FC Barcelona have announced that they will appeal UEFA’s decision to ban Andres Iniesta for one Champions League match for deliberately collecting a yellow card. Iniesta was cautioned in the first leg of Barca’s quarter-final against Shakhtar Donetsk, for not retreating the required distance at a free kick. The yellow card meant that we missed […]
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Real Madrid great Alfredo Di Stefano ripped into Jose Mourinho for his tactics in the 1-1 draw against Barcelona, saying the team played like a mouse against a lion of a Catalan side. Di Stefano, Madrid’s honorary president, wrote in his weekly column in sports newspaper Marca on Monday that the Portuguese coach’s team showed […]
Real Madrid great Alfredo Di Stefano ripped into Jose Mourinho for his tactics in the 1-1 draw against Barcelona, saying the team played like a mouse against a lion of a Catalan side. Di Stefano, Madrid’s honorary president, wrote in his weekly column in sports newspaper Marca on Monday that the Portuguese coach’s team showed […]
Giuseppe Rossi’s 16th league goal of the season helped Villarreal beat Zaragoza 1-0 on Monday to strengthen the club’s hold on fourth place in the Spanish league. Rossi goal, from the penalty box, came in the 71st after Zaragoza midfielder Ponzio Leonardo had pulled down Rossi in the area. Villarreal’s first win in three weeks […]
Athletic Bilbao enhanced their chances of playing Europa League football next season with a 2-1 win at Osasuna on a day when fellow European hopefuls Club Atletico Madrid drew with Espanyol. Having fallen behind to Kike Sola’s effort (51), victory seemed beyond Athletic when defender Xabier Castillo was sent off soon after. However, Fernando Llorente […]
The first of four match-ups between Spanish giants Real Madrid and FC Barcelona ended all square as the ten-man hosts came from behind to earn a share of the spoils at the Santiago Bernabéu. It looked like Barcelona were going to take all three points after Raúl Albiol brought down David Villa in the box […]
After hailing another “great victory” that took his side into the Europa League semi-finals, Borja Valero said it was important that Villarreal now went on to end their wait for European silverware. Not that the Spanish club were taking things for granted, with midfielder Valero admitting that Villarreal’s capitulation in their 5-0 Liga defeat by […]
Saturday brings the start four El Clásico matchups in 18 days. The matches will decide not only the Spanish league, but the Copa del Rey and the Champions League as well. The big question is whether all four of the El Clásico are equally important or whether some are more important than others? The answer […]
Villarreal booked their place in the Europa League semi-finals last night after coming from behind to beat ten-man FC Twente. Michel Preud’homme’s side were given hope by a delightful first-half effort by Emir Bajrami, but the 58th-minute dismissal of Dwight Tiendalli, and Giuseppe Rossi’s subsequent penalty, effectively ended any prospect of an unlikely rally from […]