Football

Almost 4 months back, Juventus were staring at a disappointing Champions League exit in the round of 16 against Atletico Madrid but a certain someone scored thrice to bail Juve out of trouble. A month later, Juventus found themselves on the receiving end of some sublime football from a scintillatingly spirited young Ajax side that blew past Juve in the quarter finals. They thought that Cristiano Ronaldo was the missing piece in their quest for the European glory but even his efforts proved short. As the season ended with just a couple of trophies and not even a domestic treble, Allegri was surely on his way out. A few hundred miles away, Sarri was on the brink of an exit from Stamford Bridge and was seeking to go back to Serie A after a successful first stint there with Napoli. Sarri left Chelsea for Juventus after winning them the Europa Legaue. Some big signings were expected from Juventus this summer but not as much as they turned out to be. Juve have bought three big players to ...

    If anyone wanted a particular match up in this year's Copa America, this wouldn't necessarily be the one but it's a huge one we have got in the semi finals. It's Brazil vs Argentina at Belo Horizonte to compete for a place in the final. Football is a crazy game and you never know what's in front of you. Over the years, we could stick our tongue out and stand for Brazil to counter attack and be really potent on the attack but this is a different Brazilian outfit. We don't really know what we are going to get from Brazil in the last third of the pitch. The good thing with it is that they have been good enough and labelled one of the favourites to win the title even without Neymar. We know that Coutinho is good enough but he had a really poor season with Barcelona but is looking good again. Brazil have gone with the 4-2-3-1 formation till now and have been pretty good with it, at least good enough! They were brilliant on the opening day against Bolivia, found a...