Arsenal and Liverpool drew 1-1 in their Champions League quarter-final first leg encounter at the Emirates Stadium.
Emmanuel Adebayor gave Arsenal a 23rd minute lead but Dirk Kuyt equalised within three minutes to claim a vital away goal for Liverpool.
Rafa Benitez’s side withstood strong second-half pressure, which included claims for a penalty by Alexander Hleb and [...]

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Chelsea lost their unbeaten record in this season’s Champions League as Fenerbahce came from a goal down to win 2-1 in the first leg of their quarter-final in Istanbul.
The visitors took an early lead at the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium thanks to Deivid’s own-goal before substitute and former Sheffield United player Colin Kazim-Richards - now known [...]

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Bojan Krkic Pérez (born August 28, 1990 in Linyola, Spain), is a Serbian-Spanish footballer who plays for FC Barcelona.
His father, also named Bojan, is a Serb, and also a footballer, who played for Red Star Belgrade in the 1980s. After moving to Spain his father married Maria Lluïsa Pérez, a Spanish nurse, and became [...]

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Barcelona took a significant step towards the semi-finals of the Champions League with a hard-fought 1-0 win away to Schalke on Tuesday night.
Bojan Krkic scored the only goal of the game in the 12th minute at the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, earning Frank Rijkaard’s side a narrow advantage to take into the second leg.

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Manchester United have one foot in the semi-finals of the Champions League after beating Roma 2-0 at the Stadio Olimpico.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 36th goal of the season - and his seventh in Europe - before Wayne Rooney scored a second to give the Premier League side an advantage of two away goals to [...]

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This morning, whilst wading through my daily intake of news and sport, i came across an interesting article. This particular news piece, found in the BBC’s football pages, raised a question that i myself have been asking for some time, and until now, with few conclusions.
The question is essentially very simple; why [...]

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So it a wierd twist of fate, Man Utd will play AS Roma yet again in the Champions League tonight.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is optimistic that goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar and defender Patrice Evra will be fit to face AS Roma in Tuesday’s Champions League quarter-final first leg at the Stadio Olimpico.
While [...]

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