Lessons of life

Despite winning the La Liga title in his first season at Bernabeu , Real madrid star Eden Hazard says there are mixed feelings for the past season. He added " it was the worst season of his career. However, Real Madrid is still Champions League race and going to play second leg three weeks later. https://www.goal.com/en/news/i-have-had-the-worst-season-of-my-career-hazard/123rffm9yjnjx1iaokoun9jd4w

Life can be cruel sometimes especially in football. We witness some greatest come backs in the history of champions league including Liverpool comeback over Milan in UCL final 2004-05 when Milan took 3 goals lead in the first half and Liverpool scored 3 goals in 7 minutes in the start of second half to equalize and went on to win the final on penalties. Manchester united's comeback over Bayern Munich in the final of 1999 champions league season is considered to be one of the greatest comebacks when Bayern were 1 goal up till 90th minute.  Two substitutes scored two goals in 91st and 93rd minute to leave the Germans heart broken.  However, Champions league season 2018-19 might be the best season in terms of come backs. Lets have a look on the greatest comebacks this season. Ajax 5-3 Real Madrid ( Round of 16) Real Madrid were considered to be among the favorites this season. They flew to Johan Cruijff Arena for the first leg and took a huge advantage of 2 precious

Barcelona started the match with 4-3-3 formation Messi and Coutinho playing wider and Suarez as a striker against Liverpool's 4-3-1-2 formation Naby Keita, Fabinho and Milner playing in the Centre and Mane and Mo Sala playing as strikers. First half was started with full intensity. Both teams were hungry to take an early lead, pressing each other high up the pitch and tried to create chances however Barca was a better side in terms of pressing the back four through constant movement of Lionel Messi and Suarez. In 27th minute Jordi Alba down the left wing played a beautiful low cross and Suarez beat Allison with an elegant touch to give Barca a lead against his old club. Jordi Alba created 5th goal of champions league campaign leading the table.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWgj7vfx2w  In 35th Minute Henderson created a beautiful open chance for Sadio Mane he missed an easy chance to get a crucial away goal for his team. It could have been a killer blow f

Spanish Giant Barcelona will face EPL title contender Liverpool in the semifinal of Champions league 2018-19. Both teams has a history of over 100 years of football but they met only 4 times in the history with Liverpool winning 3 times while Spanish giants could only manage once in the group stage of 2001-02 UEFA champions league  when both teams were in the same group. Liverpool has a record of winning against Barcelona on all knock out stage meetings. Reds finished as European champion on two occasions however lost the final in 2006-07 season from Italian Giants AC Milan. Lets have a look in the history of two great teams.  1975-76 UEFA Cup Both teams faced each other very first time in the semi final of  UEFA cup 1975-76 on March 30,1976 under Liverpool great Bob Paisley. Liverpool won 4 European titles in 5 years from 1975-1981. First leg was played at Camp Nou and Liverpool headed back with one crucial away goal. John Toshack scored the only goal of the match. In the