Champions League 19-20 Playoff Round Draw- APOEL vs Ajax & Cluj v Slavia

The fixture list for the playoff round stage of the 2019/2020 Champions League season has been drawn. The third qualifying round saw the exit of some high profile teams, prominent among them Celtic and Porto, while last season’s semi-finalists Ajax Amsterdam were taken the distance by Greek side PAOK. Krasnodar’s reward for upsetting Porto in … Read more

Player Ratings Celtic 3-4 Cluj 2019 Champions League Second Leg | How did Callum McGregor play at left back?

Celtic were knocked out of the Champions League last night by CFR Cluj Napoca, who scored four goals at Parkhead to stun the Scottish champions. Neil Lennon’s tactics of moving Callum McGregor from midfield to left back to bring Oliver Ntcham into the starting lineup, thus benching LB Boli Bolingoli, didn’t quite come off as the Hoops shipped in four goals at home. “Clujless” was used in the Scottish press to describe Celtic’s play against their Romanian visitors.

Scott Brown also gave away a needless penalty at a crucial stage of the game.

Here are the Celtic player ratings vs Cluj from various Scottish newspapers.

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Player Ratings Porto 2-3 Krasnodar Champions League 2019- Wanderson stars as FCP knocked out

FC Porto were stunningly knocked out of the Champions League in the third qualifying stage as Russian side Krasnodar beat them 3-2 at the Dragao, thus sealing the tie on the away goals rule. Porto had won 1-0 in the first leg a week ago, and many assumed it would be a formality for them to progress, especially at home, but Krasnodar stunned them with three first half goals- one from Tonny Vilhena and two from Magomed Suleymanov.

Here are the player ratings for Porto 2-3 Krasnodar from the Portuguese newspapers. Krasnodar’s Wanderson received special praise, with one paper even giving him a perfect 10 for this game.

Not such a great evening for Porto players like Saravia

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