UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : MATCHES FROM 12/03/2025 (PHOTO – MAXIMILIAN BEIER CELEBRATES)

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : ARSENAL VS PSV EINDHOVEN – 12/03/2025

PSV EINDHOVEN MADE 633 PASSES, WITH AN 87% PASS ACCURACY, AND MADE 13 SHOTS WITH 5 ON TARGET, INCLUDING GREAT GOALS FROM IVAN PERISIC AT 18 MINS., AND COUHAIB DRIOUECH AT 70 MINS.  AND ARSENAL MADE 485 PASSES, WITH AN 87% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 9 SHOTS WITH 7 ON TARGET, INCLUDING STUNNERS FROM OLEKSANDR ZINCHENKO, WHO SCORED THE OPENER AT 6 MINS., AND DECLAN RICE AT 37 MINS., MEANING THAT THE MATCH ENDED IN A 2 – 2 DRAW (ARSENAL 9 – PSV 3 ON AGGREGATE.)

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – LILLE VS BORUSSIA DORTMUND – 12/03/2025

 MAXIMILIAN BEIER CELEBRATES

LILLE MADE 434 PASSES, WITH A 78% PASS ACCURACY, AND THERE WERE 11 SHOTS WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING AN EXCITING OPENER FROM JONATHAN DAVID AT 5 MINS.

BORUSSIA DORTMUND MADE 440 PASSES WITH AN 80% PASS ACCURACY WITH 51% POSSESSION, AND HAD 17 SHOTS, WITH 8 ON TARGET, INCLUDING TWO CRACKING SHOTS FROM EMRE CAN FROM A PENALTY AT 54 MINS, AND ANOTHER FROM MAXIMILIAN BEIER AT 65 MINS., WITH THE GAME CULMINATING IN A 2 – 1 WIN TO BORUSSIA DORTMUND. (LOSC 2 – BVB 3 ON AGGREGATE.)

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : ASTON VILLA VS CLUB BRUGGE – 12/03/2025

MARCO ASENSIO CELEBRATES

ASTON VILLA MADE 543 PASSES WITH A 93% PASS ACCURACY YESTERDAY, AND HAD 14 SHOTS, WITH 10 ON TARGET INCLUDING A BRILLIANT BRACE FROM MARCO ASENSIO AT 50 MINS. AND 61 MINS. RESPECTIVELY, PLUS ANOTHER STUNNER FROM IAN MAATSEN AT 57 MINS. (AND 54% POSSESSION.)  CLUB BRUGGE MADE 470 PASSES, WITH A 90% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 4 SHOTS WITH 1 ON TARGET.  (IT CAN’T HAVE HELPED THAT KYRIANI SABBE WAS RED-CARDED AT 16 MINS. INTO THE MATCH, FOR SOME ARGEY-BARGEY WITH MARCUS RASHFORD WHO HIT THE DECK), BUT WITH NO CLUB BRUGGE GOALS, THE MATCH ENDED IN A 3 – 0 WIN TO ASTON VILLA (AVFC 6 – CB 1 ON AGGREGATE.) ASTON VILLA NOW REACH THE LAST EIGHT OF THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1983!

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : ATLETICO MADRID VS REAL MADRID – 12/03/2025

CONOR GALLAGHER CELEBRATES

REAL MADRID MADE A WHOPPING 856 PASSES WITH A 92% PASS ACCURACY LAST NIGHT AND HAD 10 SHOTS WITH 3 ON TARGET (WITH 62% POSSESSION), AND ATLETICO MADRID MADE 510 PASSES, WITH AN 86% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 17 SHOTS WITH 8 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A SUPERB OPENING GOAL FROM CONOR GALLAGHER AT 1 MIN. SO IT WAS NON-STOP ACTION ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE MATCH, WHICH WENT INTO EXTRA TIME AND THEN ONTO PENALTIES, WHERE JULIAN ALVAREZ’S SPOT-KICK WAS DISALLOWED BY VAR AS HE SEEMINGLY TOUCHED THE BALL TWICE AFTER SLIPPING, AND WITH ANTONIO RUDIGER SCORING THE WINNING PENALTY, AFTER MARCO LLORENTE’S PENALTY HIT THE CROSSBAR, AND A STUNNING PENALTY FROM JUDE BELLINGHAM

JUDE BELLINGHAM CELEBRATES

THE MATCH CULMINATED IN A 4 – 2 PENALTY WIN FOR REAL MADRID (2 – 2 ON AGGREGATE.)