Emmanuel Adebayor is hoping his two goals in Real Madrid’s 4-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur will help him earn a long-term deal at the club. The striker, who has five goals in 13 Real games, is on loan from Manchester City until the end of the season. “I have two months to go and the […]

Barcelona have one foot in the Champions League semi-finals after a 5-1 victory over Shakhtar Donetsk that left the visitors ruing a hatful of first-half misses. The quarter-final first leg was absorbing from the opening kickoff. The first half was only two minutes old when Messi took off on one of his trademark runs. The […]

In tonight’s Champions League match against Shakhtar former Barcelona player Dmytro Chygrynskiy will be tasked with marking Lionel Messi. Chygrynskiy also happens to be one of a long line of poor transfer decisions that Barcelona have made in past couple of years. Barcelona loves to note that its battle with Real Madrid is more than […]

Shakhtar Donetsk coach Mircea Lucescu says that Barcelona “are simply the strongest team in football history” as he weighed up the Ukrainian side’s Champions League quarter-final opponents. It is an opinion shared by too many, fears Josep Guardiola, who dismissed the notion that Barça can already start planning for the last four. “If we are […]

Real Madrid are set to reach their first Champions League semi-final for eight years after thrashing ten-man Tottenham Hotspur 4-0. Spurred on by a spectacular pre-match introduction, Madrid started strongly with Ronaldo firing wide before Di María forced a corner off Vedran Ćorluka. From Mesut Özil’s subsequent centre, Adebayor connected with a downward header that […]

Real Madrid coach José Mourinho, his side decimated by injuries said a goalless home draw against Tottenham Hotspur FC would represent a “good result”. His Spurs counterpart and “friend” Harry Redknapp, meanwhile, looks set to have Gareth Bale at his disposal as he plans to stick to his forward-thinking principles despite the daunting surroundings of […]