FC Barcelona secured a semi-final birth in this season's Copa Del Rey after knocking out holders Real Madrid with a sensational 2-2 draw. Barcelona who went into the break with a 2-0 lead had to hold off a sensational fightback from Mourinho's boys to secure the semi-final birth. To an extent we had to say that we were lucky after putting up the worst defensive display of the season, and courtesy of the fact that Madrid missed a number of chances.

Clint Dempsey punished an error from Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina to score five minutes from full-time and guide Fulham to a famous 1-0 win at Craven Cottage.

The result was reminiscent of the Cottagers' 1-0 win over the Reds in May 2007, when Dempsey scored his first goal for the club to secure their top flight status.

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Teresa Noyola scored from point-blank range Sunday to help top-ranked Stanford beat No. 3 Duke 1-0 and give the Cardinal their first NCAA women's soccer title after three consecutive attempts. It was the perfect finish to Stanford's unbeaten season.

Stanford seniors Noyola, Camille Levin, Kristy Zuhmehlen and Lindsay Taylor finished their college careers with a record of 95-4-4.

Marcio Leite Celebrates a Goal
By: Brandon Arendt
The Milwaukee Wave cemented their hold on the Central Division lead with a convincing 24-18 win over the Missouri Comets in the US Cellular Arena. Milwaukee remains the only unbeaten team in the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) improving to 5-0, while the second place Missouri Comets fell to 4-3 and are now two games behind the Wave.

Liverpool U18s produced another superb display on their travels as they secured a 3-1 win at Manchester City on Saturday afternoon.
Mike Marsh's youngsters were looking to bounce back following last weekend's disappointing loss against Bolton and they did it in style courtesy of goals from David Moli, Jordan Lussey and Jack Dunn.

By Alan Duffy

The weekend witnessed plenty of goals, drama and a fair amount of mediocre football at times, but it also gave us two prime examples of how to miss with a header from point-blank range.

Step forward Kilmarnock's Paul Heffernan and Bolton's Dedryck Boyata.

Strike partners Cara Walls (Wauwatosa East) and Laurie Nosbusch (Mequon Homestead) both scored, but it was goalkeeper Michele Dalton who made the difference for the University of Wisconsin women's soccer team Friday.

The senior made 11 saves, several from point-blank range, as the Badgers shut out high-scoring Morgan Marlborough and Nebraska 2-0 in a Big Ten Conference match in Lincoln, Neb.

This was arguably our easiest game of the CL group, so of course, everyone was just waiting for us to slip up so they can go back to "Arsenal in crisis" mode. Yep, despite the fact that Man City collapsed to a great Munich side, Man U had to labor to rescue a 3-3 draw in Arsenalesque fashion against Basel, and Chelsea gave up a stupid equalizer against Valencia, all eyes were on us to falter so the bloodhounds press hacks could get their self-righteous column templates up.

No. 11 Metro State opened Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play with a 5-1 victory over Adams State at home on Friday.

The Roadrunners improved to 5-0-0 overall, while ASC fell to 3-2-0.

The Grizzlies came out on fire, with Autumn Boyer giving Adams State a 1-0 lead at 3:18.

Metro State rallied to take a 2-1 lead at halftime, tying the game at 38:19 on an own goal after Nicole Pollack's shot from the top of the box was deflected into the net by an ASC defender.

The New England Revolution will finish the season winless in the Pacific and Mountain time zones after they fell 3-0 to the Portland Timbers at Jeld-Wen Field tonight. The loss has all but mathematically ruled the Revolution out of the playoffs, while three points was exactly what Portland needed to keep their postseason hopes a very real possibility.

The Northern Colorado women's soccer team fell in its second home match of the season, losing 2-1 to Utah State.

The Bears (0-3-1) fell behind early and despite battling back and finding a goal late, the Aggies (4-0-0) held on for the victory.

Utah State managed to find the game-winner when forward Shantel Flanary scored her second goal of the game on a shot from 17 yards out that sailed past Kirstin Salminen's arms and into the upper left-hand corner.

Senior defender Kelsey Wise scored in the 80th minute and junior goalkeeper Hannah Berglund recorded a career-high six saves to help the Colorado College women's soccer team defeat Jacksonville University, 1-0, on Sunday afternoon at CC's Stewart Field.

Wise buried a header off a perfect service by freshman defender Sarah Haizlip from the right sideline for the second game-winning tally of her career.

Pre-season fun and games AC Milan defender Gianluca Zambrotta likes to do his bit to help his team-mates get ready for the knocks and bumps of the forthcoming campaign. With that in mind, the veteran full-back was only to happy to blast the ball at fellow defender Mario Yepes from point-blank range during their training [.

Joe Hart saved A.J. DeLaGarza's penalty and then scored the winner in the ninth round of a penalty shootout as Manchester City beat the Los Angeles Galaxy 7-6 on penalties after a 1-1 draw.

Mario Balotelli opened the scoring for Man City from the penalty spot after Micah Richards was taken down in the box by Bryan Jordan.

Joe Hart saved A.J. DeLaGarza's penalty and then scored the winner in the ninth round of a penalty shootout as Manchester City beat the Los Angeles Galaxy 7-6 on penalties after a 1-1 draw.

Mario Balotelli opened the scoring for Man City from the penalty spot after Micah Richards was taken down in the box by Bryan Jordan.

Buck Shaw was packed yesterday for the Northern California leg of the Clasico and the 1906 Ultras and the Casbah were out in force. The game provided plenty of drama as Donovan Ricketts was injured, sub Josh Saunders was ejected, and midfielder turned replacement goalie Mike Magee proved strong enough to stave off San Jose's attacks.

US Strategy Bob Bradley elected to change his tactics after playing a 4-2-2-2 in the three group matches. Landon Donovan was unavailable to start after arriving late from his sister's wedding. Consequently, Sasha Kljestan and Alejandro Bedoya were brought into the starting XI to replace Donovan and Chris Wondolowski.

The United States opened their 2011 Gold Cup campaign with a convincing 2-0 win over Canada in from of 28,209 at Ford Field in Detroit. The USA came out determined from the get go, using the long ball early on and completely dominating the midfield with a tireless work rate. Canada had nothing to offer in response as the US imposed their will over the Canucks and broke through in the 15th minute thanks to a Jozy Altidore strike.

By IAN HOLLIDAY

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The New England Revolution hit the crossbar once in each half, but couldn't find the back of the net in a scoreless draw against the Colorado Rapids at Gillette Stadium Saturday night.

The result hurts the Revs more than the Rapids, as the home side felt it played well enough to win.

It's time for all true Arsenal supporters to stand up and be counted.

We need to take back our club and its traditions from the corrupt mind-control conspiracy that has taken it from us.

To that end we are inviting every Gooner to put on a white scarf and join us in a protest march before the home game against Aston Villa (route details below).

Incredible. I literally don't even know what to say.

Arsenal started brightly, and Diaby had a very good header opportunity that he did well to get onto that he put just wide within the first 5 minutes. Theo had a very good shot from long-range Reina always had it covered, but it swerved enough to force him to parry instead of hold, and it really could have caused problems had it been parried in a different direction or someone from Arsenal been crashing the box to clean up the spoils.

BY ADAM SERRANO

All around Toronto, people are discussing the departure of Dwayne De Rosario, lucky for Toronto FC, that will no longer be the sole focus.

A shocking miss by Maicon Santos marred the 1-1 draw between Toronto FC and Chivas USA, in what was a high energy match between the two clubs.

For 260 minutes, the Seattle Sounders offense failed to find the net despite creating numerous chances over the course of three games.

Steve Zakuani finally broke Seattle's drought with an 81st minute score to help the Sounders score a 1-1 draw against the Houston Dynamo at Qwest Field on Friday night.

Well that was easy now wasn't it even if a couple of goals would have been nice along the way. First of all credit to FC Copenhagen for coming to the Bridge to play their football and for having a go and secondly, fair play to their fans who never stopped singing all game. It makes you realise that the competition we take for granted at Chelsea, means so much to a club like Copenhagen.

RICHMOND, VA – (Saturday, March 12, 2011) – The Richmond Kickers officially opened preseason with a 3-0 win over the 2010 ACC Champions University of Maryland in front of a sold-out crowd at the Kickers state-of-the-art training facility, Ukrop Park. A nil-nil first half gave way to a flurry of goals when star forward Matthew Delicâte opened scoring in the 64th minute.

Half-time substitute Ashley Young was England's match-winner in an entertaining friendly with Denmark.

In what was a lively opening in Copenhagen, Nicklas Bendtner shot wide for the hosts and Wayne Rooney had an effort blocked on the line by Mathias Jorgensen before Daniel Agger opened scoring after seven minutes, when her headed in Christian Eriksen's right-wing cross.

LONDON, England — Fernando Torres's Chelsea debut ended in misery when his team lost 1-0 at home to Liverpool on Sunday, wasting the chance to take advantage of Manchester United's first league defeat of the season. Torres, who moved from Anfield to Chelsea last week for a reported 50 million pounds ($80.

DOHA, Qatar Mile Jedinak's first-half goal against Bahrain at Al Sadd Stadium was enough to send Australia through to the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup. The Genclerbirligi midfielder scored his second goal in as many games to ensure the Socceroos finish top of Group C and go through to the last eight unbeaten following [.

Cani he kick it? Yes, he can! Cani's favourite hobby used to be throwing plastic bottles. But last week he discovered that he was actually a terrible shot, having missed Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho from point-blank range. This week he decided to try his hand at football instead. And it turns out his accuracy [.

Two London rivals, Arsenal and Chelsea, got the results that they're looking for on the weekend as both teams bounce back from difficult situation and earned the three points they're looking after defeating their opponents.

At Stamford Bridge, the Blues get themselves back on winning ways after putting away two goals against Blackburn Rovers, while the Gunners successfully trashed West Ham United at Upton Park providing more woes for Avram Grant.

DOHA, Qatar— A thunderbolt from captain Server Djeparov gave Uzbekistan a 2-1 win over Kuwait that took them to the brink of the Asian Cup last eight here on Wednesday and left Kuwait on the verge of elimination. Djeparov cracked home a first-time shot from 20 yards in the 65th minute to continue Uzbekistan's 100 [.

By Vasil Kotsev

Valencia managed to pick up the three points in a dramatic fashion against Champions League spot rivals Espanyol at the Mestalla. Aritz Aduriz opened the scoring for host in the first half and Ricardo Costa put one in his own net to draw the game level. Aduriz was later sent off in dubious circumstances after the break, and despite their numerical disadvantage Valencia found a winner through Juan Mata in injury time.