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Cristiano craves for these matches and he gets it done!

His team was 2-0 down on aggregate, the stage was set for the greatest master in the history of Champions League. He needed to deliver on the night for them to have any chance of scoring two against a side as organized as Atletico Madrid and my god, didn't he show up like he always does! Bernardeschi was controlling the ball brilliantly in the middle. He crossed one in to Ronaldo who was lurking in the box as he got on top of Juanfran and connected the header to put Juventus 1-0 ahead on the night. This goal made all of Turin believe that there could be something special. We knew Juventus were going to go hard at Atletico but we didn't know it would be that intensive. We could hardly see the ball in Juventus' half. First half ended with Juventus being 1-0 up and controlling almost 70% of the possession. It was Bernaderschi again who put another cross in, this time from the right and yet again found Cristiano Ronaldo who smashed the header into the top left corner. John Ob...

The biggest 'Bottle Job' in European history..

     When Kylian Mbappe found the back of the net at Old Trafford, everything seemed doom and gloom for Manchester United as they found themselves 0-2 down in the first leg of the round of 16. PSG were without Neymar and Cavani but United almost had a full strength squad which was completely dominated by the visitors. On top of that, Pogba received a second yellow which went he would miss the second leg in Paris. Manchester United were in complete shambles when they were about to leave for Paris as Martial, Herrera, Sanchez and Lingard were all out of the fixture due to injuries. With Pogba already banned, United were going in with a second string side. PSG were without Neymar and Cavani but they were clear favourites going in.      The match started in heavy rain in Paris and Thilo kehrer started it all with a horrible back pass. He tried to find Thiago Silva on his right but ended up giving it to Romelu Lukaku who went past Buffon and slid it...