Posts tagged “European football”

BAYERN Munich could be eyeing the “impossible treble” this season as they look ahead to the conclusion of the UEFA Champions League in August. Not many clubs have managed to win their two main domestic prizes and the UEFA Champions League, in fact it has been achieved just eight times, the last in 2015 with Barcelona. Bayern recently completed their eighth consecutive Bundesliga title and followed that by winning the DFB Pokal. They’ve won 13 domestic trophies in eight years out of a possible 16. It is time, perhaps, to win another UEFA Champions League, a prize they haven’t secured since 2013. At home in Germany, Bayern still refuse to be overthrown. Each season, the same question gets asked – “are FC Bayern showing…

Categories: Europe

Tagged: Allianz Arena, Bayern Munich, Bundesliga, European football, Germany, Munich, Robert Lewandowski, UEFA Champions League

London belongs to Bayern Munich as Chelsea collapse

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on February 27, 2020

CHELSEA and Bayern Munich are supposed to be in transition, two teams in reconstruction mode. Of the two, on the evidence of their UEFA Champions League meeting at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea look a long way off moulding a team capable of living up to the heights of the Abramovich era, while Bayern look to be heading in the right direction. Watching the Germans pull Chelsea apart, inflicting on them their worst-ever home defeat in European competition, we may have been witnessing the germination of another outstanding Bavarian side that could lift the club’s first Champions League title since 2013. The tie is over after one game, make no mistake. London certainly belongs to Bayern – their last three visits have seen them beat Arsenal…

Categories: Europe

Tagged: Bayern Munich, Chelsea, European football, Frank Lampard, Lead, Robert Lewandowski, top slot, UEFA Champions League

Bayern and Leipzig square-up in early title eliminator

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on February 3, 2020

THIS coming weekend could be a decisive moment in the Bundesliga title race. Bayern Munich went top of the table after beating Mainz away 3-1 while RB Leipzig, the leaders, drew 2-2 with Mönchengladbach. Bayern, after an eight game run that saw them lose four times between October and December, have seemingly overcome their stuttering first half of the season with a six-game winning streak. Leipzig may have blown their title chances, for once Bayern get in front, they’re hard to shift. Their season is reaching a vital stage as they head for Munich to face Bayern at the Allianz and then in the next fortnight, face Tottenham in the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League. Although Leipzig’s title bid is now seriously…

Categories: Europe

Tagged: Allianz Arena, Bayern Munich, Bundesliga, European football, German football, Lead, RB Leipzig, top slot

Inter Milan 1989 – Italian football with a teutonic twist

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on February 3, 2020

SERIE A in the late 1980s and early 1990s was a fiercely competitive landscape with all-star line-ups comprising some of the world’s best players. Italy was a magnet for top talent, including Ruud Gullit, Marco van Basten, Diego Maradona, Gianluca Vialli and Michael Laudrup, to name but a few. The rest of Europe just sat back and envied the Italian public, who were watching the greatest football on the planet. AC Milan had won Serie A in 1988, fighting it out with Maradona’s Napoli, who had lifted their first Scudetto in 1987. Inter Milan were struggling to keep pace, but in the summer of 1988, they followed the example set by their San Siro neighbours of acquiring two or three players from the same…

Categories: Teams

Tagged: 1980s, European football, great reputations, Inter Milan, Italy, Lead, Serie A, top slot

Posts tagged “European football”

Bayern Munich are still the untouchables

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on July 7, 2020

London belongs to Bayern Munich as Chelsea collapse

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on February 27, 2020

Bayern and Leipzig square-up in early title eliminator

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on February 3, 2020

Inter Milan 1989 – Italian football with a teutonic twist

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on February 3, 2020