LONDON: The top two teams in the Champions League standings meet Wednesday as Arsenal hosts Bayern Munich in a game between the leaders in the Premier League and Bundesliga.
Arsenal has yet to concede a goal in four straight wins in the eight-round opening phase but is still second behind Bayern on the tiebreaker of more goals scored, with both having the same goal difference.
Five of Bayern’s 14 Champions League goals were scored by Harry Kane, who returns to North London where he averaged 30 per season in his last nine years at Arsenal’s archrival Tottenham.
Inter Milan is the only other team on 12 points — in third place in the 36-team standings — and looks for a fifth straight win at Atletico Madrid.
Real Madrid is at Olympiakos after its 1-0 loss in the fourth round at Liverpool, which now hosts PSV Eindhoven.
Paris Saint-Germain is at home to Tottenham in a repeat of their Super Cup game in August that the Champions League title holder won in a penalty shootout after a 2-2 draw.
Two Europa League winners in the past four seasons, Eintracht Frankfurt and Atalanta, meet in Germany, and Sporting Lisbon hosts Club Brugge.
This is the fourth season of UEFA excluding teams from Russia in its competitions during the war on Ukraine but Pafos hosting Monaco is a meeting of clubs whose owners include Russian billionaires.
Pafos is co-owned by Sergey Lomakin and Monaco’s majority owner is Dmitry Rybolovlev, who once bought a property in Florida from future US President Donald Trump.
The other early game Wednesday sends Kairat Almaty from Kazakhstan to face Copenhagen. Each team has just one point and is, respectively, No. 35 and No. 33 in the standings.
Arsenal hosts Bayern in clash between Champions League’s top two. Inter aims for 5th win at Atletico
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Arsenal hosts Bayern in clash between Champions League’s top two. Inter aims for 5th win at Atletico
- Arsenal has yet to concede a goal in four straight wins. Bayern is still top on the tiebreaker of more goals scored as both teams have the same goal difference
- Inter Milan is the only other team on 12 points and looks for a fifth straight win at Atletico Madrid
Guardiola delivers speech in support of Palestinian children
- Star Manchester City manager wore keffiyeh at charity concert in Barcelona
- They have been ‘abandoned’ because ‘those in power are cowards’
LONDON: Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola delivered a speech in support of Palestinian children at a charity concert in Barcelona, calling for greater action to protect them.
The star manager, 55, wore a keffiyeh and spoke passionately about his pain at seeing the suffering of Palestinian children, Sky News reported.
“Good evening, salam alaikum, how wonderful,” he told the crowd. “When I see a child in these past two years with these images on social media, on television, recording himself pleading ‘where is my mother?’ among the rubble and he still doesn’t know it.
“And I always think, ‘What must they be thinking?’ And I think we’ve left them alone, abandoned.” He added: “I always imagine them saying, ‘Where are you? Come help us.’”
Guardiola said “even now, we haven’t done it,” because perhaps “those in power are cowards,” adding: “They basically send innocent young people to kill innocent people.”
He demanded a “step forward” as part of what he described as a “statement for Palestine and … a statement for humanity.”
