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Barcelona have been cleared by UEFA to take part in the 2023/24 Champions League, news that comes as a major relief to the La Liga side who still find themselves in serious financial difficulty despite winning the Spanish top flight in 2022/23. Having been charged with corruption in March 2023, there was a very real chance that Barcelona could be banned from the Champions League even though they qualified through the league - something that would have been a major sporting and financial blow. They were knocked out of their group last season and then swiftly knocked out of the Europa League, so there is a real focus on getting back into the latter stages of European football's premier club competition. Here's why Barcelona were under the microscope in the first place, and what has led to their guaranteed involvement in the competition in a few months' time. Why were Barcelona almost banned from the Champions League? Barcelona were investigated in connection to payments made ...

The UEFA Super Cup always comes around sooner than expected and acts as the traditional curtain-raiser for European football each season. The match is contested each year by the previous campaign's Champions League and Europa League winners and is one of the earliest ways to see if a team has built on its success or allowed standards to slip. This year, Manchester City and Sevilla are the two teams facing off at the Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis in Piraeus, Greece. City are playing in the Super Cup for the first time, while Sevilla have won the Europa League seven times and seen it all before. Here's the complete head- to -head record of Manchester City and Sevilla and how well each team has traditionally fared against sides from the other's countries. Manchester City and Sevilla's complete head-to-head record There have only been four matches played between City and Sevilla, although that may not be a huge shock given neither side have been considered traditional Europ...

For the first time in their G4OZdX C1 tPSW, Manchester City will go into a Champions League campaign as the holders. After a few years as the consistently defeated 'team to beat', the Cityzens finally got their hands on the trophy in 2022/23 alongside a Premier League title and the FA Cup, meaning they equalled Manchester United's treble achievement. Arguably the most impressive thing about Man City's journey to Champions League glory in 2022/23 is that they never really looked in any trouble. They had a slight wobble in the first leg against RB Leipzig in the last 16 before emphatically progressing. City then cruised past Bayern Munich and Real Madrid before beating Inter in a final which, while very tight, was only ever going to end in one result. Winning the Champions League is really hard, but defending it is even harder. Here are some of the teams City could be facing straight from the off. What 2023/24 Champions League pot are Man City in? Given they won the Prem...

Real Madrid have confirmed that Luka Modric has been diagnosed with a thigh injury which could rule him out of the Copa del Rey final and the first leg of the Champions League semi-final against Manchester City. The 37-year-old managed just over an hour of the recent 4-2 defeat to Girona before limping off and spending the rest of the game sat on the bench with ice strapped to his leg. Real have since confirmed that Modric has suffered a muscle injury and, although they refused to put a time frame on his return, local reports have suggested it is serious enough to rule him out of some huge upcoming fixtures. Los Blancos will face Osasuna in the Copa del Rey final on May 6, before City head to the Santiago Bernabeu three days later for the first leg of their European semi-final. Read the latest La Liga news feed "He has a small injury ," Ancelotti confirmed in Friday's press conference. "I don't know if he will reach the cup final. We are hurt, but these things...

Erling Haaland 's first half penalty miss proved insignificant as Manchester City ousted Bayern Munich from the Champions League after securing a 1-1 draw at the Allianz Arena. The Norwegian blazed his spot kick over Yann Sommer's crossbar towards the end of the first half, but made amendments not long into the second with his 48th goal of the season in all competitions. That put City in complete cruise control, 4-0 up on aggregate, but they couldn't see out the Game after another dubious penalty call - City's first half award was just as contentious - allowed Joshua Kimmich to level things up. Thomas Tuchel made two changes from the side beaten 3-0 at the Etihad. Joao Cancelo came in to face his parent club from the start and there was a place up front for Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting; Alphonso Davies and Serge Gnabry the two players to drop to the bench. Pep Guardiola, meanwhile, went with the same side that decimated Bayern just a week ago, with John Stones again lining...