After
17 long years no English team could make it through to the quater finals of UCL. A unabashed
stuff by Top four Premiere league sides in the UCL. For the first time since 1995/96 there
are no English teams in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals.
Chelsea
secured
their first victory of the Rafael Benitez era with a 6-1 win over
Nordsjaelland, but they will have to content themselves with Europa League
football as Juventus beat Shakhtar Donetsk to deny them a place in the knockout
stages of the Champions League.
Manchester united
eliminated by real in
controversial fashion. Real Madrid came back from a goal down to beat
Manchester United 2-1 in the second leg of their Champions League last 16 tie
at Old Trafford on Tuesday night. United took the lead early in the second half
through an own-goal from Sergio Ramos, but Madrid bounced back through strikes
from Luka Modric and Cristiano Ronaldo to secure a 3-2 aggregate win and
knocked the Red Devils out of UCL.
Manchester
City failed to secure a place
in the Europa League as a 1-0 defeat at
Borussia Dortmund saw them finish at the foot of Group
D. Julian Schieber scored the only goal of the game early
in the second period, tapping home at the back post, to conclude a dismal
campaign for Roberto Mancini's men. Big-spending City, knocked out before
kickoff and out in the group stage for the second season running, finished
bottom of Group D with only three points and missed out on the comfort of
qualifying for the Europa League. City
set dismal records in UCL.
Arsenal
was eliminated from the 2013 UEFA Champions League with a bitter finish
after beating German giants Bayern Munich 2-0.
Gunners, having lost the opening leg 3-1 three weeks
back, but the two-goal triumph was not enough for the Gunners to find their way
into the last 16.
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