0) 2-0 Morocco - Spain</div><div>WC QF 2022-12-09 (1-1) 4-2 Croatia - Brazil</div><div>WC QF 2022-12-09 (2-2) 4-3 Argentina - Netherlands</div><div>WC Fn 2022-12-18 (3-3) 4-2 Argentina - France</div><div>GC qt 2023-06-16 (1-1) 3-2 Saint Kitts and Nevis - Curacao</div><div>GC qt 2023-06-17 (1-1) 5-3 Guyana - Grenada</div><div>GC qt 2023-06-17 (0-0) 4-3 Puerto Rico - Suriname</div><div>NL Fn 2023-06-18 (0-0) 5-4 Spain - Croatia</div><div>GC qt 2023-06-20 (1-1) 4-2 Saint Kitts and Nevis - French Guiana</div><div>GC QF 2023-07-10 (2-2) 3-2 USA - Canada</div><div>GC SF 2023-07-12 (1-1) 5-4 Panama - USA</div><div>AC 8F 2024-01-28 (1-1) 5-3 Tajikistan - United Arab Emirates</div><div>AN 8F 2024-01-28 (1-1) 8-7 DR Congo - Egypt</div><div>AN 8F 2024-01-29 (1-1) 5-4 Ivory Coast - Senegal</div><div>AC 8F 2024-01-30 (1-1) 4-2 South Korea - Saudi Arabia</div><div>AC 8F 2024-01-31 (1-1) 5-3 Iran - Syria</div><div>AC QF 2024-02-03 (1-1) 3-2 Qatar - Uzbekistan</div><div>AN QF 2024-02-03 (0-0) 2-1 South Africa - Cape Verde</div><div>AN SF 2024-02-07 (1-1) 4-2 Nigeria - South Africa</div><div>AN 3P 2024-02-10 (0-0) 6-5 South Africa - DR Congo</div><div>EC QF 2024-03-26 (0-0) 4-2 Georgia - Greece</div><div>GC QF 2024-03-26 (0-0) 4-2 British Virgin Islands - US Virgin Islands</div><div>EC QF 2024-03-26 (0-0) 5-4 Poland - Wales</div><div>GC QF 2024-03-26 (1-1) 4-3 Anguilla - Turks And Caicos</div><div><br />
Results by country, in alphabetical order: won - lost - differential - country<br />
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3 2 +1 Algeria</div><div>1 0 +1 Anguilla<br />11 6 +5 Argentina (most played, most won)<br />2 1 +1 Australia<br />
1 0 +1 Bahrain<br />
1 0 +1 Belgium<br />
1 0 +1 Benin</div><div>0 1 -1 Bosnia<br />
8 6 +2 Brazil</div><div>1 0 +1 British Virgin Islands<br />
1 0 +1 Bulgaria<br />3 3 0 Burkina Faso<br />5 4 +1 Cameroon<br />
1 2 -1 Canada</div><div>0 1 -1 Cape Verde<br />
4 2 +2 Chile<br />
2 1 +1 China<br />5 5 0 Colombia<br />
1 4 -3 Costa Rica<br />4 2 +2 Croatia</div><div>0 1 -1 Curacao<br />
3 0 +3 Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic<br />3 2 +1 DR Congo<br />
1 2 -1 Denmark<br />
0 1 -1 Ecuador<br />6 5 +1 Egypt<br />
0 1 -1 El Salvador<br />
3 7 -4 England (joint most lost, joint worst balance)<br />1 1 0 Equatorial Guinea<br />
3 5 -2 France</div><div>0 1 -1 French Guiana<br />
0 3 -3 Gabon<br />
1 5 -4 Ghana (joint worst balance)</div><div>1 0 +1 Georgia<br />
6 1 +5 Germany / West Germany (best balance)<br />
0 2 -2 Greece</div><div>0 1 -1 Grenada</div><div>1 0 +1 Guyana<br />
2 1 +1 Honduras<br />3 6 -3 Iran<br />
2 0 +2 Iraq<br />
1 2 -1 Ireland</div><div>0 1 -1 Israel<br />6 7 -1 Italy (joint most lost)<br />5 6 -1 Ivory Coast<br />
3 4 -1 Japan<br />
0 2 -2 Jordan<br />
1 1 0 Kuwait<br />
0 1 -1 Libya<br />
1 0 +1 Madagascar<br />
2 1 +1 Mali<br />
5 5 0 Mexico<br />1 2 -1 Morocco<br />
0 1 -1 Martinique<br />
2 6 -4 Netherlands (joint worst balance)<br />6 3 +3 Nigeria<br />
1 0 +1 New Zealand</div><div>1 0 +1 Northern Ireland<br />5 1 +4 Panama<br />
4 3 +1 Paraguay<br />
1 3 -2 Peru<br />
0 1 -1 Papua New Guinea<br />2 1 +1 Poland<br />
3 2 +1 Portugal</div><div>1 0 +1 Puerto Rico</div><div>1 0 +1 Qatar<br />
0 2 -2 Romania<br />
1 1 0 Russia</div><div>2 0 +2 Saint Kitts and Nevis<br />
4 1 +3 Saudi Arabia</div><div>2 0 +2 Scotland<br />2 3 -1 Senegal</div><div>0 1 -1 Serbia</div><div>1 0 +1 Slovakia<br />3 3 0 South Africa<br />5 3 +2 South Korea<br />7 6 +1 Spain</div><div>0 1 -1 Suriname</div><div>
1 1 0 Sweden<br />1 4 -3 Switzerland</div><div>0 1 -1 Syria</div><div>1 0 +1 Tajikistan<br />
0 1 -1 Trinidad and Tobago<br />
3 3 0 Tunisia<br />
1 0 +1 Turkey</div><div>0 1 -1 Turks And Caicos<br />
1 3 -2 United Arab Emirates<br />
1 0 +1 Ukraine<br />
5 7 -2 Uruguay (joint most lost)<br />5 3 +2 USA</div><div>0 1 -1 US Virgin Islands<br />
0 3 -3 Uzbekistan<br />
0 1 -1 Venezuela<br />
1 0 +1 Vietnam</div><div>0 1 -1 Wales<br />
0 1 -1 Yugoslavia<br />
1 1 0 Zambia<br />
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Penalty shoot-outs have sometimes been described as coin-flips, and these compiled results mostly bear that out, with a few outliers. The more times you flip a coin, the more likely it is that you'll get a 50-50 result between heads and tails, and the same seems to happen with penalty shoot-outs. For example, if you hear that Argentina has lost as many as six penalty shoot-outs in their history, that sounds bad, but on the other hand they have won eleven, which shows the other side of the story (or the coin).<br />
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Argentina are, in fact, the team that has played and has won the most penalty shoot-outs ever so far, and at the same time are third in the "most lost" category : their tally is P17 W11 L6. Uruguay have played 11 and their record is 5-7, and this result is as close to 50-50 as it can be without being exactly half and half after being involved twelve times. Mexico and Colombia have played 10, with a result of won 5 lost 5 for both of them. Spain are the European nation that has been involved in the most shoot-outs, 13, and they are 7-6. This shows that the more you take part in penalty shoot-outs, the more the outcomes balance themselves out. However, it is true that there are a few outliers, as you can see below.</div><div>
<br />In order to put this into context, the most useful indicator is how many more shoot-outs a team has won that they have lost or vice-versa, and that's reflected on the list with a +2, -1, 0, etc. Of the 85 national teams ever involved in a penalty shoot-out in major competitions (male, senior teams only), only 14 present a differential of +3, -3 or wider:<br />
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+5 Argentina, West Germany / Germany<br />
+4 Panama<br />
+3 Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia<br />
-3 Costa Rica, Gabon, Iran, Switzerland, Uzbekistan<br />
-4 England, Ghana, Netherlands<br />
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South America has got three of the top four nations most involved in penalty shoot-outs, and four of the top six. This is largely due to the frequency with which they play their regional tournament, the Copa América, every two years, and the evenness of the playing field in their confederation, which leads to a lot of drawn matches. Saudi Arabia boasted an impressive 4-0 until 2024, when they lost to South Korea, with the Czechs 3-0 up, including two of those by Czechoslovakia (Slovakia as independent country is 0-1 down). No-one has lost more penalty shoot-outs than Italy (7), including their first four, although once they won a World Cup final this way, in 2006 (and lost another one, in 1994), and the Euros in 2021. Uruguay and England joined them on 7 lost in 2021. The Netherlands were 0-4 down until 2004, while Switzerland were 0-3 until they beat France in 2021, but then they lost to Spain in their very next game to remain on -3. Germany lost their first ever shoot-out (and anyone's first ever), but then they have won the next six on the trot. Conversely, Ghana won their first ever, back in 1982, but have lost all five subsequent ones. Gabon and Uzbekistan have lost all three they have played. England propped the differential table on 1 won and 6 lost (-5, the worst differential ever reached by anyone) until they beat Colombia in 2018 and Switzerland in 2019. In 2022 Egypt went to four penalty shoot-outs in less than two months, three at the Africa Cup of Nations in February and one at a World Cup qualifier in March. They won the first two and lost the other two, both against Senegal, who, by winning them, became African champions and qualified for the Qatar World Cup. Then Senegal lost their next shoot-out while defending their African title in 2024. France have lost two World Cup finals on penalties, to Italy in 2006 and to Argentina in 2022.<br />
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Most played:</u><br />
17 Argentina<br />
13 Brazil, Italy, Spain</div><div>12 Uruguay</div><div>11 Egypt, Ivory Coast<br />
10 Colombia, England, Mexico<br />9 Cameroon, Iran, Nigeria</div><div>8 France, South Korea, USA<br />
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Most won:</u><br />11 Argentina</div><div>8 Brazil</div><div>7 Spain<br />
6 Egypt, West Germany / Germany, Nigeria, Italy<br />
5 Cameroon, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Mexico, Panama, South Korea, Uruguay, USA<br />
4 Paraguay, Saudi Arabia<br />
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Most lost:</u><br />7 England, Italy, Uruguay<br />6 Argentina, Iran, Ivory Coast, Spain<br />5 Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, Mexico, Netherlands<br />4 Cameroon, Costa Rica, Switzerland</div>Rogornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981420921547893526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371221119196107279.post-8760704351561890952016-12-08T14:01:00.014+00:002023-03-16T20:40:57.764+00:00The World Cup and the Champions League should go for 64 teams<div>(This is an idea first posted here in 2016)</div><div><br /></div>Over the last few months there has been some debate about possible modifications to the number of entrants in the World Cup and the Champions League. My opinion about this is simple: if you are going to increase the number beyond 32, for example 48, then you're better off running both competitions with 64 participating teams. Here are my reasons:<br />
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1) With 64, twice the number of current teams will be involved. This seems obvious enough, but this is also the number one reason why it should be done. Every time these two tournaments are held, there are some prestigious teams that are left out just because there are not enough places for them. Doubling the number of participants would help more of these teams to qualify more often. This also means many more fans in many more countries would be included and would enjoy these tournaments. And when you include more teams, you generate increased interest across the whole country where that team is from. Ask any Polish or Scottish fans, for example, whether their interest is the same in a World Cup or Champions League group stage when they have a team present or when they don't.<br />
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2) The overall duration of the competitions would not be altered significantly. Just one more matchday would be needed in the World Cup (to accommodate an extra elimination round after the group stage), and two extra days in the Champions League, as compared to now. This would mean 8 matches instead of the current 7 in the World Cup, and 15 in the Champions League instead of 13. Given that the current Champions League quarter-finals are played over eight different days instead of the minimum four (four Tuesdays and four Wednesdays in February and March), the dates needed are already available on the international calendar. And also, let's remember that during four seasons at the turn of the century there was a SECOND 6-game group stage after the first, taking a total of 17 matches for the competition to be completed. This was later trimmed back to the current 13 games, but 15 over 9 months is feasible, and it is a very small sacrifice in order to double the number of teams participating. Besides, in the case of the World Cup, the 48-team enlargement now approved by FIFA also would need an 8-match schedule anyway, because of the new 32-team second round, so if you're going to block off an 8-game chunk of the international calendar for the World Cup, at least make that length of time count, and use it to its maximum effect. I think that using an extra week of the international calendar every FOUR years is not that big a sacrifice for the price of DOUBLE the nations to be included.<br />
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3) Worrying about "diluting the quality" is a non-issue. Anyone who watches football knows that you simply don't know how "good" the next match you watch is going to be, whatever the "quality" of the teams involved is, and you don't know either where the next thoroughly enjoying crowd-pleaser is going to come from. We've all seen a disappointing Real Madrid v Barcelona, an underwhelming Liverpool v Manchester United or a boring Italy v Germany. And we've also seen an entertaining Swansea v Crystal Palace, or an eventful Portugal v Hungary, games which maybe wouldn't be billed as "of the highest quality" before the fact. Having fewer matches does not mean they are going to be better games, and conversely, more matches do not mean they are all going to be worse. Every fan of each team is going to find their own games interesting, whatever the "quality" of the play, and then they will judge how interesting the rest of the matches are to them, according to their own time and inclination.<br />
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4) "Bloated" is the word you might have blurted out already. Yes, it would be difficult to watch every match in an enlarged World Cup like this (and I have watched EVERY World Cup match on TV since I was 10), but no-one is asking you to. As an everyday fan, do you watch every match in the current Champions League, or in your current domestic club competitions? No, and nobody will say you're a poor football fan if you don't. I know that it is a great experience being able to watch every single match of the World Cup, which is just about doable with the current number of games, but with double the number of matches to deal with, you can just concentrate on the ones you're interested in (or just actually able to watch), and then catch up with the remainder through recorded viewing or highlights packages... which is what you're doing now with the Champions league anyway, and with your local national leagues and cups. Not to mention the Olympic Games, where interest in specific sports varies a lot depending on where you come from, and therefore your watching experience. <br />
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5) 48 is not a good number to organise a knock-out competition. Reducing 48 to 32 relies on some third-placed teams from groups of four qualifying, and this has been shown already as being unfair to teams playing first. With groups of three teams and two going through, it would be even worse, with huge risks of collusion on the final match day [apparently this possibility has been abandoned now]. And, if you're going to have a round of 32, then just have a 64-team group stage with the top two in each group going through. At the 2022 World Cup FIFA president Gianni Infantino said that the 4-team, 2-go-through format could be very thrilling, and this time it was, but it will not be the same if half of the third-placed teams make it through. The 64-team format would give everyone more of what they enjoy from a football competition: being able to take part in it more often as a player or a fan, for a start, and also many more dramatic elimination matches. The enlarged World Cup would have an extra 16-game last-32 round, and the Champions League would also have an extra 16 two-legged last-32 round. In fact, this expansion would make the Champions League elimination rounds as big (in terms of number of clubs participating in them) as the old European Cup seasons until 1992. You would be able to recapture the magic of those 32-team competitions of pure home-and-away football, after the 64-team group stage.<br />
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6) The enlarged number of participants would mean that big teams miss out less often (remember England, the Netherlands, France, Milan or Chelsea in previous years), while mid-ranking nations and clubs would qualify more frequently, rather than just once every three or four tournaments, and lower-ranked teams would also be able to take part more often than until now. This would even improve the chances of new Cinderella stories like those of Iceland, Jamaica, Anorthosis or Ludogorets in recent times. Depending on who you support, you know how hard it is when you don't qualify, and you also know that it is not the same when you have to watch the competition from the outside. Inclusion endeavours are a big thing in today's society, and rightly so. Let's make it happen.<br />
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7) Stadia and organisation wouldn't be a problem in the Champions League: Europe already has a second competition running, the Europa League, which shows that the whole continent is able to run many mid-week matches across many countries simultaneously without problems. Now, imagine many of those games (like this season's Manchester United v Barcelona) being played in the Champions League instead of the Europa League. It just isn't the same, and don't the players and fans know it!<br />
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As for the World Cup, I think that too much is being made of the hosting problems. The enlarged 64-team World Cup would mean 127 football matches over 6 weeks. That's fewer than the number of matches being played, for example, in England's domestic top three divisions (136 games) over just four weekends. And over those four weekends there are many more football matches being played in lower divisions at the same time, and this happens all throughout the season, often twice a week, for nine months, while the rest of the footballing countries do the same, at the same time. That's thousands of football games every few days, and it works. So don't tell me that hosting 127 matches, never more than 6 a day, over less than a month and a half is too hard. I have never been involved in the organisation of a big sporting tournament, so I do reckon there will be difficulties to deal with regarding travelling fans, rooms to stay the night, fan zones, transport, policing and all that, but those shouldn't be insurmountable, especially when you see what the Olympic Games manage to cram in just two weeks over dozens of sports in and around a single city. The answer to this would be: for the first few newly-enlarged tournaments at least, choose dependable hosts with ready-made stadia and good tourism infrastructure already in place. The USA, Spain, England, Japan, Mexico, would all be able to do it, and if not, then co-host sensibly. I heard often that the 2002 Japan-South Korea World Cup was "like hosting two different World Cups at the same time". Well, then you're doing it wrong. Europe hosted it continent-wide for their own competition in 2021. But for a 64-team tournament, maybe Italy could host 4 of the 16 groups, Spain another 4, England 4 more and Portugal the remaining 4 (I'm just leaving Germany and France out of the example as the two most recent European World Cup hosts, but they could be included too). Then, each of those four host nations would get 4 round-of-32 matches, 2 round-of-16 games, 1 quarter final and then each of them either one semifinal, or the 3rd-place play-off, or the final. Sorted. Besides, this four-country hosting system could also apply to other parts of the world. And I'm sure there are many more solutions to this, including co-hosting between continents too (how about a Mediterranean World Cup across Spain, Italy, Greece, France, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, hosting two groups each, for example, or a CONCACAF-CONMEBOL effort all the way from Canada to Chile). Anyway, my point is that this problem, if it really is one, shouldn't be a deterrent.<div><br /></div><div>Carbon footprint, I hear you say? Just stop moving teams around for every game. Spreading the 2021 Euros around the whole continent was a great idea, but UEFA mangled the execution badly by having teams jet to and fro all the time. For every group, find two stadia which are reasonably close to one another (Gijón and Oviedo, for example, at Spain '82, or Vienna and Budapest in continental terms) and play the whole group phase there only. Teams would be better rested from less travel, fans could plan a whole week-long stay for the duration of the group stages at least, then close un-needed venues gradually to converge on just four or five grounds for the latter stages.<br />
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And finally, to give you an example of how all this would look like, here's a list of a "virtual" group stage for each competition.<br />
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In the Champions League (Russian teams not included)<br />
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From the top 4 UEFA-ranked nations: 6 teams each (24 teams)<br />
<br /> 1 SPA Real Madrid<div> 2 SPA FC Barcelona</div><div> 3 SPA Atlético Madrid</div><div> 4 SPA Sevilla</div><div> 5 SPA Valencia</div><div> 6 SPA Villarreal</div><div> 7 ENG Manchester United</div><div> 8 ENG Arsenal</div><div> 9 ENG Chelsea</div><div>10 ENG Liverpool</div><div>11 ENG Manchester City</div><div>12 ENG Tottenham</div><div>13 GER Bayern Munich</div><div>14 GER Borussia Dortmund</div><div>15 GER Bayer Leverkusen</div><div>16 GER Leipzig</div><div>17 GER Wolfsburg</div><div>18 GER Frankfurt</div><div>19 ITA AC Milan</div><div>20 ITA Juventus</div><div>21 ITA Lazio</div><div>22 ITA Roma</div><div>23 ITA Napoli</div><div>24 ITA Inter</div><div><br /></div><div>Nations ranked 5 and 6: 5 teams each (10 teams)</div><div><br /></div><div>25 POR FC Porto</div><div>26 POR Benfica</div><div>27 POR Sporting Lisbon</div><div>28 POR Braga</div><div>29 POR Guimaraes</div><div>30 FRA Lyon</div><div>31 FRA Marseille</div><div>32 FRA Paris Saint-Germain</div><div>33 FRA Monaco</div><div>34 FRA Lille</div><div><br /></div><div>Nations ranked 7 and 8: 4 teams each (8 teams)</div><div><br /></div><div>35 NET Ajax</div><div>36 NET PSV</div><div>37 NET Feyenoord</div><div>38 NET Twente</div><div>39 BEL Club Brugge</div><div>40 BEL Union SG</div><div>41 BEL Anderlecht</div><div>42 BEL Antwerp</div><div><br /></div><div>Nations ranked 9 and 10: 3 teams each (6 teams)</div><div><br /></div><div>43 AUT RB Salzburg</div><div>44 NET Sturm Graz</div><div>45 NET Austria Vienna</div><div>46 SCO Celtic</div><div>47 SCO Rangers</div><div>48 SCO Hearts</div><div><br /></div><div>Nations ranked 11 and 12: 2 teams each (4 teams)</div><div><br /></div><div>49 UKR Shakhtar</div><div>50 UKR Dynamo Kyiv</div><div>51 TUR Galatasaray</div><div>52 TUR Fenerbahçe</div><div><br /></div><div>Rest of nations: 12 places to play for in preliminary rounds, from which these teams could qualify:</div><div><br /></div><div>53 DEN Midtjylland</div><div>54 CYP APOEL</div><div>55 SER Partizan Belgrade</div><div>56 CZE Sparta Prague</div><div>57 CRO Dinamo Zagreb</div><div>58 SWI FC Zürich</div><div>59 GRE Olympiacos</div><div>60 ISR Maccabi Tel-Aviv</div><div>61 NOR Rosenborg</div><div>62 SWE Malmö FF</div><div>63 BUL Ludogorets</div><div>64 ROM Steaua Bucharest</div>
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Obviously, this distribution can be tinkered with. For example, there could be more nations represented by at least one club and fewer nations with multiple clubs, but that's minutia to be decided later. Example of resulting groups:<br />
<br /><div>01 Bayern - Sevilla - APOEL - Shakhtar</div><div>02 Man City - Valencia - Austria Vienna - Rangers</div><div>03 Liverpool - Villarreal - Sturm Graz - Dynamo Kyiv</div><div>04 Chelsea - Salzburg - Hearts - Galatasaray</div><div>05 Real Madrid - Tottenham - Antwerp - Malmö</div><div>06 PSG - Leverkusen - Anderlecht - Fenerbahçe</div><div>07 Man United - Leipzig - Union SG - Midtjylland</div><div>08 Barcelona - Wolfsburg - Celtic - Steaua</div><div>09 Juventus - Frankfurt - Brugge - Partizan</div><div>10 Dortmund - Lazio - Twente - Sparta Prague</div><div>11 Inter - Sporting - Feyenoord - Dinamo Zagreb</div><div>12 Roma - Braga - PSV - Zürich</div><div>13 Atlético - Napoli - Lille - Olympiacos</div><div>14 Porto - Lyon - Ajax - Maccabi Tel-Aviv</div><div>15 Milan - Benfica - Marseille - Rosenborg</div><div>16 Arsenal - Guimaraes - Monaco - Ludogorets</div><div><br /></div>
Not bad, I think.<br />
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Now for an example of a 64-team World Cup. To start with, I believe that in international competition terms (or at the very least for World Cup purposes), football should be divided into just four regions: Europe, Africa, the Americas (North, Central, South and Caribbean) and Oceania/Asia. Each of those regions would have roughly the same number of teams (around 50-60), so qualification rounds would last more or less the same amount of time. Each region could have 14 guaranteed places (56 total), and the last 8 would come from inter-continental play-offs, which would be the fairest way to see which region deserves more. Another way would be to do it by the FIFA rankings, which would yield, as of October 2022, 32 places for Europe, 11 for Africa, 15 for the Americas and just 6 to OceAsia. I would be OK with that, but there should be more games between teams from different continents to refine the rankings.<br />
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Going by FIFA Rankings (Oct 2022):<br />
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Europe (32): 2 Belgium, 4 France, 5 England, 6 Italy, 7 Spain, 8 Netherlands, 9 Portugal, 10 Denmark, 11 Germany, 12 Croatia, 15 Switzerland, 19 Wales, 21 Serbia, 25 Sweden, 26 Poland, 27 Ukraine, 33 Russia, 34 Austria, 35 Czech Republic, 36 Hungary, 40 Scotland, 42 Norway, 45 Turkey, 49 Ireland, 52 Greece, 53 Romania, 55 Slovakia, 56 Finland, 58 Bosnia, 59 Northern Ireland, 62 Iceland, 63 Slovenia<br />
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Africa (11): 18 Senegal, 22 Morocco, 30 Tunisia, 32 Nigeria, 37 Algeria, 39 Egypt, 43 Cameroon, 46 Mali, 48 Ivory Coast, 54 Burkina Faso, 61 Ghana<br />
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Americas (15): 1 Brazil, 3 Argentina, 13 Mexico, 14 Uruguay, 16 USA, 17 Colombia, 23 Peru, 29 Chile, 31 Costa Rica, 41 Canada, 44 Ecuador, 47 Paraguay, 57 Venezuela 60 Panama, 64 Jamaica<br />
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OceAsia (6): 20 Iran, 24 Japan, 28 South Korea, 38 Australia, 50 Qatar, 51 Saudi Arabia</div><div><br /></div><div>Notably out this time: South Africa (67), Bulgaria (72), China (79), New Zealand (105).<br />
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Again, the distribution could be debated, depending on how many places you want to leave open for inter-confederation play-offs, but here's how the groups could look like:</div><div><br /></div><div>1 Brazil - 27 Ukraine - 34 Austria - 50 Qatar</div><div>2 Belgium - 17 Colombia - 35 Czech Republic - 51 Saudi Arabia</div><div>3 Argentina - 19 Wales - 36 Hungary - 37 Algeria</div><div>4 France - 20 Iran - 49 Ireland - 64 Jamaica</div><div>5 England - 22 Morocco - 38 Australia - 52 Greece</div><div>6 Italy - 23 Peru - 39 Egypt - 53 Romania</div><div>7 Spain - 24 Japan - 40 Scotland - 54 Burkina Faso</div><div>8 Netherlands - 28 South Korea - 41 Canada - 55 Slovakia</div><div>9 Portugal - 18 Senegal - 42 Norway - 57 Venezuela</div><div>10 Denmark - 29 Chile - 43 Cameroon - 56 Finland</div><div>11 Germany - 30 Tunisia - 44 Ecuador - 58 Bosnia</div><div>12 Croatia - 21 Costa Rica - 45 Turkey - 61 Ghana</div><div>13 Mexico - 21 Serbia - 46 Mali - 59 Northern Ireland</div><div>14 Uruguay - 25 Sweden - 47 Paraguay - 63 Slovenia</div><div>15 Switzerland - 32 Nigeria - 33 Russia - 60 Panama</div><div>16 USA - 26 Poland - 48 Ivory Coast - 62 Iceland<br />
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If anyone has any comments, you can leave them in the section below. If any new talking points come up, I will add them to the post. Thanks for reading.</div>Rogornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981420921547893526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371221119196107279.post-65722965918040649062016-10-01T09:58:00.000+01:002017-10-09T18:58:19.327+01:00The 2016-17 EFCL seasonThis is a list of all the match results compiled in the EFCL league table. They are the last two competitive matches (no friendlies) played between all the teams included in the league. If anyone spots a mistake, let me know in the comments section. I'm also missing some goalscorers from older matches. This entry will be updated whenever new matches are played.<br />
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Last updated : 03.06.2017<br />
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MANCHESTER UNITED<br />
Man 2 Che 0 2017-04-16 NLe (Marcus Rashford, Ander Herrera)<br />
Che 1 Man 0 2017-03-13 NCu (Ngolo Kanté)<br />
Man 1 Liv 1 2017 01 15 NLe (Zlatan Ibrahimovic; James Milner)<br />
Liv 0 Man 0 2016-10-17 NLe<br />
Ars 2 Man 0 2017-05-07 NLe (Granit Xhaka, Danny Welbeck)<br />
Man 1 Ars 1 2016-11-19 NLe (Juan Mata; Olivier Giroud)<br />
Man 2 Int 0 2009-03-11 C8F (Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
Int 0 Man 0 2009-02-24 C8F<br />
Man 4 Mil 0 2010-03-10 C8F (Wayne Rooney 2, Ji-sung Park, Darren Fletcher)<br />
Mil 2 Man 3 2010-02-16 C8F (Ronaldinho, Clarence Seedorf; Paul Scholes, Wayne Rooney 2)<br />
Juv 0 Man 3 2003-02-25 CG2 (Ryan Giggs 2, Ruud Van Nistelrooy)<br />
Man 2 Juv 1 2003-02-19 CG2 (Wes Brown, Ruud Van Nistelrooy; Pavel Nedved)<br />
Man 1 Rom 0 2008-04-09 CQF (Carlos Tévez)<br />
Rom 0 Man 2 2008-04-01 CQF (Cristiano Ronaldo; Wayne Rooney)<br />
Man 1 Rea 2 2013-03-05 C8F (Sergio Ramos og; Luka Modric, Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
Rea 1 Man 1 2013-02-13 C8F (Cristiano Ronaldo; Danny Welbeck)<br />
Bar 3 Man 1 2011-05-28 CFi (Pedro Rodríguez, Lionel Messi, David Villa; Wayne Rooney)<br />
Bar 2 Man 0 2009-05-21 CFi (Samuel Eto'o, Lionel Messi)<br />
Man 1 Val 1 2010-12-07 CGS (Anderson; Pablo Hernández)<br />
Val 0 Man 1 2010-09-30 CGS (Pablo Hernández)<br />
Bay 3 Man 1 2014-04-10 CQF (Mario Mandzukic, Thomas Müller, Arjen Robben; Patrice Evra)<br />
Man 1 Bay 1 2014-04-01 CQF (Nemanja Vidic; Bastian Schweinsteiger)<br />
Man 0 Bor 1 1997-04-23 CSF (Lars Ricken)<br />
Bor 1 Man 0 1997-04-09 CSF (René Tretschok)<br />
Lev 0 Man 5 2013-11-27 CGS (Luis Antonio Valencia, Emir Spahic og, Jonny Evans, Chris Smalling, Nani)<br />
Man 4 Lev 2 2013-09-17 CGS (Wayne Rooney 2, Robin van Persie, Luis Antonio Valencia; Siomn Rolfes, Ömer Toprak)<br />
Por 0 Man 1 2009-04-15 CQF (Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
Man 2 Por 2 2009-04-07 CQF (Wayne Rooney, Carlos Tévez; Rodríguez, Lucho González)<br />
Man 2 Ben 2 2011-11-22 CGS (Dimitar Berbatov, Darren Fletcher; Phil Jones og, Pablo Aimar)<br />
Ben 1 Man 1 2011-09-14 CGS (Óscar Cardozo; Ryan Giggs)<br />
Man 1 Lyo 0 2008-03-04 C2R (Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
Lyo 1 Man 1 2008-02-20 C2R (Karim Benzema; Carlos Tévez)<br />
Man 2 OMa 1 2011-03-15 C8F (Javier Hernández 2; Wes Brown og)<br />
OMa 0 Man 0 2011-02-23 C8F<br />
Man - PSG<br />
PSG - Man<br />
Man 0 PSV 0 2015-11-25 CGS<br />
PSV 2 Man 1 2015-09-15 CGS (Héctor Moreno, Luciano Narsingh; Memphis Depay)<br />
Man 2 Aja 0 2017-05-14 ELF (Paul Pogba, Henrik Mkhitaryan)<br />
Man 1 Aja 2 2012-02-23 E16 (Javier Hernández; Aras Ozbiliz, Toby Alderweireld)<br />
Man 4 Dyn 0 2007-11-07 CGS (Gerard Piqué, Carlos Tévez, Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
Dyn 2 Man 4 2007-10-23 CGS (Rincón, Bangoura; Rio Ferdinand, Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo 2)<br />
Man 3 Oly 0 2014-03-19 C8F (Robin van Persie 3)<br />
Oly 2 Man 0 2014-02-25 C8F (Alejandro Domínguez, Joel Campbell)<br />
Pan 0 Man 1 2003-11-26 CGS (Diego Forlán)<br />
Man 5 Pan 0 2003-09-16 CGS (Mickaël Silvestre, Quinton Fortune, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Nicky Butt, Éric Djemba-Djemba)<br />
Gal 1 Man 0 2012-11-20 CGS (Burak Yilmaz)<br />
Man 1 Gal 0 2012-09-19 CGS (Michael Carrick)<br />
Man - Ros -<br />
Man - Ros -<br />
Man 2 And 1 2017-04-20 EQF (Henrik Mkhitaryan, Marcus Rashford; Sofiane Hanni)<br />
And 1 Man 1 2017-04-13 EQF (Leander Dendoncker; Henrik Mkhitaryan)<br />
CHELSEA LONDON<br />
Liv 1 Che 1 2017-01-20 NLe (Georginio Wijnaldum; David Luiz)<br />
Che 1 Liv 2 2016-09-16 NLe (Diego Costa; Dejan Lovren, Jordan Henderson)<br />
Che 3 Ars 1 2017-02-04 NLe (Marcos Alonso, Eden Hazard, Francesc Fàbregas; Olivier Giroud)<br />
Ars 3 Che 0 2016-09-24 NLe (Alexis Sánchez, Theo Walcott, Mesut Özil)<br />
Che 0 Int 1 2010-03-16 C2R (Samuel Eto'o)<br />
Int 2 Che 1 2010-02-24 C2R (Diego Milito, Esteban Cambiasso; Salomon Kalou)<br />
Mil 1 Che 1 2000-10-26 CGS (Dennis Wise; Oliver Bierhoff)<br />
Che 0 Mil 0 2000-09-15 CGS<br />
Juv 3 Che 0 2012-11-20 CGS (Fabio Quagliarella, Arturo Vidal, Sebastian Giovinco)<br />
Che 2 Juv 2 2012-09-19 CGS (Oscar 2; Arturo Vidal, Fabio Quagliarella)<br />
Rom 3 Che 1 2008-11-04 CGS (Christian Panucci, Mirko Vucinic 2; John Terry)<br />
Che 1 Rom 0 2008-10-22 CGS (John Terry)<br />
Che 1 Rea 0 1998-08-28 ESC (Gustavo Poyet)<br />
Che 2 Rea 1 1971-05-21 CWC (Peter Osgood, John Dempsey; Sebastián Fleitas)<br />
Bar 2 Che 2 2012-04-24 CSF (Sergio Busquets, Andrés Iniesta; Ramires, Fernando Torres)<br />
Che 1 Bar 0 2012-04-18 CSF (Didier Drogba)<br />
Che 3 Val 0 2011-12-06 CGS (Didier Drogba 2, Ramires)<br />
Val 1 Che 1 2011-09-28 CGS (Roberto Soldado; Frank Lampard)<br />
Bay 2 Che 2 2013-08-30 ESC (Franck Ribéry, Javi Martínez; Fernando Torres, Eden Hazard)<br />
Che 1 Bay 1 2012-05-19 CFi (Didier Drogba; Thomas Müller)<br />
Che - Bor<br />
Che - Bor<br />
Lev 2 Che 1 2011-11-23 CGS (Eren Derdiyok, Manuel Friedrich; Didier Drogba)<br />
Che 2 Lev 0 2011-09-13 CGS (David Luiz, Juan Mata)<br />
Che 2 Por 0 2015-12-09 CGS (Iván Marcano og, Willian)<br />
Por 2 Che 1 2015-09-29 CGS (André André, Maicon; Willian)<br />
Che 2 Ben 1 2013-05-15 ELF (Fernando Torres, Branislav Ivanovic; Óscar Cardozo)<br />
Che 2 Ben 1 2012-04-04 CQF (Frank Lampard, Raúl Meireles; Javi García)<br />
Che – Lyo<br />
Che – Lyo<br />
OMa 1 Che 0 2010-12-08 CGS (Marlon Brandao)<br />
Che 2 OMa 0 2010-09-28 CGS (John Terry, Nicolas Anelka)<br />
Che 1 PSG 2 2016-03-09 C8F<br />
PSG 2 Che 1 2016-02-16 C8F<br />
Che – PSV<br />
Che – PSV<br />
Che - Aja<br />
Che - Aja<br />
Che 2 Dyn 1 2015-11-04 (Alexander Dragovic og, Willian; Alexander Dragovic)<br />
Dyn 0 Che 0 2015-10-20<br />
Che 3 Oly 0 2008-03-05 C2R (Michael Ballack, Frank Lampard, Salomon Kalou)<br />
Oly 0 Che 0 2008-02-19 C2R<br />
Che - Pan -<br />
Pan - Che -<br />
Che 2 Gal 0 2014-03-18 C8F (Samuel Eto'o, Gary Cahill)<br />
Gal 1 Che 1 2014-02-26 C8F (Aurelien Chedjou; Fernando Torres)<br />
Ros 0 Che 4 2007-11-28 CGS (Didier Drogba 2, Alex, Joe Cole)<br />
Che 1 Ros 1 2007-09-18 CGS (Andriy Shevchenko; Miika Koppinen)<br />
And 0 Che 2 2005-11-24 CGS (Hernán Crespo, Ricardo Carvalho)<br />
Che 1 And 0 2005-09-13 CGS (Frank Lampard)<br />
LIVERPOOL FC<br />
Liv 3 Ars 1 2017-03-04 NLe (Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mané, Georginio Wijnaldum; Danny Welbeck)<br />
Ars 3 Liv 4 2016-08-14 NLe (Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Calum Chambers; Philippe Coutinho 2, Adam Lallana, Sadio Mané)<br />
Int 0 Liv 1 2008-03-11 C2R (Fernando Torres)<br />
Liv 2 Int 0 2008-02-19 C2R (Dirk Kuyt, Steven Gerrard)<br />
Mil 2 Liv 1 2007-05-23 CFi (Filippo Inzaghi 2, Dirk Kuyt)<br />
Liv 3 Mil 3 2005-05-25 CFi (Paolo Maldini, Hernán Crespo 2; Steven Gerrard, Vladimir Smicer, Xabier Alonso)<br />
Juv 0 Liv 0 2005-04-30 CQF<br />
Liv 2 Juv 1 2005-04-05 CQF (Sami Hyypia, Luis García; Fabio Cannavaro)<br />
Liv 2 Rom 0 2002-03-19 C2G (Jari Litmanen, Emile Heskey)<br />
Rom 0 Liv 0 2002-12-05 C2G<br />
Rea 1 Liv 0 2014-11-04 CGS (Karim Benzema)<br />
Liv 0 Rea 3 2014-10-22 CGS (Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema 2)<br />
Liv 0 Bar 1 2007-03-06 C2R (Eidur Gudjohnsen)<br />
Bar 1 Liv 2 2007-02-21 C2R (Deco; Craig Bellamy, John Arne Riise)<br />
Liv 0 Val 1 2002-10-30 CGS (Francisco Rufete)<br />
Val 2 Liv 0 2002-09-17 CGS (Pablo Aimar, Rubén Baraja)<br />
Liv 3 Bay 2 2001-08-24 ESC (John Arne Riise, Emile Heskey, Michael Owen; Hasan Salihamidzic, Carsten Jancker)<br />
Liv 1 Bay 1 1981-04-22 CSF<br />
Liv 4 Bor 3 2016-04-14 EQF (Divock Origi, Philippe Coutinho, Mamadou Sakho, Dejan Lovren; Henrik Mkhitaryan, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Marco Reus)<br />
Bor 1 Liv 1 2016-04-07 EQF (Mats Hummels; Divock Origi)<br />
Lev 1 Liv 3 2005-03-09 C8F (Jacek Krzynówek; Luis García 2, Milan Baros)<br />
Liv 3 Lev 1 2005-02-22 C8F (Luis García, John Arne Riise, Dietmar Hamann; França)<br />
Liv 4 Por 1 2007-11-28 CGS (Fernando Torres 2, Steven Gerrard, Peter Crouch; Lisandro López)<br />
Por 1 Liv 1 2007-09-18 CGS (Lucho González; Dirk Kuyt)<br />
Liv 4 Ben 1 2010-04-08 ELQ (Dirk Kuijt, Lucas Leiva, Fernando Torres 2; Óscar Cardozo)<br />
Ben 2 Liv 1 2010-04-01 ELQ (Óscar Cardozo 2; Daniel Agger)<br />
Liv 1 Lyo 1 2009-11-04 CGS (Lisandro López; Ryan Babel)<br />
Liv 1 Lyo 2 2009-10-20 CGS (Yossi Benayoun; Maxime Gonalons, César Delgado)<br />
Liv 1 OMa 0 2008-11-26 CGS (Steven Gerrard)<br />
OMa 1 Liv 2 2008-09-16 CGS (Lorik Cana; Steven Gerrard 2)<br />
Liv 2 PSG 0 1997-04-24 RSF<br />
PSG 3 Liv 0 1997-04-10 RSF<br />
PSV 1 Liv 3 2008-12-09 CGS (Danko Lazovic; Ryan Babel, Albert Riera, David Ngog)<br />
Liv 3 PSV 1 2008-10-01 CGS (Dirk Kuyt, Robbie Keane, Steven Gerrard; Danny Koevermans)<br />
Liv 2 Aja 2 1966-12-14 C8F (Roger Hunt 2, Johan Cruyff 2)<br />
Aja 5 Liv 1 1966-12-07 C8F (Cornelis de Wolf, Johan Cruyff, Klaas Nuninga 2, Hendrik Groot; Chris Lawler)<br />
Dyn 1 Liv 2 2001-10-16 CGS (Tiberiu Ghioane; Danny Murphy, Steven Gerrard)<br />
Liv 1 Dyn 0 2001-09-26 CGS (Jari Litmanen)<br />
Liv 3 Oly 1 2004-12-08 CGS (Florent Sinama-Pongolle, Neil Mellor, Steven Gerrard; Rivaldo)<br />
Oly 1 Liv 0 2004-09-28 CGS (Ieroklis Stoltidis)<br />
Pan 0 Liv 1 1985-04-24 CSF (Mark Lawrenson)<br />
Liv 4 Pan 0 1985-04-10 CSF (John Wark, Ian Rush 2, Jim Beglin)<br />
Gal 3 Liv 2 2006-12-05 CGS (Necati Ates, Okan Buruk, Sasa Ilic; Robbie Fowler 2)<br />
Liv 3 Gal 2 2006-09-27 CGS (Peter Crouch 2, Luis García; Ümit Karan 2)<br />
Liv - Ros -<br />
Liv - Ros -<br />
Liv 3 And 0 2005-10-31 CGS (Fernando Morientes, Luis García, Djibril Cissé)<br />
And 0 Liv 1 2005-10-19 CGS (Djibril Cissé)<br />
ARSENAL LONDON<br />
Int 1 Ars 5 2003-11-25 CGS (Christian Vieri; Thierry Henry 2, Freddie Ljungberg, Edu, Robert Pires)<br />
Ars 0 Int 3 2003-09-17 CGS (Julio Cruz, Andy van der Meyde, Obafemi Martins)<br />
Ars 3 Mil 0 2012-03-06 C2R (Laurent Koscielny, Tomas Rosicky, Robin van Persie)<br />
Mil 4 Ars 0 2012-02-15 C2R (Kevin-Prince Boateng, Robinho 2, Zlatan Ibrahimovic)<br />
Juv 0 Ars 0 2006-04-05 CQF<br />
Ars 2 Juv 0 2006-03-28 CQF (Francesc Fàbregas, Thierry Henry)<br />
Rom 1 Ars 0 2009-03-11 CQF (Juan)<br />
Ars 1 Rom 0 2009-02-24 CQF (Robin van Persie)<br />
Ars 0 Rea 0 2006-03-08 C8F<br />
Rea 0 Ars 1 2006-02-21 C8F (Thierry Henry)<br />
Bar 3 Ars 1 2016-03-16 C8F (Neymar, Luis Suárez, Lionel Messi; Mohamed Elneny)<br />
Ars 0 Bar 2 2016-02-23 C8F (Lionel Messi 2)<br />
Val 2 Ars 1 2003-03-19 CG2 (John Carew 2; Thierry Henry)<br />
Ars 0 Val 0 2002-12-10 CG2<br />
Ars 1 Bay 5 2017-03-07 C8F (Theo Walcott; Robert Lewandowski, Arjen Robben, Douglas Costa, Arturo Vidal 2)<br />
Bay 5 Ars 1 2017-02-15 C8F (Arjen Robben, Robert Lewandowski, Thiago Alcántara 2, Thomas Müller; Alexis Sánchez)<br />
Bor 2 Ars 0 2014-09-16 CGS (Henrik Mkhitaryan, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang)<br />
Bor 0 Ars 1 2013-11-06 CGS (Aaron Ramsey)<br />
Ars 4 Lev 1 2002-02-27 C2G (Robert Pires, Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Dennis Bergkamp; Zoltan Sebescen)<br />
Lev 1 Ars 1 2002-02-19 C2G (Ulf Kirsten; Robert Pires)<br />
Ars 5 Por 0 2010-03-09 C2R (Niklas Bendtner 3, Sami Nasri, Emmanuel Eboué)<br />
Por 2 Ars 1 2010-02-17 C2R (Silvestre Varela, Radamel Falçao; Sol Campbell)<br />
Ars 1 Ben 3 1991-11-06 C2R (Pates; Isaías 2, Kulkov)<br />
Ben 1 Ars 1 1991-10-23 C2R (Isaías; Sol Campbell)<br />
Lyo 0 Ars 1 2001-02-14 C2G (Thierry Henry)<br />
Ars 1 Lyo 1 2001-02-22 C2G (Dennis Bergkamp; Edmilson)<br />
Ars 2 Mar 0 2013-11-27 CGS (Jack Wilshere 2)<br />
OMa 1 Ars 2 2013-09-18 CGS (Jordan Ayew; Theo Walcott, Aaron Ramsey)<br />
Ars 2 PSG 2 2016-11-23 CGS (Olivier Giroud, Marco Verrati og; Edinson Cavani, Alex Iwobi og)<br />
PSG 1 Ars 1 2016-09-13 CGS (Edinson Cavani; Alexis Sánchez)<br />
Ars 1 PSV 1 2007-03-07 C2R (Alex og; Alex)<br />
PSV 1 Ars 0 2007-02-20 C2R (Édison Méndez)<br />
Ars 0 Aja 0 2005-12-07 CGS<br />
Aja 1 Ars 2 2005-09-27 CGS (Markus Rosenberg; Freddie Ljungberg, Robert Pirès)<br />
Ars 1 Dyn 0 2008-11-25 CGS (Niklas Bendtner)<br />
Dyn 1 Ars 1 2008-09-17 CGS (Ismael Bangoura; William Gallas)<br />
Oly 0 Ars 3 2015-12-09 CGS (Olivier Giroud 3)<br />
Ars 2 Oly 3 2015-09-29 CGS (Theo Walcott, Alexis Sánchez; Felipe Pardo, David Ospina og, Alfred Finnbogason)<br />
Ars 1 Pan 1 2004-11-02 CGS (Thierry Henry; Pascal Cygan og)<br />
Pan 2 Ars 2 2004-10-19 CGS (Ezequiel González, Emmanuel Olisadebe; Freddie Ljungberg, Thierry Henry)<br />
Gal 1 Ars 4 2014-12-09 CGS (Wesley Sneijder; Lukas Podolski 2, Aaron Ramsey 2)<br />
Ars 4 Gal 1 2014-10-01 CGS (Danny Welbeck 3, Alexis Sánchez; Burak Yilmaz)<br />
Ars 5 Ros 1 2004-12-07 CGS (José Antonio Reyes, Thierry Henry, Francesc Fàbregas, Robert Pires, Robin van Persie; Erik Hoftun)<br />
Ros 1 Ars 1 2004-09-29 CGS (Roar Strand; Freddie Ljungberg)<br />
Ars 3 And 3 2014-11-04 CGS (Mikel Arteta, Alexis Sánchez, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain; Anthony Vanden Borre 2, Aleksandar Mitrovic)<br />
And 1 Ars 2 2014-10-22 CGS (Andy Najar; Kieran Gibbs, Lukas Podolski)<br />
INTERNAZIONALE MILANO<br />
Int 2 Mil 2 2017-04-15 NLe (Antonio Candreva, Mauro Icardi; Leandro Romagnoli, Cristian Zapata)<br />
Mil 2 Int 2 2016-11-20 NLe (Suso 2; Antonio Candreva, Ivan Perisic)<br />
Int 2 Juv 1 2016-09-18 NLe (Mauro Icardi, Ivan Perisic; Stephan Lichtsteiner)<br />
Int 3 Juv 0 2016-03-02 NCu (Marcelo Brozovic 2, Ivan Perisic)<br />
Int 1 Rom 3 2017-02-26 NLe (Mauro Icardi; Radja Nainggolan 2, Diego Perotti)<br />
Rom 2 Int 1 2016-10-02 NLe (Edin Dzeko, Mauro Icardi og; Éver Banega)<br />
Int 3 Rea 1 1998-11-25 CGS (Iván Zamorano, Roberto Baggio 2; Clarence Seedorf)<br />
Rea 2 Int 0 1998-09-16 CGS (Fernando Hierro, Clarence Seedorf)<br />
Bar 1 Int 0 2010-04-28 CSF (Gerard Piqué)<br />
Int 3 Bar 1 2010-04-20 CSF (Wesley Sneijder, Maicon, Diego Milito; Pedro Rodríguez)<br />
Val 0 Int 0 2007-03-06 C8F<br />
Int 2 Val 2 2007-02-21 C8F (Esteban Cambiasso, Maicon; David Villa, David Silva)<br />
Bay 2 Int 3 2011-03-16 C8F (Mario Gómez, Thomas Müller; Samuel Eto'o, Wesley Sneijder, Goran Pandev)<br />
Int 0 Bay 1 2011-02-23 C8F (Mario Gómez)<br />
Int 1 Bor 2 1994-03-17 C4F (Antonio Manicone; Michael Zorc, Lars Ricken)<br />
Bor 1 Int 3 1994-03-01 C4F (Michael Schulz; Wim Jonk 2, Igor Shalimov)<br />
Lev 0 Int 2 2003-03-19 C2G (Obafemi Martins, Emre Belözoglu)<br />
Int 3 Lev 2 2002-12-10 C2G (Luigi di Biagio 2, Hans-Jörg Butt 2; Boris Zivkovic, França)<br />
Int 2 Por 1 2005-11-01 CGS (Julio Cruz 2, Hugo Almeida)<br />
Por 2 Int 0 2005-10-19 CGS (Marco Materazzi og, Benni McCarthy)<br />
Int 4 Ben 3 2004-03-25 U8F (Obafemi Martins 2, Álvaro Recoba, Christian Vieri; Nuno Gomes 2, Tiago Mendes)<br />
Ben 0 Int 0 2004-03-11 U8F<br />
Lyo 3 Int 3 2002-10-22 CGS (Anderson Da Silva 2, Eric Carrière; Claudio Caçapa og, Hernán Crespo 2)<br />
Int 1 Lyo 2 2002-10-02 CGS (Fabio Cannavaro; Sydney Govou, Anderson Da Silva)<br />
Int 2 OMa 1 2012-03-13 C8F (Diego Milito, Giampaolo Pazzini; Marlon Brandao)<br />
OMa 1 Int 0 2012-02-22 CGS (André Ayew)<br />
Int - PSG<br />
PSG - Int<br />
Int 2 PSV 0 2007-10-02 CGS (Zlatan Ibrahimovic 2)<br />
PSV 0 Int 1 2007-12-12 CGS (Julio Cruz)<br />
Int 1 Aja 0 2006-03-14 C8F (Dejan Stankovic)<br />
Aja 2 Int 2 2006-02-22 C8F (Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Mauro Rosales; Dejan Stankovic, Julio Cruz)<br />
Dyn 1 Int 2 2009-11-04 CGS (Andriy Shevchenko; Diego Milito, Wesley Sneijder)<br />
Int 2 Dyn 2 2009-10-20 CGS (Dejan Stankovic, Walter Samuel; Taras Mykhalyk, Lúcio og)<br />
Int - Oly<br />
Int - Oly<br />
Int 0 Pan 1 2008-11-26 CGS (Iker Sarriegi)<br />
Pan 0 Int 2 2008-09-16 CGS (Mancini, Adriano)<br />
Int - Gal<br />
Int - Gal<br />
Int 3 Ros 0 2002-10-30 CGS (Álvaro Recoba, Janne Saarinen og, Hernán Crespo)<br />
Ros 2 Int 2 2002-09-17 CGS (Azar Karadas, Hernán Crespo)<br />
Int 3 And 0 2004-12-07 CGS (Julio Cruz, Obafemi Martins 2)<br />
And 1 Int 3 2004-09-29 CGS (Walter Baseggio; Obafemi Martins, Adriano, Dejan Stankovic)<br />
AC MILAN<br />
Juv 2 Mil 1 2017-03-10 NLe (Mehdi Benatia, Paulo Dybala; Carlos Bacca)<br />
Juv 2 Mil 1 2017-01-25 NCu (Paulo Dybala, Miralem Pjanic; Carlos Bacca)<br />
Mil 1 Rom 4 2017-05-07 NLe (Mario Pasalic; Edin Dzeko 2, Stephan El Shaarawy, Daniele de Rossi)<br />
Rom 1 Mil 0 2016-12-12 NLe (Radja Nainggolan)<br />
Mil 2 Rea 2 2010-11-03 GCS (Filippo Inzaghi 2; Gonzalo Higuaín, Pedro León)<br />
Rea 2 Mil 0 2010-10-19 CGS (Cristiano Ronaldo, Mesut Özil)<br />
Bar 3 Mil 1 2013-11-06 CGS (Lionel Messi 2, Sergio Busquets; Gerard Piqué og)<br />
Mil 1 Bar 1 2013-10-22 CGS (Robinho; Lionel Messi)<br />
Mil - Val<br />
Mil – Val<br />
Bay 0 Mil 2 2007-04-11 CQF (Clarence Seedorf, Filippo Inzaghi)<br />
Mil 2 Bay 2 2007-04-03 CQF (Andrea Pirlo, Kaká; Daniel van Buyten 2)<br />
Mil 0 Bor 1 2003-03-18 C2G (Jan Koller)<br />
Bor 0 Mil 1 2002-12-11 C2G (Filippo Inzaghi)<br />
Mil - Lev<br />
Mil - Lev<br />
Mil 1 Por 0 2003-08-29 ESC (Andriy Shevchenko)<br />
Por 1 Mil 1 1997-11-20 CGS (Edmílson, Edgar Davids)<br />
Ben 1 Mil 1 2007-11-28 CGS (Maxi Pereira; Andrea Pirlo)<br />
Mil 2 Ben 1 2007-09-18 CGS (Andrea Pirlo, Filippo Inzaghi; Nuno Gomes)<br />
Lyo 0 Mil 0 2006-03-29 CQF<br />
Mil 3 Lyo 1 2006-04-04 CQF (Filippo Inzaghi 2, Andriy Shevchenko; Mahamadou Diarra)<br />
Mil 1 OMa 1 2009-11-25 CGS (Marco Borriello; Lucho González)<br />
OMa 1 Mil 2 2009-09-15 CGS (Gabriel Heinze; Filippo Inzaghi 2)<br />
PSG 1 Mil 1 2001-02-20 C2G<br />
Mil 1 PSG 1 2001-02-14 C2G<br />
Mil 3 PSV 0 2013-08-28 CPR (Kevin-Prince Boateng 2, Mario Balotelli)<br />
PSV 1 Mil 1 2013-08-21 CPR (Tim Matavz; Stephan El Shaarawy)<br />
Mil 0 Aja 0 2013-12-11 CGS<br />
Aja 1 Mil 1 2013-10-01 CGS (Stefano Denswil; Mario Balotelli)<br />
Mil – Dyn<br />
Mil – Dyn<br />
Mil 3 Oly 1 1959-09-23 CR1<br />
Oly 2 Mil 2 1959-09-13 CR1<br />
Mil - Pan<br />
Mil - Pan<br />
Gal 2 Mil 0 2001-03-07 C2G (Gheorghe Hagi, Mário Jardel)<br />
Mil 2 Gal 2 2000-11-21 C2G (José Mari Romero, Andriy Shevchenko; Mário Jardel, Hasan Sas)<br />
Mil 1 Ros 2 1996-12-04 CGS (Christophe Dugarry; Harald Brattbakk, Vegard Heggem)<br />
Ros 1 Mil 4 1996-09-25 CGS (Trond Egil Soltvedt; Marco Simone 3, George Weah)<br />
And 1 Mil 3 2012-11-21 CGS (Tom de Sutter; Stephan El Shaarawy, Philippe Mexès, Alexandre Pato)<br />
Mil 0 And 0 2012-09-18 CGS<br />
JUVENTUS TORINO<br />
Rom 3 Juv 1 2017-05-14 NLe (Daniele de Rossi, Stephan El Shaarawy, Radja Nainggolan; Mario Lemina)<br />
Juv 1 Rom 0 2016-01-24 NLe (Paulo Dybala)<br />
Rea 4 Juv 1 2017-06-03 CLF (Cristiano Ronaldo 2, Casemiro, Marco Asensio; Mario Mandzukic)<br />
Rea 1 Juv 1 2015-05-13 CSF (Cristiano Ronaldo; Álvaro Morata)<br />
Bar 0 Juv 0 2017-04-19 CQF<br />
Juv 3 Bar 0 2017-04-11 CQF (Paulo Dybala 2, Giorgio Chiellini)<br />
Bar 3 Juv 1 2015-06-06 CLF (Ivan Rakitic, Luis Suárez, Neymar da Silva)<br />
Juv - Val<br />
Juv - Val<br />
Bay 4 Juv 2 2016-03-14 C8F (Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Müller, Thiago Alcántara, Kingsley Coman; Paul Pogba, Juan Cuadrado)<br />
Juv 2 Bay 2 2016-02-23 C8F (Paulo Dybala, Stefano Sturaro; Thomas Müller, Arjen Robben)<br />
Bor 0 Juv 3 2015-03-18 C2R (Carlos Tévez 2, Álvaro Morata)<br />
Juv 2 Bor 1 2015-02-24 C2R (Carlos Tévez, Álvaro Morata; Marco Reus)<br />
Lev 3 Juv 1 2002-03-12 C2G (Thomas Brdaric 2, Marko Babic 1; Igor Tudor)<br />
Juv 4 Lev 0 2001-11-29 C2G (David Trezeguet 2, Alessandro del Piero, Igor Tudor)<br />
Juv 1 Por 0 2017-03-14 C8F (Paulo Dybala)<br />
Por 0 Juv 2 2017-02-22 C8F (Marco Pjaca, Daniel Alves)<br />
Juv 0 Ben 0 2014-05-01 ESF<br />
Ben 2 Juv 1 2014-04-24 ESF (Ezequiel Garay, Rodrigo Lima; Carlos Tévez)<br />
Juv 1 Lyo 0 2016-11-02 CGS (Gonzalo Higuaín; Corentin Tolisso)<br />
Lyo 0 Juv 1 2016-10-18 CGS (Juan Cuadrado)<br />
Juv 3 OMa 0 1972-09-27 CR1<br />
OMa 1 Juv 0 1972-09-13 CR1<br />
PSG 0 Juv 1 1993 04 22 USF<br />
Juv 2 PSG 1 1993 04 06 USF<br />
Juv - PSV<br />
Juv - PSV<br />
Juv 0 Aja 0 2010-02-25 E16<br />
Aja 1 Juv 2 2010-02-18 E16 (Hasan Sulejmani; Amauri 2)<br />
Dyn 1 Juv 2 2002-11-13 CGS (Maksim Shatskikh; Marcelo Salas, Marcelo Zalayeta)<br />
Juv 5 Dyn 0 2002-09-24 CGS (Marco di Vaio 2, Alessandro del Piero, Edgar Davids, Pavel Nedved)<br />
Juv 3 Oly 2 2014-11-04 CGS (Andrea Pirlo, Roberto og, Paul Pogba; Alberto Botía, Delvin Ndinga)<br />
Oly 1 Juv 0 2014-10-22 CGS (Pajtim Kasami)<br />
Pan 3 Juv 1 2000-11-08 CGS (Paulo Sousa, Angelos Basinas, Krzysztóf Warzycha; Filippo Inzaghi)<br />
Juv 2 Pan 1 2000-09-19 CGS (Alessio Tacchinardi, David Trezeguet; Nikos Goumas)<br />
Gal 1 Juv 0 2013-12-11 CGS (Wesley Sneijder)<br />
Juv 2 Gal 2 2013-10-02 CGS (Arturo Vidal, Fabio Quagliarella; Didier Drogba, Umut Bulut)<br />
Juv 1 Ros 0 2001-10-17 CGS (David Trezeguet)<br />
Ros 1 Juv 1 2001-09-25 CGS (Alessandro del Piero; Bent Skammelsrud)<br />
And 1 Juv 1 1981-11-04 C8F<br />
Juv 3 And 1 1981-10-21 C8F<br />
AS ROMA<br />
Rea 2 Rom 0 2016-03-08 C8F (Cristiano Ronaldo, James Rodríguez)<br />
Rom 0 Rea 2 2016-02-17 C8F (Cristiano Ronaldo, Jesé Rodríguez)<br />
Bar 6 Rom 1 2015-11-24 CGS (Luis Suárez 2, Lionel Messi 2, Gerard Piqué, Adriano Correia, Edin Dzeko)<br />
Rom 1 Bar 1 2015-09-16 CGS (Alessandro Florenzi; Luis Suárez)<br />
Rom 1 Val 0 2006-12-05 CGS (Christian Panucci)<br />
Val 2 Rom 1 2006-09-27 CGS (Miguel Ángel Angulo, David Villa; Francesco Totti)<br />
Bay 2 Rom 0 2014-11-05 CGS (Franck Ribéry, Mario Götze)<br />
Rom 1 Bay 7 2014-10-21 CGS (Gervinho, Arjen Robben 2, Mario Götze, Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Müller, Franck Ribéry, Xherdan Shaqiri)<br />
Bor 2 Rom 0 1993-03-18 UQF (Michael Schulz, Lothar Sippel)<br />
Rom 1 Bor 0 1993-03-01 UQF (Sinisa Mihajlovic)<br />
Rom 3 Lev 2 2015-11-04 CGS (Mohamed Salah, Edin Dzeko, Miralem Pjanic; Admir Mehmedi, Javier Hernández)<br />
Lev 4 Rom 4 2015-10-20 CGS (Javier Hernández 2, Kevin Kampl, Admir Mehmedi; Daniele De Rossi 2, Miralem Pjanic, Iago Falqué)<br />
Rom 0 Por 3 2016-08-23 CQR (Felipe, Miguel Layún, Jesús Corona)<br />
Por 1 Rom 1 2016-08-17 CQR (André Silva; Felipe og)<br />
Ben 0 Rom 1 1990-10-03 U32<br />
Rom 1 Ben 0 1990-09-19 U32<br />
Rom 2 Lyo 1 2017-03-16 E8F (Kevin Strootman, Lucas Tousart og; Mouctar Diakhaby)<br />
Lyo 4 Rom 2 2017-03-09 E8F (Mouctar Diakhaby, Corentin Tolisso, Nabil Fekir, Alexandre Lacazette; Mohamed Salah, Federico Fazio)<br />
Rom 0 Lyo 0 2007-02-21 C2R<br />
Rom - OMa -<br />
Rom - OMa -<br />
Rom - PSG<br />
PSG - Rom<br />
PSV 1 Rom 0 1969-11-26 W8F<br />
Rom 1 PSV 0 1969-11-12 W8F<br />
Rom 1 Aja 1 2003-03-19 C2G (Antonio Cassano; Andy van der Meyde)<br />
Aja 2 Rom 1 2002-12-10 C2G (Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Jari Litmanen; Gabriel Batistuta)<br />
Dyn 1 Rom 4 2007-11-27 CGS (Ismael Bangoura; Christian Panucci, Ludovic Giuly, Mirko Vucinic 2)<br />
Rom 2 Dyn 0 2007-09-19 CGS (Marco Perrotta, Francesco Totti)<br />
Rom 1 Oly 1 2006-10-31 CGS (Francesco Totti; Júlio César)<br />
Oly 0 Rom 1 2006-10-18 CGS (Marco Perrotta)<br />
Rom 2 Pan 3 2010-02-25 E16 (John Arne Riise, Daniele de Rossi; Djibril Cissé 2, Sotiris Ninis)<br />
Pan 3 Rom 2 2010-02-18 E16 (Dimitrios Salpingidis, Lazaros Christodopoulos, Djibril Cissé; Mirko Vucinic, David Pizarro)<br />
Rom 1 Gal 1 2002-03-13 C2G (Cafú; Ümit Karan)<br />
Gal 1 Rom 1 2001-11-20 C2G (Sébastien Pérez; Émerson)<br />
Rom - Ros -<br />
Rom - Ros -<br />
Rom 1 And 1 2001-10-30 CGS (Marco Delvecchio; Ivica Mornar)<br />
And 0 Rom 0 2001-09-19 CGS<br />
REAL MADRID<br />
Rea 2 Bar 3 2017-04-23 NLe (Casemiro, James Rodríguez; Lionel Messi 2, Ivan Rakitic)<br />
Bar 1 Rea 1 2016-12-03 NLe (Luis Suárez; Sergio Ramos)<br />
Rea 2 Val 1 2017-04-29 NLe (Cristiano Ronaldo, Marcelo; Daniel Parejo)<br />
Val 2 Rea 1 2017-02-22 NLe (Simone Zaza, Fabián Orellana; Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
Rea 4 Bay 2 2017-04-18 CQF (Cristiano Ronaldo 3, Marco Asensio; Robert Lewandowski, Sergio Ramos og)<br />
Bay 1 Rea 2 2017-04-12 CQF (Arturo Vidal; Cristiano Ronaldo 2)<br />
Rea 2 Bor 2 2016-12-07 CGS (Karim Benzema 2; Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Marco Reus)<br />
Bor 2 Rea 2 2016-09-27 CGS (Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, André Schürrle; Cristiano Ronaldo, Raphael Varane)<br />
Rea 1 Lev 1 2004-11-23 CGS (Raúl González; Dimitar Berbatov)<br />
Lev 3 Rea 0 2004-09-15 CGS (Jacek Krzynówek, França, Dimitar Berbatov)<br />
Rea 1 Por 1 2003-12-09 CGS (Santiago Solari; Derlei)<br />
Por 1 Rea 3 2003-10-01 CGS (Costinha; Iván Helguera, Santiago Solari, Zinédine Zidane)<br />
Rea 2 Ben 1 1965-03-17 CQF<br />
Ben 5 Rea 1 1965-02-24 CQF<br />
Lyo 0 Rea 2 2011-11-02 CGS (Cristiano Ronaldo 2)<br />
Rea 4 Lyo 0 2011-10-19 CGS (Karim Benzema 2, Kaká, Sergio Ramos)<br />
OMa 1 Rea 3 2009-12-08 CGS (Lucho González; Cristiano Ronaldo 2, Raúl Albiol)<br />
Rea 3 OMa 0 2009-09-30 CGS (Cristiano Ronaldo 2, Kaká)<br />
Rea 1 PSG 0 2015-11-03 CGS<br />
PSG 0 Rea 0 2015-10-21 CGS<br />
Rea 2 PSV 1 1989-03-15 CQF (Hugo Sánchez, Rafael Martín Vázquez; Romário de Souza)<br />
PSV 1 Rea 1 1989-03-01 CQF (Romário de Souza; Emilio Butragueño)<br />
Rea 4 Aja 1 2012-12-04 CGS (Cristiano Ronaldo, José María Callejón 2, Kaká; Derek Boerrigter)<br />
Aja 1 Rea 4 2012-10-03 CGS (Niklas Moisander; Cristiano Ronaldo 3, Karim Benzema)<br />
Dyn 2 Rea 2 2006-12-06 CGS (Maksim Shatskikh 2; Ronaldo Lima 2)<br />
Rea 5 Dyn 1 2006-09-26 CGS (Ruud Van Nistelrooy 2, Raúl González 2, José Antonio Reyes; Artem Milevsky)<br />
Oly 0 Rea 0 2007-11-06 CGS<br />
Rea 4 Oly 2 2007-10-24 CGS (Raúl González, Robinho 2, Javier Balboa; Hugo Galletti, Julio César Santos)<br />
Pan 2 Rea 2 2002-03-20 C2G (Nikos Liberopoulos, Nikos Goumas; Fernando Morientes, Javier Portillo)<br />
Rea 3 Pan 0 2001-12-04 C2G (Iván Helguera, Raúl González 2)<br />
Rea 4 Gal 1 2013-11-27 CGS (Gareth Bale, Álvaro Arbeloa, David Di María, Isco; Umut Bulut)<br />
Gal 1 Rea 6 2013-09-17 CGS (Umut Bulut; Isco, Cristiano Ronaldo 3, Karim Benzema 2)<br />
Ros 0 Rea 2 2005-11-01 CGS (Mikael Dorsin og, Guti)<br />
Rea 4 Ros 1 2005-10-19 CGS (Jonathan Woodgate, Raúl González, Iván Helguera, David Beckham; Roar Strand)<br />
And 0 Rea 2 2001-10-16 CGS (Roberto Carlos, Steve McManaman)<br />
Rea 4 And 1 2001-09-26 CGS (Albert Celades, Raúl González 2, Santiago Solari; Arouna Dindane)<br />
FC BARCELONA<br />
Bar 4 Val 2 2017-03-19 NLe (Luis Suárez, Lionel Messi 2, André Gomes; Eliaquim Mangala, Munir El Haddadi)<br />
Val 2 Bar 3 2016-10-22 NLe (Munir El Hadaui, Rodrigo; Lionel Messi 2, Luis Suárez)<br />
Bar 1 Val 2 2016-04-17 NLe (Lionel Messi; Ivan Rakitic og, Santiago Mina)<br />
Bay 3 Bar 2 2015-05-12 CSF (Mehdi Benatia, Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Müller; Neymar 2)<br />
Bar 3 Bay 0 2015-05-06 CSF (Lionel Messi 2, Neymar)<br />
Bor 1 Bar 1 1998-03-11 ESC (Jörg Heinrich; Giovanni da Silva)<br />
Bar 2 Bor 0 1998-01-08 ESC (Luis Enrique Martínez, Rivaldo)<br />
Lev 1 Bar 1 2015-12-09 CGS (Javier Hernández; Lionel Messi)<br />
Bar 2 Lev 1 2015-09-29 CGS (Sergi Roberto, Luis Suárez, Kyriakos Papadopoulos)<br />
Bar 2 Por 0 2011-08-26 ESC (Lionel Messi, Francesc Fàbregas)<br />
Por 0 Bar 2 2000-03-07 CG2 (Abelardo Fernández, Rivaldo)<br />
Bar 0 Ben 0 2012-12-05 CGS<br />
Ben 0 Bar 2 2012-10-02 CGS (Alexis Sánchez, Francesc Fàbregas)<br />
Bar 5 Lyo 2 2009-03-11 C2R (Thierry Henry 2, Lionel Messi, Samuel Eto'o, Seydou Keita; Jean Makoun, Juninho)<br />
Lyo 1 Bar 1 2009-02-24 C2R (Juninho; Thierry Henry)<br />
Bar - OMa -<br />
Bar - OMa -<br />
Bar 6 PSG 1 2017-03-08 C8F (Luis Suárez, Layvin Kurzawa og, Lionel Messi, Neymar 2 Sergi Roberto; Edinson Cavani)<br />
PSG 4 Bar 0 2017-02-14 C8F (Ángel Di María 2, Julian Draxler, Edinson Cavani)<br />
PSV 2 Bar 2 1997-12-10 CGS (Abelardo Fernández og, Gilles de Bilde; Abelardo Fernández, Giovanni)<br />
Bar 2 PSV 2 1997-10-01 CGS (Luis Enrique Martínez 2, Philip Cocu, Peter Möller)<br />
Aja 0 Bar 2 2014-11-05 CGS (Lionel Messi 2)<br />
Bar 3 Aja 1 2014-10-21 CGS (Neymar, Lionel Messi, Sandro Ramírez; Anwar El-Ghazi)<br />
Dyn 1 Bar 2 2009-12-09 CGS (Artem Milevskiy; Xavi Hernández, Lionel Messi)<br />
Bar 2 Dyn 0 2009-09-29 CGS (Lionel Messi, Pedro Rodríguez)<br />
Bar - Oly<br />
Bar - Oly<br />
Pan 0 Bar 3 2010-11-24 CGS (Pedro Rodríguez 2, Lionel Messi)<br />
Bar 5 Pan 1 2010-09-14 CGS (Lionel Messi, David Villa, Pedro Rodríguez, Daniel Alves; Sydney Govou)<br />
Bar 3 Gal 1 2002-11-13 CGS (Dani García, Gerard López, Geovanni; Cihan Haspolati)<br />
Gal 0 Bar 2 2002-09-24 CGS (Patrick Kluivert; Luis Enrique Martínez)<br />
Bar - Ros -<br />
Bar - Ros -<br />
Bar 2 And 1 1989-11-01 W8F (Julio Salinas, Aitor Begiristain; Marc van der Linden)<br />
And 2 Bar 0 1989-10-18 W8F (Milan Jankovic, Marc Degryse)<br />
VALENCIA CF<br />
Val 1 Bay 1 2012-11-20 CGS (Sofiane Feghouli; Thomas Müller)<br />
Bay 2 Val 1 2012-09-19 CGS (Bastian Schweinsteiger, Toni Kroos; Nelson Haedo Valdez)<br />
Val - Bor<br />
Val - Bor<br />
Val 3 Lev 1 2011-11-01 CGS (Jonas, Roberto Soldado, Adil Rami; Stefan Kiessling)<br />
Lev 2 Val 1 2011-10-19 CGS (André Schürrle, Sydney Sam; Jonas)<br />
Val 2 Por 1 2004-08-27 ESC (Rubén Baraja, Marco di Vaio; Ricardo Quaresma)<br />
Val 3 Por 2 1989-11-01 U2R<br />
Val - Ben<br />
Val - Ben<br />
Val 0 Lyo 2 2015-12-09 CGS (Maxwel Cornet, Alexandre Lacazette)<br />
Lyo 0 Val 1 2015-09-29 CGS (Sofiane Feghouli)<br />
Val 2 OMa 0 2004-05-19 UCF (Vicente Rodríguez, Miguel Ferrer Mista)<br />
Val - OMa -<br />
PSG 1 Val 1 2013 03 06 C8F<br />
Val 1 PSG 2 2013 02 12 C8F<br />
PSV 1 Val 1 2012-03-15 C8F (Ola Toivonen; Sofiane Feghouli)<br />
Val 4 PSV 2 2012-03-08 C8F (Víctor Ruiz, Roberto Soldado 2, Pablo Piatti; Ola Toivonen, Eric Wijnaldum)<br />
Aja 1 Val 1 2003-03-11 C2G (Petri Pasanen; Kily González)<br />
Val 1 Aja 1 2002-11-27 C2G (Miguel Ángel Angulo; Zlatan Ibrahimovic)<br />
Val 0 Dyn 0 2014-02-27 U16<br />
Dyn 0 Val 2 2014-02-20 U16 (Eduardo Vargas, Domagoj Vida og)<br />
Val 2 Oly 0 2006-11-22 CGS (Miguel Ángel Angulo, Fernando Morientes)<br />
Oly 2 Val 4 2006-09-12 CGS (Michalis Konstantinou, Ezequiel Castillo; Fernando Morientes 3, Raúl Albiol)<br />
Val 2 Pan 1 2001-03-13 C2G Juan Sánchez, Jocelyn Angloma; Angelos Basinas)<br />
Pan 0 Val 0 2000-12-06 C2G<br />
Val - Gal<br />
Val - Gal<br />
Ros 0 Val 4 2008-11-06 UGS (Juan Mata, Pablo Hernández, Rubén Baraja, Joaquín Sánchez)<br />
Val 0 Ros 2 2007-11-27 CGS (Steffen Iversen)<br />
And 1 Val 2 2004-11-24 CGS (Christian Wilhelmsson; Bernardo Corradi, Marco di Vaio)<br />
Val 2 And 0 2004-09-14 CGS (Vicente Rodríguez, Rubén Baraja)<br />
BAYERN MÜNCHEN<br />
Bay 2 Bor 3 2017-04-26 NCu (Javi Martínez, Mats Hummels; Marco Reus, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Ousmane Dembelé)<br />
Bay 4 Bor 1 2017-04-08 NLe (Franck Ribéry, Robert Lewandowski 2, Arjen Robben; Rafael Guerreiro)<br />
Lev 0 Bay 0 2017-04-15 NLe<br />
Bay 2 Lev 1 2016-11-26 NLe (Thiago Alcántara, Mats Hummels; Hakan Çalhanoglu)<br />
Bay 6 Por 1 2015-04-21 CQF (Thiago Alcántara, Jerome Boateng, Robert Lewandowski 2, Thomas Müller, Xabi Alonso; Jackson Martínez)<br />
Por 3 Bay 1 2015-04-15 CQF (Ricardo Quaresma 2, Jackson Martínez; Thiago Alcántara)<br />
Ben 2 Bay 2 2016-04-13 CQF (Raúl Jiménez, Anderson Talisca; Arturo Vidal, Thomas Müller)<br />
Bay 1 Ben 0 2016-04-05 CQF (Arturo Vidal)<br />
Lyo 0 Bay 3 2010-04-27 CSF (Ivica Olic 3)<br />
Bay 1 Lyo 0 2010-04-21 CSF (Arjen Robben)<br />
Bay 2 OMa 0 2012-04-03 CQF (Ivica Olic 2)<br />
OMa 0 Bay 2 2012-03-28 CQF (Mario Gómez, Arjen Robben)<br />
Bay 2 PSG 0 2000-10-18 CGS<br />
PSG 1 Bay 0 2000-09-26 CGS<br />
PSV 1 Bay 2 2016-11-01 CGS (Santiago Arias; Robert Lewandoski 2)<br />
Bay 4 PSV 1 2016-10-19 CGS (Thomas Müller, Joshua Kimmich, Robert Lewandowski, Arjen Robben; Luciano Narsingh)<br />
Aja 2 Bay 2 2004-12-08 CGS (Tomas Galasek, Nicolae Mitea; Roy Makaay, Michael Ballack)<br />
Bay 4 Aja 0 2004-28-09 CGS (Roy Makaay 3, Zé Roberto)<br />
Dyn 2 Bay 0 2000-03-22 CG2 (Kakhaber Kaladze, Giorgi Demetradze)<br />
Bay 2 Dyn 1 1999-12-07 CG2 (Carsten Jancker, Paulo Sérgio; Serhiy Rebrov)<br />
Bay 4 Oly 0 2015-11-24 CGS (Douglas Costa, Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Müller, Kingsley Coman)<br />
Oly 0 Bay 3 2015-09-16 CGS (Thomas Müller 2, Mario Götze)<br />
Pan 1 Bay 2 1967-10-18 W16<br />
Bay 5 Pan 0 1967-09-20 W16<br />
Bay 6 Gal 0 1972-09-27 C1R<br />
Gal 1 Bay 1 1972-09-13 C1R<br />
Ros 1 Bay 1 2000-11-08 CGS (Ronnie Johnsen; Jens Jeremies)<br />
Bay 3 Ros 1 2000-09-19 CGS (Carsten Jancker, Giovane Elber, Thomas Linke; Jan Derek Sorensen)<br />
Bay 1 And 2 2008-03-12 U8F (Lúcio; Serhat Akin, Oleksandr Yakovenko)<br />
And 0 Bay 5 2008-03-06 U8F (Hamit Altintop, Luca Toni, Lukas Podolski, Miroslav Klose, Franck Ribéry)<br />
BORUSSIA DORTMUND<br />
Bor 6 Lev 2 2017-03-04 NLe (Ousmane Dembelé, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 2, Christian Pulisic, André Schürrle, Rafael Guerreiro; Kevin Volland, Wendell)<br />
Lev 2 Bor 0 2016-10-01 NLe (Admir Mehmedi, Javier Hernández)<br />
Por 0 Bor 1 2016-02-25 E16 (Iker Casillas og)<br />
Bor 2 Por 0 2016-02-18 E16 (Lukasz Piszczek, Marco Reus)<br />
Dor 4 Ben 0 2017-03-08 C8F (Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 3, Christian Pulisic)<br />
Ben 1 Dor 0 2017-02-14 C8F (Konstantinos Mitroglou)<br />
Bor - Lyo<br />
Bor - Lyo<br />
OMa 1 Dor 2 2013-12-11 CGS (Souleymane Diawara; Robert Lewandowski, Kevin Grosskreutz)<br />
Bor 3 OMa 0 2013-10-01 CGS (Robert Lewandowski 2, Marco Reus)<br />
PSG 0 Bor 0 2010-11-04 EGS<br />
Bor 1 PSG 1 2010-10-21 EGS<br />
Bor 1 PSV 1 2002-10-22 CGS (Jan Koller; Arnold Bruggink)<br />
PSV 1 Bor 3 2002-10-02 CGS (Remco van der Schaaf; Jan Koller, Tomas Rosicky, Márcio Amoroso)<br />
Aja 1 Bor 4 2012-11-21 CGS (Danny Hoesen; Marco Reus, Mario Götze, Robert Lewandowski 2)<br />
Bor 1 Aja 0 2012-09-18 CGS (Robert Lewandowski)<br />
Bor 1 Dyn 0 2001-10-24 CGS (Tomas Rosicky)<br />
Dyn 2 Bor 2 2001-09-11 CGS (Olexandr Melashchenko, Lucky Isi Idahor; Jan Koller, Márcio Amoroso)<br />
Bor 1 Oly 0 2011-11-01 CGS (Kevin Grosskreutz)<br />
Oly 3 Bor 1 2011-10-19 CGS (José Holebas, Rafik Djebbour, François Modesto; Robert Lewandowski)<br />
Bor - Pan<br />
Bor - Pan<br />
Bor 4 Gal 1 2014-11-04 CGS ((Marco Reus, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Ciro Immobile, Semih Kaya og; Hakan Balta)<br />
Gal 0 Bor 4 2014-10-22 CGS (Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 2, Marco Reus, Adrián Ramos)<br />
Bor 0 Ros 3 1999-10-19 CGS (Jan-Derek Sorensen 2, Fredrik Winsnes)<br />
Ros 2 Bor 2 1999-09-29 CGS (Jan-Derek Sorensen; John Carew; Sergej Barbarez, Jürgen Kohler)<br />
Bor 1 And 1 2014-12-09 CGS (Ciro Immobile; Aleksandar Mitrovic)<br />
And 0 Bor 3 2014-10-01 CGS (Ciro Immobile, Adrián Ramos 2)<br />
BAYER LEVERKUSEN<br />
Lev - Por<br />
Lev - Por<br />
Ben 0 Lev 0 2014-12-09 CGS<br />
Lev 3 Ben 1 2014-10-01 CGS (Stefan Kiessling, Heung-Min Son, Hakan Calhanoglu; Salvio)<br />
Lev 2 Lyo 4 2001-10-31 CGS (Zoltan Sebescen, Dimitar Berbatov; Eric Carrière 2, Frédéric Née, Sydney Govou)<br />
Lyo 0 Lev 1 2001-09-18 CGS (Ulf Kirsten)<br />
Lev - OMa<br />
Lev - OMa<br />
PSG 2 Lev 1 2014-03-12 CQF<br />
Lev 0 PSG 4 2014-02-14 CQF<br />
PSV 0 Lev 0 1994-09-27 U32<br />
Lev 5 PSV 4 1994-09-13 U32 (Ulf Kirsten 3, Thomas Dooley, Bernd Schuster; Ronaldo da Lima 3, Luc Nilis)<br />
Lev - Aja<br />
Lev - Aja<br />
Lev 3 Dyn 0 2004-12-08 CGS (Juan, Andriy Voronin, Marko Babic)<br />
Dyn 4 Lev 2 2004-09-28 CGS (Diogo Rincón 2, Florin Cernat; Andriy Voronin, Jens Nowotny)<br />
Lev 2 Oly 0 2002-10-29 CGS (Juan, Bernd Schneider)<br />
Oly 6 Lev 2 2002-09-18 CGS (Thomas Kleine og, Stelios Giannakopoulos, Predrag Djordjevic 3, Pär Zetterberg; Bernd Schneider 2)<br />
Lev 1 Pan 2 1993-11-02 W8F (Ulf Kirsten; Dimitris Saravakos, Georgios Georgiadis)<br />
Pan 1 Lev 4 1993-10-20 W8F (Krzysztóf Warzycha; Paulo Sérgio, Andreas Thom, Ulf Kirsten, Pavel Hapal)<br />
Lev 5 Gal 1 2008-02-21 U16 (Sergej Barbarez 2, Stefan Kiessling, Karim Haggui, Bernd Schneider; Ahmed Apimah Barusso)<br />
Gal 0 Lev 0 2008-02-13 U16<br />
Lev 1 Ros 0 2012-12-06 EGS (Julian Riedel)<br />
Ros 0 Lev 1 2012-10-04 EGS (Stefan Kiessling)<br />
Lev - And<br />
Lev - And<br />
FC PORTO<br />
Por 1 Ben 1 2016-11-06 NLe (Diogo Jota; Lisandro López)<br />
Ben 1 Por 2 2016-02-12 NLe (Konstantinos Mitroglou; H Herrera, Vincent Aboubakar)<br />
Lyo 2 Por 2 2004-04-07 CQF (Pegguy Luyindula, Giovane Elber; Maniche 2)<br />
Por 2 Lyo 0 2004-03-23 CQF (Deco, Ricardo Carvalho)<br />
Por 2 OMa 1 2007-11-06 GGS (Tarik Sektioui, Lisandro López; Mahamadou Niang)<br />
OMa 1 Por 1 2007-10-24 CGS (Mahamadou Niang; Lucho González)<br />
PSG 2 Por 1 2012 12 04 CGS<br />
Por 1 PSG 0 2012-10-03 CGS<br />
PSV 0 Por 1 1993-04-07 CGS (José Carlos)<br />
Por 2 PSV 2 1992-11-25 CGS (Jaime Magalhaes, José Carlos; Romário de Souza)<br />
Por 3 Aja 0 1998-12-09 CGS (Zlatko Zahovic 2, Ljubinko Drulovic)<br />
Aja 2 Por 1 1998-09-20 CGS (Andrzej Rudy, Jari Litmanen; Zlatko Zahovic)<br />
Dyn 2 Por 2 2015-09-16 CGS (Oleh Husyev, Vitaliy Buyalskiy; Vincent Aboubakar 2)<br />
Por 0 Dyn 2 2015-11-24 CGS (Andrei Yarmolenko, Derlís González)<br />
Oly 1 Por 0 1999-11-03 CGS (Stelios Giannakopoulos)<br />
Por 2 Oly 0 1999-09-21 CGS (Esquerdinha, Mário Jardel)<br />
Pan 0 Por 2 2003-03-20 UCQ (Derlei 2)<br />
Por 0 Pan 1 2003-03-13 UCQ (Emmanuel Olisadebe)<br />
Por - Gal -<br />
Por - Gal -<br />
Por 1 Ros 0 2001-10-31 CGS (Renivaldo Pena)<br />
Ros 1 Por 2 2001-09-18 CGS (Sigurd Rushfeldt; Renivaldo Pena, Deco)<br />
And 0 Por 0 2000-08-23 CGS<br />
And 1 Por 0 2000-08-09 CGS (Jan Koller)<br />
BENFICA LISBOA<br />
Ben 4 Lyo 3 2010-11-02 GCS (Alan Kardec, Fábio Coentrao 2, Javi García; Yohan Gourcuff, Bafétimbi Gomis, Dejan Lovren)<br />
Lyo 2 Ben 0 2010-10-20 CGS (Jimmy Briand, Lisandro López)<br />
OMa 1 Ben 2 2010-03-18 E8F (Mahamadou Niang; Maxi Pereira, Alan Kardec)<br />
Ben 1 OMa 1 2010-03-11 E8F (Maxi Pereira; Hatem Ben Arfa)<br />
Ben 2 PSG 1 2013-12-10 CGS<br />
PSG 3 Ben 0 2013-10-02 CGS<br />
PSV 2 Ben 2 2011-04-14 EQF (Balasz Dzsudzsak, Jermain Lens; Luisao, Óscar Cardozo)<br />
Ben 4 PSV 1 2011-04-07 EQF (Pablo Aimar, Eduardo Salvio 2, Javier Saviola; Zakaria Labyad)<br />
Ben 0 Aja 0 1972-04-19 CSF<br />
Aja 1 Ben 0 1972-04-05 CSF (Sjaak Swart)<br />
Ben 1 Dyn 0 2016-11-01 CGS (Eduardo Salvio)<br />
Dyn 0 Ben 2 2016-10-19 CGS (Eduardo Salvio, Franco Cervi)<br />
Oly 1 Ben 0 2013-11-05 CGS (Konstantinos Manolas)<br />
Ben 1 Oly 1 2013-10-23 CGS (Óscar Cardozo; Alejandro Domínguez)<br />
Ben - Pan<br />
Ben - Pan<br />
Ben 2 Gal 1 2015-11-04 CGS (Jonas, Luisao; Lukas Podolski)<br />
Gal 2 Ben 1 2015-10-21 CGS (Selcuk Inan, Lukas Podolski; Nicolás Gaitán)<br />
Ros 2 Ben 1 2004-03-03 U16 (Orjan Berg, Azar Karadas; Nuno Gomes)<br />
Ben 1 Ros 0 2004-02-26 U16 (Zlatko Zahovic)<br />
And 2 Ben 3 2013-11-27 CGS (Chancel Mbemba Mangulu, Massimo Bruno; Nemanja Matic, Chancel Mbemba Mangulu og, Rodrigo)<br />
Ben 2 And 0 2013-09-17 CGS (Filip Djuricic, Luisao)<br />
OLYMPIQUE LYONNAIS<br />
Mar 2 Lyo 1 2017-01-31 NCu (Rod Fanni, Matheus Doria; Corentin Tolisso)<br />
Lyo 3 Mar 1 2017-01-22 NLe (Mathieu Valbuena, Alexandre Lacazette 2; Matheus Doria)<br />
PSG 2 Lyo 1 2017-03-19 NLe (Adrien Rabiot, Julian Draxler; Alexandre Lacazette)<br />
Lyo 1 PSG 2 2016-11-27 NLe (Mathieu Valbuena; Edinson Cavani 2)<br />
Lyo 4 PSV 0 2006-03-28 C8F (Tiago 2, Sylvain Wiltord, Fred)<br />
PSV 0 Lyo 1 2006-02-21 C2R (Juninho)<br />
Lyo 3 Aja 1 2017-05-11 ESF (Alexandre Lacazette 2, Rachid Ghezzal; Kasper Dolberg)<br />
Aja 4 Lyo 1 2017-05-03 ESF (Bertrand Traoré 2, Kasper Dolberg, Amin Younes; Mathieu Valbuena)<br />
Lyo 1 Dyn 0 2006-11-01 CGS (Karim Benzema)<br />
Dyn 0 Lyo 3 2006-10-17 CGS (Juninho, Kim Källström, Florent Malouda)<br />
Oly 1 Lyo 4 2005-11-01 CGS (Tijani Babangida; Juninho, John Carew 2, Mahamadou Diarra)<br />
Lyo 2 Oly 1 2005-10-19 CGS (Juninho, Sydney Govou; Pantelis Kafes)<br />
Lyo - Pan -<br />
Lyo - Pan -<br />
Lyo - Gal -<br />
Lyo - Gal -<br />
Lyo 2 Ros 1 2005-12-06 CGS (Karim Benzema, Fred; Daniel Braaten)<br />
Ros 0 Lyo 1 2005-09-28 CGS (Cris)<br />
And 1 Lyo 3 2009-08-25 CLQ (Matías Suárez; Lisandro López 3)<br />
Lyo 5 And 1 2009-08-19 CLQ (Miralem Pjanic, Lisandro López, Michel Bastos, Bafétimbi Gomis 2; matías Suárez)<br />
OLYMPIQUE MARSEILLE<br />
OMa 1 PSG 5 2017-02-26 NLe (Rod Fanni; Marquinhos, Edinson Cavani, Lucas Moura, Julian Draxler, Blaise Matuidi)<br />
PSG 0 OMa 0<br />
OMa 3 PSV 0 2008-11-04 CGS (Arouna Koné, Mahamadou Niang 2)<br />
PSV 2 OMa 0 2008-10-22 CGS (Danny Koevermans 2)<br />
Aja 2 OMa 2 2009-03-18 U8F (Eyong Enoh, Hasan Sulejmani; Mahamadou Niang, Tyrone Mears)<br />
OMa 2 Aja 1 2009-03-12 U8F (Bruno Cheyrou, Mahamadou Niang; Luis Suárez)<br />
OMa - Dyn<br />
OMa - Dyn<br />
OMa 0 Oly 1 2011-11-23 CGS (Giannis Fetfatzidis)<br />
Oly 0 OMa 1 2011-09-13 CGS (Lucho González)<br />
OMa - Pan -<br />
OMa - Pan -<br />
OMa - Gal -<br />
OMa - Gal -<br />
OMa - Ros -<br />
OMa - Ros -<br />
OMa - And -<br />
OMa - And -<br />
PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN<br />
PSG - PSV<br />
PSV - PSG<br />
PSG 3 Aja 1 2014-11-25 CGS<br />
Aja 1 PSG 1 2014-09-17 CGS<br />
Dyn 0 PSG 2 2012-11-21 CGS<br />
PSG 4 Dyn 1 2012-09-18 CGS<br />
PSG 2 Oly 1 2013 11 27 CGS<br />
Oly 1 PSG 4 2013 09 17 CGS<br />
PSG 4 Pan 0 2006 12 14 EGS<br />
Pan - PSG<br />
PSG 2 Gal 0 2001-03-13 C2G<br />
Gal 1 PSG 0 2000-12-06 C2G<br />
PSG 7 Ros 2 2000-10-24 CGS<br />
Ros 3 PSG 1 2000-09-12 CGS<br />
PSG 1 And 1 2013 11 05 CGS<br />
And 0 PSG 5 2013 10 23 CGS<br />
PSV EINDHOVEN<br />
Aja 1 PSV 1 2016-12-18 NLe (Davy Klaasen, Siem de Jong)<br />
PSV 0 Aja 2 2016-03-20 NLe (Arkadiusz Milik, Anwar El-Ghazi)<br />
Dyn 0 PSV 1 2000-10-24 CGS (André Ooijer)<br />
PSV 2 Dyn 1 2000-09-13 CGS (Theo Lucius, Arnold Bruggink; Maxim Shatskikh)<br />
PSV – Oly<br />
PSV – Oly<br />
Pan 2 PSV 3 2014-11-06 EGS (Abdul Ajagun, Mladen Petric; Memphis Depay, Luuk de Jong, Georginio Wijnaldum)<br />
PSV 1 Pan 1 2014-10-23 EGS (Memphis Depay; Nikos Karelis)<br />
PSV 2 Gal 0 2006-10-31 CGS (Timmy Simons, Arouna Koné)<br />
Gal 1 PSV 2 2006-10-18 CGS (Sasa Ilic; Jan Kromkamp, Arouna Koné)<br />
PSV 1 Ros 0 2004-11-02 CGS (DaMarcus Beasley)<br />
Ros 1 PSV 2 2004-10-20 CGS (Oyvind Storflor; Jefferson Farfán, John de Jong)<br />
PSV 2 And 3 2000-11-08 CGS (Adil Ramzi 2; Bertrand Crasson, Jan Koller, Souleymane Youla)<br />
And 1 PSV 0 2000-09-19 CGS (Didier Dheedene)<br />
AJAX AMSTERDAM<br />
Aja 2 Dyn 1 2010-08-25 C4Q (Luis Suárez, Mounir El Hamdaoui; Andriy Shevchenko)<br />
Dyn 1 Aja 1 2010-08-17 C4Q (Oleh Husyev; Jan Vertonghen)<br />
Aja 2 Oly 0 1998-11-04 CGS (Richard Witschge, Dean Gorre)<br />
Oly 1 Aja 0 1998-10-21 CGS (Alexos Alexandris)<br />
Aja 2 Pan 0 2016-11-24 EGS (Lasse Schöne, Kenny Tete)<br />
Pan 1 Aja 2 2016-09-15 EGS (Marcus Berg; Bertrand Traoré, Jairo Riedewald)<br />
Aja - Gal<br />
Aja - Gal<br />
Aja 1 Ros 1 2002-10-22 CGS (Zlatan Ibrahimovic; Dagfinn Enerly)<br />
Ros 0 Aja 0 2002-10-02 CGS<br />
Aja 2 And 0 2011-02-24 U2R (Hasan Sulejmani 2)<br />
And 0 Aja 3 2011-02-17 U2R (Toby Alderweireld, Christian Eriksen, Mounir El Hamdaoui)<br />
DYNAMO KYIV<br />
Dyn 1 Oly 0 1975-10-01 C16<br />
Dyn 2 Oly 2 1975-09-17 C16<br />
Dyn 2 Pan 1 1998-11-25 CGS (Serhiy Rebrov, Angelos Basinas og; Andreas Lagonikakis)<br />
Pan 2 Dyn 1 1998-09-16 CGS (Erik Mykland, Nikos Liberopoulos; Serhiy Rebrov)<br />
Dyn - Gal -<br />
Dyn - Gal -<br />
Ros 1 Dyn 2 2000-03-08 C2G (Orjan Berg; Serhiy Rebrov 2)<br />
Dyn 2 Ros 1 2000-02-29 C2G (Aliaksandr Khatskevich, Serhiy Rebrov; Jahn-Ivar Jakobsen)<br />
And 4 Dyn 2 2000-10-18 CGS (Vladyslav Vashchuk, Tomasz Radzinski, Alin Stoica; Kakhaber Kaladze, Valentin Belkevich)<br />
Dyn 4 And 0 2000-09-26 CGS (Andriy Husin, Maxim Shatskikh, Georgi Demetradze)<br />
OLYMPIACOS PIREA<br />
Pan 1 Oly 0 2017-03-19 NLe (Marcus Berg)<br />
Oly 3 Pan 0 2016-11-06 NLe (Alberto Botía, Tarik Elyounoussi, Diogo Figueiras)<br />
Gal 1 Oly 0 2008-10-23 UGS (Harry Kewell)<br />
Oly 3 Gal 0 2003-11-05 CGS (Dimitrios Mavrogenidis, Nery Castillo, Giovanni)<br />
Ros 1 Oly 1 2005-11-23 CGS (Thorstein Helstad; Rivaldo)<br />
Oly 1 Ros 3 2005-09-13 CGS (Alejandro Lago; Per Ciljan Skjelberg, Dimitrios Mavrogenidis og, Oyvind Storflor)<br />
Oly 1 And 2 2016-02-25 E16 (Konstantinos Fortounis; Frank Acheampong 2)<br />
And 1 Oly 0 2016-02-18 E16 (Kara Mbodji)<br />
PANATHINAIKOS ATHINAI<br />
Gal 1 Pan 0 2009-12-03 ELG (Mustafa Sarp)<br />
Pan 1 Gal 3 2009-09-17 ELG (Dimitrios Salpingidis; Elano, Milan Baros, Josu Sarriegi og)<br />
Ros 2 Pan 2 2004-11-24 CGS (Thorstein Helstad 2; Michalis Konstantinou, Rudi Skacel)<br />
Pan 2 Ros 1 2004-09-14 CGS (Ezequiel González; Frode Johnsen)<br />
And 2 Pan 0 2003-02-27 U8F (Nenad Jestrovic)<br />
Pan 3 And 0 2003-02-20 U8F (Emmanuel Olisadebe 2, Nikos Liberopoulos)<br />
GALATASARAY ISTANBUL<br />
Gal 3 Ros 0 1998-11-04 CGS (Hakan Sükür 2, Arif Erdem)<br />
Ros 3 Gal 0 1998-10-21 CGS (Sigurd Rushfeldt 3)<br />
And 2 Gal 0 2014-11-26 CGS (Chancel Mbemba 2)<br />
Gal 1 And 1 2014-09-16 CGS (Burak Yilmaz; Dennis Praet)<br />
ROSENBORG TRONDHEIM / ANDERLECHT BRUXELLES<br />
Ros - And -<br />
And - Ros -Rogornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981420921547893526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371221119196107279.post-50988056074124200342016-06-26T16:52:00.003+01:002016-06-26T16:52:44.027+01:00The 2015-16 EFCL season<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The 2015-16 EFCL classification table</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Pos W-D-L Points-Nation-Team</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">01 (29-11-10) 98 SPA Real Madrid</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">02 (27-16-07) 97 SPA FC Barcelona</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">03 (26-14-10) 92 GER Bayern München</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">04 (25-14-11) 89 ENG Liverpool FC</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;">05 (24-12-14) 84 ITA Internazionale Milano</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">06 (22-16-12) 82 GER Borussia Dortmund</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;">07 (22-15-13) 81 ENG Manchester United</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;">08 (21-15-14) 78 ITA Juventus Torino</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;">09 (18-24-08) 78 ENG Chelsea London</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;">10 (20-15-15) 75 ENG Arsenal London</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">11 (17-24-09) 75 ESP Valencia CF</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;">12 (15-20-15) 65 FRA Olympique Lyonnais</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">13 (13-25-12) 64 ITA AC Milan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;">14 (15-15-20) 60 POR FC Porto</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;">15 (14-16-20) 58 ITA AS Roma</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;">16 (13-18-19) 57 GER Bayer Leverkusen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;">17 (11-23-16) 56 NET Ajax Amsterdam</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">18 (13-17-21) 56 POR Benfica Lisboa</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">19 (12-18-20) 54 NET PSV Eindhoven</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">20 (13-13-24) 52 GRE Olympiacos Pirea</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;">21 (09-22-19) 49 TUR Galatasaray Istanbul</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">22 (10-18-22) 48 GRE Panathinaikos Athinai</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">23 (11-14-25) 47 BEL Anderlecht Bruxelles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">24 (06-24-20) 42 FRA Olympique Marseille</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">25 (09-14-27) 41 UKR Dynamo Kyiv</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">26 (06-22-22) 40 NOR Rosenborg Trondheim</span>Rogornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981420921547893526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371221119196107279.post-4738726170105142014-10-22T22:36:00.003+01:002017-10-09T18:56:46.150+01:00The 2014-15 EFCL season---End of season classification---<br />
<br />
01 (28-14-08) 98 SPA FC Barcelona<br />
02 (28-10-12) 94 SPA Real Madrid<br />
03 (27-12-11) 93 GER Bayern München<br />
04 (23-14-13) 83 ENG Manchester United<br />
05 (19-25-06) 82 ENG Chelsea London<br />
06 (23-12-15) 81 ENG Liverpool FC<br />
07 (21-17-12) 80 ENG Arsenal London<br />
08 (20-23-08) 80 ESP Valencia CF<br />
09 (21-15-14) 78 ITA Internazionale Milano<br />
10 (20-17-13) 77 GER Borussia Dortmund<br />
11 (20-15-15) 75 ITA Juventus Torino<br />
12 (15-26-09) 71 ITA AC Milan<br />
13 (16-18-16) 66 GER Bayer Leverkusen<br />
14 (15-19-16) 64 FRA Olympique Lyonnais<br />
15 (15-17-18) 62 ITA AS Roma<br />
16 (14-18-18) 60 POR FC Porto<br />
17 (12-23-15) 59 NET Ajax Amsterdam<br />
18 (14-17-19) 59 NET PSV Eindhoven<br />
19 (13-18-19) 57 POR Benfica Lisboa<br />
20 (13-18-19) 57 GRE Panathinaikos Athinai<br />
21 (09-24-17) 51 TUR Galatasaray Istanbul<br />
22 (12-13-25) 49 GRE Olympiacos Pirea<br />
23 (06-21-21) 42 FRA Olympique Marseille<br />
24 (08-16-26) 40 UKR Dynamo Kyiv<br />
25 (06-21-23) 39 NOR Rosenborg Trondheim<br />
26 (08-14-28) 38 BEL Anderlecht Bruxelles<br />
<br />
-----Game 77-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-06-06 CLF - Barcelona 3 Juventus 1<br />
(Ivan Rakitic, Luis Suárez, Neymar da Silva)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2003-04-22 CQF - Barcelona 1 Juventus 2 <br />
(Xavi Hernández; Pavel Nedved, Marcelo Zalayeta)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2003-04-09 CQF - Juventus 1 Barcelona 1 <br />
(Paolo Montero; Javier Saviola)<br />
<br />
-----Game 76-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-05-17 NLe - Manchester United 1 Arsenal 1<br />
(Ander Herrera; Tyler Blackett og)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2015-03-09 NCu - Manchester United 1 Arsenal 2 <br />
(Wayne Rooney; Nacho Monreal, Danny Welbeck)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-11-22 NLe - Arsenal 1 Manchester United 2 <br />
(Olivier Giroud; Kieran Gibbs og, Wayne Rooney)<br />
<br />
-----Game 75-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-05-16 NLe - Inter 1 Juventus 2<br />
(Mauro Icardi; Claudio Marchisio, Álvaro Morata)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2015-01-06 NLe - Inter 1 Juventus 1 <br />
(Carlos Tévez; Mauro Icardi)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-09-14 NLe - Inter 1 Juventus 1 <br />
(Mauro Icardi; Arturo Vidal)<br />
<br />
-----Game 74-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-05-13 CSF - Real Madrid 1 Juventus 1<br />
(Cristiano Ronaldo; Álvaro Morata)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2015-05-05 CSF - Juventus 2 Real Madrid 1<br />
(Álvaro Morata, Carlos Tévez; Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-11-05 CGS - Juventus 2 Real Madrid 2 <br />
(Arturo Vidal, Fernando Llorente; Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale)<br />
<br />
-----Game 73-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-05-12 CSF - Bayern 3 Barcelona 2<br />
(Mehdi Benatia, Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Müller; Neymar 2)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2015-05-06 CSF - Barcelona 3 Bayern 0 <br />
(Lionel Messi 2, Neymar)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-05-01 CSF - Barcelona 0 Bayern 3<br />
(Arjen Robben, Gerard Piqué og, Thomas Müller)<br />
<br />
-----Game 72-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-05-10 NLe - Chelsea 1 Liverpool 1<br />
(John Terry; Steven Gerrard)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2015-01-27 NLC - Chelsea 1 Liverpool 0 <br />
(Branislav Ivanovic)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2015-01-20 NLC - Liverpool 1 Chelsea 1 <br />
(Raheem Sterling, Eden Hazard)<br />
<br />
-----Game 71-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-05-09 NLe - Milan 2 Roma 1<br />
(Marco van Ginkel, Mattia Destro; Francesco Totti)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-12-20 NLe - Rom 0 Mil 0<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-04-25 NLe - Rom 2 Mil 0 <br />
(Miralem Pjanic, Gervinho)<br />
<br />
-----Game 70-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-05-09 NLe - Real Madrid 2 Valencia 2<br />
(Pepe, Isco; Francisco Alcácer, Javier Fuego)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2015-01-04 NLe - Valencia 2 Real Madrid 1 <br />
(Antonio Barragán, Nicolás Otamendi; Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-05-04 NLe - Real Madrid 2 Valencia 2 <br />
(Sergio Ramos, Cristiano Ronaldo; Jeremy Mathieu, Daniel Parejo)<br />
<br />
-----Game 69-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-05-06 CSF - Barcelona 3 Bayern 0<br />
(Lionel Messi 2, Neymar)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-05-01 CSF - Barcelona 0 Bayern 3 <br />
(Arjen Robben, Gerard Piqué og, Thomas Müller)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-04-23 CSF - Bayern 4 Barcelona 0 <br />
(Thomas Müller 2, Mario Gómez, Arjen Robben)<br />
<br />
<br />
-----Game 68-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-05-05 CSF - Juventus 2 Real Madrid 1<br />
(Álvaro Morata, Carlos Tévez; Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-11-05 CGS - Juventus 2 Real Madrid 2 <br />
(Arturo Vidal, Fernando Llorente; Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-10-23 CGS - Real Madrid 2 Juventus 1 <br />
(Cristiano Ronaldo 2; Fernando Llorente)<br />
<br />
-----Game 67-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-05-02 NLe - Leverkusen 2 Bayern 0<br />
(Hakan Calhanoglu, Julian Brandt)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2015-04-08 NCu - Leverkusen 0 Bayern 0<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-12-06 NLe - Bayern 1 Leverkusen 0 <br />
(Franck Ribéry)<br />
<br />
-----Game 66-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-04-28 NCu - Bayern 1 Dortmund 1<br />
(Robert Lewandowski; Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2015-04-04 NLe - Dortmund 0 Bayern 1 <br />
(Robert Lewandowski)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-11-01 NLe - Bayern 2 Dortmund 1 <br />
(Robert Lewandowski, Arjen Robben; Marco Reus)<br />
<br />
-----Game 65-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-04-26 NLe - Benfica 0 Porto 0<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-12-14 NLe - Porto 0 Benfica 2 <br />
(Lima)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-05-10 NLe - Porto 2 Benfica 1 <br />
(Ricardo Pereira, Jackson Martínez; Enzo Pérez)<br />
<br />
-----Game 64-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-04-26 NLe - Arsenal 0 Chelsea 0<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-10-05 NLe - Chelsea 2 Arsenal 0 <br />
(Eden Hazard, Diego Costa)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-03-22 NLe - Chelsea 6 Arsenal 0 <br />
(Samuel Eto'o, Andre Schürrle, Eden Hazard, Óscar 2, Mohamed Salah)<br />
<br />
-----Game 63-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-04-25 NLe - Inter 2 Roma 1<br />
(Hernanes, Mauro Icardi; Radja Nainggolan)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-11-30 NLe - Roma 4 Inter 2 <br />
(Gervinho, José Holebas, Miralem Pjanic 2; Andrea Ranocchia, Pablo Osvaldo)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: Rom 0 Int 0 2014-03-01 NLe<br />
<br />
-----Game 62-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-04-21 CQF - Bayern 6 Porto 1<br />
(Thiago Alcántara, Jerome Boateng, Robert Lewandowski 2, Thomas Müller, Xabi Alonso; Jackson Martínez)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2015-04-15 CQF - Porto 3 Bayern 1<br />
(Ricardo Quaresma 2, Jackson Martínez; Thiago Alcántara)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2000-04-19 CQF - Bayern 2 Porto 1 <br />
(Paulo Sérgio, Thomas Linke; Mário Jardel)<br />
<br />
-----Game 61-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-04-19 NLe - Inter 0 Milan 0<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-11-23 NLe - Mil 1 Int 1<br />
(Jeremy Menez; Joel Obi)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-05-04 NLe - Milan 1 Inter 0 <br />
(Nigel de Jong)<br />
<br />
-----Game 60-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-04-18 NLe - Chelsea 1 Manchester United 0<br />
(Eden Hazard)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-10-25 NLe - Manchester United 1 Chelsea 1 <br />
(Robin van Persie; Didier Drogba)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-01-19 NLe - Chelsea 3 Manchester United 1 <br />
(Samuel Eto'o 3; Javier Hernández)<br />
<br />
-----Game 59-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-04-18 NLe - Barcelona 2 Valencia 0<br />
(Luis Suárez, Lionel Messi)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-11-30 NLe - Valencia 0 Barcelona 1 <br />
(Sergio Busquets)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-02-01 NLe - Barcelona 2 Valencia 3 <br />
(Alexis Sánchez, Lionel Messi; Pablo Piatti, Daniel Parejo, Francisco Alcácer)<br />
<br />
-----Game 58-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-04-15 CQF - Porto 3 Bayern 1<br />
(Ricardo Quaresma 2, Jackson Martínez; Thiago Alcántara)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2000-04-19 CQF - Bayern 2 Porto 1 <br />
(Paulo Sérgio, Thomas Linke; Mário Jardel)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2000-04-04 CQF - Porto 1 Bayern 1 <br />
(Mário Jardel; Paulo Sérgio)<br />
<br />
-----Game 57-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-04-08 NCu - Leverkusen 0 Bayern 0<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-12-06 NLe - Bayern 1 Leverkusen 0 <br />
(Franck Ribéry)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-03-15 NLe - Bayern 2 Leverkusen 1 <br />
(Mario Mandzukic, Bastian Schweinsteiger; Stefan Kiessling)<br />
<br />
-----Games 55, 56-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-04-04 NLe - Arsenal 4 Liverpool 1<br />
(Héctor Bellerín, Mesut Özil, Alexis Sánchez, Olivier Giroud; Jordan Henderson)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-12-21 NLe - Liverpool 2 Arsenal 2<br />
(Philippe Coutinho, Martin Skrtel; Mathieu Debuchy, Olivier Giroud)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-02-16 NCu - Arsenal 2 Liverpool 1 <br />
(Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lukas Podolski; Steven Gerrard)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-04-04 NLe - Dortmund 0 Bayern 1<br />
(Robert Lewandowksi)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-11-01 NLe - Bayern 2 Dortmund 1 <br />
(Robert Lewandowski, Arjen Robben; Marco Reus)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-08-13 NSC - Dortmund 2 Bayern 0 <br />
(Henrik Mkhitaryan, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang)<br />
<br />
-----Games 53, 54-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-03-22 NLe - Liverpool 1 Manchester United 2<br />
(Daniel Sturridge; Juan Mata 2)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-12-14 NLe - Manchester United 3 Liverpool 0 <br />
(Wayne Rooney, Juan Mata, Robin van Persie)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-03-16 NLe - Manchester United 0 Liverpool 3 <br />
(Steven Gerrard 2, Luis Suárez)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-03-22 NLe - Barcelona 2 Real Madrid 1<br />
(Jérémy Mathieu, Luis Suárez; Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-10-25 NLe - Real Madrid 3 Barcelona 1 <br />
(Cristiano Ronaldo, Pepe, Karim Benzema; Neymar)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-04-16 NCF - Real Madrid 2 Barcelona 1 <br />
(Ángel Di María, Gareth Bale; Marc Bartra)<br />
<br />
-----Game 52-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-03-18 C2R - Dortmund 0 Juventus 3<br />
(Carlos Tévez 2, Álvaro Morata)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2015-02-24 C2R - Juventus 2 Dortmund 1 <br />
(Carlos Tévez, Álvaro Morata; Marco Reus)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 1997-05-28 CLF- Dortmund 3 Juventus 1 <br />
(Karl-Heinz Riedle 2, Lars Ricken; Alessandro del Piero)<br />
<br />
-----Game 51-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-03-15 NLe - Marseille 0 Lyon 0<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-10-26 NLe - Lyon 1 Marseille 0 <br />
(Yoann Gourcuff)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-05-04 NLe - Marseille 4 Lyon 2 <br />
(Souleymane Diawara, Florian Thauvin, André-Pierre Gignac 2; Arnold Mvuemba, Bafétimbi Gomis)<br />
<br />
-----Game 50-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-03-09 NCu - Manchester United 1 Arsenal 2<br />
(Wayne Rooney; Nacho Monreal, Danny Welbeck)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-11-22 NLe -Arsenal 1 Manchester United 2 <br />
(Olivier Giroud; Kieran Gibbs og, Wayne Rooney)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-02-12 NLe - Arsenal 0 Manchester United 0<br />
<br />
-----Game 49-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-03-02 NLe - Roma 1 Juventus 1<br />
(Seydou Keita; Carlos Tévez)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-10-05 NLe - Juventus 3 Roma 2 <br />
(Carlos Tévez 2, Leonardo Bonucci; Francesco Totti, Juan Manuel Iturbe)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-05-11 NLe - Roma 0 Juventus 1 <br />
(Pablo Osvaldo)<br />
<br />
-----Game 48-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-02-28 NLe - PSV 1 Ajax 3<br />
(Luuk de Jong; Ricardo Kishna, Lasse Schöne, Anwar El-Ghazi)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-08-24 NLe - Ajax 1 PSV 3 <br />
(Anwar El-Ghazi; Memphis Depay, Luciano Narsingh, Florian Jozefzoon)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-01-19 NLe - Ajax 1 PSV 0 <br />
(Kolbein Sigthorsson)<br />
<br />
-----Game 47-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-02-24 C2R - Juventus 2 Dortmund 1<br />
(Carlos Tévez, Álvaro Morata; Marco Reus)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 1997-05-28 CLF - Dortmund 3 Juv 1 <br />
(Karl-Heinz Riedle 2, Lars Ricken; Alessandro del Piero)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 1995-11-22 CGS - Juventus 1 Dortmund 2 <br />
(Alessandro del Piero; Michael Zorc, Lars Ricken)<br />
<br />
-----Game 46-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-02-22 NLe - Panathinaikos 2 Olympiacos 1<br />
(Arthur Masuaku og, Mladen Petric; Alejandro Domínguez)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-03-02 NLe - Olympiacos 0 Panathinaikos 3 <br />
(Danijel Pranjic, Marcus Berg, Mehdi Abeid)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-11-02 NLe - Panathinaikos 0 Olympiacos 1 <br />
(Konstantinos Mitroglou)<br />
<br />
-----Game 45-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-02-07 NLe - Juventus 3 Milan 1<br />
(Carlos Tévez, Leonardo Bonucci, Álvaro Morata; Luca Antonelli)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: Milan 0 Juventus 1 2014-09-20 NLe (Carlos Tévez)<br />
<br />
-----Game 44-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-02-01 NLe - Leverkusen 0 Dortmund 0<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-08-23 NLe - Dortmund 0 Leverkusen 2 <br />
(Karim Bellarabi, Stefan Kiessling)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-04-26 NLe - Leverkusen 2 Dortmund 2 <br />
(Lars Bender, Gonzalo Castro; Oliver Kirch, Marco Reus)<br />
<br />
-----Game 43-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-01-27 NLC - Chelsea 1 Liverpool 0<br />
(Branislav Ivanovic)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2015-01-20 NLC - Liverpool 1 Chelsea 1<br />
(Raheem Sterling; Eden Hazard)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-11-08 NLe - Liverpool 1 Chelsea 2<br />
(Emre Can, Gary Cahill, Diego Costa)<br />
<br />
-----Game 42-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-01-20 NLC - Liverpool 1 Chelsea 1<br />
(Raheem Sterling; Eden Hazard)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-11-08 NLe - Liverpool 1 Chelsea 2<br />
(Emre Can, Gary Cahill, Diego Costa)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-04-27 NLe - Liverpool 0 Chelsea 2 <br />
(Demba Ba, Willian)<br />
<br />
-----Game 41-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-01-06 NLe Juventus 1 Inter 1<br />
(Carlos Tévez; Mauro Icardi)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-09-14 - Inter 1 Juventus 1 NLe<br />
(Mauro Icardi; Arturo Vidal)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-03-31 NLe - Inter 1 Juventus 2 <br />
(Rodrigo Palacio; Fabio Quagliarella, Alessandro Matri)<br />
<br />
-----Game 40-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2015-01-04 NLe - Valencia 2 Real Madrid 1<br />
(Antonio Barragán, Nicolás Otamendi; Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-05-04 NLe - Real Madrid 2 Valencia 2 <br />
(Sergio Ramos, Cristiano Ronaldo; Jeremy Mathieu, Daniel Parejo)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-12-22 NLe - Valencia 2 Real Madrid 3 <br />
(Pablo Piatti, Jérémy Mathieu; Ángel Di María, Cristiano Ronaldo, Jesé Rodríguez)<br />
<br />
<b>The first EFCL-eligible match of 2015 brings a change at the top. With this defeat, Real lose 3 points in the table, going down to 100, relinquishing first place to Bayern's tally of 101.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 39-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-12-21 NLe - Liverpool 2 Arsenal 2<br />
(Philippe Coutinho, Martin Skrtel; Mathieu Debuchy, Olivier Giroud)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-02-16 NCu - Arsenal 2 Liverpool 1 <br />
(Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lukas Podolski; Steven Gerrard)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-02-08 NLe - Liverpool 5 Arsenal 1 <br />
(Martin Skrtel 2, Raheem Sterling 2, Daniel Sturridge; Mikel Arteta)<br />
<br />
-----Game 38-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-12-20 NLe - Roma 0 Milan 0<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-04-25 NLe - Roma 2 Milan 0 <br />
(Miralem Pjanic, Gervinho)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-12-16 NLe - Milan 2 Roma 2 <br />
(Cristián Zapata, Sulley Muntari; Mattia Destro, Kevin Strootman)<br />
<br />
-----Games 36, 37-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-12-14 NLe - Manchester United 3 Liverpool 0<br />
(Wayne Rooney, Juan Mata, Robin van Persie)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-03-16 NLe - Manchester United 0 Liverpool 3<br />
(Steven Gerrard 2, Luis Suárez)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-09-25 LCu - Manchester United 1 Liverpool 0 <br />
(Javier Hernández)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-12-14 NLe - Porto 0 Benfica 2<br />
(Lima)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-05-10 NLe - Porto 2 Benfica 1 <br />
(Ricardo Pereira, Jackson Martínez; Enzo Pérez)<br />
<br />
Por 0 Ben 0 2014-04-27 NLC<br />
<br />
-----Games 33, 34, 35-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-12-09 CGS - Benfica 0 Leverkusen 0<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-10-01 CGS - Leverkusen 3 Benfica 1<br />
(Stefan Kiessling, Heung-Min Son, Hakan Calhanoglu; Salvio)<br />
<br />
Outging game: 2013-02-21 E16 - Benfica 2 Leverkusen 1<br />
(Ola John, Nemanja Matic; André Schürrle)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-12-09 CGS - Dortmund 1 Anderlecht 1<br />
(Ciro Immobile; Aleksandar Mitrovic)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-10-01 CGS - Anderlecht 0 Dortmund 3<br />
(Ciro Immobile, Adrián Ramos 2)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 1990-12-12 U8F - Dortmund 2 Anderlecht 1<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-12-09 CGS - Galatasaray 1 Arsenal 4<br />
(Wesley Sneijder; Lukas Podolski 2, Aaron Ramsey 2)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-10-01 CGS - Arsenal 4 Galatasaray 1<br />
(Danny Welbeck 3, Alexis Sánchez; Burak Yilmaz)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2000-05-17 UCF - Arsenal 0 Galatasaray 0<br />
<br />
-----Game 32-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-12-06 NLe - Bayern 1 Leverkusen 0<br />
(Franck Ribéry)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-03-15 NLe - Bayern 2 Leverkusen 1 <br />
(Mario Mandzukic, Bastian Schweinsteiger; Stefan Kiessling)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-10-05 NLe - Leverkusen 1 Bayern 1 <br />
(Sidney Sam; Toni Kroos)<br />
<br />
-----Games 30, 31-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-11-30 NLe - Roma 4 Inter 2<br />
(Gervinho, José Holebas, Miralem Pjanic 2; Andrea Ranocchia, Pablo Osvaldo)<br />
<br />
Remaing game: 2014-03-01 NLe - Roma 0 Inter 0<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-10-05 NLe Inter 0 Roma 3 <br />
(Francesco Totti 2, Alessandro Florenzi)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-11-30 NLe - Valencia 0 Barcelona 1<br />
(Sergio Busquets)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-02-01 NLe - Barcelona 2 Valencia 3<br />
(Alexis Sánchez, Lionel Messi; Pablo Piatti, Daniel Parejo, Francisco Alcacer)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-09-01 NLe - Valencia 2 Barcelona 3 <br />
(Hélder Postiga 2; Lionel Messi 3)<br />
<br />
-----Game 29-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-11-23 NLe - Milan 1 Inter 1<br />
(Jeremy Ménez; Joel Obi)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-05-04 NLe - Milan 1 Inter 0 <br />
(Nigel de Jong)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-12-22 NLe - Inter 1 Milan 0<br />
(Rodrigo Palacio)<br />
<br />
-----Game 28-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-11-22 NLe - Arsenal 1 Manchester United 2<br />
(Olivier Giroud; Kieran Gibbs og, Wayne Rooney)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-02-12 NLe - Arsenal 0 Manchester United 0<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-11-09 NLe - Manchester United 1 Arsenal 0 <br />
(Robin van Persie)<br />
<br />
-----Game 27-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-11-08 NLe - Liverpool 1 Chelsea 2<br />
(Emre Can; Gary Cahill, Diego Costa)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-04-27 NLe - Liverpool 0 Chelsea 2<br />
(Demba Ba, Willian)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-12-29 NLe - Chelsea 2 Liverpool 1<br />
(Eden Hazard, Samuel Eto’o; Martin Skrtel)<br />
<br />
-----Game 26-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-11-06 EGS - Panathinaikos 2 PSV 3<br />
(Abdul Ajagun, Mladen Petric; Memphis Depay, Luuk de Jong, Georginio Wijnaldum)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-10-23 EGS - PSV 1 Panathinaikos 1 <br />
(Memphis Depay; Nikos Karelis)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2004-12-07 CGS - Panathinaikos 4 PSV 1 <br />
(Dimitris Papadopoulos, Marcus Münch, Lucian Sanmartean; DaMarcus Beasley)<br />
<br />
-----Games 24, 25-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-11-05 CGS - Bayern 2 Roma 0<br />
(Franck Ribéry, Mario Götze)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-10-21 CGS - Roma 1 Bayern 7<br />
(Gervinho, Arjen Robben 2, Mario Götze, Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Müller, Franck Ribéry, Xherdan Shaqiri)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2010 11 24 CGS - Roma 3 Bayern 2 <br />
(Francesco Totti, Daniele de Rossi, Marco Borriello; Mario Gómez 2)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-11-05 CGS - Ajax 0 Barcelona 2<br />
(Lionel Messi 2)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-10-21 CGS - Barcelona 3 Ajax 1 <br />
(Neymar, Lionel Messi, Sandro Ramírez; Anwar El-Ghazi)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-11-26 CGS - Ajax 2 Barcelona 1 <br />
(Thulani Serero, Danny Hoesen; Xavi Hernández)<br />
<br />
<b>After the 4th matchday of the Champions League, Real Madrid and Bayern pull further away from the rest of the pack. Real reach 103 points after completing a double over Liverpool, while Bayern to the same over Roma, and have now 99 points. Barcelona are third on 87 points, also having achieved a double over Ajax. At the bottom of the table, a valuable point at Arsenal take Anderlecht out of last place.</b><br />
<br />
-----Games 20, 21, 22, 23-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-11-04 CGS - Juventus 3 Olympiacos 2<br />
(Andrea Pirlo, Roberto og, Paul Pogba; Alberto Botía, Delvin Ndinga)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-10-22 CGS - Olympiacos 1 Juventus 0 <br />
(Pajtim Kasami)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2003-12-10 CGS - Juventus 7 Olympiacos 0 <br />
(David Trezeguet 2, Fabrizio Miccoli, Enzo Maresca, Marco di Vaio, Alessandro del Piero, Marcelo Zalayeta)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-11-04 CGS - Real Madrid 1 Liverpool 0<br />
(Karim Benzema)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-10-22 CGS - Liverpool 0 Real Madrid 3 <br />
(Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema 2)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2009-03-10 C8F - Liverpool 4 Real Madrid 0 <br />
(Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard, Ryan Babel, Andrea Dossena)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-11-04 CGS - Arsenal 3 Anderlecht 3<br />
(Mikel Arteta, Alexis Sánchez, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain; Anthony Vanden Borre 2, Aleksandar Mitrovic)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-10-22 CGS - Anderlecht 1 Arsenal 2 <br />
(Andy Najar; Kieran Gibbs, Lukas Podolski)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 1970-04-28 FCF - Arsenal 3 Anderlecht 0 <br />
(Eddie Kelly, John Radford, Jon Sammels)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-11-04 CGS - Dortmund 4 Galatasaray 1<br />
(Marco Reus, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Ciro Immobile, Semih Kaya og; Hakan Balta)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-10-22 CGS - Galatasaray 0 Dortmund 4 <br />
(Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 2, Marco Reus, Adrián Ramos)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2000-03-09 U8F - Galatasaray 0 Dortmund 0<br />
<br />
-----Game 19-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-11-01 NLe - Bayern 2 Dortmund 1<br />
(Robert Lewandowski, Arjen Robben; Marco Reus)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-08-13 NSC - Dortmund 2 Bayern 0 <br />
(Henrik Mkhitaryan, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-05-17 NCu - Bayern 2 Dortmund 0 <br />
(Arjen Robben, Thomas Müller)<br />
<br />
-----Games 17, 18-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-10-26 NLe - Manchester United 1 Chelsea 1<br />
(Robin van Persie; Didier Drogba)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-01-19 NLe - Chelsea 3 Manchester United 1 <br />
(Samuel Eto'o 3; Javier Hernández)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-08-26 NLe - Chelsea 0 Manchester United 0<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-10-26 NLe - Lyon 1 Marseille 0<br />
(Yoann Gourcuff)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-05-04 NLe - Marseille 4 Lyon 2<br />
(Souleymane Diawara, Florian Thauvin, André-Pierre Gignac 2; Arnold Mvuemba, Bafétimbi Gomis)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-01-15 NLC - Lyon 2 Marseille 1 <br />
(Yoann Gourcuff, Bafétimbi Gomis; André-Pierre Gignac)<br />
<br />
-----Game 16-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-10-25 NLe - Real Madrid 3 Barcelona 1<br />
(Cristiano Ronaldo, Pepe, Karim Benzema; Neymar)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-04-16 NCF - Real Madrid 2 Barcelona 1 <br />
(Ángel Di María, Gareth Bale; Marc Bartra)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-03-23 NLe - Real Madrid 3 Barcelona 4 <br />
(Karim Benzema 2, Cristiano Ronaldo; Andrés Iniesta, Lionel Messi 3)<br />
<br />
With this victory, Real Madrid extend their lead at the top of the EFCL to four points over Bayern and reach 100 points. Barcelona go down to fifth, below Chelsea.<br />
<br />
-----Game 15-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-10-23 EGS - PSV 1 Panathinaikos 1<br />
(Memphis Depay; Nikos Karelis)<br />
<br />
Remainin game: 2004-12-07 CGS - Panathinaikos 4 PSV 1 <br />
(Dimitris Papadopoulos, Marcus Münch, Lucian Sanmartean; DaMarcus Beasley)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2004-09-29 CGS - PSV 1 Panathinaikos 0 <br />
(Jan Venegoor of Hesselink)<br />
<br />
It's always nice when the Europa League provides some EFCL-eligible results, and in this case Panathinaikos, with their away draw, overtake PSV for 19th place in the table.<br />
<br />
-----Games 11, 12, 13, 14-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-10-22 CGS - Olympiacos 1 Juventus 0<br />
(Pajtim Kasami)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2003-12-10 CGS - Juventus 7 Olympiacos 0 <br />
(David Trezeguet 2, Fabrizio Miccoli, Enzo Maresca, Marco di Vaio, Alessandro del Piero, Marcelo Zalayeta)<br />
<br />
Outgoimg game: 2003-09-30 CGS - Olympiacos 1 Juventus 2 <br />
(Ieroklis Stoltidis; Pavel Nedved 2)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-10-22 CGS - Liverpool 0 Real Madrid 3<br />
(Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema 2)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2009-03-10 C8F - Liverpool 4 Real Madrid 0 <br />
(Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard, Ryan Babel, Andrea Dossena)<br />
<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2009-02-25 C8F - Real Madrid 0 Liverpool 1 <br />
(Yossi Benayoun)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-10-22 CGS - Anderlecht 1 Arsenal 2<br />
(Andy Najar; Kieran Gibbs, Lukas Podolski)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 1970-04-28 FCF - Arsenal 3 Anderlecht 0 <br />
(Eddie Kelly, John Radford, Jon Sammels)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 1970-04-22 FCF - Anderlecht 3 Arsenal 1 <br />
(Johan Devrint, Jan Mulder; Ray Kennedy)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-10-22 CGS - Galatasaray 0 Dortmund 4<br />
(Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 2, Marco Reus, Adrián Ramos)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2000-03-09 U8F - Galatasaray 0 Dortmund 0<br />
<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2000-03-02 U8F - Dortmund 0 Galatasaray 2 <br />
(Hakan Sükür, Gheorghe Hagi)<br />
<br />
A very busy night in the EFCL today, with four Champions League matches, all of them 6-point reversals. In Greece, Juve lose their 2003 double over Olympiacos, in Spain Real Madrid score their first ever goals and their first ever victory over Liverpool after three defeats in three, in Belgium Arsenal win with two goals in the last five minutes to avenge a 1970 defeat, and in Turkey Dortmund put Galatasaray to the sword 14 years later. The most important consequence of all these results is that we have a new leader, European Champions Real Madrid, on 97 points, one ahead of dethroned Bayern. At the opposite end of the table, we also have a new table-propper, Anderlecht, and everyone else involved tonight lose or gain a place in the EFCL classification. Night like these are why we have this blog... and the reverse fixtures could be as dramatic in a fortnight.<br />
<br />
-----Games 9, 10-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-10-21 CGS - Roma 1 Bayern 7<br />
(Gervinho; Arjen Robben 2, Mario Götze, Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Müller, Franck Ribéry, Xherdan Shaqiri)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2010-11-24 CGS - Roma 3 Bayern 2<br />
(Francesco Totti, Daniele de Rossi, Marco Borriello; Mario Gómez 2)<br />
<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2010-09-15 CGS - Bayern 2 Roma 0<br />
(Thomas Müller, Miroslav Klose)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-10-21 CGS - Barcelona 3 Ajax 1<br />
(Neymar, Lionel Messi, Sandro Ramírez; Anwar El-Ghazi)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-11-26 CGS - Ajax 2 Barcelona 1<br />
(Thulani Serero, Danny Hoesen; Xavi Hernández)<br />
<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-09-18 CGS - Barcelona 4 Ajax 0 <br />
(Lionel Messi 3, Gerard Piqué)<br />
<br />
On the same year that Germany beat Brazil 1-7 in the World Cup, several of the same German players beat Roma by the same result in the Champions League. In Spain, after going for so long without meeting, Barça and Ajax share a group for the second year running. Both victories for Bayern and Barcelona come in for previous wins, so everything remains as it is.<br />
<br />
-----Games 7, 8-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-10-05 NLe - Chelsea 2 Arsenal 0<br />
(Eden Hazard, Diego Costa)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-03-22 NLe - Chelsea 6 Arsenal 0<br />
(Samuel Eto'o, Andre Schürrle, Eden Hazard, Óscar 2, Mohamed Salah)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-12-23 NLe - Arsenal 0 Chelsea 0<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-10-05 NLe - Juventus 3 Roma 2<br />
(Carlos Tévez 2, Leonardo Bonucci; Francesco Totti, Juan Manuel Iturbe)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-05-11 NLe - Roma 0 Juventus 1<br />
(Pablo Osvaldo)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-01-21 NCu - Roma 1 Juventus 0<br />
(Gervinho)<br />
<br />
Chelsea achieve a double over Arsenal and retain their remarkable record of having lost only six games in 50 EFCL-eligible current games, although their high number of drawn or not played matches (23) keeps the Blues still in 5th place in the table, while Arsenal go down to 11th. Roma and Juventus play their third game this calendar year, and the bianconeri also achieve a double over the giallorossi. This defeat means that Roma go from being the best Italian team in the table to third below Juve and Milan.<br />
<br />
-----Game 6-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-09-20 NLe - Milan 0 Juventus 1<br />
(Carlos Tévez)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-03-02 NLe - Milan 0 Juventus 2<br />
(Fernando Llorente, Carlos Tévez)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-10-06 NLe - Juventus 3 Milan 2<br />
(Andrea Pirlo, Sabastian Giovinco, Giorgio Chiellini; Sulley Muntari 2)<br />
<br />
Juve's stranglehold over Milan continues with yet another victory for the bianconeri. However, both teams remain tied for 12th spot in the EFCL table on 69 points.<br />
<br />
-----Games 4, 5-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-09-16 CGS - Galatasaray 1 Anderlecht 1<br />
(Burak Yilmaz, Dennis Praet)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 1976-11-03 W8F - Galatasaray 1 Anderlecht 5<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 1976-10-20 W8F - Anderlecht 5 Galatasaray 1<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-09-16 CGS - Dortmund 2 Arsenal 0<br />
(Henrik Mkhitaryan, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-11-06 CGS - Dortmund 0 Arsenal 1<br />
(Aaron Ramsey)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-10-22 CGS - Arsenal 1 Dortmund 2 <br />
(Olivier Giroud; Henrik Mkhitaryan, Robert Lewandowski)<br />
<br />
As many as ten EFCL clubs are absent from this year's Champions League (among them Manchester United, Milan, Inter, PSV, etc), so the number of possible EFCL games this season diminishes. Among the matchday 1 games in the Champions League, only these two were EFCL-eligible. It's the third game in four EFCL matches so far to feature Borussia Dortmund. As far as Anderlecht are concerned, their results v Galatasaray are so good (two 5-1 victories) that they will surely miss them. For starters, their fist win turns into a draw, which puts the Belgian side in the EFCL bottom three, while Gala remain 20th.<br />
<br />
-----Game 3-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-08-24 NLe - Ajax 1 PSV 3<br />
(Anwar El Ghazi; Memphis Depay, Luciano Narsingh, Florian Jozefzoon)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-01-19 NLe - Ajax 1 PSV 0<br />
(Kolbein Sigthorsson)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-09-22 NLe - PSV 4 Ajax 0<br />
(Tim Matavz, Jetro Willems, Oscar Hiljemark, Ji-sung Park)<br />
<br />
Third game of the EFCL season, and still no movement in the league table. PSV beat Ajax, just like they did back in September, so everything remains as it is.<br />
<br />
-----Game 2-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-08-23 NLe - Dortmund 0 Leverkusen 2<br />
(Karim Bellarabi, Stefan Kiessling)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-04-26 NLe - Leverkusen 2 Dortmund 2<br />
(Lars Bender, Gonzalo Castro; Oliver Kirch, Marco Reus)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-12-08 NLe - Dortmund 0 Leverkusen 1<br />
(Son Heung-Min)<br />
<br />
Second game of the EFCL season and second game featuring Borussia Dortmund. As they did last year, they won the German Supercup against Bayern and lost to Leverkusen in the league at home. Dortmund remain 8th on 79 points and Bayer Leverkusen joint 17th on 59.<br />
<br />
-----Game 1-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-08-13 NSC - Dortmund 2 Bayern 0<br />
(Henrik Mkhitaryan, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-05-17 NCu - Bayern 2 Dortmund 0<br />
(Arjen Robben, Thomas Müller)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-04-12 NLe - Bayern 0 Dortmund 3<br />
(Henrik Mkhitaryan, Marco Reus, Jonas Hoffman)<br />
<br />
The 2014-15 season starts with the same match that opened and closed 2013-14: a Bayern v Dortmund fixture. Dortmund win the German Supercup, but this victory comes in to substitute for another Schwarzgelb win from back in February, so everything remains the same, with Bayern at the top of the EFCL on 96 points and Dortmund 8th on 79.Rogornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981420921547893526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371221119196107279.post-2192185505276860392014-03-16T16:54:00.000+00:002017-10-09T18:57:09.655+01:00The 2013-14 EFCL season<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
-----The end-of-season classification-----<br />
<br />
01 (28-12-10) 96 GER Bayern München<br />
02 (28-10-12) 94 SPA Real Madrid<br />
03 (27-10-13) 91 ENG Liverpool FC<br />
04 (24-15-11) 87 SPA FC Barcelona<br />
05 (20-24-06) 84 ENG Chelsea London<br />
06 (23-14-13) 83 ENG Manchester United<br />
07 (20-23-08) 80 ESP Valencia CF<br />
08 (21-16-13) 79 GER Borussia Dortmund<br />
09 (21-14-15) 77 ITA Internazionale Milano<br />
10 (18-17-15) 71 ENG Arsenal London<br />
11 (18-17-15) 71 ITA AS Roma<br />
12 (18-15-17) 69 ITA Juventus Torino<br />
12 (15-24-11) 69 ITA AC Milan<br />
14 (15-18-17) 63 FRA Olympique Lyonnais<br />
15 (13-23-14) 62 NET Ajax Amsterdam<br />
16 (14-19-17) 61 POR FC Porto<br />
17 (14-17-19) 59 POR Benfica Lisboa<br />
18 (14-17-19) 59 GER Bayer Leverkusen<br />
19 (14-16-20) 58 NET PSV Eindhoven<br />
20 (10-26-14) 56 TUR Galatasaray Istanbul<br />
21 (12-17-21) 53 GRE Panathinaikos Athinai<br />
22 (13-13-24) 52 GRE Olympiacos Pirea<br />
23 (11-11-28) 44 BEL Anderlecht Bruxelles<br />
24 (07-20-21) 43 FRA Olympique Marseille<br />
25 (08-16-26) 40 UKR Dynamo Kyiv<br />
26 (06-21-23) 39 NOR Rosenborg Trondheim<br />
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<br /></div>
-----Game 102-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-05-17 NCu - Bayern 2 Dortmund 0 <br />
(Arjen Robben, Thomas Müller)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-04-12 NLe - Bayern 0 Dortmund 3 <br />
(Henrik Mkhitarian, Marco reus, Jonas Hoffman)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-11-24 NLe - Bayern 3 Dortmund 0 <br />
(Mario Götze, Arjen Robben, Thomas Müller)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>And that's the end of the EFCL season, finishing, as it started, with a game between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. Last year they were playing the Champions League final, this time it was "just" the German cup, but with this result Bayern retain the domestic double, and despite surrendering their European crown to a team from Madrid, this result means that they finish the 2013-14 season as EFCL winners on 96 points, two above Real Madrid and five above Liverpool.</b></div>
<br />
-----Game 101-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-05-11 NLe - Roma 0 Juventus 1 <br />
(Pablo Osvaldo)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-01-21 NCu - Roma 1 Juventus 0 <br />
(Gervinho)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-01-05 NLe - Juventus 3 Roma 0 <br />
(Arturo Vidal, Leonardo Bonucci, Mirko Vucinic)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>A league double for Juve over Roma is completed, and Juve win Serie A leaving Roma in second, but in the EFCL Roma finish two points above the Turinese.</b></div>
<br />
-----Game 100-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-05-10 NLe - Porto 2 Benfica 1 <br />
(Ricardo Pereira, Jackson Martínez; Enzo Pérez)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-04-27 NLC - Porto 0 Benfica 0<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-04-16 NCu - Benfica 3 Porto 1 <br />
(Eduardo Salvio, Enzo Pérez, André Gomes; Silvestre Varela)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>A storm of classicos in Portugal saw the big two play three times in less than a month, in three different competitions. After the smoke clears, Benfica are the real-life winners, but in EFCL terms Porto have the last laugh, with a six-point swing that takes the Dragons above the Eagles for the year, 61 points to 59 for 16th place.</b></div>
<br />
-----Games 97, 98, 99-----<br />
<br />
<span lang="PT">Incoming game: 2014-05-04 NLe - Real Madrid 2 Valencia 2 <br />
(Sergio Ramos, Cristiano Ronaldo; Jeremy Mathieu, Daniel Parejo)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-12-22 NLe - Valencia 2 Real Madrid 3 <br />
(Pablo Piatti, Jérémy Mathieu; Ángel Di María, Cristiano Ronaldo, Jesé Rodríguez)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-01-23 NLe - Real Madrid 1 Valencia 1 <br />
(Karim Benzema, Ricardo Costa)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
<span lang="EN">Incoming game: 2014-05-04 NLe - Milan 1 Inter 0 <br />
(Nigel de Jong)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-12-22 NLe - Inter 1 Milan 0 <br />
(Rodrigo Palacio)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-02-24 NLe - Inter 1 Milan 1 <br />
(Stephan El Shaarawy; Schelotto)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
<span lang="EN">Incoming game: 2014-05-04 NLe - Marseille 4 Lyon 2 <br />
(Souleymane Diawara, Florian Thauvin, André-Pierre Gignac 2; Arnold Mvuemba, Bafétimbi Gomis)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-01-15 NLC- Lyon 2 Marseille 1 <br />
(Yoann Gourcuff, Bafétimbi Gomis; André-Pierre Gignac)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-12-15 NLe - Lyon 2 Marseille 2 <br />
(Alexandre Lacazette, Bafétimbi Gomis; André-Pierre Gignac, Florian Thauvin) </span> </span><strong>Very important result in Spain, as this draw makes Real Madrid lose most of their probabilities of winning the Spanish league and also all the probabilities to top the EFCL at the end of the season. This is Real's last EFCL-eligible game of 2013-14, and they won't be able to add any more points to the 94 they currently have, two fewer than Bayern. In Italy, Milan win the city derby, to go level on EFCL points with new league champions Juventus (Inter remain 9th despite the lost point). None of these Italian giants will play in Europe next season, though. In France, Marseille obtain a much-needed victory, both in EFCL terms, to flee from the bottom of the table, and in the French league to seek European football next season too.</strong></span><strong></strong><br />
-----Game 96-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-05-01 ESF - Juventus 0 Benfica 0<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-04-24 ESF- Benfica 2 Juventus 1 <br />
(Ezequiel Garay, Rodrigo Lima; Carlos Tévez)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 1993-03-16 UQF - Juventus 3 Benfica 0 <br />
(Jürgen Kohler, Roberto Baggio, Fabrizio Ravanelli)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>Benfica go through to the Europa League final, which will be played at, of all places, Juventus's own stadium, while the Champions League final is played at, of all places, Benfica's own stadium. Juve are 12th and Benfica 15th.</b></div>
<br />
-----Game 95-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-29 CSF - Bayern 0 Real Madrid 4 <br />
(Sergio Ramos 2, Cristiano Ronaldo 2)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-04-23 CSF - Bayern 1 Real Madrid 0 <br />
(Karim Benzema)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2012-04-25 CSF - Real Madrid 2 Bayern 1 <br />
(Cristiano Ronaldo 2; Arjen Robben)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>A great victory for Real Madrid confirming the whites in second place in the EFCL table and through to the Champions Lague final. The day after this match, Atlético Madrid eliminated Chelsea in the other semifinal, so this year's final won't be EFCL-eligible, as Atlético are not members (and, having played just 37 Champions League matches since 1992, they are still only half-way of the 70 required for EFCL entry)</b></div>
<br />
-----Game 94-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-27 NLC - Porto 0 Benfica 0<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-04-16 NCu - Benfica 3 Porto 1 <br />
(Eduardo Salvio, Enzo Pérez, André Gomes; Silvestre Varela)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-03-26 NCu - Porto 1 Benfica 0 <br />
(Jackson Martínez)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>Fourth time in four 2014 months that these two teams have met, now in the League Cup. Benfica won on penalties, but for EFCL purposes that's just a draw for both teams. Benfica also leapfrog their compatriots into 16th place to complete a clean sweep over them: they win the league, beat Porto in both domestic cup competition, go further in Europe (both teams dropped from the Champions League to the Europa League) and go above them in the EFCL.</b></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
-----Game 93-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-27 NLe - Liverpool 0 Chelsea 2 <br />
(Demba Ba, Willian)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-12-29 NLe - Chelsea 2 Liverpool 1 <br />
(Eden Hazard, Samuel Eto’o; Martin Skrtel)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-04-21 NLe - Liverpool 2 Chelsea 2 <br />
(Daniel Sturridge, Luis Suárez; Óscar, Eden Hazard)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>Liverpool's steamroller to a long-awaited league title is derailed by a cagey Chelsea hitting twice on the counter. In the EFCL table, both teams remain where they are, Liverpool 3rd and Chelsea 6th.</b></div>
<br />
-----Game 92-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-26 NLe - Leverkusen 2 Dortmund 2 <br />
(Lars Bender, Gonzalo Castro; Oliver Kirch, Marco Reus)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-12-08 NLe - Dortmund 0 Leverkusen 1 <br />
(Son Heung-Min)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-02-05 NLe - Leverkusen 2 Dortmund 3 <br />
(Stefan Reinartz 2; Marco Reus, Jakub Blasczykowski, Robert Lewandowski)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>Dortmund go down to 9th on 76 points, Leverkusen go up to 18th on 59.</b></div>
<br />
-----Game 91-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-25 NLe - Roma 2 Milan 0 <br />
(Miralem Pjanic, Gervinho)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-12-16 NLe - Milan 2 Roma 2 <br />
(Cristián Zapata, Sulley Muntari; Mattia Destro, Kevin Strootman)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-05-12 NLe - Milan 0 Roma 0<br />
<br />
<b>Roma go up to 11th on 71 points, Milan remain 13th on 67.</b><br />
<div>
<br /></div>
-----Game 90-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-24 ESF - Benfica 2 Juventus 1 <br />
(Ezequiel Garay, Rodrigo Lima; Carlos Tévez)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 1993-03-16 UQF - Juventus 3 Benfica 0 <br />
(Jürgen Kohler, Roberto Baggio, Fabrizio Ravanelli)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 1993-03-04 UQF - Benfica 2 Juventus 1 <br />
(Vítor Paneira 2; Gianluca Vialli)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>The Europa League pitches in with a EFCL-eligible semifinal. Nineteen years later, the same result, a 2-1 win for Benfica, so no changes in the table</b>.</div>
<br />
-----Game 89-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-23 CSF - Bayern 1 Real Madrid 0 <br />
(Karim Benzema)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2012-04-25 CSF - Real Madrid 2 Bayern 1<br />
(Cristiano Ronaldo 2; Arjen Robben)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2012-04-17 CSF - Bayern 2 Real Madrid 1<br />
(Franck Ribéry, Mario Gómez; Mesut Özil)<br />
<br />
<b>What a great week for Real Madrid in the EFCL. With this victory, coming in for a defeat in Munich two years before, the Spanish side come within two points of Bayern in the table. However, Real are defending a victory in the return leg of this semifinal, so this might me short-lived. Watch this space.</b><br />
<div>
<br /></div>
-----Games 87, 88-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-16 NCF - Real Madrid 2 Barcelona 1 <br />
(Ángel Di María, Gareth Bale; Marc Bartra)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-03-23 NLe - Real Madrid 3 Barcelona 4 <br />
(Karim Benzema 2, Cristiano Ronaldo; Andrés Iniesta, Lionel Messi 3)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-10-26 NLe - Barcelona 2 Real Madrid 1 <br />
(Neymar, Alexis Sánchez; Jesé Rodríguez)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-16 NCu - Benfica 3 Porto 1 <br />
(Eduardo Salvio, Enzo Pérez, André Gomes; Silvestre Varela)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-03-26 NCu - Porto 1 Benfica 0 <br />
(Jackson Martínez)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2014-01-12 NLe - Benfica 2 Porto 0 <br />
(Rodrigo Lima, Ezequiel Garay)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>What a Copa del Rey final and what a goal by Gareth Bale to win it and take Real ahead of Barça in the EFCL table. Across the border in Portugal, Benfica eliminate Porto in the semifinals of the Cup, but both teams remain where they are in the table.</b></div>
<br />
-----Game 86-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-12 NLe - Bayern 0 Dortmund 3<br />
(Henrik Mkhitarian, Marco Reus, Jonas Hoffmann)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-11-24 NLe - Dortmund 0 Bayern 3 <br />
(Mario Götze, Arjen Robben, Thomas Müller)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-07-27 NSC - Bayern 2 Dortmund 4 <br />
(Marco Reus, Daniel van Buyten og, Ilkay Gundogan, Marco Reus; Arjen Robben 2)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>Having won the Bundesliga in record time, Bayern then relaxed and lost two league games in quick succession, including this one. A pity in EFCL terms, as a win in this game would have taken the Bavarians above the 100-point mark. As it is, both teams remain where they are and they could still meet in the German cup final, if they win their semifinals next week.</b></div>
<br />
-----Game 85-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-10 EQF - Juventus 2 Lyon 1 <br />
(Andrea Pirlo, Samuel Umtiti og; Jeremy Briand)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-04-03 EQF - Lyon 0 Juventus 1 <br />
(Leonardo Bonucci)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>And a new set of results is completed: Juventus 6 points, Lyon 0 points. Harsh, but it happens. Juve are all but Italian champions once again, and it looks like Lyon won't be in the Champions League next season (maybe not in European football at all), so revenge might take a while.</b></div>
<br />
-----Game 84-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-10 CQF - Bayern 3 Manchester United 1 <br />
(Mario Mandzukic, Thomas Müller, Arjen Robben; Patrice Evra)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-04-01 CQF - Manchester United 1 Bayern 1 <br />
(Nemanja Vidic; Bastian Schweinsteiger)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2010-04-07 CQF - Manchester United 3 Bayern 2 <br />
(Darron Gibson, Nani 2; Ivica Olic, Arjen Robben)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>With this victory, Bayern reach 99 EFCL points and extend their lead at the top of the table to 7 points over Liverpool. It's not only winning games, it's winning them against teams you had lost the outgoing game to. United lose three points, but they remain 5th, 16 points off the pace. Bayern, 4 points, United 1 point.</b></div>
<br />
-----Game 83-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-08 CQF - Dortmund 2 Real Madrid 0 <br />
(Marco Reus 2)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-04-02 CQF- Real Madrid 3 Dortmund 0 <br />
(Gareth Bale, Isco, Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-04-30 CSF - Real Madrid 2 Dortmund 0 <br />
(Karim Benzema, Sergio Ramos)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>And this is a good example of one of the weaknesses of the EFCL: in an actual league system, Real Madrid would not accept a 2-0 defeat away to a mid-table team, but in the Champions League quarter-finals, when 3-0 ahead, Real were happy to take that defeat, because there were no points at stake, just a place in the semifinals. In EFCL terms, though, this reverses last week's gains: Real lose three points and one place (to Barcelona, of all teams), to go down to 4th, while Dortmund go back up to 7th. Until they meet again, it's Real Madrid 3 points, Dortmund 3 points.</b></div>
<br />
-----Game 82-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-03 EQF Lyon 0 Juventus 1<br />
(Leonardo Bonucci)<br />
<br />
<b>It's always nice when other European competitions apart from the Champions League pitch in with a tie or two, and in this case the Europa League serves up a first-ever meeting between two teams, which is even nicer. After being eliminated from the Champions League by Galatasaray, this year's Europa League final will be in Turin, and Juventus take a big stride towards the semifinals with this away victory in France. Per EFCL rules, this result comes in for a 0-0 placeholder, meaning that Juve gain two points and Lyon lose one. Juve also overtake Milan in the EFCL table and tie with Roma on 69 points for 11th place.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 81-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-02 CQF - Real Madrid 3 Dortmund 0 <br />
(Gareth Bale, Isco, Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-04-30 CSF - Real Madrid 2 Dortmund 0 <br />
(Karim Benzema, Sergio Ramos)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-04-24 CSF - Dortmund 4 Real Madrid 1 <br />
(Robert Lewandowski 4; Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
<br />
<b>Boy, are Real relieved to see that 4-1 defeat leave the EFCL table. And it's a 6-point swing with a vengeance, too, as the Spanish side are now the one with the three-goal victory, and they overtake Barcelona for thrid place, only one point behind Liverpool and five behind Bayern. Dortmund lose two places in the table, to joint 8th.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 80-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-04-01 CQF - Manchester United 1 Bayern 1 <br />
(Nemanja Vidic; Bastian Schweinsteiger)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2010-04-07 CQF - Manchester United 3 Bayern 2 <br />
(Darron Gibson, Nani 2; Ivica Olic, Arjen Robben)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2010-03-30 CQF - Bayern 2 Manchester United 1 <br />
(Franck Ribéry, Ivica Olic; Wayne Rooney)<br />
<br />
<b>Bayern went into this game as big favourites, but they just came out with a draw, which in EFCL terms makes them lose two points, while United gain one. Bayern still lead the table by four points over Liverpool, while United remain 5th.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 79-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-03-26 NCu - Porto 1 Benfica 0 (Jackson Martínez)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-01-12 NLe - Benfica 2 Porto 0 <br />
(Rodrigo Lima, Ezequiel Garay)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-05-05 NLe - Porto 2 Benfica 1 <br />
(Kelvin de Oliveira, Maxi Pereira; Rodrigo Lima)<br />
<br />
<b>The two Portuguese teams in the EFCL have been drawn together in the semifinals of the national cup competition, which is a two-legged affair, so these teams will face each other four times this season... and they could still meet in the Europa League. No changes in the EFCL table, with Porto renewing their outgoing victory.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 78-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-03-23 NLe - Real Madrid 3 Barcelona 4 <br />
(Karim Benzema 2, Cristiano Ronaldo; Andrés Iniesta, Lionel Messi 3)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-10-26 NLe - Barcelona 2 Real Madrid 1 <br />
(Neymar, Alexis Sánchez; Jesé Rodríguez)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-03-02 NLe - Real Madrid 2 Barcelona 1 <br />
(Karim Benzema, Sergio Ramos; Lionel Messi)<br />
<br />
<b>Tremendous drama both in the Spanish Liga and in the much more important EFCL: with this victory Barcelona achieve the league double over Real, climb up to only a point behind the Madrid team in Spain and overtake the Blancos in the EFCL table, to take 3rd place in a 6-point turnaround: Barça go from 87 to 90 points and Real down from 91 to 88. 2-2 at the break, the game featured three penalties in the second half, two of them for Barça to score the last two goals of the game, to complete a Leo Messi hat-trick, who became the top scorer ever in Spanish Clásicos. Barça led 1-0, Real led 2-1 and 3-2 before the dramatic finale.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 77-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-03-22 NLe - Chelsea 6 Arsenal 0 <br />
(Samuel Eto'o, Andre Schürrle, Eden Hazard, Óscar 2, Mohamed Salah) <br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-12-23 NLe - Arsenal 0 Chelsea 0<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-10-29 NLC - Arsenal 0 Chelsea 2 <br />
(César Azpilicueta, Juan Mata)<br />
<br />
<b>In EFCL terms, this is just a like-for-like result, but in the Premier League this is a huge victory for Chelsea on Arsène Wenger's 1000th game as Arsenal manager. The game featured two early goals and a mistaken-identity sending-off, as Kieran Gibbs was red-carded for a handball committed by teammate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 76-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-03-19 C8F - Manchester United 3 Olympiacos 0 <br />
(Robin van Persie 3)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-02-25 C8F - Olympiacos 2 Manchester United 0 <br />
(Alejandro Domínguez, Joel Campbell)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2002-10-23 CGS - Olympiacos 2 Manchester United 3 <br />
(Lambros Choutos, Predrag Djordjevic; Laurent Blanc, Juan Verón, Paul Scholes)<br />
<br />
<b>A real shot in the arm for Manchester United, whose only chance to return to the Champions League next year is to win it this time, due to their bad season in the Engish league. After losing 2-0 in Greece, a Van Persie treble turned the tie around and put United in the last eight. But in EFCL terms it is United 3 points, Olympiacos 3 points over the two games.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 75-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-03-18 C8F - Chelsea 2 Galatasaray 0 <br />
(Samuel Eto'o, Gary Cahill)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-02-26 C8F - Galatasaray 1 Chelsea 1 <br />
(Aurelien Chedjou; Fernando Torres)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 1999-10-20 CGS - Galatasaray 0 Chelsea 5 <br />
(Tore Andre Flo 2, Gianfranco Zola, Dennis Wise, Gabriele Ambrosetti)<br />
<br />
<b>Didier Drogba returned to Stamford Bridge for the first time since he won Chelsea the Champions League two years previously, but the London club delivered a typically controlled performance and qualified for the 2014 quarter-finals without much trouble. Chelsea 4 points, Galatasaray 1 point.</b><br />
<br />
----Game 74-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-03-16 NLe - Manchester United 0 Liverpool 3 <br />
(Steven Gerrard 2, Luis Suárez)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-09-25 LCu - Manchester United 1 Liverpool 0 <br />
(Javier Hernández)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-09-01 NLe - Liverpool 1 Manchester United 0 <br />
(Daniel Sturridge)<br />
<br />
<b>Liverpool do the league double over United, but in EFCL terms there's the small matter of a league cup game in between both, so it remains at one victory for each. United had three penalties given against them (the last one for a Daniel Sturridge dive, promptly missed by Steven Gerrard, who also thus missed on an Old Trafford hat-trick) before Suárez finished the rout.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 73-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-03-15 NLe - Bayern 2 Leverkusen 1 <br />
(Mario Mandzukic, Bastian Schweinsteiger; Stefan Kiessling)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-10-05 NLe - Leverkusen 1 Bayern 1 <br />
(Sidney Sam; Toni Kroos)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-03-16 NLe - Leverkusen 1 Bayern 2 <br />
(Simon Rolfes; Mario Gómez, Philip Wollscheid og)<br />
<br />
<b>Nothing new here: a 2-1 draw in for another, and Bayern continue their triumphal march in the Bundesliga (W23 D2 L0, 23 points ahead) and the EFCL.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game72-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-03-11 C8F - Bayern 1 Arsenal 1 <br />
(Bastian Schweinsteiger; Lukas Podolski)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-02-19 C8F - Arsenal 0 Bayern 2 <br />
(Toni Kroos, Thomas Müller)<br />
<br />
Ougoing game: 2013-03-13 C8F - Bayern 0 Arsenal 2 <br />
(Olivier Giroud, Laurent Koscielny)<br />
<br />
<b>Bayern earn a point to total 98 and extend their lead at the top of the EFCL to 6 points over second-placed Liverpool. It was none other than former Bayern boy Lukas Podolski who kept the German side from getting to the 100-point mark when he scored his equaliser. Arsenal lose two and remain 10th on 71 points. Until they meet again, Bayern 4 points, Arsenal 1 point.</b><br />
<div>
<br /></div>
-----Games 70, 71-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-03-02 NLe - Olympiacos 0 Panathinaikos 3<br />
(Danijel Pranjic, Marcus Berg, Mehdi Abeid)<br />
<br />
Remainig game: 2013-11-02 NLe - Panathinaikos 0 Olympiacos 1<br />
(Konstantinos Mitroglou)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-04-14 NLe - Olympiacos 1 Panathinaikos 1<br />
(Konstantinos Mitroglou; Luciano Figueroa)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-03-02 NLe - Milan 0 Juventus 2<br />
(Fernando Llorente, Carlos Tévez)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-10-06 NLe - Juventus 3 Milan 2<br />
(Andrea Pirlo, Sebastian Giovinco, Giorgio Chiellini; Sulley Muntari 2)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-04-21 NLe - Milan 0 Juventus 1<br />
(Arturo Vidal)<br />
<br />
<b>With this unexpectadly clear victory Panathinaikos not only stop Olympiacos from winning the Greek league in record time, but in EFCL terms they go above their rivals in the table, 53 points to 52. Olympiacos had gone ahead after their fine victory over Manchester United in the Champions League a few days before, but now they have to give the bragging rights back. Meanwhile, in Italy Juventus successfully defend their current victory against Milan (they have got the measure of the Rossoneri lately) and go 9 points ahead of the pack as leaders of Serie A.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 69-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-03-01 NLe - Roma 0 Internazionale 0<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-10-05 NLe - Internazionale 0 Roma 3<br />
(Francesco Totti 2, Alessandro Florenzi)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-04-17 NCu - Internazionale 2 Roma 3<br />
(Jonathan Moreira, Ricardo Álvarez; Mattia Destro 2, Vassilis Torosidis)<br />
<br />
<b>A tense but forgettable 0-0 draw in which Inter earn an EFCL point and Roma lose two, but they both remain where they are on the table, 9th and 11th respectively.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 68-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-02-27 U16 - Valencia 0 Dynamo Kiev 0<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-02-20 U16 - Dynamo Kiev 0 Valencia 2<br />
(Eduardo Vargas, Domagoj Vida og)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2009-02-26 U16 - Valencia 2 Dynamo Kiev 2<br />
(Carlos Marchena, Asier del Horno; Artem Kravets)<br />
<br />
<b>Valencia hold on for a draw and qualify for the last 16 of the Europa League. The tie ends up in the same way it turned out five years earlier: Valencia 4 points, Dynamo 1 point.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 67-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-02-26 C8F - Galatasaray 1 Chelsea 1<br />
(Aurelien Chedjou; Fernando Torres)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 1999-10-20 CGS - Galatasaray 0 Chelsea 5<br />
(Tore Andre Flo 2, Gianfranco Zola, Dennis Wise, Gabriele Ambrosetti)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 1999-09-29 CGS - Chelsea 1 Galatasaray 0<br />
(Dan Petrescu)<br />
<br />
<b>Fifteen years after their last meeting, Chelsea lose two points and Galatasaray gain one, but they both remain where they are in the EFCL table (6th and 20th). This draw is Chelsea's 25th and Gala's 26th out of 50 EFCL-eligible games, which makes these two kings of the draws, together with Milan, also on 26.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 66-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-02-25 C8F - Olympiacos 2 Manchester United 0<br />
(Alejandro Domínguez, Joel Campbell)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2002-10-23 CGS - Olympiacos 2 Manchester United 3<br />
(Lambros Choutos, Predrag Djordjevic; Laurent Blanc, Juan Verón, Paul Scholes)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2002-10-01 CGS - Manchester United 4 Olympiacos 0<br />
(Juan Verón, Ryan Giggs 2, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer)<br />
<br />
<b>What a difference from the tie 12 years ago (Ryan Giggs is still around, though). Olympiacos give themselves a good chance of reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and (what matters most), with today's victory, they go above Panathinaikos in the EFCL (53 points to 51), so they conquer Greek bragging rights to go with their domestic dominance. United, leaders of the EFCL before this blog went live, now surrender 4th place to Barcelona and fall 12 points below Bayern.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 65-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-02-20 U16 - Dynamo Kiev 0 Valencia 2<br />
(Eduardo Vargas, Domagoj Vida og)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2009-02-26 U16 - Valencia 2 Dynamo Kiev 2<br />
(Carlos Marchena, Asier del Horno; Artem Kravets)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2009-02-18 U16 - Dynamo Kiev 1 Valencia 1<br />
(Raúl Albiol og; David Silva)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<b>Most of the time the EFCL matches are played in domestic competition or in the Champions League, but it's always nice when the Europa League pitches in with a tie. In this case, Valencia and Dynamo meet eight years after the last time, when the Ukrainians qualified on away goals after two draws. This match was played in Nicosia (Cyprus) because of the civil unrest in Kiev (at exactly the same hour, another Europa League match in Dnipropetrovsk between Dnipro and Tottenham did go ahead in Ukraine, though). Valencia got an important "away" victory, including an own goal in injury time, which is kind of karmic, as the last time Dynamo played home to Valencia, Raúl Albiol scored against his own team. Valencia earn two points in the EFCL, but they remain 8th, and Dynamo also remain where they are, 25th out of 26, only one poin off the foot of the table. If the Ukrainians lose the return at the Mestalla, they will share bottom place with perennial table-proppers Rosenborg.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 64-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-02-19 C8F - Arsenal 0 Bayern 2<br />
(Toni Kroos, Thomas Müller)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-03-13 C8F - Bayern 0 Arsenal 2<br />
(Olivier Giroud, Laurent Koscielny)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-02-19 C8F - Arsenal 1 Bayern 3<br />
(Lukas Podolski; Toni Kroos, Thomas Müller, Mario Mandzukic)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>Fourth consecutive appearance by Arsenal in the EFCL, producing the same result as exactly 365 days before: a home defeat to Bayern Munich. In this game, though, both teams missed a penalty (Mesut Özil and David Alaba) and Arsenal had their goalkeeper, Wojciech Szczesny, sent off. Both teams remain 10th and 1st, respectively, and Bayern have a chance to add to their points tally if they avoid defeat in the return match.</b></div>
<br />
-----Game 63-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-02-16 NCu - Arsenal 2 Liverpool 1<br />
(Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lukas Podolski; Steven Gerrard)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-02-08 NLe - Liverpool 5 Arsenal 1<br />
(Martin Skrtel 2, Raheem Sterling 2, Daniel Sturridge; Mikel Arteta)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-11-02 NLe - Arsenal 2 Liverpool 0<br />
(Santiago Cazorla, Aaron Ramsey)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>Third consecutive appearance by Arsenal in the EFCL in the space of 8 days. And against Liverpool, too, whom they played the previous week in the League and now in the FA Cup. The Gunners' victory comes in to substitute for their league win back in November, so everything remains the same in the table: Liverpool 2nd, Arsenal 10th.</b></div>
<br />
-----Game 62-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-02-12 NLe - Arsenal 0 Manchester United 0<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-11-09 NLe - Manchester United 1 Arsenal 0<br />
(Robin van Persie)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-04-28 NLe - Arsenal 1 Manchester United 1<br />
(Theo Walcott; Robin van Persie)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>Everything remains as it was, as this 0-0 draw comes in for a 1-1 draw from the previous year. United stay 4th and Arsenal 10th.</b></div>
<br />
-----Game 61-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-02-08 NLe - Liverpool 5 Arsenal 1<br />
(Martin Skrtel 2, Raheem Sterling 2, Daniel Sturridge; Mikel Arteta)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-11-02 NLe - Arsenal 2 Liverpool 0<br />
(Santiago Cazorla, Aaron Ramsey)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-01-30 NLe - Arsenal 2 Liverpool 2<br />
(Luis Suárez, Jordan Henderson; Olivier Giroud, Theo Walcott)<br />
<br />
<b>For a team that hasn't been in the Champions League for years, Liverpool are really punching above their weight in the EFCL. With this victory over Arsenal, they gain two valuable points and overtake Real Madrid to go second on 92 points, five behind leaders Bayern. The Gunners lose a point, but remain 10th.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 60-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-02-02 NLe - Juventus 3 Inter 1<br />
(Stephan Lichtsteiner, Andrea Pirlo, Arturo Vidal; Rolando)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-09-14 NLe - Inter 1 Juventus 1<br />
(Mauro Icardi; Arturo Vidal)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-03-31 NLe - Inter 1 Juventus 2<br />
(Rodrigo Palacio; Fabio Quagliarella, Alessandro Matri)<br />
<br />
<b>Juventus continue their unstoppable march in Serie A with a victory in the Derby d'Italia, but in EFCL terms, things remain as they are, as the new result comes in for another Juve victory from a year ago. Inter remain 9th, Juve 13th.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 59-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-02-01 NLe - Barcelona 2 Valencia 3<br />
(Alexis Sánchez, Lionel Messi; Pablo Piatti, Daniel Parejo, Francisco Alcacer)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-09-01 NLe - Valencia 2 Barcelona 3<br />
(Hélder Postiga 2; Lionel Messi 3)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-02-03 NLe - Valencia 1 Barcelona 1<br />
(Éver Banega, Lionel Messi)<br />
<br />
<b>An extraordinary surprise as Valencia, this season a struggling mid-table team, win away at Barça for only the 12th time in 79 league attempts. In the process, this result blows the Spanish title race wide open and makes Barcelona lose two points in the EFCL, sending the Catalans down to fifth in the table. Valencia gain a place, up to 8th, on 78 points.</b><br />
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-----Game 58-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-01-21 NCu - Roma 1 Juventus 0<br />
(Gervinho)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2014-01-05 NLe - Juventus 3 Roma 0<br />
(Arturo Vidal, Leonardo Bonucci, Mirko Vucinic)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-02-16 NLe - Roma 1 Juventus 0<br />
(Francesco Totti)<br />
<br />
<b>Second time in 16 days for these two to square off against each other and, as before, the new result is the same as the outgoing match's (in this case identical, a 1-0 victory for Roma). Anyway, none of these two games will last the season, as they will be substituted by the return leg of this domestic cup tie and a Serie A match in the spring.</b><br />
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-----Games 56, 57-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-01-19 NLe - Chelsea 3 Manchester United 1<br />
(Samuel Eto'o 3; Javier Hernández)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-08-26 NLe - Manchester United 0 Chelsea 0<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-05-06 NLe - Manchester United 0 Chelsea 1<br />
(Juan Mata)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-01-19 NLe - Ajax 1 PSV 0<br />
(Kolbein Sigthorsson)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-09-22 NLe - PSV 4 Ajax 0<br />
(Tim Matavz, Jetro Willems, Oscar Hiljemark, Ji-sung Park)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-04-14 NLe - PSV 2 Aja 3<br />
(Lens 2; Fischer, Eriksen, Boerrigter)<br />
<br />
<b>Chelsea and Ajax's victories come in for two wins from last spring, so things remain as they were in the table: United joint 4th, Chelsea 6th, Ajax 15th, PSV 18th.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 55-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-01-15 NLC - Lyon 2 Marseille 1<br />
(Yoann Gourcuff, Bafétimbi Gomis; André-Pierre Gignac)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-12-15 NLe - Lyon 2 Marseille 2<br />
(Alexandre Lacazette, Bafétimbi Gomis; André-Pierre Gignac, Florian Thauvin)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-03-11 NLe - Lyon 0 Marseille 0<br />
<br />
<b>A League Cup fixture gives Lyon the chance to get a couple of points to remain 14th on 66, while Marseille now share the penultimate place with Dynamo Kiev, just two points ahead of perennial table-proppers Rosenborg.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 54-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-01-12 NLe - Benfica 2 Porto 0<br />
(Rodrigo Lima, Ezequiel Garay)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-05-05 NLe - Porto 2 Benfica 1<br />
(Kelvin de Oliveira, Maxi Pereira; Rodrigo Lima)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-01-13 NLe - Benfica 2 Porto 2<br />
(Nemanja Matic, Walter Gaitán; Eliaquim Mangala, Jackson Martínez)<br />
<br />
<b>After this game, both Portuguese teams have 60 points and share 16th place.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 53-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2014-01-05 NLe - Juventus 3 Roma 0<br />
(Arturo Vidal, Leonardo Bonucci, Mirko Vucinic)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-02-16 NLe - Roma 1 Juventus 0<br />
(Francesco Totti)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2012-09-30 NLe - Juventus 4 Roma 1<br />
(Andrea Pirlo, Arturo Vidal, Alessandro Matri, Sebastian Giovinco; Pablo Osvaldo)<br />
<br />
<b>First EFCL game of 2014. Juventus substitute a heavy defeat of Roma for another, so both teams remain where they are, Roma 11th and Juve 13th, four points apart. It was Roma's first Serie A defeat of the season, and the result confirms Juve as the big favourites to win the title. Roma had two men sent of when 2-0 down.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 52-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-12-29 NLe - Chelsea 2 Liverpool 1<br />
(Eden Hazard, Samuel Eto’o; Martin Skrtel)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-04-21 NLe - Liverpool 2 Chelsea 2<br />
(Daniel Sturridge, Luis Suárez; Óscar, Eden Hazard)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2012-11-11 NLe - Chelsea 1 Liverpool 1<br />
(John Terry; Luis Suárez)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>Last EFCL-eligible game of 2013. Liverpool lose one point and go down to third in the table, leaving Real Madrid alone in second. Chelsea gain again the two points they lost against Arsenal a week earlier, and remain sixth.</b></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
-----Game 51-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-12-23 NLe - Arsenal 0 Chelsea 0<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-10-29 NLC - Arsenal 0 Chelsea 2<br />
(César Azpilicueta; Juan Mata)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-01-20 NLe - Chelsea 2 Arsenal 1<br />
(Juan Mata, Frank Lampard; Theo Walcott)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>Arsenal lose the leadership of the Premier League to Liverpool on goal difference, but in EFCL terms, this is a positive result, as they earn one point to remain in 10th place. Chelsea lose two points, going down to 82, but remaining in 6th place, with 25 games drawn or not played.</b></div>
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<div>
-----Games 49, 50-----</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div>
Incoming game: 2013-12-22 NLe - Valencia 2 Real Madrid 3 </div>
<div>
(Pablo Piatti, Jérémy Mathieu; Ángel Di María, Cristiano Ronaldo, Jesé Rodríguez)</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Remaining game: 2013-01-23 NCu - Real Madrid 1 Valencia 1 </div>
<div>
(Karim Benzema, Ricardo Costa)</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Outgoing game: 2013-01-20 NLe - Valencia 0 Real Madrid 5 </div>
<div>
(Gonzalo Higuaín, Ángel Di María 2, Cristiano Ronaldo 2)</div>
</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
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<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div>
Incoming game: 2013-12-22 NLe - Inter 1 Milan 0 </div>
<div>
(Rodrigo Palacio)</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Remaining game : 2013-02-24 NLe - Inter 1 Milan 1 </div>
<div>
(Stephan El Shaarawy; Ezequiel Schelotto)</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Outgoing game: 2012-10-07 NLe - Milan 0 Inter 1 </div>
<div>
(Walter Samuel)</div>
</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>No changes in the EFCL table after these two matches. Real Madrid and Inter confirm victories against Valencia and Milan respectively. Madrid are 2nd, Inter 8th, Valencia 9th and Milan 12th.</b></div>
<br />
-----Game 48-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-12-16 NLe - Milan 2 Roma 2<br />
(Cristián Zapata, Sulley Muntari; Mattia Destro, Kevin Strootman)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-05-12 NLe - Milan 0 Roma 0<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2012-12-12 NLe - Roma 4 Milan 2<br />
(Nicolás Burdisso, Pablo Osvaldo, Erik Lamela 2; Giampaolo Pazzini, Bojan Krkic)<br />
<br />
<b>Roma 11th on 71 points, Milan 12th on 68 and Juventus 13th on 67. That's the Italian-populated middle of the EFCL table after this game. And, since you ask, the fourth in the quartet, Inter, are 8th on 77.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 47-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-12-15 NLe - Lyon 2 Marseille 2<br />
(Alexandre Lacazette, Bafétimbi Gomis; André-Pierre Gignac, Florian Thauvin)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-03-11 NLe - Lyon 0 Marseille 0<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2012-11-28 NLe - Marseille 1 Lyon 4<br />
(Loïc Remy; Bafétimbi Gomis 3, Steed Malbranque)<br />
<br />
<b>Lyon's debut in the EFCL this season, and unless we get lucky with the Europa League, this will be one of only two EFCL matches they will play this year (domestic cups apart). Marseille earn a much-needed point after their disastrous Champions League campaign (6 defeats in 6 games, four of them EFCL-eligible), to go third from bottom, while Lyon lose two points but no places in the table (14th).</b><br />
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-----Games 44, 45, 46-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-12-11 CGS - Galatasaray 1 Juventus 0<br />
(Wesley Sneijder)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-10-02 CGS - Juventus 2 Galatasaray 2<br />
(Arturo Vidal, Fabio Quagliarella; Didier Drogba, Umut Bulut)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2003-12-02 CGS - Galatasaray 2 Juventus 0<br />
(Hakan Sükür 2)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-12-11 CGS - Marseille 1 Dortmund 2<br />
(Souleymane Diawara; Robert Lewandowski, Kevin Grosskreutz)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-10-01 CGS - Dortmund 3 Marseille 0 (Robert Lewandowski 2, Marco Reus)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2011-12-06 CGS - Dortmund 2 Marseille 3<br />
(Jakub Blaszczykowski, Mats Hummels; Loïc Rémy, André Ayew, Mathieu Valbuena)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-12-11 CGS - Milan 0 Ajax 0<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-10-01 CGS - Ajax 1 Milan 1<br />
(Stefano Denswil; Mario Balotelli)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2010 12 08 CGS - Milan 0 Ajax 2<br />
(Demi De Zeeuw, Toby Alderweireld)<br />
<br />
---<br />
<br />
<b>Last day of the group stage in the 2013-14 Champions League. Galatasaray's game against Juventus was poised as a straight elimination match: whoever won would qualify for the Champions League round of 16, and in the case of a draw, the Italians would go through. After half an hour, a freak snowstorn over Istanbul had the game postponed until the following day at 2 PM. In the 85th minute, former Inter Milan player Sneijder scored and sent Juve out of the competition. As far as the EFCL is concerned, though, this is just a repeat result. In France, Dortmund needed a win to qualify, whereas already-eliminated Marseille were playing only to avoid the ignominy of ending the Champions League group stage with 0 points from 6 games. They couldn't do it, and to make matters worse, they lose one of the seven victories they had in the EFCL. Thus, they bacome the team with the least wins in the table (tied with Rosenborg), and only three points off sharing the foot of the table with the Norwegians. Dortmund gain three points, but they remain 7th. Over in Italy, Milan only needed a draw to qualify, whereas Ajax needed a win, and the rossoneri, having lost Riccardo Montolivo to a first-half red card, held on to the 0-0 which avoided what could have been a historic Italian whitewash on the day when Juve and Napoli were eliminated. Milan, besides, join Juventus on 67 points in 12th place in the EFCL.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 43-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-12-10 CGS - Olympiacos 3 Anderlecht 1<br />
(Javier Saviola 2, Alejandro Domínguez; Sacha Kljestan)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-10-02 CGS - Anderlecht 0 Olympiacos 3<br />
(Konstantinos Mitroglou 3)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 1974-11-06 C8F - Olympiacos 3 Anderlecht 0<br />
<br />
<b>Olympiacos retain their double over Anderlecht after a strangely eventful game in which the Belgian side received three red cards and had three penalties given against them, the last of which was conceded by the goalkeeper who had saved the first two (and was then sent off himself). Both teams remain 22nd and 23rd in the EFCL, and Olympiacos even qualify for the round of 16 of the Champions League.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 42-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-12-08 NLe - Dortmund 0 Leverkusen 1<br />
(Son Heung-Min)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-02-05 NLe - Leverkusen 2 Dortmund 3<br />
(Stefan Reinartz 2; Marco Reus, Jakub Blasczykowski, Robert Lewandowski)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2012-09-15 NLe - Dortmund 3 Leverkusen 0<br />
(Mats Hummels, Jakub Blasczykowski, Robert Lewandowski)<br />
<br />
<b>Second straight defeat (both at home) for Dortmund against domestic opposition, but despite losing three points in the EFCL, they remain 7th, on 78 points. Leverkusen gain three points and go up to joint 17th.</b><br />
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-----Games 39, 40, 41-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-11-27 CGS - Leverkusen 0 Manchester United 5<br />
(Luis Antonio Valencia, Emir Spahic og, Jonny Evans, Chris Smalling, Nani)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-09-17 CGS - Manchester United 4 Leverkusen 2<br />
(Wayne Rooney 2, Robin van Persie, Luis Antonio Valencia; Siomn Rolfes, Ömer Toprak)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2002-11-13 CGS - Manchester United 2 Leverkusen 0<br />
(Juan Verón, Ruud van Nistelrooy)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-11-27 CGS - Real Madrid 4 Galatasaray 1<br />
(Gareth Bale, Álvaro Arbeloa, David Di María, Isco; Umut Bulut)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-09-17 CGS - Galatasaray 1 Real Madrid 6<br />
(Umut Bulut; Isco, Cristiano Ronaldo 3, Karim Benzema 2)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-04-09 CQF - Galatasaray 3 Real Madrid 2<br />
(Emmanuel Eboué, Wesley Sneijder, Didier Drogba; Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game : 2013-11-27 CGS - Anderlecht 2 Benfica 3<br />
(Chancel Mbemba Mangulu, Massimo Bruno; Nemanja Matic, Chancel Mbemba Mangulu og, Rodrigo)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-09-17 CGS - Benfica 2 Anderlecht 0<br />
(Filip Djuricic, Luisao)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2004-08-24 CQR - Anderlecht 3 Benfica 0<br />
(Aruna Dindane 2, Nenad Jestrovic)<br />
<br />
<b>A busy Champions League midweek in the EFCL culminates with Real Madrid climbing up to joint second with Liverpool (on 91 points), after they replace last March's defeat against Galatasaray with a 4-1 home victory in which all the goals were scored with Madrid down to ten men due to Sergio Ramos being sent off. Manchester United also won, but they just confirm a win against Leverkusen from back in 2002. Finally, Anderlecht deepen their unwanted record as the team with the most defeats in the EFCL (28), although in points they still have two teams below them. Galatasaray and Benfica swap points tallies (55 to 58).</b><br />
<br />
-----Games 37, 38-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-11-27 CGS - Arsenal 2 Marseille 0<br />
(Jack Wilshere 2)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-09-18 CGS - Marseille 1 Arsenal 2<br />
(Jordan Ayew; Theo Walcott, Aaron Ramsey)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2011-10-19 CGS - Marseille 0 Arsenal 1<br />
(Aaron Ramsey)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-11-26 CGS - Ajax 2 Barcelona 1<br />
(Thulani Serero, Danny Hoesen; Xavi Hernández)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-09-18 CGS - Barcelona 4 Ajax 0<br />
(Lionel Messi 3, Gerard Piqué)<br />
<br />
<b>Helped by the fact that Marseille were already mathenatically out of the Champions League group stage and therefore decided to play an under-strength XI, Arsenal complete a double against them (6 points to 0). No movement in the EFCL table for any of them, though: the English team remain 10th, the French 24th. Meanwhile, over in the Netherlands, I find it a bit of poetic justice that Barcelona's first-ever official visit to Ajax has produced a victory for the local team. These two have taken too long to meet competitively, and given Ajax's huge influence on Barça's style, this is the kind of result that wouldn't be considered a surprise in the 70s or 90s. Until they meet again: Barcelona 3 points, Ajax 3 points. Ajax gain two points and remain 15th, but Barcelona's lost point sees them now having to share 3rd place on 88 points with Manchester United and... Real Madrid.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 36-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-11-24 NLe - Dortmund 0 Bayern 3<br />
(Mario Götze, Arjen Robben, Thomas Müller)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-07-27 NSC - Bayern 2 Dortmund 4<br />
(Arjen Robben 2; Marco Reus 2, Daniel van Buyten og, Ilkay Gündogan)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-05-25 CLF - Bayern 2 Dortmund 1<br />
(Mario Mandzukic, Arjen Robben; Ilkay Gündogan)<br />
<br />
<b>Just six months, and the 2013 Champions League Final result is already out of the EFCL. Bayern and Dortmund play each other for the fifth time in the calendar year, each of them in a different competition (12-13 Bundesliga, German Cup, Champions League, German Supercup, 13-14 Bundesliga), and Bayern retain their victory from May with the help of former Dortmund player Götze. Bayern remain top of the EFCL, Dortmund stay 7th.</b><br />
<br />
-----Game 35-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-11-09 NLe - Manchester United 1 Arsenal 0<br />
(Robin van Persie)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-04-28 NLe - Arsenal 1 Manchester United 1<br />
(Theo Walcott; Robin van Persie)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2012-11-03 NLe - Manchester United 2 Arsenal 1<br />
(Robin van Persie, Patrice Evra, Santiago Cazorla)<br />
<br />
<b>Robin van Persie can't stop scoring aginst his former team, and his goal today maintained the status quo. United retain their victory from twelve months previously, and with it their 4th place in the table on 88 points. Arsenal, who still lead the Premiership, but have never done particularly well in the EFCL, stay in 10th place on 73 points.</b><br />
<br />
-----Games 33, 34-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game : 2013-11-06 CGS - Dortmund 0 Arsenal 1<br />
(Aaron Ramsey)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-10-22 CGS - Arsenal 1 Dortmund 2<br />
(Olivier Giroud; Henrik Mkhitarian, Robert Lewandowski)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2011-11-23 CGS - Arsenal 2 Dortmund 1<br />
(Robin van Persie 2; Shinji Kagawa)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-11-06 CGS - Barcelona 3 Milan 1<br />
(Lionel Messi 2, Sergio Busquets; Gerard Piqué og)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-10-22 CGS - Milan 1 Barcelona 1<br />
(Robinho; Lionel Messi)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-03-12 C8F - Barcelona 4 Milan 0<br />
(Lionel Messi 2, David Villa, Jordi Alba)<br />
<br />
<b>Two more matches and no changes in the EFCL table. Both Arsenal and Barcelona successfully defended victories against Dortmund and Milan respectively. Arsenal 3 points - Dortmund 3 points, and Barcelona 4 points - Milan 1 point, the latter after playing each other for the fourth time in 2013.</b><br />
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-----Games 31, 32-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-11-05 CGS - Juventus 2 Real Madrid 2<br />
(Arturo Vidal, Fernando Llorente; Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-10-23 CGS - Real Madrid 2 Juventus 1<br />
(Cristiano Ronaldo 2; Fernando Llorente)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2008-11-05 CGS - Real Madrid 0 Juventus 2<br />
(Alessandro Del Piero 2)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-11-05 CGS - Olympiacos 1 Benfica 0<br />
(Konstantinos Manolas)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-10-23 CGS - Benfica 1 Olympiacos 1<br />
(Óscar Cardozo; Alejandro Domínguez)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2008-11-27 UGS - Olympiacos 5 Benfica 1<br />
(Hugo Galletti, Hristos Patsatzoglou, Diogo 2, Fernando Belluschi; David Luiz)<br />
<br />
Real Madrid could have overtaken Barcelona and Manchester United into third had they won, but with the point gained through this draw, they are now joint fourth with United on 88 points. Juventus lose two points, down to 67, but they manage not to lose any places in the table. Until they meet again, this match-up reads: Real Madrid 4 points - Juventus 1 point. In the other EFCL game of the day, Olympiacos retain their victory over Benfica, even if not with the brilliance of 2008. Both teams remain where they are, 22nd and 19th respectively. Olympiacos 4 points - Benfica 1 point.<br />
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-----Games 29, 30-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-11-02 NLe - Panathinaikos 0 Olympiacos 1<br />
(Konstantinos Mitroglou)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-04-14 NLe - Olympiacos 1 Panathinaikos 1<br />
(Konstantinos Mitroglou; Luciano Figueroa)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2012-12-09 NLe - Panathinaikos 2 Olympiacos 2<br />
(Charalampos Mavrias, Toché; Rafik Djebbour 2)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Incoming game : 2013-11-02 NLe - Arsenal 2 Liverpool 0<br />
(Santiago Cazorla, Aaron Ramsey)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-01-30 NLe - Arsenal 2 Liverpool 2<br />
(Luis Suárez, Jordan Henderson; Olivier Giroud, Theo Walcott)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2012-09-02 NLe - Liverpool 0 Arsenal 2<br />
(Lukas Podolski, Santiago Cazorla)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
In the Greek league Olympiacos have very much got the upper hand over their Athens rivals, but in the EFCL Panathinaikos are ahead by the slenderest of margins (51 points to 50), even after losing one point in stoppage time as a result of this game. They both retain their places in the table, 21st and 22nd respectively. In England, Arsenal and Liverpool got a like-for-like result, so they both remain where they were too (10th and 2nd respectively)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
-----Game 28-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-10-29 NLC - Arsenal 0 Chelsea 2<br />
(César Azpilicueta; Juan Mata)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-01-20 NLe - Chelsea 2 Arsenal 1<br />
(Juan Mata, Frank Lampard; Theo Walcott)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2012-09-30 NLe - Arsenal 1 Chelsea 2<br />
(Gervinho; Fernando Torres, Juan Mata)<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
This match will be rendered irrelevant as far as the EFCL is concerned before the season ends, as both teams will play each other at least twice more in the next few months. The new result from the English League Cup doesn't change anything in the EFCL table either, as Chelsea's victory is a like-for-like result.<br />
<br />
-----Game 27-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-10-26 NLe - Barcelona 2 Real Madrid 1<br />
(Neymar, Alexis Sánchez; Jesé Rodríguez)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-03-02 NLe - Real Madrid 2 Barcelona 1<br />
(Karim Benzema, Sergio Ramos; Lionel Messi)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-02-26 NCu - Barcelona 1 Real Madrid 3<br />
(Jordi Alba; Cristiano Ronaldo 2, Raphaël Varane)<br />
<br />
Spain's first clásico of the season restores parity between the two Spanish giants, and now they have a victory each. Two current wins for Real Madrid are a rarity lately, and Barça have put a remedy to that. The consequences of this result are quite profound, as Barcelona climb from 5th to 3rd on 89 points, Real slip down from 3rd to 5th on 87, while Manchester United remain 4th in between the two on 88.<br />
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-----Games 25, 26-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-10-23 CGS - Real Madrid 2 Juventus 1<br />
(Cristiano Ronaldo 2; Fernando Llorente)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2008-11-05 CGS - Real Madrid 0 Juventus 2<br />
(Alessandro Del Piero 2)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2008-10-21 CGS - Juventus 2 Real Madrid 1<br />
(Alessandro Del Piero, Amauri; Ruud van Nistelrooy)<br />
<br />
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<br />
Incoming game: 2013-10-23 CGS - Benfica 1 Olympicos 1<br />
(Óscar Cardozo; Alejandro Domínguez)<br />
<br />
Remaning game: 2008-11-27 UGS - Olympiacos 5 Benfica 1<br />
(Hugo Galletti, Hristos Patsatzoglou, Diogo 2, Fernando Belluschi; David Luiz)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: Ben 3 Oly 0 C8F - 1983-11-02<br />
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Real Madrid climb up to third in the EFCL table, on 90 points, overtaking manchester United, with their victory over Juventus, coming in for a 2008 defeat. In two weeks' time Juventus have to defend another win from five years ago, so Real could claim three more points and go up to second. Meanwhile, Juve remain 12th despite losing three points (they are on 69 now). At the bottom third of the table, Benfica' defence of a 1983 win was marred by the copious rain and their game against Olympiacos ended in a draw. The Portuguese team remain 19th, now on 55 points, and Olympiacos gain a valuable point (48 total) to overtake Anderlecht on to 22nd place.<br />
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-----Games 23, 24-----<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-10-22 CGS - Arsenal 1 Dortmund 2<br />
(Olivier Giroud; Henrik Mkhitarian, Robert Lewandowski)<br />
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Remaining game: 2011-11-23 CGS - Arsenal 2 Dortmund 1<br />
(Robin van Persie 2; Shinji Kagawa)<br />
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Outgoing game: 2011-09-13 CGS - Dortmund 1 Arsenal 1<br />
(Ivan Perisic; Robin van Persie)<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-10-22 CGS - Milan 1 Barcelona 1<br />
(Robinho; Lionel Messi)<br />
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Remaining game: 2013-03-12 C8F - Barcelona 4 Milan 0<br />
(Lionel Messi 2, David Villa, Jordi Alba)<br />
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Outgoing game: 2013-02-20 C8F - Mil 2 Bar 0<br />
(Kevin-Prince Boateng, Sulley Muntari)<br />
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Dortmund keep up their good form by collecting a couple of points away to Arsenal (79 to 81), although they don't improve their 7th place in the table. Arsenal lose a point (74 to 73) to remain 10th, equal with Roma now. On the lately-almost-yearly Milan v Barça fixture, the Spanish side exchange a defeat for a draw (staying 5th on 86 points), so they pick up a point, while the Italians lose two and they're 13th tied with Lyon on 66 points.<br />
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-----Game 22-----<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-10-06 NLe - Juventus 3 Milan 2<br />
(Andrea Pirlo, Sebastian Giovinco, Giorgio Chiellini; Sulley Muntari 2)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-04-21 NLe - Milan 0 Juventus 1<br />
(Arturo Vidal)<br />
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Outgoing game: 2013-01-09 NCu - Juventus 2 Milan 1<br />
(Sebastian Giovinco, Mirko Vucinic; Stephan El Shaarawy)<br />
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Juventus beat Milan for the third time in this calendar year, so both teams remain where they are, 12th and 13th in the EFCL on 72 and 68 points respectively. In Serie A, Juve are now 11 points ahead after only 7 matches.<br />
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-----Games 20 and 21-----<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-10-05 NLe - Leverkusen 1 Bayern 1<br />
(Sidney Sam; Toni Kroos)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-03-16 NLe - Leverkusen 1 Bayern 2<br />
(Simon Rolfes; Mario Gómez, Philip Wollscheid og)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2012-10-29 NLe - Bayern 1 Leverkusen 2<br />
(Mario Mandzukic; Stefan Kiessling, Sidney Sam)<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-10-05 NLe - Inter 0 Roma 3<br />
(Francesco Totti 2, Alessandro Florenzi)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-04-17 NCu - Inter 2 Roma 3<br />
(Jonathan Moreira, Ricardo Álvarez; Mattia Destro 2, Vassilis Torosidis)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2013-01-23 NCu - Roma 2 Inter 1<br />
(Alessandro Florenzi, Mattia Destro; Rodrigo Palacio)<br />
<br />
Bayern extend their lead at the top of the EFCL to six points (97 total) after gaining a point against Leverkusen, and they go top of the Bundesliga, too. Over in Italy, Roma are on fire at the moment, having won all of their first seven Serie A games of the season. However, today's victory came in for another one back in January, so Inter remain 8th on 77 points and Roma 11th on 73.<br />
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-----Games 18 and 19-----<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-10-02 CGS - Juventus 2 Galatasaray 2<br />
(Arturo Vidal, Fabio Quagliarella; Didier Drogba, Umut Bulut)<br />
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Remaining game: 2003-12-02 CGS - Galatasaray 2 Juventus 0<br />
(Hakan Sükür 2)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2003-09-17 CGS - Juventus 2 Galatasaray 1<br />
(Alessandro del Piero; Hakan Sükür)<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-10-02 CGS - Anderlecht 0 Olympiacos 3<br />
(Konstantinos Mitroglou 3)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 1974-11-06 C8F - Olympiacos 3 Anderlecht 0<br />
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Outgoing game: 1974-10-23 C8F - Anderlecht 5 Olympiacos 1<br />
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Plenty of movement today in the EFCL. Juventus lose two points (74 to 72) and two places (joint 10th to 12th), while Galatasaray earn a point (57 to 58) and go up a place (joint 18th to joint 17th with PSV). In the other game, a dramatic turnaround in fortunes as Anderlecht say goodbye to their best EFCL result, a 5-1 win from 1974 and see it replaced with a 0-3 defeat, courtesy of a Mitroglou hat-trick. This means a six-point turnaround in which both teams are now tied on 47 points, when they had started the day 50 and 43 in favour of the Belgian side. Olympiacos leave the bottom three too, to the detriment of Marseille.<br />
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-----Games 16 and 17-----<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-10-01 CGS - Ajax 1 Milan 1<br />
(Stefano Denswil; Mario Balotelli)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-12-08 CGS - Milan 0 Ajax 2<br />
(Demi De Zeeuw, Toby Alderweireld)<br />
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Outgoing game: 2010-09-28 CGS - Ajax 1 Milan 1<br />
(Mounir El Hamdaoui; Zlatan Ibrahimovic)<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-10-01 CGS - Dortmund 3 Marseille 0<br />
(Robert Lewandowski 2, Marco Reus)<br />
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Remaining game: 2011-12-06 CGS - Dortmund 2 Marseille 3<br />
(Jakub Blaszczykowski, Mats Hummels; Loïc Rémy, André Ayew, Mathieu Valbuena)<br />
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Outgoing game: 2011-09-28 CGS - Marseille 3 Dortmund 0<br />
(André Ayew 2, Loïc Rémy)<br />
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Ajax are a bit of a bogey side for Milan (let's remember that 1994 Champions League final), and today the Italian team failed to beat the Dutch again. The 1-1 draw (with a dodgy injury-time penalty from Mario Balotelli) comes in for an identical result from 2010, so both teams remain as they are. Over in Germany, Dortmund continue their ascendancy, overturning a 3-0 defeat from two years ago into a 3-0 victory, and leapfrogging Inter and Valencia to go 7th in the table. Marseille, for their part, are falling into relegation places (if we had such a thing), and they'll soon have to defend another win against Dortmund. After this defeat, Marseille are equal 23rd, and only bottom club Rosenborg have won fewer games.<br />
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-----Game 15-----<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-09-25 LCu - Manchester United 1 Liverpool 0<br />
(Javier Hernández)<br />
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Remaining game: 2013-09-01 NLe - Liverpool 1 Manchester United 0<br />
(Daniel Sturridge)<br />
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Outgoing game: 2013-01-13 NLe - Manchester United 2 Liverpool 1<br />
(Robin van Persie, Nemanja Vidic; Daniel Sturridge)<br />
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Just 24 days after their league meeting, United and Liverpool play in the League Cup (I'm old-fashioned, I'll call it that), which guarantees that Liverpool's win on September 1 won't make it to the end of the season before being replaced in the EFCL table. United retain their victory from January at Old Trafford, so no changes. If they had won, Liverpool could have gone just two points behind leaders Bayern Munich, but they remain second five behind, while United are third a further three back.<br />
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-----Game 14-----<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-09-22 NLe - PSV 4 Ajax 0<br />
(Tim Matavz, Jetro Willems, Oscar Hiljemark, Ji-sung Park)<br />
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Remaining game: 2013-04-14 NLe - PSV 2 Ajax 3<br />
(Lens 2; Fischer, Eriksen, Boerrigter)<br />
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Outgoing game: 2012-12-01 NLe - Ajax 3 PSV 1<br />
(De Jong, Hoesen, Fischer; Lens)<br />
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With both teams fresh from disappointing European defeats (particularly PSV, beaten at home by Ludogorets, from Bulgaria in the Europa League), the Dutch derby ends in a six-point turnaround for PSV, who go from 55 to 58 points and up three places no less (from 20th to 17th), while Ajax remain where they are (15th) despite losing three points (65 to 62).<br />
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-----Games 12, 13-----<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-09-18 CGS - Marseille 1 Arsenal 2<br />
(Jordan Ayew; Theo Walcott, Aaron Ramsey)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2011-10-19 CGS - Marseille 0 Arsenal 1<br />
(Aaron Ramsey)<br />
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Outgoing game: 2011-11-01 CGS - Arsenal 0 Marseille 0<br />
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Incoming game : 2013-09-18 CGS - Barcelona 4 Ajax 0<br />
(Lionel Messi 3, Gerard Piqué)<br />
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Remaining game: Not played yet<br />
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Arsenal gain two points with the victory-in-for-a-draw in Marseille (from 72 to 74), while the French team lose one (from 67 to 66). And in the other game of the evening, Ajax pay their long-awaited visit to the Nou Camp. A pity we could never see these two clubs facing each other in the 70s or 90s, when Ajax would have put up a much better fight than four goals conceded and a missed penalty. Because non-played matches count as 0-0 draws in the EFCL, Barcelona gain two points (83 to 85) while Ajax lose one (66 to 65). Barcelona then overtake Chelsea for 5th place, Ajax fall one place to 16th, Arsenal go up to equal 10th with Juventus, and Marseille stay in 23rd place.<br />
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-----Games 9, 10, 11-----<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-09-17 CGS - Benfica 2 Anderlecht 0<br />
(Filip Djuricic, Luisao)<br />
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Remaining game: 2004-08-24 CQR - Anderlecht 3 Benfica 0<br />
(Aruna Dindane 2, Nenad Jestrovic)<br />
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Outgoing game: 2004-08-10 CQR - Benfica 1 Anderlecht 0<br />
(Zlatko Zahovic)<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-09-17 CGS - Galatasaray 1 Real Madrid 6<br />
(Umut Bulut; Isco, Cristiano Ronaldo 3, Karim Benzema 2)<br />
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Remaining game: 2013-04-09 CQF - Galatasaray 3 Real Madrid 2<br />
(Emmanuel Eboué, Wesley Sneijder, Didier Drogba; Cristiano Ronaldo)<br />
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Outgoing game: 2013-04-03 CQF - Real Madrid 3 Galatasaray 0<br />
(Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Claudio Higuaín)<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-09-17 CGS - Manchester United 4 Bayer Leverkusen 2<br />
(Wayne Rooney 2, Robin van Persie, Luis Antonio Valencia; Simon Rolfes, Ömer Toprak)<br />
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Remaining game: 2002-11-13 CGS - Manchester United 2 Bayer Leverkusen 0<br />
(Juan Sebastián Verón, Ruud van Nistelrooy)<br />
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Outgoing game: 2002-09-24 CGS - Bayer Leverkusen 1 Manchester United 2<br />
(Dimitar Berbatov; Ruud van Nistelrooy 2)<br />
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First Champions League matchday of the season, featuring three EFCL-eligible matches, all of them featuring like-for-like results, with victories for Benfica, Real Madrid and Manchester United against Anderlecht, Galatasaray and Bayer Leverkusen respectively. This means that the results are fresher, but no-one moves in the table. In the outgoing games, we say goodbye to a goal for Leverkusen by Dimitar Barbatov, who later went on to play for United.<br />
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-----Game 8-----<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-09-14 NLe - Inter 1 Juventus 1<br />
(Mauro Icardi; Arturo Vidal)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-03-31 NLe - Inter 1 Juventus 2 -31<br />
(Rodrigo Palacio; Fabio Quagliarella, Alessandro Matri)<br />
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Outgoing game: 2012-11-03 NLe - Juventus 1 Inter 3<br />
(Arturo Vidal; Diego Milito 2, Rodrigo Palacio)<br />
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Juventus gain a point (from 73 to 74) and Inter lose two (from 79 to 77), buth both remain where they were in the table: 10th and 7th respectively<br />
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-----Game 7-----<br />
<br />
Incoming game: 2013-09-01 NLe - Valencia 2 Barcelona 3<br />
(Hélder Postiga 2; Lionel Messi 3)<br />
<br />
Remaining game: 2013-02-03 NLe - Valencia 1 Barcelona 1<br />
(Éver Banega, Lionel Messi)<br />
<br />
Outgoing game: 2012-09-02 NLe - Barcelona 1 Valencia 0<br />
(Adriano)<br />
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First domestic Spanish league clash of the season, and a like-for-like result: a Barcelona victory substituting for another 364 days earlier. Barcelona remain 6th on 83 points and Valencia 8th on 76.<br />
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-----Game 6-----<br />
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Incoming game: 2013-09-01 NLe - Liverpool 1 Manchester United 0<br />
(Daniel Sturridge)<br />
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Remaining game: 2013-01-13 NLe - Manchester United 2 Liverpool 1<br />
(Robin van Persie, Nemanja Vidic; Daniel Sturridge)<br />
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Outgoing game: 2012-09-23 NLe - Liverpool 1 Manchester United 2<br />
(Steven Gerrard; Rafael da Silva, Robin van Persie)<br />
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Liverpool are the only EFCL English club without European games this season, but their domestic commitments will give them plenty of matches. Here they confirm their great start to the season with a victory over United coming in for a defeat a year earlier, which is the outcome that hurts the most for the loser. So dramatic is the turnaround that United go from 91 points to 88 while Liverpool go from 88 to 91, and stand now second in the EFCL table, five points behind Bayern.</div>
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-----Game 5-----</div>
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<span lang="IT" style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt;">Incoming game: </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">2013-08-30 ESC - </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt;">Bayern 2 Chelsea 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt;">(Franck Ribéry, Javi Martínez; Fernando Torres, Eden Hazard)</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt;">Remaining game: </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">2012-05-19 CFi - </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt;">Chelsea 1 Bayern 1 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt;">(Didier Drogba; Thomas Müller)</span></div>
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<span lang="IT" style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt;">Outgoing game: </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">2005-04-12 CQF - </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt;">Bayern 3 Chelsea 2 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt;">(Claudio Pizarro, Paolo Guerrero, Mehmet Scholl; Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt;">Well, well, this is a bit of a curious case: both of the EFCL-current games between these two teams have been single-match European finals decided on penalties after an extra-time draw (the 2012 Champions League Final and the 2013 European Super Cup). Because the result after 120 minutes is a draw, the reward, as far as the EFCL is concerned, ia a point for each team, no matter who won the penalty shootout. The distinction is important, because having won one shootout each, you could think they could claim three points each. Nope. They go home with some silverware, but just one EFCL point per game. Current outcome for these two: "Bayern 2 points, Chelsea 2 points". Additionally, because the outgoing match was a Bayern victory from 2005, the German team keep losing points in the EFCL table, and after two games this season (and it's not even September yet) their tally has gone from 99 points to 96. Still top of the pile, though, 5 points above Manchester United. Chelsea gain a point and have now 84, in 5th place outright from 5th shared with Barcelona.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt;">-----Game 4-----</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">Incoming game : </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">2013-08-28 CPR - </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">Milan 3 PSV 0 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">(Kevin-Prince Boateng 2, Mario Balotelli)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Remaining game: </span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">2013-08-21 CPR - </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">PSV 1 Milan 1 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">(Tim Matavz; Stephan El Shaarawy)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Outgoing game: </span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">2005-11-01 CGS - </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">PSV 1 Milan 0 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">(Jefferson Farfán)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">Qualification for the Champions League proper and a victory that overturns an outgoing defeat. Great night for Milan, who gain three EFCL points (from 65 to 68) and climb two places in the table, from 15th to 13th. PSV are "relegated" to the Europa League, where they could still play EFCL-eligible games this season. In the meantime, they lose three points (58 to 55) and no less than three places in the table (from 17th to 20th). For 8 years, since 2005, PSV had 4 points against Milan in their bag, which can be considered punching above their weight, but now the situation reverses and the outcome of this double header reads "Milan 4 points, PSV 1 point", until they meet again.</span><br />
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-----Game 3-----</div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Incoming game: </span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">2013-08-26 NLe - </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">Chelsea 0 Manchester United 0 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Remaining game: </span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">2013-05-06 NLe - </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">Manchester United 0 Chelsea 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">(Juan Mata)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Outgoing game: </span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">2013-04-01 NCu - </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">Chelsea 1 Manchester United 0</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">(Demba Ba)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">A 0-0 draw it may have been, but in EFCL terms the result benefits United, as the outgoing match was a Chelsea FA Cup victory from less than five months earlier. This means that David Moyes starts off in the EFCL improving Sir Alex Ferguson's United legacy (gaining one point, from 90 to 91, remaining in second place in the table, 7 points behind Bayern), and José Mourinho, Chelsea's new-old manager, loses ground, going from 85 points to 83, joint fifth with Barcelona. "Chelsea 4 points, Manchester United 1 point".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">-----Game 2-----</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Incoming game: 2013-08-21 CPR - PSV 1 Milan 1</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">(Tim Matavz; Stephan El Shaarawy)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Remaining game : </span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">2005-11-01 CGS - </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">PSV 1 Milan 0 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">(Jefferson Farfán)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Outgoing game: </span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">2005-10-19 CGS - </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 11px;">Milan 0 PSV 0 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">It's not very often that we get EFCL-eligible games in the Champions League qualifiers, but sometimes it happens. In 2005 this tie was a CL semifinal, won by AC Milan. The last time these two former European Champions met, only a few months later, during the following season's group stage, PSV Eindhoven made the most of it, with a win and a draw, so in 2013 this was a great opportunity for the Italian giants, favourites in this tie, to shoot up the table. It wasn't to be after the first match, where a 1-1 draw came in for a 2005 0-0 draw, so everything stays as it was. Watch this space for the return game soon.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">-----Game 1-----</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Incoming game: 2013-07-27 NSC - Dortmund 4 Bayern 2</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">(Reus 2, van Buyten og, Gundogan; Arjen Robben 2)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Remaining game: 2013-05-25 CLF - Bayern 2 Dortmund 1 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">(Mandzukic, Robben; Gundogan)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Outgoing game: 2013-05-04 NLe - Dortmund 1 Bayern 1 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">(Grosskreutz; Gómez)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: 11px;">First EFCL-eligible game of the 2013-14 season, the German Supercup, curtain-raiser to the German season, pitching league-and-cup champions Bayern Munich, featuring new manager Josep Guardiola, against league runners-up Borussia Dortmund (not to mention being a repeat of the 2013 Champions League final). As it always happens with national Supercups, this result won’t last the season, but in the meantime, as the outgoing match was a 1-1 draw in a league match, it reduces Bayern’s lead at the top of the EFCL from nine to eight points (from a total of 99 to 98), while Dortmund gain two points (from 74 to 76) and go from 9th to joint 8th on the same points as Valencia. Bayern and Dortmund were playing each other here for the fourth time in half a year, each of them in a different competition (German league, German cup, Champions League and German Supercup). Curiously too, this is the only Supercup match eligible for this season, as no other country had two EFCL teams playing season openers against each other. "Bayern 3 points, Dortmund 3 points"</span></span>Rogornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981420921547893526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371221119196107279.post-24663472808409359562013-07-07T10:15:00.007+01:002023-06-06T16:27:20.355+01:00About the EFCL<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This pet project of mine was born out of curiosity to know what would happen if the best football clubs in Europe faced each other following the same system that is used in the national league championships: everyone plays twice against each other, you give out three points for each win and one for each draw, and you add up the points to see who is the best. It is a simple and well-respected system, and it has always been the basic staple of football competitions all over the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So, that is what has been done here. The last two games pitting the best clubs in Europe against each other have been found (friendlies excluded, only competitive matches have been counted), and the results have been compiled into a league table.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To limit the extension of the experiment, the criterion used to select the teams involved has been the number of games played in the Champions League since 1992-93. That was the year when the European Cup introduced group stages into the competition, and since then every new change in the format of the tournament has favoured that the best clubs in the continent play in it every year or almost. It has also meant that the Champions League is the only place where the best teams from different European countries can face each other. If you want to play competitively against the likes of Barcelona or Real Madrid, you just have to be in this competition, although sometimes important teams see themselves "demoted" to the Europa League.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In August 2023 the list of the 92 teams to have played 10 or more matches in the Champions League (qualifying matches excluded) since August 1992 stood as follows:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><div><div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">01 299 SPA Real Madrid</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">02 282 SPA FC Barcelona</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">03 282 GER Bayern Munchen</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">04 242 ENG Manchester United</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">05 216 POR FC Porto</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">06 214 ITA Juventus Torino</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">07 197 ENG Chelsea London</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">08 192 ITA AC Milan</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">09 181 ENG Arsenal London</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">10 153 ENG Liverpool FC</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">11 146 GER Borussia Dortmund</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">12 144 ITA Internazionale Milano</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">13 136 FRA Olympique Lyonnais</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">14 134 UKR Dynamo Kyiv</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">15 137 FRA Paris Saint-Germain</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">16 136 NET Ajax Amsterdam</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">17 136 POR Benfica Lisboa</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">18 128 GRE Olympiacos Pirea</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">19 122 TUR Galatasaray Istanbul</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">20 118 NET PSV Eindhoven</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">21 117 ESP Atlético Madrid</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">22 115 ENG Manchester City</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">23 112 UKR Shakhtar Donetsk</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">24 112 ESP Valencia CF</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">25 107 GER Bayer Leverkusen</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">26 104 ITA AS Roma</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">27 92 BEL Anderlecht Bruxelles</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">28 87 FRA Olympique Marseille</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">29 84 GRE Panathinaikos Athinai</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">30 83 FRA AS Monaco</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">31 82 RUS CSKA Moskva</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">32 78 NOR Rosenborg Trondheim</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">33 76 SCO Rangers Glasgow</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">34 74 RUS Spartak Moskva</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">35 72 SCO Celtic Glasgow</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">36 70 CZE Sparta Praha</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">37 66 BEL Club Brugge</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">38 66 GER Schalke Gelsenkirchen</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">39 64 POR Sporting Lisboa</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">40 60 ESP Sevilla CF</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">41 60 RUS Zenit St Petersburg</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">42 60 SUI FC Basel</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">43 58 SPA Deportivo La Coruña</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">44 56 RUS Lokomotiv Moskva</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">45 54 TUR Besiktas Istanbul</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">46 53 ENG Tottenham London</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">47 52 ITA Lazio Roma</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">48 50 ITA SSC Napoli</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">49 50 FRA OSC Lille</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">50 50 GER Werder Bremen</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">51 50 CRO Dinamo Zagreb</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">52 42 DEN FC Kobenhavn</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">53 40 SPA Villarreal CF</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">54 40 NET Feyenoord Rotterdam</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">55 40 ROM Steaua Bucuresti</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">56 40 TUR Fenerbahce Istanbul</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">57 40 SWE IFK Goteborg</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">58 36 GRE AEK Athinai</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">59 34 FRA Girondins Bordeaux</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">60 32 GER RB Leipzig</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">61 32 AUT Red Bull Salzburg</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">62 30 BLR BATE Borisov</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">63 28 CYP APOEL Nicosia</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">64 25 GER VfB Stuttgart</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">65 24 CZE Viktoria Plzen</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">66 24 ITA AS Fiorentina</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">67 23 ITA Atalanta Bergamo</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">68 22 ENG Leeds United</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">69 20 GER Borussia Monchengladbach</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">70 20 FRA AJ Auxerroise</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">71 18 SWE Malmö FF</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">72 18 BEL RC Genk</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">73 18 ISR Maccabi Haifa</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">74 18 ROM CFR Cluj</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">75 18 AUT Sturm Graz</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">76 18 SLN NK Maribor</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">77 16 GER VfL Wolfsburg</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">78 14 ISR Maccabi Tel-Aviv</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">79 14 HUN Ferencvaros Budapest</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">80 14 SPA Real Sociedad San Sebastián</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">81 14 AUT Austria Wien</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">82 12 SUI Young Boys Bern</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">83 12 CZE Slavia Praha</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">84 12 SER Crvena Zvezda Beograd</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">85 12 ESP Athletic Bilbao</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">86 12 POR Sporting Braga</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">87 12 GER Hamburger SV</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">88 12 SER Partizan Beograd</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">89 12 RUS Rubin Kazan</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">90 11 ITA Sampdoria Genova</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">91 10 ENG Leicester City</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">92 10 SPA Málaga CF</span></div></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This list is slightly different from UEFA's own, as I count the 1992-93 season, still not rebaptised as "Champions League", because it was the first ever to include a group stage. From this list, the 36 top teams to have been selected for this compilation, straight off it, without cherry-picking on any other merits considered, and the results against each other have been tallied. Norwegian side Rosenborg have not been a big player in the Champions League for decades, and soon they might fall off this top 36, but until then, there they will remain: in the future, any other teams that are able to play more Champions League games and therefore get into the top 36 will be the ones making up this compilation. As you can see, notable absentees are Schalke and Brugge on 66 games, Lazio on 52, Sporting Lisbon on 64, Sevilla on 60, Tottenham on 53 </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">and Napoli on 50.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div><div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The following provisions and rules must be taken into account:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1 - The number of games played in the Champions League is the sole criterion for entry in the EFCL, but once a team has been entered, the last two competitive matches against the other teams will be used for this table, regardless of the tournament in which these games were played or how old these matches are. The tournaments allowed include the Champions League itself, but also the Europa League, the Conference League and the European Supercup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Also, and very importantly, domestic matches played between teams from the same country are used, be they league, cup, league cup or supercup games. Any last two competitive matches in any competition is the absolute rule, even if they belong to two different competitions, national or international.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">2 - Some teams have never played each other competitively. Valencia have never played Milan, for example, and Chelsea have never faced Dortmund, and Manchester City have only ever been pitted against Inter Milan once (the 2023 Champions League final). In these cases, any non-played games have been considered 0-0 draws. This might not be the most perfect solution, but in the absence of those data, I would rather do this than consider them unplayed "games in hand" for decades. We will just have to wait until one day these missing ties are played. This will really hurt Manchester City, for example, as they are a comparative newcomer to playing all the time against the top European teams, and because of this, they have never played against as many as 11 other teams in this compilation (Inter, Leverkusen, Benfica, PSV, Galatasaray, Anderlecht, Panathinaikos, Rosenborg, Sparta, Spartak and Rangers). That's a lot of winnable games, but if we called those "games in hand" and didn't include them even as a mere 0-0, City would be even lower in the table, 22 points worse off. Again, this is just a simulation with the available data, and it's not perfect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">3 - Some games in the table are quite old, but, again, there's nothing to be done about it except waiting for these teams to be paired up again, so that the results become more relevant. The oldest games in the table are a 1957 tie between Milan and Rangers. They haven't played each other since.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">4 - On the other hand, some teams play each other very frequently, for example in England, where some clubs could face each other up to nine times in a season (Community Shield, league, FA Cup, league cup and European competition), so sometimes a result becomes the third-to-last game played between those two teams (and therefore is discarded from this table) very quickly. This happened to Chelsea and Manchester City, who played each other three times in April and May of 2021. A national supercup game, for example, is guaranteed not to last until the end of the season, because at least two league games will be played between those two teams just a few months later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">5 - When a new eligible game is played, the second-to-last match between the same teams disappears from the table to make room for the new result. This can cause swings of up to six points (actual six-pointers) if a team replaces a game they had won with one they now lose, and vice versa. Two teams tied on 60 points, for example, could end up on 57 and 63 respectively if the new game is won by the team who had lost the match due to "disappear" from the table.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">All in all, the current table reflects the status of Europe's Big Three of Real Madrid, Bayern and Barça at the top, almost always there or thereabouts for many years, and a mighty scramble behind them, both for the trophy itself and for positions in the top 8 of the EFCL, which would mean the most likely teams to make up most year's quarter-finals.<br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And this is it, basically. As I said, this project is merely a curiosity, and you can pick many holes in it (I will be the first to do so in other posts), so I am not claiming it should be The True Way Of Deciding Who Is The Best, but on the other hand it is comprehensive, it takes into account as many as 70 matches per team, and those games were actually won, drawn or lost, so what's the harm in drawing conclusions from them? Therefore, I will continue to treat the EFCL at least half-seriously and see where it takes us. The blog will be updated whenever new matches are played, and the league table will be moving all the time. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In 2021 several of these clubs tried to break away to form a European Super League, a project that was sunk by fan protests in about two days. From what we could find out about it, it wouldn't have been a true league, but it would have followed the same format of group stages followed by knockout rounds that the Champions League has now, plus I'm afraid that the vitriol directed at the ESL has now scuppered forever the idea that the top European teams play each other more often than until now, not because it's not a good idea, but because in many people's minds it could end up leading again towards the breakaway. For the record, I'm against a "closed shop" system that guarantees some clubs a permanent entry in the ESL, but I think that it makes sense that the best clubs in the continent want to play each other all the time, as they each do in their own domestic leagues.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thanks for the time you took to look through this blog.</span></div>Rogornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981420921547893526noreply@blogger.com0