Riyad Mahrez struck early in the first half at Wembley to hand Pep Guardiola’s men a deserved win. Mahrez converted it home from Raheem Sterling’s sixth-minute cross that eventually became the winning goal.

He then dedicated his goal to the dead Leicester owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in a helicopter crash at King Power Stadium on Saturday.

Riyad Mahrez dedicated his winner on Monday to Leicester owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. Photo Daily Mail.

It has been very, very difficult Owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha Confirmed Dead in a Helicopt for me,” the Algerian told Sky Sports.

“The boss was very special to me. I spent four and a half years there and have many memories with him.

“He was such a good person and had a big heart. It was heart-breaking and shocking for me to hear this news and for all of the other people who died with him. I am with Leicester and the family of the victims.”

Mahrez joined Leicester from Le Havre for £400,000 and later to Manchester City last summer.

Sergio Aguero, David Silva and Sterling had chances to extend City’s lead but were all denied.

Erik Lamela had an opportunity to equalize from substitute Dele Alli‘s pass.

Manchester City are now the table leaders with Liverpool the second on a goal difference.

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The Blues boss feels that the supporters’ relative indifference to the elite European competition is holding City back in their quest to scale the summit in a competition he won twice with Barcelona.

Manchester City fans booing their team in their Champions League against Lyon

Guardiola said recently that he does not feel City have enough history to win the Champions League as yet. But he said that a desire to succeed in the Champions League has to fill the whole club and hinted that City fans hostility to Uefa is a flaw in that.

City’s supporters still booed the Uefa anthem and the home game against Lyon saw thousands of empty seats, with many supporters believing the Premier League is a bigger target.

“That’s not enough that the manager wants to win it,” said Guardiola. “It’s not just the players. You have to have the desire – the club, chairman, owner, the fans, everyone has to push to be closer, to achieve the next stages, and when it happens, everyone will feel it.”

“It’s one important thing to win this kind of title, you have to be pushed, not just by the manager, but by everyone surrounding Manchester City that we have to win it – and still we don’t have that feeling.” He said.

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The game is dominated by talk of the return of former Barcelona and Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola at the Nou Camp but other European top sides will be in action also.

The Blaugrana lead Group C with six points having scored nine times in their opening two fixtures against Celtic and Borussia Monchengladbach respectively  while City are below on four points with seven goals.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola will take on his former team Barcelona in the Champions League

Guardiola‘s side is winless in its last three matches across all competitions and are currently on a poor run of form.

Barcelona will welcome back star player Lionel Messi in the team having played against Deportivo in La Liga on 15th October, 2016.

In the other Group C game, Celtic who put up a spirited performance against Manchester City host Borussia Monchengladbach looking for maximum points to boost their qualification chances.

Meanwhile London Giants Arsenal will host Ludogorets at the Emirates Stadium looking to take command of Group A with Paris Saint-Germain taking on Basel.

The Gunners are favourites in the game and a win will boost their passage to the knock-out phase.

In the other games, last season’s finalist Atletico Madrid travel to Russia to take on FC Rostov.

Bayern Munich who host PSV Eindhoven at the Allianz Allena began the season with eight straight wins in all competitions but are now without a win in three games and suffered their first defeat of the season at Atletico Madrid in their last European match.

Napoli who have won their first two games will be hosting Besiktas at Stadio San Paolo and Dynamo Kyiv of Ukraine takes on Benfica of Portugal in Group B.

ALL UCL FIXTURES 

Barcelona vs. Manchester City
Napoli vs. Bestikas
Arsenal vs. Ludogorets
FC Rostov vs. Atletico Madrid
Dynamo Kyiv vs. Benfica
Paris Saint-Germain vs. FC Basel
Celtic vs. Borussia Monchengladbach
Bayern Munich vs. PSV Eindhoven

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Real Madrid and Barcelona continue their dominance of La liga  with 5 and 6 players from both teams respectively.

The list includes; 2014 winner Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale  the only British player on the list for the third successive year, Karim Benzema, Toni Kroos,James Rodriguez for Madrid while Barcelona has  Lionel Messi,Neymar, Luis Suarez, Andres Iniesta,Javier Mascherano and Ivan Rakitic.

The premier League is dominated by Manchester City players with a trio of Sergio Aguero, Kevin De Bruyne and Yaya Toure.

Chelsea is represented by winger Eden Hazard and Arsenal by Alexis Sanchez who helped his country Chile to Copa America success in 2015.

The Bundesliga has players  all from Bayern Munich which shows how they are a force in Germany Football. The list has Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Muller, Manuel Neuer, Arjen Robben and Arturo Vidal, while Paul Pogba of Juventus from Seria A and Paris St Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic from the French Ligue 1 complete the list.

Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho are both on a 10-man shortlist for the coach of the year award, alongside Barcelona’s Champions League-winning coach Luis Enrique and Bayern Munich’s Pep Guardiola.

Chile coach Jorge Sampaoli is the only national team coach on the list, which also includes Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri, Sevilla’s Unai Emery, Laurent Blanc of PSG, Atletico Madridchief Diego Simeone and Carlo Ancelotti, who left Real Madrid in the summer.

England women’s coach Mark Sampson is on the coach of the year for women’s football shortlist, alongside Englishmen Colin Bell (Frankfurt) and John Herdman (Canada), but there are no British footballers on the women’s player of the year list.

FIFA #BALLONDOR 23 candidates, one trophy. Who do you think will be crowned on 11 January? https://t.co/VNSyEfqCqo pic.twitter.com/W0qlYk2FIk

— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) October 20, 2015

BALLON D’OR SHORTLIST: Sergio Aguero (Argentina/Manchester City), Gareth Bale (Wales/Real Madrid), Karim Benzema (France/Real Madrid), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal/Real Madrid), Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium/Manchester City), Eden Hazard (Belgium/Chelsea), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden/Paris St Germain), Andres Iniesta (Spain/Barcelona), Toni Kroos (Germany/Real Madrid), Robert Lewandowski (Poland/Bayern Munich), Javier Mascherano (Argentina/Barcelona), Lionel Messi (Argentina/Barcelona), Thomas Muller (Germany/Bayern Munich), Manuel Neuer (Germany/Bayern Munich), Neymar (Brazil/Barcelona), Paul Pogba (France/Juventus), Ivan Rakitic (Croatia/Barcelona), Arjen Robben (Holland/Bayern Munich), James Rodriguez (Colombia/Real Madrid), Alexis Sanchez (Chile/Arsenal), Luis Suarez (Uruguay/Barcelona), Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast/Manchester City), Arturo Vidal (Chile/Bayern Munich).

FIFA #BALLONDOR 10 coaches, but only one FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men’s Football https://t.co/VNSyEfqCqo pic.twitter.com/blidRGrqtz — FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) October 20, 2015

COACH OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST: Massimiliano Allegri (Juventus), Carlo Ancelotti (Formerly of Real Madrid), Laurent Blanc (Paris St Germain), Unai Emery (Sevilla), Pep Guardiola (Bayern Munich), Luis Enrique (Barcelona), Jose Mourinho (Chelsea), Jorge Sampaoli (Chile), Diego Simeone (Atletico Madrid), Arsene Wenger (Arsenal).

The world player and coach of the year will be voted on a ceremony in Zurich on January 11, 2016.

Read more on fifa.com

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HUGO LLORIS has been chosen by Manchester United as the man to replace David De Gea if the Spanish goalkeeper leaves the club.

Spurs keeper Hugo Lloris is being lined up as a replacement for David De Gea.

Real Madrid have chased De Gea for the majority of the summer and it looks likely that he will leave Louis van Gaal’s side before the transfer window shuts.

And now French newspaper L’Equipe says the Red Devils have made a plan for if he does leave-Daily star.

Mario Gotze puts Arsenal and Man United on red alert as Pep Guardiola relationship worsens

MARIO GOTZE has claimed his Bayern Munich future is on the ropes, putting Arsenal and Manchester United on red alert.

The German international is known to have a strained relationship with Bayern boss Pep Guardiola.

And the 23-year-old’s agent previously slammed the Spaniard for ‘destroying’ his client by keeping him on the bench-Express

Arsenal ‘in pole position to complete Alessio Romagnoli transfer deal’

Arsenal are in pole position to sign Alessio Romagnoli, according to reports.

The Roma centre back is rated as one of the best young defenders in the world, and Chelsea and AC Milan have been linked with deals to sign him-Metro

Manchester United are reportedly closing in on their sixth signing of the summer.

Barcelona winger Pedro is set to join Manchester United

With Angel Di Maria all but confirmed as a Paris Saint-Germain player, United boss Louis van Gaal has stepped up his bid to bring in a replacement. Barcelona winger Pedro is on the verge of completing a £20million move to Old Trafford.-the Sun

Gunners cleared to sign Gonzalo Higuain

Arsenal are set to sign contract rebel Gonzalo Higuain from Napoli.The Argentine striker was offered a new contract at the San Paolo but has turned it down, fuelling speculation that he may finally complete a move to Arsenal-telegraph

Transfer insider launches stunning attack on Arsenal after striker negotiations break down

JOEL CAMPBELL’S move to Palermo has collapsed – prompting an insider working on the deal to lash out at Arsenal.

The Gunners have been in talks with Italian club Palermo over a deal for Campbell but negotiations have dragged on due to the Costa Rican striker’s £7m valuation-Daily star

Mauricio Pochettino admits Spurs need to sign more strikers before the transfer window closes

Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino has admitted the club are short of firepower as the season gets underway in just three days-Metro

Teddy Sheringham admits Harry Kane fear

Spurs legend Teddy Sheringham says Tottenham striker Harry Kane won’t be a one-season wonder

The Spurs talisman has been linked with a move to Old Trafford in the summer transfer window following the departure of

Robin van Persie to Turkish side Fenerbahce-the sports view

Club chief confirms Chelsea and Juventus talks over midfielder transfer

CHELSEA and Juventus have both held talks with Cagliari over the signing of Ghanaian midfielder Godfred Donsah-Express

Di Maria targets Euro success with PSG

Angel Di Maria is “very happy” to be joining Paris Saint-Germain from Manchester United hopes he can help them achieve Champions League success.

Angel Di Maria is “very happy” to be joining Paris Saint-Germain from Manchester United

The transfer is yet to be confirmed, but the winger has undergone a medical in Doha after United agreed a fee of 63million euros (£44.3m) with the French side and gave him permission to speak to them-team talk

Sunderland in talks with Manchester United over Adnan Januzaj loan

Sunderland are in talks with Manchester United over a loan move for forward Adnan Januzaj.

The Black Cats are on the verge of sealing deals for midfield pair Leroy Fer and Yann M’Vila, and it is understood that they are also hoping to secure a third loan by pulling off a transfer coup for Januzaj-Sunderland echo

Edin Dzeko on brink of Roma move after Manchester City agree £14m fee

Manchester City have agreed a £14m fee with Roma for Edin Dzeko, according to reports in Italy. The striker is understood to have already agreed personal terms with the Serie A club and will now travel to Italy to conclude a deal in the next 24 hours.

Edin Dzeko is on the brink of joining Roma

Dzeko moved to the Etihad Stadium from Wolfsburg four years ago for £27m and has scored 72 goals in 187 appearances for the club. He signed a new four-year contract with City only last year-guardian

West Ham ‘preparing £12m transfer bid for Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez

West Ham manager Slaven Bilic is looking to solve his lack of attacking power with the £12million signing of Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez-Metro

Everton reject £5.5million bid for Mirallas

Everton have reportedly rejected a bid of £5.5million from Turkish side Fenerbahçe for Kevin Mirallas.

Kevin Mirallas has been the subject of many transfer rumours over the past few months-everton.vitalfootball

Baba Rahman agrees personal terms, according to agent

Augsburg left-back Baba Rahman has agreed personal terms with Chelsea, according to the player’s agent.

The Evening Standard reports that the Ghanaian and the club have ironed out the details of a contract, and now the question is agreeing a fee-telegraph

Celtic warn Southampton over Van Dijk

Celtic boss Ronny Deila says Southampton have not bid for Virgil van Dijk and would have to offer more than £7million to sign the defender-teamtalk

Everton ‘fear losing’ John Stones to Chelsea as bidding nears £30m

Everton are growing increasingly concerned that John Stones will join Chelsea despite insisting the England defender is going nowhere.

Everton ‘fear losing’ John Stones to Chelsea i a £30m move

According to the Daily Telegraph, the Blues are preparing a third bid of around £30 million for the former Barnsley man, despite Toffees boss Roberto Martinez continuing to repeat the 21-year-old will not be leaving Goodison Park-Indepedent

Tottenham boss Pochettino wants a new striker

The Spurs boss admits he may need to bring another forward to White Hart Lane to ease the pressure on Harry Kane following the youngster’s outstanding breakthrough 2014-15 season-goal

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ManchesterUnited have agreed terms with Torino defender Matteo Darmian ahead of his proposed £12.7m move to the Premier League, with the fee potentially rising to £14.4m depending on his performances.

News emerged on Tuesday that United had lodged an official offer with the Serie A side to sign theItaly defender, who was chosen as the national team’s player of 2014 following his impressive breakthrough season for the Azzurri–independent

Spurs swoop for Alderweireld

Tottenham Hotspur have signed Belgian defender Toby Alderweireld from Atletico Madrid, despite the player spending last season on loan at English Premier League rivals Southampton.

Tottenham said Alderweireld has signed a contract until 2020 and showed pictures of the player in a Spurs shirt on their website.Alderweireld said on Twitter that he was “very excited” to move to Spurs, while also thanking Southampton who he called a “great club-fifa.com

Stoke City accept £7m bid from Sevilla for Steven N’Zonzi

Stoke City have accepted a £7m bid from Sevilla for Steven N’Zonzi, the French midfielder who was named the Premier League club’s player of the year for last season-guardian

Manchester United target Mats Hummels says he is staying at Borussia Dortmund

In-demand Germany defender Mats Hummels will stay with Borussia Dortmund for another year but offered no assurances about his long-term future.

The 26-year-old World Cup winner has been linked heavily with a move to the Premier League with Manchester United and admitted to being flattered by the interest-dailymail

Robin van Persie open to Fenerbahce move despite previous doubts while Manchester United team-mate Jonny Evans is being considered by West Brom

Manchester United striker Robin van Persie is linked with a move to Fenerbahce

Robin van Persie’s future at Manchester United may become a little clearer on Wednesday with Fenerbahce planning further talks over a potential £10million transfer for the Holland international while defender Jonny Evans is a target for West Bromwich Albion.dailymail

Juventus refuse to give up chase for Chelsea star

According to Tuttosport, Oscar is at the top of the Italian champions’ summer wish list and have contacted Chelsea to try and do a deal.talksport

Palace agree £12.5m Cabaye deal

Crystal Palace are reported to have agreed a £12.5million deal to sign Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Yohan Cabaye.

Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Yohan Cabaye is expected to join Crystal Palace

Palace are widely reported to have come to an agreement with PSG that will see them pay £10million up front for Cabaye, with a further £2.5million potentially due in various add-ons-teamtalk

Fekir signs new Lyon deal

Reported Arsenal target Nabil Fekir has committed his future to Ligue 1 club Lyon until 2020.

The 21-year-old striker, who scored 13 league goals for Les Gones last season, has been rewarded for his exploits at the Stade de Gerland with a year’s extension.btsport

Newcastle United have tabled a €16million bid for Georginio Wijnaldum – according to Dutch sources

Newcastle United have tabled a bid for Georginio Wijnaldum – according to reports in Holland-chroniclelive

Raheem Sterling’s Liverpool transfer saga takes new twist as he REFUSES to join pre-season tour

The Manchester City target has told boss Rodgers he’s not in the right frame of mind to play on the trip to Australia and South-East Asia-mirror

Liverpool set to move for 27-goal France striker after Benteke talks hit snag

Liverpool are reportedly revisiting their interest in Alexandre Lacazette.

Liverpool are interested in Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette.

According to L’Equipe, the Lyon striker is still yet to agree a new contract at the Ligue 1 runners-up despite talks between the club and his representatives-dailystar

Everton ‘make £5m transfer bid to sign David Ospina from Arsenal’

The in-form goalkeeper has been given permission to leave Arsenal this summer following the arrival of Petr Cech from Chelsea-metro

Santiago Vergini’s agent in Sunderland for talks as defender returns to training

As reported previously, Sunderland are duty-bound to sign Vergini on a permanent basis from Costa Rican outfit Club Sport Uruguay de Coronado after he made more than 20 appearances during last season’s loan spell-sunderlandecho

Pep Guardiola turns down Arsenal’s Theo Walcott as Ribery and Robben replacement

Pep Guardiola has told Bayern Munich he does not want Theo Walcott as a replacement for the ageing Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben-express

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Barca took a quick lead after four minutes of play when Ivan Rakitic swept home from eight yards before Alvaro Morata scored in the second half to draw juve level.

Luis Suarez celebrates his critical goal for Barcelona

With the game 1-1, Luis Suarez put Barca ahead after Gianluigi Buffon’s spillage of Lionel Messi’s shot.

Neymar ensured the game was put to bed after he slotted the ball past Buffon at the end of stoppage time.
The win means Barcelona is the first European team to have won two trebles with the first coming in the 2008-09 season under pep Guardiola.

Luis Enrique become the second Barcelona manager to have won the treble in his first season.

The former player and B team boss Enrique took over as head coach last summer after the departure of Gerardo Martino.

Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu was pleased with the way the season ended for his team.

“It has been a tough season with ups and downs,” he added. “We took a lot of decisions and I am happy because they were the correct decisions.

“When they are correct at the end of the season it ends with La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the Champions League.

“I’m very happy for everybody and for all the people that have been supporting us.”

Juventus captain Gianluigi Buffon praised his team after they were beaten by ‘the best team in the world’ in the Champions League final.

Gianluigi Buffon was on the losing side as Juventus were beaten 3-1 by Barcelona in Champions League final

“We didn’t manage to win, but not because we didn’t try. We gave everything we had,” said Buffon

“Barcelona are the best team in the world in my opinion, but we have proved that we could compete.
“We conceded early on, but we were always in the game.”

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Juve and Barca have already won domestic doubles in Italy and Spain respectively, so the jury is on who wins the biggest trophy to make a treble.

The Berlin Olympic Stadium where the 2015 Champions League Final will be played

Barca goes into the game with the favourites tag to claim their fourth Champions League title in the last decade while Juventus will be looking for their third European Title and first since 1996. Barcelona coach Luis Enrique is looking to emulate a feat that was achieved by former Barcelona manager pep Guardiola of winning the treble in his first season in charge at Camp Nou-2008-09 season.

“Winning the Champions League would signify a treble for us and it’s something that excites everyone. It’s happened just once in the club’s history, and this tells you how difficult it is to achieve,” Enrique said.

Chiellini out of final

Juve defender Giorgio Chiellini will miss out with a calf problem sustained in training.it was expected that Luis Suarez would come against Chielini whom he bit during last year’s world cup.

Andrea Barzagli who returned to training on Wednesday from a recent injury knock is expected to replace Chiellini.

Iniesta included in Barca squad

Andres Iniesta had been a doubt for the Spanish champions because of a calf injury but the midfielder was named in Barca’s squad after returning to training on Thursday.

Barcelona will look to a trio of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis  Suarez who have scored 120 goals this season compared to 103 for the entire Juventus team.

Barcelona attacking trio of Messi Neymar and Suarez

Messi who has scored 58 goals this season – 43 in the Liga, ten in the UEFA Champions League and five in the Copa del Rey will look to guide his team to win the champions league trophy.

Juventus have got a big task of stopping Messi after witnessing him destroying Guardiola’s Bayern Munich with two goals in the first leg of their semi-final before setting up Neymar for the third at the Camp Nou.

Juventus will be keen to avoid Messi’s magic and also prevent him from becoming the first player to score in three Champions League finals.

Juventus goalkeeoper Gianluigi Buffon will be on alert against Barcelona in the champions league final

“This is the game of our lives,” said Juve goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, “I would always want to be starting off as a favourite, but we have our weapons to try and make Barcelona’s job more difficult,” added Buffon, who along with Pirlo won the World Cup at the same stadium with Italy in 2006.

With four consecutive Serie A titles behind them, Allegri’s side carry a wealth of experience.

“They have that Italian competitive edge. It is always difficult to overcome that because they are very, very competitive,” said Barcelona’s Javier Mascherano.

“They are very tactical. They understand football and on top of that they have a lot of talent.”

Barcelona Possible lineup
Ter Stegen; Alves, Piqué, Mascherano, Alba; Rakitić, Busquets, Iniesta; Messi, Suárez, Neymar.

Juventus Possible lineup
Buffon; Lichtsteiner, Bonucci, Barzagli, Evra; Marchisio, Pirlo, Pogba; Vidal; Tévez, Morata.

Out: Chiellini (calf), Cáceres (ankle)

Four of their squad have already won the Champions League with other clubs — Andrea Pirlo with Milan in 2003 and 2007; Patrice Evra and Carlos Tevez with Manchester United in 2008 and Alvaro Morata with Real Madrid last year.

Pirlo remains a threat in midfield and his potential battle with Xavi Hernandez, on his final appearance for Barcelona, promises nothing but master class from the two veteran midfielders.

“We already have a historic double and we want more,” Xavi said.

We hope for the best in the final with the each side gunning for the trophy.

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