Chelsea recorded a historic victory Tuesday evening, beating Barcelona 3-2 on aggregate to qualify for the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final. The European media were quick to jump on the story with Marca, the Catalan newspaper, summing up the mood...
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Where do I start on one of the greatest nights of our history considering the circumstances. Up against it before the game, written off and with members of the press and media thinking that Barcelona just needed to turn up to win the game, Chelsea produced a performance that is right up there with the best of them.

Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel has voiced his frustration at the manner in which Barcelona forward Alexis Sanchez convinced the referee's assistant to issue a red car to Blues captain John Terry at Camp Nou last night.

Terry was sent off in the 37th minute of Chelsea's 2-2 draw (a 3-2 win on aggregate) for kneeing Sanchez when both players were off the ball.

This game looked all over bar the shouting at half-time with Barca leading 2-0 and 4-1 on aggregate, however Ronaldo sparked a Madrid comeback in this fascinating Copa Del Rey quarter-final tie which had it all, goals,skill,near misses, a harshly disallowed goal and a sending off.

Continuing their preseason tradition of a Community Shield match to raise funds for charity partners, the Seattle Sounders today announced that their opponent in the Feb. 29 7 PM match will be Jaguares de Chiapas of the Mexican Primera. In a new twist, the match will be free and seating on a first-come, first-serve basis, but the club will be accepting donations at the door.

On Leap Year Day 2012 the United States won a game against Italy for the first time, on its 11th try. But it was just a friendly. It is not a win that people will remember for ages. For all the glory of Landon Donovan's goal in the 2010 World Cup, it has not defined US soccer. There are a few defining moments.

REAL MADRID CF goes into next Fridays CHAMPIONS LEAGUE quarter-final draw after winning CSKA MOSCOW 4 - 1 ( 5- 2 aggregate) in the 2º leg match. Cristiano Ronaldo The Russians initially set up their "standard" tight defence & awaited Real Madrid to practice their counter-attacking Football. It nearly paid off for them as they had two-three excellent chances to get ahead.

Bobby Di Matteo is falling over himself to get the Chelsea job on a permanent basis. The Blues' interim boss enjoyed a comedy fall as he celebrated the first goal in Chelsea's 4-1 win over Napoli last night, which saw them progress to the Champions League quarter finals 5-4 on aggregate. He needs a pair [.

TweetReal Madrid midfielder Xabi Alonso has insisted that his side are ready to take on Barcelona should the pair be drawn alongside each other in Friday's UEFA Champions League draw. Alonso was instrumental at the heart of the midfield as joint favourites Real Madrid beat CSKA Moscow 4-1 (5-2 on aggregate) at the Santiago Bernabeu [.

Talking Tactics: What Barcelona can expect from Milan in San Siro is a post from: Just Football

by Sam Thompson

Barcelona travel to Italy this week in the Champions League to face Serie A leaders AC Milan, having scrapped through 4-3 on aggregate against Arsenal in the last sixteen.

Following their progress into the last 4 of the Champions League, a lot of criticism is emerging towards Chelsea's chances of making it all the way to the final. After their 8-2 aggregate win over APEOEL, Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has already ruled out chances of his side meeting Chelsea in the final saying that his arch rivals Barcelona were the 'super favourites' to win the fixture.

So Chelsea did the unthinkable at the Nou Camp, drawing 2-2 with the mighty Barcelona and they are now in the Champions League Final.
Despite playing with ten men for most of this enthralling fixture thanks to 'Mr. Nice-guy' John Terry kneeing Iniesta in the back,
Roberto Di Matteo's side withstood the homeside's domination of the game to emerge with a creditable draw meaning they won the semi-final 3-2 on aggregate.

Arjen Robben misses a glorious chance to pull Bayern level on the night and ahead on aggregate against Real Madrid following Cristiano Ronaldo's opener.

Let's not beat around the bush here and let's tell it like it is. We've seen two managers, drama, controversy, speculation, excitement, frustration and find ourselves at the turn of this year in the exact same position as we did a year ago. Isn't it strange how things have turned out!
This is my review of 2011 and a year on my blog as written by me, a lifelong Chelsea fan giving you my take on everything that happened.

Disaster for Malaga's goalie as Karim Benzema's speculative shot results in the ball squeezing past his arms and legs and trickles into goal. A case of the willies? It was actually the only blemish in an otherwise fine performance by Willy Caballero to keep Real at bay.

The 1-0 victory in the second leg gave Real a winning aggregate of 4-2 advancing them to the Copa Del Rey quarterfinals where they are almost sure to meet Barca, 4-0 winners against Osasuna in their first leg.

Barcelona defeated Osasuna 2-1 to progress to the quarter-finals of the Copa Del Rey and set up another El Clasico clash with Real Madrid. Goals by Alexis Sanchez and youngster Sergi Roberto cancelled out Dejan Lekic's opener and secured a 2-1 win (1-6 on aggregate) for the Spanish champions. Pep Guardiola's men thus progressed into [.

Nearly four years ago Jamal Gay was a part of a stunning loss for the New England Revolution as his side Joe Public FC (Trinidad & Tobago) crushed the Revs 6-1 on aggregate in a CONCACAF Champion's League qualifier. Gay, who was just 19-years old at the time, scored Joe Public's winning goal in its 2-1 home leg victory.

What an amazing story Mirandes is. The club, stuck in the third-tier of Spanish football, came from a goal down to beat Espanyol 2-1 in their Copa Del Rey quarter-final second leg and progress to the tournaments semi-finals on the away goals rule.

Espanyol took a precarious 3-2 first-leg lead to Mirandés tiny stadium in Miranda de Ebro in northern Spain.

Video: Carling Cup: Cardiff/Crystal Palace

Anthony Gardner's own goal gave Cardiff the best possible start as the Bluebirds drew level on aggregate after losing in the first leg to a goal, ironically, scored by the aforementioned Gardner. Cardiff had five very good looks at goal (three by Kenny Miller) but could not convert those chances.

By Chris Wright

There were amazing scenes in Spain last night, where third tier part-timers CD Mirandés beat La Liga side Espanyol 2-1 in injury time at the tiny, 6,000-capacity Anduva Stadium to secure themselves a 4-4 aggregate (away goals) win and a berth in the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey in the process.

szólj hozzá: Barca v Real Madrid 2:0 Alves

Barcelona full-back Dani Alves put's Barcelona 2-0 up on the night and 4-1 on aggregate in their Copa del Rey Quarter-Finals tie.

FC Barcelona eliminated arch-rivals Real Madrid from the 2011/12 Copa del Rey on Wednesday night with a 2-2 draw (4-3 on aggregate). The Catalans appeared to have matters sealed after...

Barcelona advanced to the semi-finals of the Copa Del Rey after a 4-3 aggregate win (2-2 draw on the night) over Real Madrid with goals by Pedro and Dani Alves proving decisive. In an absolute humdinger of a match, it was Madrid, down 2-1 from the first leg, who got off to the better start [...] Related posts:

1. Real Madrid 1-2 Barcelona: Copa Del Rey QF 1st Leg Video Highlights
2. Malaga 0-1 Real Madrid; Copa Del Rey Video Highlights
3. Real Madrid 1-3 Barcelona: El Clasico Video Highlights

After what we've seen at this year's Africa Cup of Nations it's perhaps a little foolish to talk in terms of more shocks. Why should we continue to be shocked when our predictions are continually thrown back in our faces time after time?

Sudan became the latest side to upset the African apple cart when they qualified for the quarter finals last night.

Barcelona are through to the Copa Del Rey final where they will play Athletic Bilbao after a 2-0 win over Valencia at the Camp Nou. Goals by Cesc Fabregas and a late strike by midfield maestro Xavi helped seal a 2-0 win (3-1 on aggregate) for the Spanish champions. Pep Guardiola's men will now face [.

Manchester United survived a late scare to progress to the next round of the Europa League. Despite losing 2-1 to Ajax at Old Trafford, United advance to the last 16 of competition after winning 3-2 on aggregate, but will be concerned with another disappointing performance in Europe. Ryan Giggs was made to wait for his [.

All three Spanish teams, Atletico Madrid, Valencia and Athletic Bilbao successfully go through the next round of Europa League after beating their opponents in the second leg on Thursday.

Atletico added their advantage over Lazio with a 1-0 victory, El Che also doubled their aggregate against Stoke City courtesy of Jonas' strike, while Bilbao earned an important 1-0 victory thanks to Iker Muniain's strike.

Arsenal defeated AC Milan 3-0 in the Round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday but exited the competition 4-3 on aggregate. Following a 4-0 thrashing by the...

After suffering a brutal 4-0 loss to AC Milan February 15th, Arsenal made a valiant effort at a comeback, but ultimately fell short, losing 4-3 on aggregate. The dramatic story... Read more »

TweetLionel Messi smashed home 5 goals as Barcelona romped to a 6-0 win over Bayer Levekusen in the second leg of the UEFA Champions League tie and seal a 10-2 aggregate win. In reality Bayer Leverkusen had no hope and were totally overawed by the occasion although even coach Robin Dutt could not have envisaged [.

By Alan Duffy

On their way (most likely) to yet another Champions League trophy, the might Barca hammered Bayer Leverkusen 7-1 at the Nou Camp on Wednesday night (9-2 on aggregate) with a certain Lionel Messi once again the star of the show.

The pint-sized Argentine became the first player ever to score five in a Champions League game as he took his total for the season (for both club and country) to 53 goals in 49 appearances.

Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola lives for beautiful goals. So much so that he can appreciate a great goal being scored against his team. Granted, humility comes a lot more easily when you're 10-1 up on aggregate. Nonetheless, Guardiola was visibly impressed by Karim Bellarabi's late consolation for Bayer Leverkusen.

David Beckham's 'Bad Guy' image drives business. Especially, when he comes through in the clutch.
This corner kick is from the quarterfinals CONCACAF Champions League game in Toronto at the Rogers Centre-home of the MLB Blue Jays.

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Circumstance is once again smiling on Italy. Despite the loss of the fourth Champions League berth, and despite the loss of Udinese, Italian teams have been ploughing along with relative ease in the Champions League this season.

What an absolutely epic week. The Seattle Sounders took care of business by beating Santos Laguna 2-1 and setting up a potentially glorious game on Wednesday. On this week's show, we basically spend the entire show talking about the game that was and the one that will be.
We interview Sounders defender Patrick Ianni about his experience with the Houston Dynamo, who led Pachuca 2-0 in 2007 before losing 5-4 on aggregate.

Well, we're a day away from the decisive CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal legs; the ones involving MLS teams anyway. We'll have one guaranteed MLS semifinalist and the other MLS side is ahead on aggregate in their series.
But what matchup will we get?
In order of most likely to least likely.

szólj hozzá: Bayern - Basel (7:0) HL / HD

Bayern crushed Hoffenheim, 7-1 this weekend with Mario Gomez scoring a hat trick. This time he went one better against Basel in the Champions League second leg as Bayern knocked in seven unanswered goals at the Allianz Arena.

The Arena is the venue for this years Champions League final.

Chelsea advances to Champions League Quarterfinals with surprising comeback - The 90th Minute Soccer Blog

It was well past 10 pm at Stamford Bridge on March 14 when Chelsea booked their spot in the UEFA Champions League quarterfinal. The supporters might have believed it was possible but to most it was a tough task to overcome a 1-3 deficit from the first leg.

Manchester United lost a second successive game to Athletic Bilbao to crash out of the UEFA Europa League 5-3 on aggregate in Basque Country.

United may have regained first place in the Barclays Premier League but their woes against La Liga's seventh place team continued following during tonight's 2-1 defeat, which followed a 3-2 loss at Old Trafford last Thursday.

Andoni Iraola's golazo that could have been

Athletic Bilbao and Marcelo Bielsa have given Manchester United yet another lesson in how to play vibrant, attacking, entertaining football. They defeated United for the second time in a row, this time 2-1 at home at the San Mamés (5-3 on aggregate).