An identity should not slow success but only act as a platform from which further achievement can arise. Spain showed that the tools exist to enable this development. Though their standard style put a...

Ball possession is dead! Long live ball possession! The Spanish search for an identity has been a short lived endeavor. Much more problematic has been their proficiency in both penalty areas. Now, a m...

Real Madrid maintain their magic. Dortmund’s deep running daggers powered their transition tactics before the break, but Ancelotti’s astute approach patched up the problems. Resilience res...

Bayer Leverkusen lost grip of their goal in Europe but the stranglehold in Germany is firmly theirs. A red card could have ruined their rigorous work in the first half of this final, but the response ...

A hot shot striker, as a man on a mission, strived successfully to personal glory. However, his club could not correspond with those efforts on the field, stumbling to a fatal stalemate. Tactical anal...

Deceptive and devious deeds cannot fool audiences forever. Juventus are no longer the force of Italian football, stumbling to see out their season in Serie A. However, there are two ways to depart cen...

The proverb goes that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Here the Premier League posed an extreme enigma. Spurs' sacrifice of any aspirations to end up in the Champions League would contribute to the...

A wild and weird nine months have welcomed the tensions from this result. There is no doubt that squad building expenses have cost Chelsea a pretty penny. This policy has been to their detriment and t...

No one can rush the divinities. Their ways are higher than humanity's. The goddess has blessed a blue and black collective in the north of Italy with greater gifts during the past. However, this might...

The global renown of Real is so great that one can only opt to honor its grandeur. Once more, an elite opponent would fall at the seams at the Santiago Bernabéu in the big moments while an unlikely he...