Where is the best quality football in Europe right now?published at 11:18 BST<\/p>\n
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‘As good football as we’ve seen in years’ – PSG run riot against Man City<\/p>\n
It has been a week of contrasting results in the Champions League, with Spanish football enjoying a near-perfect run while Italian sides have endured the opposite. <\/p>\n
Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and Villarreal all picked up victories, beating Galatasaray 4-1, Manchester United 2-0 and Napoli 3-1. Real Madrid added to the Spanish dominance with a 4-3 comeback win over Roma, while Real Betis beat Porto 3-2. <\/p>\n
For Italian football, it was a week to arguably forget. All four Serie A representatives lost, including Inter’s shock 4-3 defeat at home to Club Brugge and Napoli’s loss to Villarreal. Roma’s late collapse against Real Madrid only added to the misery. <\/p>\n
English football had some mixed results. Arsenal won 3-0 against Lille and Liverpool scored six in a 6-3 victory over LASK, while Aston Villa thrashed Fenerbahce 6-0. However, Manchester United lost to Atletico and Manchester City were beaten 4-2 by PSG. <\/p>\n
That result reinforced the feeling that PSG remain the team to beat. Their attacking quality and ability to punish City made a statement, even if the Premier League side improved after half-time. <\/p>\n
So, where is the best quality football in Europe right now? <\/p>\n
Spain has the strongest collective of results this week, but PSG’s performance suggests the Champions League favourites may still be found in Paris. <\/p>\n
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Three chances in five minutes – Yamal eventually helps Barca score<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where is the best quality football in Europe right now?published at 11:18 BST 11:18 BST Media caption, ‘As…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}