Dortmund gave away a three-goal lead with fifteen minutes to play, at a moment when they are leading the league and thoroughly need wins to keep it that way. Not great, Bob. Not great. Tactical analys...

Welcome to the weekend primer of Between the Posts, where we preview the matches that will be covered during this weekend, including a little preview of these matches. Seven matches in total this week...

Apart from a few good counterattacks, Everton did not trouble City’s defense at all. Their impressive defensive shape did partly nullify City for large parts of the match. Especially their very organi...

Crazy season for LaLiga fans, isn’t it? We’ve become accustomed to near-certain wins for the traditional top-three, a clearly defined bunch of teams competing for the honorable places just below them,...

In this dramatic Copa del Rey semi-final first leg, Valencia were masterful in exploiting Betis’ man-marking, yet also inconsistent in their defending of their opposition’s inside attackers. Betis on ...

FC Barcelona and Real Madrid played a Clásico that was intense, but will not go in the books as an extraordinary performance. After Real Madrid were dominant in the opening twenty minutes and scored t...

Poor were the souls, those neutral football enthusiasts, who noticed there was a Ligue 1 match in the late afternoon of a Tuesday and decided to give it a go. No level of hipsterism would make it poss...

Bologna had won only two Serie A games so far, but managed to take a fully deserved three points back home from the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza. Inter’s first half display might have been poor, what they s...

What a game of football this was! After grabbing the lead within the first ten minutes, PSG were blown away by Lyon’s attacking power, before clawing themselves back into the match at the fifty-minute...

After dominating the entire first half, Bayern Munich were thoroughly swept by Leverkusen after the interval. A beautiful set piece equalizer by Leon Bailey completely changed the game. As all the dec...