EPL season has now reached to its last leg of nine matches and Manchester United has opened its rank with a comfortable lead over second place holder City. Thanks to the City’s loss at Everton and United win over Reading that placed them on a relaxed position. At the moment, United has a clear advantage of fifteen points from its chaser: City, so only a comprehensive debacle can stop them being the next EPL title holder this year. United’s nail biting finish over Reading gave them a much needed momentum where they finally managed to win just by 1-0 thanks to Wayne Rooney who earned a lead in the 21st minute and rest is done by United defense by not allowing Reading even to equalize the lead. These are crucial days of the league; hence every victory worth more than we could think, and that is why Rooney said after the match, “We knew the three points was the most important thing today — especially after City dropped three points.” Likewise, Manchester City conceived a 2-0 defeat at … [Read more...]
Champions League final eight: Barca to meet PSG
Finally, Champions league list of last eight has been finalized and its highlight is that two arch rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid are standing right opposite to each other. Besides, there is one more interesting part of the last eight where Barcelona is going to face David Beckham’s PSG in the quarterfinal. Other quarterfinals involve Málaga playing Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid playing Galatasaray, and Bayern meeting with Juventus in their first knock out match of the league. At the moment, both Barcelona and Madrid are favorites to win their respective matches coz PSG is not in good form while at the same time Madrid needs little bit of precaution from Galatasaray’s army of high profile players, like Didier Drogba, Wesley Sneijder, and Burak Yilmaz among others. Other two matches are insignificant at this stage but anything can happen at the last moment. Anyways, PSG is itself considering their big bash a special one coz they are meeting none other than Barca, Their sporting … [Read more...]
Benzema denies his link-ups with PSG
Karim Benzema, the 25-year old Real Madrid striker, could not has a dream run this season where he could only score 14 goals as compared to his last year’s tally of 23 for a similar term. Looking at his poor show of form, Real is reportedly thinking about encashing him and signing another player either Atletico Madrid’s Radamel Falcao or Napoli’s Edinson Cavani as his replacement. Actually, a news flashed last year that said, PSG has offered around 30 million for Benzema, but that time, Madrid did not respond to their offers, but this season, they are seriously looking for his replacement; hence French international could be discharged on loan to PSG. On the other side, Benzema agent is denying these rumors at the moment, He said to a newspaper recently that “At no point has Karim wanted to leave for PSG, and the Parisian team have never been in contact with us. Benzema is at Madrid, the best team in the world. Madrid could be coming into an era where they will dominate Europe. This is … [Read more...]
Mancini laughs at his City leaving reports
Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini has clearly denied reports that say he could join Russian club Zenit St Petersburg if his contract at Etihad Stadium expires prematurely. He signed a five-year contract with EPL club last summer so chances of him leaving the club are very low looking at the recent developments. He jokingly said at a press conference recently that he can’t bear the cold at Russia hence he is not leaving to anywhere! Actually, big spending Russian club has not seen so much improvement in its position either in Russian league, where it lasted on the third spot, or in European League, where it has been knocked out by Basel on Thursday despite spending multi millions on Hulk and Axel Witsel last summer; hence they have approached Mancini to replace its current coach and Mancini fellow Italian Luciano Spalletti. Likewise, City’s performance in EPL this season was also not memorable; they knocked out of the league in group stage along with defending champion Chelsea, and … [Read more...]
Tito Vilanova will remain head coach next season
There have been rumors all around in the last few months that Tito Vilanova could be axed citing his health problems. He has recently gone through his throat cancer surgery and now he is in US for post-surgery chemotherapy. This season; he was mostly seen outside of the ground for obvious reasons; hence his assistant coach Jordi Roura took his responsibilities in most of the matches. Now, sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta has a put a dot on all rumors saying Tito will remain their head coach for at least next season or even for an extended period of time. Actually, Tito has been a source of inspiration for Barca teammates and that is why they could be able to redefine the history yesterday where they defeated Milan despite trailing by two goals on aggregate in the last 16. As per Tito’s recent medical bulletin, he is expected to return back to Camp Nou anytime next month, but it would be interesting to see when he would take the full charge of his duties. Andoni Zubizarreta … [Read more...]
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