So, what now for Real Madrid?
Los merengues were on top of the football world Sunday morning, having come back from a 2-0 second half deficit to defeat Sevilla, 3-2, at the Santiago Bernabeu Saturday night.
Less than two hours before Rafael van der Vaart poked in the injury time game-winner, Barcelona was held to a 2-2 [...]
After a two-month layoff, the UEFA Champions League returns to action today with the first two of eight round of 16 first round ties.
One of the more highly anticipated matches of the round sees AC Milan host Manchester United, while Olympique Lyonnais welcomes Real Madrid to the Stade de Gerland.
The return leg of both ties [...]
In what promises to be an entertaining match between two attacking teams, Sevilla will take on Atletico de Madrid in this season’s Copa del Rey final.
Sevilla – conquerors of holders Barcelona and Deportivo la Coruna in the prior two rounds – had a tough go of it in Wednesday’s semifinal second leg at Getafe. Holding [...]
As La Liga begins the second half of its season, it’s time to look back at the first 19 match days.
There have been some things that have gone as expected, and there have been some surprises. To see examples of both, we need not look any further than my predicted table from before the season.
Let’s [...]
It was the most highly anticipated Clasico in recent memory – perhaps ever – and while it wasn’t the goalfest many expected, Sunday’s match at the Camp Nou had plenty of drama.
Yellow cards, red cards, players jawing at one another, great saves (or incredible misses, depending on whom you ask) and a well-taken goal – [...]
The fortunes of clubs are changing on a week-to-week basis in La Liga – just ask Osasuna.
The Pamplona-based club was the talk of Spain last week after holding Barcelona to a 1-1 draw at Estadio Reyno de Navarra. While Osasuna’s injury time equalizer was an own goal from Gerard Pique, the Navarrans had performed with [...]
Two games matching teams at opposite ends of the table highlight this weekend’s La Liga action.
The first comes Saturday in the Madrid derby at the Vicente Calderon. Atletico de Madrid (18th place, 7 points) have improved in its first two games under Quique Sanchez Flores, as it was an unlucky 1-0 loser in Bilbao last weekend [...]
If you are looking for more certainty as to which clubs will advance to the knock-out round, Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League results did not help. Draws by the leaders of Groups B, C, and D drew trailing teams closer to the top, and while all the names at the top remain in the same, [...]
When juxtaposed, UEFA Champions League Groups C and D show us the best and worst about the competition’s group phase, with neither group having a monopoly on the good qualities.
The difference in the groups’ depth highlights the problem Champions League accepts with four-team groups. When a tournament spreads its teams into many small groups, [...]
Groups A through D resume UEFA Champions League group play on Tuesday, as the tournament’s initial stage enters its home-stretch: the reverse fixtures; second-half of the schedule; the point after which we can start comparing teams with more certainty.
To this point, we can only be reasonably confident that (from these groups) Chelsea, Porto, and [...]
