Bayern Munich pulled off a stunning 3-0 victory over Barcelona at the Nou Camp to complete a record Champions League semi-final aggregate win. Arjen Robben opened the scoring shortly after half-time when he cut in from the right and found the top corner. Gerard Pique turned Franck Ribery’s cross into his own net before Thomas [...]
Wednesday May 1, 2013 Kick off: 19:45 Semifinal Camp Nou Sergio Busquets is out for Barcelona with a groin injury that ruled him out of Saturday’s Liga game against Athletic Bilbao. Alex Song is ready to deputise. Eric Abidal also misses the match with a calf injury. Jordi Alba is suspended after his yellow card [...]
Borussia Dortmund survived a frantic finish at the Bernabeu to reach the Champions League final despite two late goals by Real Madrid. Real, trailing 4-1 from the first leg, needed to score three times without reply to progress but wasted a series of early chances in an open game. Karim Benzema gave Real hope from [...]
Tuesday April 30, 2013 Kick off: 19:45 Semifinal Bernabéu Cristiano Ronaldo is set to feature for Los Merengues after shaking off the thigh injury that kept him out of the weekend’s clash with Atletico Madrid. The forward trained on Monday and should be fit to play. However Alvaro Arbeloa (back) and Marcelo (thigh) missed the [...]
Robert Lewandowski produced a striker’s masterclass as he scored four goals against Real Madrid in a commanding Champions League semi-final first leg victory for Borussia Dortmund. The Polish striker volleyed in Mario Gotze’s cross at the back post early on before Cristiano Ronaldo tapped in. Lewandowski collected Marco Reus’s shot to poke in past Diego [...]
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi admitted Bayern Munich were “stronger and superior” following their Champions League semi-final mauling. Barca were thumped 4-0 away by an impressive Bayern Munich in their first leg on Tuesday, putting in one of their most toothless displays in recent memory. On Wednesday, they were greeted with newspaper headlines such as ‘Historic beating’ [...]
Bayern Munich cemented their status as the growing power in European football by ruthlessly dismantling favourites Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final first leg. Jupp Heynckes’ newly crowned Bundesliga champions produced a magnificent performance laced with power, intensity and quality to give the Catalan superstars a mauling they will surely find impossible to avenge in [...]
Tuesday April 23, 2013 Kick off: 19:45 Semifinal Allianz-Arena Bayern striker Mario Mandzukic is suspended while Toni Kroos remains out with the injury picked up in the first leg of the quarter-finals. Bastian Schweinsteiger should be fit after a hamstring injury. Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has recovered sufficiently from a hamstring strain to feature in [...]
Lionel Messi came off the bench to kick-start a Barcelona fightback as the four-time winners reached the Champions League semi-finals on away goals. Javier Pastore’s clipped finish put Paris St-Germain ahead for the first time in the tie, 3-2 on aggregate. But Messi, who suffered a hamstring strain in the first leg, inspired Barca and [...]
Tuesday April 9, 2013 Kick off: 19:45 Quarter-final Türk Telekom Arena Real Madrid hold a 3-0 advantage from the first leg. Galatasaray’s star striker Burak Yilmaz is missing due to suspension and the Turkish club are also without Dany Nounkeu after he picked up a yellow card in the first leg. It is suggested that [...]
Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid have one foot in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals after a 3-0 win over Galatasaray in the first leg of their quarter-final clash. Real rarely looked in any real danger and were two goals up before the half-hour mark through Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema. A second-half header from Gonzalo Higuain [...]
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been cleared by UEFA to play for Paris Saint-Germain against Barcelona in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final. UEFA says its appeals panel granted a request by Ibrahimovic and PSG to lift the second match of a two-game ban imposed after he was sent off for a challenge on Valencia [...]
Finally we have the fixtures for the Q4 of the UEFA Champions League: First legs to be played on April 2 or 3, second legs April 9 or 10 Favourites Barcelona will face the big-spending French outfit in the pick of the quarter-finals following the draw made in Nyon on Friday. Nine-times winners Real Madrid [...]
Malaga ensured progression to the last eight of the Champions League as it overcame Porto 2-0, which was forced to play much of the second half with 10 men, at La Roselada. The Andalusians suffered their first ever defeat in European competition in the first leg, but a sublime goal from Isco levelled the tie [...]
Arsenal’s Champions League ambitions are over for another season, despite a gutsy away win at Bayern Munich. Olivier Giroud converted Theo Walcott’s cross in the third minute as the Gunners quickly reduced the 3-1 deficit from the first leg. Arsenal keeper Lukasz Fabianski denied Bayern’s Arjen Robben after the break. Laurent Koscielny’s 86th-minute header left [...]
Juventus wants Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez
Arsenal chasing New Zealand defender Winston Reid
Nani on verge of sealing €12 million Galatasaray move
Man Utd targeting £15m rated Thiago Alcantara
Mourinho Wants Chelsea to outbid Arsenal for Jovetic
Sir Alex Ferguson’s last chewing gum sold for £390,000 on Ebay
Podolski refuses to turn down Juventus link
“My Heart Breaks” to see Kagawa play out of position at Utd – Jurgen Klopp
Arsenal hope £19m bid is enough to lure Gonzalo Higuaín to Emirates
Spurs have to pay Bale £200k a week for him to stay
Kroenke prepared to smash Arsenal wage ceiling in trophy pursuit
Jose Mourinho on verge of joining Chelsea after Madrid Exit
Arsenal wants Juventus Stephan Lichtsteiner to replace Sagna
Pictures: Moyes and Ferguson together at Carrington
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WAGS – Iria Otero Wife of Diego Lopez
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I Don’t Know if Szczesny can get his place back – Seaman
Ex-Gunner keeper David Seaman has cast doubt over whether Wojciech Szczesny will get his hands on the No1 gloves. Szczesny was dropped for the Gunners’ last-16 Champions League second leg game against Bayern Munich, with Wenger citing ‘mental fatigue’ as the reason for taking him out of the firing line. Seaman, who clocked up 564 [...]
‘Balotelli can be a champion’ – Seedorf (Video)
Clarence Seedorf, 4-time Champions League winner: (His analysis on the Champions League quarter-finals) “These games are very balanced. All good teams, a couple of surprises, like Malaga. Borussia Dortmund is a team that showed to be a surprise, but a dangerous team and, who knows, could make it all the way. In the group phase [...]
David Beckham goes on a 4 day tour of China
David Beckham has arrived in Beijing as China’s first global football ambassador. The Paris Saint-Germain midfielder, who is as big a star here as he is anywhere else, is spending four days on a whistle-stop tour across the country. Beckham’s role will involve helping to promote the Chinese Super League (CSL) to the world, raising [...]
Edgar Davids to Celebrate 40th Birthday by playing for Barnet
He’s older than Ryan Giggs and has enjoyed an equally illustrious playing career. Former Ajax, Juventus and Holland superstar Edgar Davids (“the Pitbull” ) turns 40 on Wednesday and will celebrate his birthday eve in action for Barnet against Oxford United tonight. Compared with the huge acclaim that greeted Giggs’s 1,000th appearance for Manchester United [...]
Paolo Maldini : Arsenal, Manchester United Wanted To Sign Me
AC Milan legend Paolo Maldini has revealed that he turned down offers from Manchester United and Arsenal during his playing career. The 44 year old former Italian international centre back played out his entire time with Milan. “Juventus wanted me, while Gianluca Vialli called me to Chelsea in 1996, but I preferred to stay with [...]
Stars Of The Future – Marco Verratti (PSG)
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Patrick Kluivert Predictions for UEFA Europa League Semi-Finals 2013
Home advantage in the second leg will be key in the eyes of the former Ajax, Barcelona, Milan and Newcastle striker but who has caught his eye in the competitions, who is he tipping for the title and what kind of atmosphere can the finalists expect at the Amsterdam Arena, a stadium he was one [...]
Viktor Fischer Scores a beautiful chip goal
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Germany 4-1 Kazakhstan World Cup Qualifier 2014 Highlights
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Netherlands 4-0 Romania World Cup Qualifier 2014 Highlights
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Malta 0-2 Italy World Cup Qualifier 2014 Highlights
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Video: Athletes who quit Twitter
In this week’s TRACE Sports have a look to these champions who left Twitter. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
Djimi Traore Fantastic Strike for Seattle Sounders
Djimi Traore with the fantastic strike off the cross bar and into the back of the net to draw the net to put the Sounders up 2-1 in the second leg of the CONCACAF quarterfinals. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
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