Newcastle stun Chelsea
LONDON, England ● Two sublime strikes by Papiss Cisse earned Newcastle a first victory at Chelsea since 1986 and boosted the Magpies’ hopes of playing Champions League football next season. Cisse’s wonderful brace, his 12th and 13th league goals since joining the club in January, saw Alan Pardew’s men pull clear of Chelsea in the [...]
Real sight La Liga title, Barca hit seven
MADRID, Spain ● Real Madrid edged closer to their first league title in four years with a 3-0 win over Sevilla on Sunday, but Barcelona ensured their celebrations were put on hold with a 7-0 mauling of Rayo Vallecano. Karim Benzema struck a second half brace after Cristiano Ronaldo had given Real the lead to [...]
Messi, Ronaldo reach record 41-goal mark
MADRID, Spain ● Lionel Messi went level with Cristiano Ronaldo’s record of 41 league goals for the season on Saturday when he scored twice in Barcelona’s come-from-behind 2-1 win over Levante. The victory closed the gap on Real Madrid to four points with El Clasico to come next weekend. Earlier Real beat Sporting Gijon 3-1 [...]
Raul rekindles Schalke fire
GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany ● His side may have bowed out of the Europa League in midweek but Spanish veteran striker Raul encouraged Schalke’s ambitions of reaching next season’s Champions League with a brace in Sunday’s 3-0 win over Hanover. Raul, a three-times European Cup winner with Real Madrid, struck early in both halves to see off [...]
Barca invincible
BARCELONA, Spain — A double by three-time world footballer of the year Lionel Messi inspired holders Barcelona to a fifth successive appearance in the Champions League semi-finals after a 3-1 win over AC Milan here on Tuesday in their quarter-final second leg clash and win by the same scoreline on aggregate. Messi’s brace of first-half [...]
Sevilla within reach Euro spot
SEVILLA, Spain – Sevilla scored three second-half goals to beat Mallorca 3-1 on Monday, recording a third straight victory to move within reach of the European places in the Spanish league. Goals from Alvaro Negredo, Manu del Moral and Jesus Navas put Sevilla one point behind sixth-place Osasuna, which is in the last Europa League [...]
Bilbao strikes again
ALKMAAR, Netherlands – Athletic Bilbao, conquerors of Manchester United in the previous round, continued their Europa League run by scoring three times in the last 20 minutes to win their quarter-final first leg tie 4-2 at Schalke 04 on Thursday. Atletico Madrid also snatched a late win in a Spain-Germany clash, beating Hanover 96 2-1 [...]
Back on top
MANCHESTER, England – Wayne Rooney scored twice as Manchester United returned to the top of the Premier League with a 2-0 win against 10-man West Bromwich Albion at Old Trafford on Sunday. Rooney moved to 20 league goals this season after touching in a shot by Javier Hernandez in the 35th minute and smashing home [...]
Benfica cruise past Zenit
LISBON, Portugal — Two injury-time goals courtesy of Maxi Pereira and Nelson Oliveira secured Benfica’s passage to the Champions League quarter-finals Tuesday with a convincing 2-0 win over Zenit Saint-Petersburg. Jorge Jesus’s side had succumbed 3-2 in Russia in the first leg of the knockout phase after Roman Shirokov stunned the Portuguese by scoring the [...]
