Manchester City knew they were in for a tough task in Kiev, but made surprisingly light work of their opponents. Manuel Pellegrini made 10 changes from the youthful team which lost to Chelsea in the FA Cup, with only Fernando keeping his place. And it worked, with a 3-1 win giving the visitors a great […]

11 years ago

Manchester City are at near full strength as they look to lay down a marker in their Champions League last 16 tie with Dynamo Kiev. Manuel Pellegrini’s team are still without a handful of injury victims, most notably Kevin de Bruyne and Fabian Delph, but the Chilean coach has been able to name a very strong […]

11 years ago

You’d think a winnable Champions League knockout match would be an instant sellout, but it seems that is not the case for Manchester City. Manuel Pellegrini’s team are preparing to take on Dynamo Kiev in a game which was originally scheduled to be played behind closed doors as a result of the Ukrainians’ stadium ban. […]

11 years ago

If your football club was feared to have a racist element among its fans, how would you hope for them to deal with the problem? Most likely, you’d want the club to expel any supporters found guilty of racist activity, and work harder to educate the fanbase about what is and isn’t acceptable. What you […]

11 years ago

When we looked down at the teamsheets for Chelsea’s match away to Dynamo Kiev, one name jumped out. Oleksandr Shovkovskiy, the goalkeeper for the Ukrainians, is a name we remember well from watching the same team in their mid-late 1990s heyday. It couldn’t be the same guy, right? Wrong. The 40-year-old, who played for Dynamo […]

11 years ago

Andriy Yarmolenko seems to be a bit of a sore loser. The Ukrainian winger, who was a target of Everton and Chelsea before signing a new deal this week, played the full 90 of Dynamo Kiev’s 3-0 home defeat to rivals Shakhtar Donetsk on Friday. Being Kiev’s superstar, players rushed to exchange jerseys with Yarmolenko and […]

11 years ago