Champions League Awards: Goalie goals and Cursed Conte | OneFootball

Our Champions League Awards honour the best – and worst – of the midweek action, featuring Anatoliy Trubin, Joao Pedro and Antonio Conte.

Moment of the Week

Fair play, Anatoliy Trubin, you might just be responsible for the coldest football picture of 2026 before January is even done.

Knee slide, teammates chasing wildly, Benfica into the next round. It’s great when goalkeepers score, isn’t it? What a moment for the Ukrainian.

Player of the Week

A brilliant performance from Joao Pedro ensured Chelsea qualified in the top eight. The Brazilian turned the game around at Napoli with two fantastic goals, as Chelsea came from behind to win.

His first was a moment of magic, blasting in from distance on his weaker left side, before driving forward to fire home a late winner.

Two shots, two goals, and nine duels won. This was a complete centre-forward performance from Pedro.

Goal of the Week

File this one under heat-seaking missile.

Vlad Dragomir with arguably the goal of the league phase on matchday eight.

Save of the Week

It’s not easy being a back-up goalkeeper but Jonas Urbig might just have picked up a few pointers from the great Manuel Neuer.

Urbig was outstanding as Bayern Munich won at PSV Eindhoven, making a string of sensational saves. He made six saves in the first-half alone as Bayern rode their luck to claim the points.

Stat of the Week

Virgil van Dijk, playmaker extraordinare?

A week to forget for…

Antonio Conte. Conte’s cursed Champions League record continues with the Italian exiting early once again. Napoli’s defeat to Chelsea was the final nail in the coffin, but the damage was done earlier in the competition. A 6-2 hammering at PSV was the lowlight of a campaign that saw Napoli win just twice in eight games.

The Italian champions are the biggest casualty of the league phase, while Conte continues to find Europe tricky. Despite winning six league titles across four different clubs, Conte has never progressed past the quarter-finals. He’s not even reached that stage since 2012-13.

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