Barcelona: Cesc Fabregas scored one goal and set up another as Barcelona beat Valencia 2-0 on Wednesday to advance to the Copa del Rey final against Athletic Bilbao. Lionel Messi lobbed a long pass that Fabregas chased down and deftly chipped over goalkeeper Diego Alves for Barcelona's 15th-minute opener. And after Sofiane Feghouli left Valencia with 10 men late on after receiving his second booking, Fabregas set up Xavi Hernandez...
08:15 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Madrid: Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has called Wednesday's King's Cup semifinal second leg against Valencia "a game for men" while revealing little about the state of his injured players. The world and European champions have suffered a string of injuries which have contributed to their slight dip in form over recent weeks. Carles Puyol's away goal in the 1-1 draw from the first leg last week gives Barca a slight...
06:22 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Barcelona: Barcelona may finally be feeling the pressure that comes with being billed the world's best club, coach Pep Guardiola said on Tuesday. Guardiola spoke in rallying tones ahead of Wednesday's Copa del Rey semi-final at Valencia after the Spanish and European champions drew 0-0 at Villarreal to sit seven points behind league leaders Real Madrid. "Living with this constant pressure of having to win and win makes it hard,...
10:38 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Madrid: Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho is reportedly on his way back to England after being booed by the club's fans recently. The former Inter Milan, Chelsea and Porto manager was heckled in the Galacticos home win against Athletic Bilbao last weekend, after his defensive tactics had come under fire during the 2-1 loss in the first leg of the Copa del Rey quarter-final. The second leg of the Copa...
04:58 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Barcelona: Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho claimed that his team were never likely to be allowed to triumph at Camp Nou, revealing that his players had deemed such an outcome 'impossible,' after his side's Copa del Rey elimination at the hands of Barcelona on Wednesday despite a 2-2 draw at the Camp Nou in the second leg. Madrid came back from a 2-0 first-half deficit, but a poor performance in...
10:30 PM, Jan 26, 2012
Madrid: Jose Mourinho shrugged off the first public outcry by Real Madrid fans against him, saying the whistling during the 4-1 home win over Athletic Bilbao on Sunday comes with the job at a club where "they jeer the biggest names in football." Four days after Madrid lost yet again under him to fierce rivals Barcelona, the Portuguese coach was repeatedly jeered despite the team collecting their 23rd win from...
12:47 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Madrid: Another loss to Barcelona has piled pressure on Jose Mourinho, with support for the Real Madrid coach ebbing after another ill-tempered and ineffective display against their biggest rivals summed up by Pepe's ugly stamp on Lionel Messi's hand. Barcelona rallied for a 2-1 Copa del Rey victory on Wednesday for their 10th victory in 13 games, and sixth win against Madrid since the Portuguese coach took over in 2010....
11:33 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Madrid: Barcelona got the better of archrivals Real Madrid again on Wednesday as Eric Abidal scored a rare goal to give his team a 2-1 win in the first leg of the Copa del Rey quarter-finals. Abidal chested down Lionel Messi's scooped pass inside the area before flicking a left-footed shot under goalkeeper Iker Casillas in the 77th minute for just his second goal with the Catalan club. The Frenchman's...
04:55 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Madrid: Real Madrid need Cristiano Ronaldo to recover his confidence against Barcelona when the two rivals start another clasico series on Wednesday in the first leg of the Copa del Rey quarter-finals. Ronaldo has scored only twice in 13 career games against Barcelona, with his last goal coming in April's cup final to give Madrid their lone victory in the last 12 meetings over the Catalan club. The Portugal forward...
11:37 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Madrid: FIFA player of the year candidate Cristiano Ronaldo and coach Jose Mourinho will skip Monday's awards gala because of team commitments, Real Madrid said on Friday. The 2011 Fifa Ballon d'Or gala takes place in Switzerland, but Madrid have a Copa del Rey game away to Malaga the next day and the duo do not want to disrupt their preparations for the match. Madrid lead Malaga 3-2 from the...
02:52 PM, Jan 07, 2012
Madrid: Real Madrid and Barcelona will play each other in the Copa del Rey quarter-finals if they both win their match-ups in the round-of-16. Defending champions Madrid were drawn against big-spending Malaga for the round-of-16 on Friday, while Osasuna will face 25-time champions Barcelona. Should the Spanish giants advance, they would meet in a two-legged quarter-final starting January 18. That would make it 10 meetings in about 13 months after...
02:31 PM, Dec 25, 2011
Villarreal: Villarreal fired coach Juan Carlos Garrido following the struggling Spanish club's embarrassing Copa del Rey loss to a third-tier team on Wednesday. Villarreal exited the fourth round of the domestic cup competition after Wednesday's 2-0 home defeat to Mirandes, the final straw for Garrido after Villarreal were also eliminated from the Champions League after losing all six of their group games. Garrido was quoted as saying he expected president...
08:34 AM, Dec 22, 2011
Madrid: Karim Benzema cemented his return to form with his second hat-trick of the month and Cristiano Ronaldo also netted three goals as Real Madrid crushed lowly Levante 8-0 in their King's Cup last-16 first leg on Wednesday. France striker Benzema is profiting from the absence through injury of first-choice centre forward Gonzalo Higuain and followed up on his Champions League triple against Auxerre on Dec. 8 with another impressive...
07:18 AM, Dec 23, 2010
Real captain Raul on Tuesday sportingly congratulated Alcorcon players. ...
06:02 PM, Nov 11, 2009
Dubai: The ICC is planning to do away with the rotation policy for appointing presidents and cricket's world governing body is likely to deliberate on the proposal in its annual general meeting later this month in Hong Kong. Under the rotational system currently in place right now, Pakistan and Bangladesh are to present their nominees for the president and vice-president's post and the two countries are reportedly opposed to the...
08:04 PM, Feb 01, 2008
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