Goalkeeper: Şenol Güneş (Beşiktaş)Kept goal in the Trabzonspor side that won the Turkish league title six times – and the Turkish Cup three times – during his 15-year spell from 1972-87. Also won 31 caps for Turkey, captaining the team on five occasions.Right wing back: Sérgio Conceição (Porto)A right winger, Sérgio Conceição racked up two league titles with Porto before moving to Lazio, where he won a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, a UEFA Super Cup, a Coppa Italia and a Serie A title. Scored 12 goals in 56 Portugal games, including a hat-trick against Germany at UEFA EURO 2000. Ce... UEFA.com -
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The UEFA Champions League unbeatables
Juventus face Olympiacos on Wednesday hoping to stretch their unbeaten home run in the UEFA Champions League to 20 matches – but they are still a little way short of the record and allowed one of the longer streaks to continue on matchday one.Longest home unbeaten runs in UEFA Champions League29 Bayern München 04/03/1998–02/04/200224 Arsenal 14/09/2004–15/04/200923 Manchester United 27/09/2005–03/11/200922 Barcelona 18/09/2013–12/09/2017*21 Chelsea 12/09/2006 –08/12/2009, Barcelona 24/11/2009–10/04/2013, Real M... UEFA.com - News
Falcao fires Monaco but Bayern stall
Radamel Falcao makes it 11 goals in seven league games for Monaco Bayern let two-goal lead slip in 2-2 home draw with Wolfsburg Porto record seventh win from seventh Liga game this season Dino Hotić scores 89th-minute winner for ten-man Maribor Qarabağ maintain perfect start to league campaign with fifth win Group A Southampton v Manchester United (Saturday, 16:00)Dinamo Moskva v CSKA Moskva (Saturday, 15:30)Basel v Zürich (Saturday, 19:00)< ... UEFA.com - News
The weeks it rained Champions League goals
A stunning 54 goals were scored in the opening week of UEFA Champions League action, the most on an opening matchday under the current format introduced in 2003/04. But which were the sets of groups games that yielded even more – and could that record go on Tuesday and Wednesday? The record: 63 goals, 12/13 September 2000
Salzburg v Marseille background
Salzburg will hope their excellent defensive record at home continues in UEFA Europa League Group I as Marseille arrive in Austria looking to improve on a trio of 2017 European away draws.Previous meetings• The sides are meeting for the first time in UEFA competition. • Salzburg's record in four meetings with French sides is W2 D0 L2 (W1 L1 at home).• Marseille's record in four games against Austrian clubs is W2 D1 L1 (W1 L1 in Austria).
Betis shock Madrid, Juventus and Napoli win again
Wednesday: Real Madrid's run of scoring in 73 successive games ends as they lose 1-0 at home to Real Betis Juventus and Napoli make it five wins out of five in Serie A Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United through in English League Cup Tuesday: Lionel Messi scores four after grabbing 39th Barcelona hat-trick James Rodríguez opens Bayern account in 3-0 win at Schalke Group A
Omens favour Manchester City for Shakhtar visit
Manchester City FC and FC Shakhtar Donetsk both opened Group F with fine wins, although the portents point to a home victory at the City of Manchester Stadium on matchday two.• While these teams have never met before, Shakhtar have lost all but one of their matches in England and may have their work cut out against a City side who equalled their biggest win in the UEFA Champions League – group stage to final – in their first game. That said, Shakhtar's recent away form in Europe has been imperious. Match backgroundManchester City• City are unbeaten in their last ten home matches