UEFA Champions League: Top 5 games of this season
The UEFA Champions League is the biggest club tournament in the football and it stood by its reputation for yet another year. After a good year of passionate, emotional and intense football, we have our two finalists. On the 1st of June, it will be an all-English final as Tottenham Hotspur take on Liverpool for the iconic trophy.
In honesty, both teams deserve silverware this season but unfortunately, one will end this season without a trophy for another year. Mauricio Pochettino wasn't allowed to make any new signing and yet his side has finished in the top four of the Premier League. On the other hand, Liverpool has had a simply stunning season. Cruelly, they become the first team in PL history to amass more than 90 points and yet not win the title. Manchester City outran them and defended their title with 98 points on the board, one more than Liverpool.
Champions League is the last chance for the Reds to lift a silverware this season. Surely, they would not want to finish as runners-up for the second consecutive season after getting beaten by Real Madrid in the finals last year.
Here, we take a look at the five best games from the current season in Europe's premier competition.
#5 Paris Saint-Germain 1-3 Manchester United (Aggregate 3-3, Quarterfinal)
An easy 2-0 win at Old Trafford induced complacency in the minds of the French's biggest club. A remarkable performance from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Manchester United condemned PSG to a humiliating home defeat and won their spot in the quarterfinals. Before kick-off, Solskjaer had to deal with a big quandary as many of his players were unfit and his star player, Paul Pogba, was suspended due to a red card in the first-leg.
Romelu Lukaku stepped up and scored the first goal of the night after just 111 seconds when Thilo Kehrer's back pass was intercepted by the Belgian. Another two errors by PSG's backline ensured the Red Devils progressed to the next round with the aid of the away-goal rule.