Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas believes the London club should be targeting a maiden UEFA Champions League crown.
The four-time English league champions have never claimed European club football s biggest prize, coming closest when they lost to Manchester United on penalties in the 2008 final in Moscow.
Since then, they have made it to the semi-finals, round of 16 and quarter-finals.
But new manager Villas-Boas part of the backroom staff when they made it to the last four in 2005 and 2007 said it was only a matter of time before Chelsea finally won the competition.
Chelsea is included in those teams that permanently arrive to the semi-finals. And the semi-finals is a question of two games, where anything can happen, and unfortunately it didn t happen f…
Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo is hopeful the La Liga giants can claim either the league or UEFA Champions League title this campaign.
The 26-year-old won the European club competition in 2008 when Manchester United beat Chelsea in the Moscow final, but was a loser the following season as Sir Alex Ferguson s side went down to Barcelona.
That proved to be Ronaldo s last game for United before a big-money move to Madrid, and his attempts to add another European title to his collection were ended last season once more by Barcelona in the semi-final stage.
The Portuguese forward believes Real Madrid can win their 10th European crown in 2011-12.
We have to win important trophies, the Liga or the Champions League because these are the titles that make you…
The 2015 Africa Cup of Nations will no longer take place in Morocco, it has been confirmed by CAF.
The country had requested the postponement of the competition due to the Ebola outbreak in west Africa and failed to confirm its intention to host the tournament last weekend.
In addition to being stripped of hosting duties, the Morocco national team have been disqualified from the competition, which is due to get under way on January 17.
Morocco were initially awarded the competition in January 2011, beating off competition from DR Congo and South Africa.
However, recent concerns over the virus led to Morocco calling for the tournament to be postponed due to health reasons dictated by the highest dangerousness .
The Moroccan Ministry of Sport sugges…
Roberto Di Matteo can exact belated revenge on Chelsea when the Premier League side visit Schalke on Tuesday.
The Italian initially joined Chelsea as a player from Lazio in 1996 and scored 26 goals in 175 appearances for the English club, before returning as Andre Villas-Boas assistant coach in 2011.
Di Matteo took on the top job on a caretaker basis after Villas-Boas was sacked in March 2012 and guided Chelsea to UEFA Champions League and FA Cup glory.
It did not work out for Di Matteo after he was appointed permanently, though, and his sacking in November 2012 was considered premature and harsh by many.
After almost two years on the sidelines, Di Matteo returned to management last month to replace Jens Keller at Schalke.
And he has the chance to…
Birmingham City are interested in signing Middlesbrough stalwart Stewart Downing, according to the Mirror.
The former England international has been told he can leave Boro, who were relegated from the Premier League last season, by new manager Garry Monk.
Birmingham boss Harry Redknapp in keen to continue strengthening his squad as he looks to turn the Blues into genuine promotion contenders having themselves narrowly avoided relegation last term.
Having began his career with Middlesbrough, Downing returned to the Riverside Stadium in the summer of 2015 and since made eighty-three appearances, scoring five goals while in his first spell with the club he played two hundred and thirty-four times, netting on twenty-two occasions.
In between those two sp…
Former Stoke midfielder and one of the most prominent Sevilla stars Steven N’Zonzi has been the subject of intense transfer speculation during the summer transfer window.
After a highly successful season in La Liga the French international emerged as a possible transfer target for the host of European big-name clubs such as Juventus and Chelsea, but the 28-year-old ended up remaining with Rojiblancos despite increased interest from across the continent.
With the transfer market now closed information are starting to leak and the French media outlets have revealed that Steven N’Zonzi was a transfer target for Paris Saint-Germain who wanted to make him a replacement for Blaise Matuidi.
The French giants reportedly executed the last-ditch attempt to land the 28…
Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel is hoping to turnaround a wretched individual record against England captain Harry Kane in Wednesday s Euro 2020 semi-final.
Kane has put a slow start to the tournament behind him during the knockout stages, following his game-sealing header in the 2-0 last-16 win over Germany with a brace in last weekend s 4-0 quarter-final demolition of Ukraine in Rome.
Leicester City keeper Schmeichel knows all about Kane s lethal qualities from their duels in the Premier League.
Indeed, Kane s 14 goals past Schmeichel are more than he has managed against any other goalkeeper across all competitions.
One of those was in a 4-2 win for Spurs at the King Power Stadium on the final day of the Premier League season that denied Leicester …
Bayern Munich forward Thomas Muller is desperate to seal the deal in both the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal.
The Bavarians sit one point ahead of nearest rivals Borussia Dortmund in the table and booked their place in the Pokal final, where they will face RB Leipzig, with a 3-2 win over Werder Bremen at the Weserstadion.
Despite Bayern s Bundesliga dominance, they have not won the domestic double since 2016 and Muller is keen to secure success on both fronts during the remainder of the season.
We will see what the next three weeks brings, he told the German Football Federation s official website.
Of course, we are highly motivated and now want to seal the deal in both competitions. The 5-0 win in Der Klassiker against Dortmund was the initial spark. We h…
Bernardo Silva apologised to Portugal fans following a dramatic 2-1 loss to Serbia in Lisbon on Sunday that left the Selecao facing a World Cup qualifying play-off.
Portugal only needed to avoid defeat in order to finish top of Group A and secure an automatic qualifying spot for the tournament in Qatar next year.
Renato Sanches early strike put the hosts in the lead, but Dusan Tadic levelled and Aleksandar Mitrovic headed in a 90th-minute winner to seal sensationally seal Serbia s World Cup spot.
Manchester City midfielder Silva pulled no punches with his verdict on Portugal s performance.
[It was a] terrible game for Portugal, Silva told O Jogo. We managed to score the goal early, but then we stopped playing. Words fail me. We have to do more t…
Spain beat Sweden in the World Cup qualifications on Sunday at the Estadio La Cartuja by 1-0, courtesy of an 86th-minute goal by Alvaro Morata.
During the match, AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic came off the bench and got away obviously found it necessary to floor Chelsea defender Cesar Azpilicueta like this. He avoided a red card, but he won t be able to play for his country in the first leg of the play-offs.
Zlatan floors Azpilicueta with “dark arts”!
Ibrahimovic escaped punishment during the game but has since been banned from the first leg of Sweden’s World Cup play-off tie
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