Here is how the big Portuguese and Scottish newspapers rated Rangers and Sporting Braga’s players following Steven Gerrard’s side’s 1-0 wi that sealed their passage into the Round of 16 of the Europa League. Ryan Kent scored the winner for the Gers in Portugal who could also afford a penalty miss from Ianis Hagi, hero of their first leg triumph.
Portuguese Record Newspaper player rating SP Braga vs Rangers Europa League
Scottish Daily Record Rangers player ratings vs Braga Second Leg
Here are the player ratings from the big European newspapers after Bayern Munich beat Frank Lampard’s Chelsea 3-0 in the first leg of their Round of 16 Champions League tie in front of a 36,761 crowd at Stamford Bridge. All three goals came in the second half- two from Serge Gnabry and one from Robert Lewandowski.
CFC starting line up vs Bayern UCL 2020: Caballero, Azpi, Rudiger, Christensen, Alonso, James, Jorginho, Kovacic, Barkley, Mount, Giroud
FC Bayern starting XI vs Chelsea Champions League: Neuer, Pavard, Boateng, Alaba, Alphonso Davies, Kimmich, Thiago, Muller, Coman, Gnabry, Lewandowski
L’Equipe player ratings Chelsea-Bayern 0-3
French newspaper L’Equipe gave Kovacic a 6/10, the highest of any Chelsea player, but the rest were dire. 3/10 ratings were given to the troika of Jorginho, Reece James and Ross Barkley, with several of their defenders and Willy Caballero in goal getting a 4.
Frank Lampard was given a manager rating of 3/10 while his opposite number Hansi Flick was given a 8/10.
Bild Chelsea vs Bayern player ratings 25 February, 2020 Champions League
The lower the number in the German player rating system, the better he actually played, so 1 here is very good, and 5 is bad. In Bild’s eyes, this was a shocker for most of the CFC players- a number of 4’s and 5’s.
Like L’Equipe, Bild also thought French right back Benjamin Pavard had a bad day at the office for Bayern.
Here is a look at how the big European newspapers rated Napoli and Barca’s players following their 1-1 draw in the first leg of their Champions League Round of 16 tie at Stadio San Paolo. Dries Mertens put Napoli ahead in the 30th minute, with Antoine Griezmann equalising for Barca in the 57th minute.
Napoli starting lineup vs Barca 2020 CL: Ospina, Manolas, Maksimovic, Mario Rui, di Lorenzo, Demme, Zielinski, Ruiz, Mertens, Callejon, Insigne
Barcelona starting XI v Napoli 2020 UCL: Ter Stegen, Umtiti, Pique, Semedo, Firpo, Rakitic, Vidal, Busquets, de Jong, Messi, Griezmann
L’Equipe player ratings Napoli vs Barca 25 February, 2020
Arturo Vidal, who got sent off late in the game, and Ivan Rakitic both got player ratings of 3/10 from L’Equipe, as did defender Junior Firpo. Barca got a team rating of 4.8/10, while Napoli were given a 5.3/10.
Napoli goal scorer Mertens was their highest rated player with a 7/10, while on the Barca side, it was goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen.
AS paper ratings Napoli 1-1 Barcelona