Champions League

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of today's football news.Leeds were unable to extend their lead above the relegation zone by much after their 0-0 ...

“We have time tonight and tomorrow morning to decide. Then we will see what happens in terms of renewing my contract or ending a cycle." "When I arrived I was very young, only 19, and both the club and the players have won many trophies. GO FURTHER GO FURTHER GO FURTHER That will certainly be my last game with Italy.” GO FURTHER GO FURTHER GO FURTHER GO FURTHER Blackburn Rovers, however, have kept themselves in the fight for a play-off spot after their 4-1 win over Preston North End moved them within three points of the top six.

Manchester City meets Real Madrid Tuesday in the first of two Champions League semifinal first legs this week, with Liverpool and Villareal locking up on ...

The Scottish has just one European title to its name (the 1972 Cup Winners’ Cup) and last approached glory in this tournament 14 years ago, when it lost to Zenit Saint Petersburg in the final of what was then known as the UEFA Cup. Despite being such a young franchise, this is RB Leipzig’s second semifinal appearance in a major European competition, having advanced to the final four of the Champions League in 2020. Thursday, 3 p.m. Eintracht Frankfurt has a minus-two goal differential and sits in ninth place in the Bundesliga, but has won four of its last five road Europa League games this year, and tied the other. Thursday, 3 p.m. Liverpool is one of three six-time winners of Europe’s top club competition, last taking the Champions League in 2019, and is a heavy favorite here against a Villareal side that sits only seventh in the La Liga standings. City and Real Madrid, who both lead their respective domestic leagues, met in the Champions League round of 16 two years ago, with the Premier League team winning both legs by identical 2-1 scores.

Jurgen Klopp has dismissed the idea that Liverpool have a dream Champions League semi-final draw as they prepare to face Villarreal in the next stage of ...

"That is for us the same. "They're a really good football team who obviously wants to make history as well. "

Villarreal boss Unai Emery said his team deserve to be in the semifinals of the Champions League ahead of Wednesday's clash with Liverpool.

"Anfield is special and the atmosphere is impressive, incredible," Villarreal midfielder Dani Parejo said. "I recognise the work done and the identity created by Klopp, which has since been further improved. "It's not by chance that we are here," Villarreal midfielder Dani Parejo said. "Any side that is in a Champions League semifinal is there because they deserve to be. They are the number one favourites to win this competition. They will feel like favourites, of course, but will have respect for us."

UEFA is planning to give two Champions League spots to teams based on their historic record in Europe over five years if they fail to qualify through their ...

We could give the other middle-class clubs a voice and organizing an initiative with some other clubs, and that’s something we are working on.” “We are just a small club, a middle-class club in Germany, and we are not the voice of all the European clubs,” Hellman said. “The other alternative will be clear if we don’t do this to a certain extent, we build our own monster,” Hellman said.

Join Matt Furniss and Graham Bell as they look forward with UEFA Champions League preview to the semi-final first-leg between Manchester City and Real ...

The UEFA Champions League semifinals start Tuesday with a massive clash in England as Manchester City host Real Madrid in the first of two legs.

Real Madrid: No injuries of note for Real, even including the struggling Eden Hazard, and that combined with no suspensions means Ancelotti will have pretty much everybody at his disposal. There are no major injury concerns, and no player will miss the next match if they get a yellow in this one as the accumulation is reset following the quarterfinals. Craving even more coverage of the world's game? - UEFA Champions League Today, 2 p.m. ET,CBS and Paramount+ - UEFA Champions League Today, 2 p.m. ET,CBS and Paramount+ These two teams have plenty of recent history in the competition, meeting in the 2015/16 semifinals with Real winning, while City bounced Los Blancos in the round of 16 in the 2019-20 edition of the competition.

The semi-finals of the 2021-22 UEFA Champions League are here, with two teams representing each of the Premier League and La Liga. Manchester City, Liverpool ...

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Brandt Sutton locked in his Champions League picks and best bets for Manchester City vs. Real Madrid on Tuesday, April 26.

- Manchester City vs. Visit SportsLine now to see the best bets for Manchester City vs. Manchester City has scored 13 goals in its five home matches during Champions League play and has posted a clean sheet in each of its last four overall contests in the tournament. The 25-year-old Brazilian is one of six players on Manchester City who's recorded double-digit goal total this season. Manchester City cruised to a 5-1 victory against Watford on Saturday, with Gabriel Jesus recording four goals and an assist. Here are the betting lines and trends for Real Madrid vs.

Carlo Ancelotti believes Real Madrid's record of 13 European Cup wins is a “positive burden” for his players as they face Manchester City in the Champions ...

Normally, if Real Madrid get to the final, there is more of a possibility to win it.” “I think the history that Real Madrid has in this competition counts for a lot, more for us than opponents,” Ancelotti said. Real last won the competition in 2018, sealing a third consecutive triumph, while Ancelotti was the head coach who guided the club to their 10th success in 2014.

The quarterfinal round saw reigning champions Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Atlético Madrid and Benfica eliminated from the competition, as the field was cut down ...

Manchester City’s own Raheem Sterling secured a total of three goals in the Champions League. Manchester City are the favorite to win against Real Madrid in the semifinals, and also make it to the finals. He scores an average of 1.11 goals every 90 minutes with 32 total goals so far this season, 13 of those being in the UEFA Champions League. Chelsea did come back to claim victory in the second leg at 3-2, but it wasn’t enough for them to advance. Manchester City’s 1-0 victory occurred in the first leg while their second matchup with Atlético Madrid resulted in a tie of 0-0. The second leg of the quarterfinals ended in a tie, 3-3, so Benfica said their goodbyes.

A Spanish team's run to the semifinals offers a template for how teams can thrive by turning the impatience of Europe's giants against them.

It demonstrates that it is possible to grow strong on the scraps from the feast, to thrive in soccer’s increasingly Anglocentric ecosystem, by remembering that the appeal of a product depends on its use. Villarreal has long nurtured connections in South America in general and in Argentina in particular: When it last reached a Champions League semifinal, in 2006, it was with a team stocked with Boca Juniors alumni. Villarreal, on the other hand, does not feel like a vision of what is to come. “So they created a cleaning product made with vinegar,” Miguel Blanco, a business economics professor at King Juan Carlos University, once told a business journal from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mercadona, like Villarreal, understands that the appeal of a product depends on how it is used. There is Vicente Iborra, a 34-year-old midfielder who struggled to make an impact at Leicester City, and Pervis Estupiñán, the young Ecuadorean left back who noodled around the great Watford loan factory for a while. But both contained trace elements of lightning strikes, too: difficult — if not impossible — to repeat or replicate. These are held at 10 stores around Spain, and each is devoted to a particular strand of the business: pet care, for example, or snacks or personal hygiene. Those familiar with Villarreal’s strategy say that is not a deliberate policy. To ensure the company is meeting their needs, Mercadona, every so often, invites a selection of its most reliable customers to take part in a testing laboratory. There has, instead, been a degree of opportunism. It was in Monaco’s run past Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund that Kylian Mbappé, Bernardo Silva and Fabinho first pierced the sport’s broader consciousness. Fernando Roig, Villarreal’s president and benefactor, has a minority stake in Mercadona, Spain’s largest retail chain, but it is his brother, Juan, the majority shareholder, who is credited with turning the latter into a staple case study for business schools around the world.

Carlo Ancelotti admitted Real Madrid midfielder Casemiro is a doubt ahead of tonight's Champions League semi-final first leg and played down suggestions his ...

'If you are not compact you will suffer,' he said. 'Success is reaching the final where we have a good chance of winning it.' Asked if he felt confident about being able to name his strongest side he said: '[Ferland] Mendy is fine.

Raheem Sterling claims Manchester City are 'focussed' on the Champions League because it is the one trophy the club have yet to win.

I always help the team, if I can get records even better," the winger said. As ever, Sterling was humble in his response, pointing out that he just takes games one at a time. He continued, "It's a special competition, every young player wants to be here.

Manchester City go welcome Real Madrid for di first-leg of dia Champions League semi-final match.

Di EPL no dey dia hands to win, but di Champions League and FA Cup still dey dia hand." "DeM dey smell blood and dem no go go away easily. I expect Manchester City to win wit a slim margin, but dis Real Madrid team na Carlo Ancelotti dey coach dem."

Villarreal are thriving against Europe's elite with sights set on Champions League glory. Can they crack Liverpool next in semifinal bid?

Yet he's the one, in the Yellow Submarine's words, ensuring that 'everyone of us, has all we need' for a Champions League semifinal against the six-time competition winners. He was told on arrival that his negative test hadn't been produced early enough to allow him access to the stadium where his team were on the verge of history. Then we have optimistic expectations but based on a lot of work." Win, lose, draw -- Emery immediately sensed that there was urgency, ambition and grit about the Yellow Submarine project. Villarreal were on a promotion mission that, by 1967, would see them wriggle their way back into the third division, and there's a lovely faded black-and-white photo of a fan banner held up by first-team players on the day which reads: "The Yellow Submarine is Advancing At Full Steam." Emery, a Basque-born footballer of workmanlike ability, is a good witness to what his boss has achieved. I experienced the final by myself because my kids were in Poland, my brother was in Poland; everyone was in Poland. I watched more or less alone because my wife finds it very tense. There's a presumption that because the club have only become world-known over the last sixteen or so years the nickname is a modern creation. Relegation, from which the club bounced back with rubber-ball speed, was the most painful experience for him across this magical quarter-century. But 2006, the last time the Yellow Submarine reached the Champions League semifinal, was the more brutally iconic image. Like his brother and sister-in-law, he is a billionaire. On the day when the Beatles' publicity machine for their Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby release went into overdrive, Villarreal were in Spanish football's fifth tier.

The Champions League is down to four clubs, two from the Premier League and two from La Liga. Manchester City, Liverpool, Real Madrid and Villarreal will battle ...

Then there's West Ham, who cannot reach the Champions League places in England, so their only route to the Champions League is by winning the Europa League (and look how well that path has worked out for Villarreal!). They're facing a Frankfurt team that sits in ninth place in Germany with a goal differential of -2. While they've played well in the Europa League, they're not likely to provide much of a threat to the Hammers in London. Pick: West Ham and RB Leipzig to win (+156) Rangers getting this far in the competition is a credit to them, but they aren't in the same league as Leipzig, and I can't imagine they'll go to Germany and come away with a result. I see the value on a parlay of the likely winners. Villarreal are a great story and an excellent example of what a club can accomplish when the entire organization is in line and follows a vision. Villarreal's problem is that Liverpool are a club very much in the same mold, but with more money and much better players. After all, Liverpool did allow four goals in two matches against Benfica and have allowed at least one goal in seven of their 10 Champions League matches this season. Like the last round against Chelsea, I want to take the over, but I fear what Carlo Ancelloti did in the Round of 16 against PSG. He sent Real Madrid out there and had them playing like Sean Dyche's Burnley squad. The good news is Villarreal are strong enough in attack that I believe they can get at least one goal of their own more often than not. In other words, a pragmatic approach against City might not work out nearly as well as Ancelloti hopes, so I'm betting on City finding the back of the net at least twice. I can't guarantee anything, but I have a pretty good idea of what to expect. The Champions League semifinals begin this week, and while Manchester City and Liverpool are the heavy favorites to move on and give us an all-England final, Real Madrid has been written off a few times in this tournament already, and it's still here.

Los Blancos are runaway winners in La Liga, but their expected goal differential is second-best in Spain and suggests that Real Madrid is a bit fortunate to ...

Madrid’s best path to success in this fixture is to sit back and allow City the lion’s share of possession. Los Blancos are runaway winners in La Liga, but their expected goal differential is second-best in Spain and suggests that Real Madrid is a bit fortunate to have such a big cushion over Atletico Madrid and Barcelona. Manchester City and Real Madrid begin their two-leg Champions League semifinal on Tuesday afternoon.

Here is a preview of the two ties at this Final Four stage and what I predict will happen. Manchester City vs Real Madrid (first leg April 26, second leg May 4).

Madrid have again defied rational explanation through incredible rollercoaster victories in the Champions League against PSG and Chelsea.

It is very possible that we will win the Champions League again this year, not just for the quality of the players, but their spirit, their competitiveness, and the confidence with which they have been playing in recent games.” “I remember training in the stadium the night before and getting used to the environment around the place before it. It is difficult for all the teams in the Champions League to have the same confidence level for the whole game. The Italian’s substitutions in the second legs against PSG and Chelsea this year helped his team through both ties, with the surprise decision to replace the control of Kroos with the energy of 19-year-old Eduardo Camavinga against Chelsea working spectacularly well. “It was a fantastic team, fantastic players — and the final was at the Bernabeu. That was a big pressure. “Madrid have a lot of maturity now — they have a good mix between older and younger players,” Puel says. That is why Real Madrid players have to be very well prepared, not just in a football sense, but mentally.” “The current Real Madrid team is a historic team – winning many trophies, three consecutive Champions Leagues,” he says. The idea that “90 minutes at the Bernabeu is very long”, first coined by Madrid forward Juanito in the 1980s, also became part of club folklore. That is why we have won more trophies than any other team, and are the best club in the history of football.” It is an incredible symbiosis of the fans with the players and with the club, to transform yourselves in this competition, from European Cup to Champions League, to make history.” “Those of us who have played at Real Madrid always know that this is a complicated club, very difficult to play for,” Mijatovic says.

Thirteen-time winners face Manchester City in the first leg of the semi-final at the Etihad Stadium.

We need to suffer, to stick together, when we have the ball, try to attack.” We need to suffer, to stick together, when we have the ball, try to attack. But maybe there are things we have they don’t have, I don’t know. Ancelotti: “We are very close to playing another final of the most important competition in the world and we are worried because we are facing a very strong team. Guardiola: “We have to have the desire to compete against them. “We have to have the desire to compete against them.

The critics say this must be the year Manchester City win the Champions League. The predictor says it's the most likely outcome with Liverpool not far ...

Their opponents shouldn’t expect the same. What that seems to be doing is giving their attackers some space on the occasion that they are attacking. Villarreal seem to know what they’re doing at this stage of knockout tournaments. One step at a time, and the Reds are at 85% to be playing at the Stade de France on 28 May. Unai Emery’s side held Bayern to 0.07 xG per shot over 180 minutes, while Julian Nagelsmann’s side settled for plenty of low-quality opportunities: They’ve had six or fewer high turnovers three times in the Champions League this season. They’ve had 10 or more in the remaining seven. Real Madrid have scored a goal from a high turnover in three straight games. Pep Guardiola’s side have allowed 24 shots on target in the entire competition. But the two Spanish teams they’ll face have just eliminated the last two European champions in Chelsea and Bayern Munich. It should be said their group contained an attacking-mad RB Leipzig and Paris Saint-Germain, but the recent form is nonetheless encouraging. Sixteen of them only played six games.

"We will suffer" city coach Pep Guardiola has warned as he prepares his side against a team he calls "kings of the competition". City, finalists last year, ...

Now we are trying to be ourselves, to compete well, and we have to play two outstanding games to reach the final, and I hope we can do that." Meanwhile, the Merengue are dreaming of a final victory at the Stade de France after the one they won against Valencia in 2000. Asked what Manchester City must do to beat Real Madrid, Guardiola said "to be there in the last stages with the best teams in the world, in Europe, to be here is good.

Real have won Europe's top trophy a record 13 times while City remains in search of their first Champions League title after losing in the final to Chelsea last ...

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