The weekend brought morale-boosting victories for five teams in UEFA Champions League round of 16 action this week. Bayern Munich were most emphatic in their pre-second leg preparations, though Manchester United and Olympique de Marseille passed tricky tests of their own. England City rivals Manchester United and Manchester City will meet in the FA Cup […]
Micah Richards’ header sent Manchester City into an FA Cup semi-final blockbuster with Manchester United next month as they eded out Championship side Reading. It will be the Blues’ first appearance at that stage of the competition for 30 years and they will hope to avoid the nerves that affected them against the Royals. Apart […]
Real Madrid kept the pressure up on Liga leaders Barcelona with a 2-0 defeat of Hércules that hauled them to within four points at the top. Karim Benzema did the damage with both goals as José Mourinho’s men gave themselves a timely injection of confidence ahead of Wednesday’s UEFA Champions League round of 16 decider […]
Manchester United and Bolton Wanderers are heading to Wembley for the FA Cup semi-finals after defeating Arsenal and Birmingham City respectively. Sir Alex Ferguson selected seven defenders in his starting XI at Old Trafford and one of them, Fabio, broke the deadlock after a superb counterattack in the 28th minute. Fabio was involved in the […]
Published reports this morning say that Fabio Capello is considering giving the England captaincy back to John Terry for this month’s Euro 2012 qualifier against Wales – and beyond. Discussions are said to have already taken place within the FA over what is certain to be a hotly-debated issue. But the England management have been […]
Llevant’s astonishing turnaround has come after five wins in the last seven games and they are currently 12th, just three points behind Mallorca who they entertain on Sunday. Espanyol’s form, in contrast has been terrible and having been beaten by Llevant last week they have to get a result at home to Deportivo to stay […]
Major League Soccer polled players throughout the league to find out the most difficult place to play. Whose supporters make their stadium the toughest place to go and get a result? While you can probably guess that Seattle is number 1, some of the other results might surprise you. 1. Qwest Field (Seattle Sounders) Is […]
A superb double from Villarreal substitute Nilmar, including a 94th-minute winner, helped the Spanish Liga side recover from going a goal down to record a 3-2 round of 16 first-leg victory at Bayer Leverkusen. If Michal Kadlec’s fine 33rd-minute opener at the BayArena rewarded a strong first-half display from Bundesliga high-fliers Leverkusen, Villarreal’s Giuseppe Rossi […]