Ger McCarthy is back with another Champions League preview looking ahead to Wednesday night’s round of sixteen fixtures between FC Basel and Bayern Munich as well as the glamour tie pitting Ligue 1 side Olympique Marseille up against Serie A’s Inter Milan.
Champions League columnist Ger McCarthy previews tonight’s action, as Man City host Villarreal in a crunch Group A encounter and Man Utd go in search of their first win of the campaign.
Manchester United, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid qualified for quarter finals of the 2011 Champions League following an exciting week’s action which saw the Round of 16 completed.
Manchester United and Bayern Munich will look to build on the clean sheets obtained during their Round of 16 first legs and secure quarter final berths at the expense of Olympique de Marseille and Inter Milan in Tuesday night’s Champions League games.
Steve McClaren’s Wolfsburg find themselves towards the foot of the Bundesliga table having suffered three defeats from their opening three fixtures. The fabled “honeymoon period” said to be enjoyed by newly appointed managers has ended, while Wolfsburg’s General Manager, Dieter Hoeness, has described The Wolves’ current perdicament as ‘critical’. Life in the Bundesliga has not been [...]