Napoli were effective up until the final third but the Osimhen-shaped missing piece of their jigsaw was too obvious to ignore. Whereas AC Milan’s use of Rafael Leão in a rest-attack role paid dividends in the winning goal. Tactical analysis and match report by Nick Smoothy. It was an all-Italian affair in this Champions League […]

Real Madrid secured a rather comfortable victory in the first leg of the quarter-final. Madrid’s positional interchanges and their ability to stretch Chelsea’s three-man midfield proved to be the difference at the Santiago Bernabéu.  Tactical analysis and match report by Rahul Madhavan. The Champions League nights are back, and with it, two of the recently-crowned champions […]