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
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
Miranda de Ebro: Athletic Bilbao beat Mirandes 2-1 in the first leg of their Copa del Rey semi-final on Tuesday, yet conceded a stoppage-time goal to give the third-tier club some hope ahead of the second leg next week. Mirandes' partisan crowd of 8,000 spectators at Anduva stadium were silenced after 18 minutes when Fernando Llorente read Oscar de Marcos' run to head in the ensuing short cross at the...
08:32 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: Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernandez has labeled Real Madrid's players 'bad losers' and 'animals' after his club won their latest ill-tempered match-up and the fall-out that thrilling victory continued to dominate the sports headlines in Spain on Friday. Barcelona eliminated cup holders Real Madrid from the Copa del Rey quarter-finals with Wednesday's 2-2 draw at the Camp Nou, after a match full of disputed refereeing decisions. El Mundo newspaper's website...
02:41 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Barcelona: Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta will be sidelined for three weeks with a muscle tear in his left thigh. Iniesta was injured in the first half of Barcelona's 2-2 draw with Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey quarter-finals on Wednesday and had be replaced just before the half-hour mark by Pedro. Barcelona advanced 4-3 on aggregate score. Barca initially revealed via Twitter that the player had sustained a thigh...
03:27 AM, Jan 27, 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: Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho will not punish Pepe for stamping on the hand of Barcelona's Lionel Messi, saying that the defender's apology was sufficient. Mourinho said on Saturday "the player has spoken and that is enough" after including Pepe in his squad for Sunday's league home game against Athletic Bilbao. Following Wednesday's 2-1 loss to Barcelona in the first leg of their Copa del Rey quarter-final, Mourinho said...
04:46 AM, Jan 22, 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: Jose Mourinho defended Cristiano Ronaldo's form on the eve of Real Madrid's Copa del Rey quarter-final against Barcelona, describing his performance against Mallorca as his best since the coach's arrival at the club. Ronaldo has come under criticism after squandering chances in a 3-1 loss to Barcelona last month, but Mourinho said the forward's work ethic in the second half of Saturday's 2-1 win was better than all of...
11:46 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Barcelona: Valencia ousted Sevilla from the Copa del Rey despite a 2-1 loss on Wednesday, advancing on away goals after striker Roberto Soldado scored in the second half. Soldado ran on to an excellent through-ball by Jonas, who scored in Valencia's 1-0 first-leg win, and coolly slotted a finish past goalkeeper Javi Varas into the right corner of the net for the 66th-minute opener. Midfielder Ivan Ratikic pounced on a...
05:36 AM, Jan 12, 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: Angel di Maria is likely to miss Real Madrid's Copa del Rey match against Malaga on Tuesday because of a leg injury. Madrid say the Argentina forward injured a muscle in his right thigh in training on Saturday, although the Spanish club did not say how long Di Maria would be sidelined. The club's medical staff revealed that the 23-year-old suffered a "microscopic tear in the right thigh muscle,"...
04:31 PM, Jan 01, 2012
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