Showing posts with label FC Porto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FC Porto. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Champions League: Barcelona dismiss PSG as Bayern cruise into semi final

The atmosphere at the Camp Nou last night could be likened to a training session for Barcelona as they finished the job they started a week ago against French Champions Paris Saint German.

The Spanish side defeated the visitors on all fronts with Brazilian forward Neymar scroring twice to seal a semi final spot for Barcelona as they won 5-1 on aggregate.

In the other semi final on the night, Bayern Munich punished FC Porto winning  5-1 to cancel the the Portuguese side's first leg 3-1 win.

Bayern still did not have a handful of players but were enough to run riot on Porto to progress to the semi finals as well. Thiago Alcantara, Jerome Boateng, Robert Lewandowski and Xabi Alonso all made the scorers sheet.

Tonight will see Real Madrid battle city rivals Atletico Madrid in the return leg inside Santiago Bernabeau to continue the drama which ended scoreless in the first leg while Juventus travel to Monaco with a 1-0 advantage from the first leg.

Friday, 17 April 2015

Bayern Munich Team Doctor resigns after defeat to Porto

Bayern Munich team doctor, Han-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt, has tendered his resignation over what he called ''broken trust''.

The Bundesliga champions 3-1 by FC Porto on Wednesday, without the likes of Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery, David Alaba, Javi Martinez and Mehdi Benatia who were ruled out due to injury.


Muller-Wohlfahrt announced that he is leaving the club, after he was blamed for the Bavarians’ loss in Portugal.

''After the Champions League match between Bayern Munich and Porto, the medical department was blamed due to the inexplicable reasons for the loss,” he said in a statement.

''The bond of trust is damaged.''

However, Bayern’s media director, Markus Horwick, expressed surprise at the news, telling Sport1: ''FC Bayern were not informed about this step.''

Friday, 18 July 2014

''Keeping Rodriguez will be hard for Monaco'' - Wenger

Manager of Arsenal football club of England, Arsene Wenger has expressed that Monaco will have a hard time trying to keep James Rodriguez.

The 22-year old Colombian midfielder scored six goals at the recently concluded FIFA world Cup in Brazil to be crowned the highest goal scorer and his display has attracted huge European Clubs especially Real Madrid being priced for £70m.

“I believe that’s true,” Wenger told beIN Sports when asked if Rodriguez is too big for the French club.

“Why? Because a player like that is difficult to keep at a club when you have Real Madrid and Barcelona looking around, and without a doubt there will be people who will be watching them play and thinking about buying him.

“Is this the year that he will move? Certainly not because he is with Monaco and they will play Champions League next season and they are a big club in France.

“But certainly in the next season or two he will want to move somewhere else.”

Rodriguez joined Monaco from FC Porto last in 2013.