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 [...]

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 [...]

Two of Spain’s biggest clubs are one step away from the Copa del Rey final.
In Wednesday’s first leg semifinal, Sevilla defeated Getafe at the Sanchez Pizjuan, 2-0. Atletico de Madrid upped the ante today, romping over Racing Santander, 4-0, at the Vicente Calderon.
Sevilla and Atletico will have to defend those leads on the road in [...]

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 [...]

No teams exemplify the fluidity of the Top Ten better than Internazionale and Bordeaux. Two weeks ago, the clubs had either fallen out of the list (Inter) or were on the verge. Now each team is in the top five.
Part of that is attributable to strong league performances from José Mourinho’s and Laurent [...]

Thanks to the international break, it’s been almost a month since our last ranking. In the interim, every team from our previous list has stumbled at least once. Even Barcelona – who has been number one since our first edition of the WSR World Club Top Ten – was tripped up. Twice.
That kind of [...]

The goals started flowing almost immediately after the opening whistle. A song in Barcelona. A stunner at the far post in Debrecen. Converting a set piece in Milan. It all happened within the first five minutes.
It was a welcome change from the first two match days in UEFA Champions League. [...]

Thanks to the international break, the UEFA Champions League has taken a long sojourn between match days two and three, allowing some supporters to forget their club’s dire straits.
“Their” might be an excessively generous term, as my eyes are cast on two specific sites: the San Siro and Anfield.
We start in Italy, where Internazionale [...]

Inside the Six celebrates this weekend’s pair of headline grabbing match-ups with detailed breakdowns of Sevilla’s defeat of Real Madrid and Chelsea’s victory over Liverpool. Along the way, host Richard Falrey gets you up-to-date on all of the major leagues in Europe, South America and North American, including our own Major League Soccer. [...]

The Spanish takeover of European football is happening, if World Soccer Reader’s Club Top Ten is any indication.
The rumored shift of power from England and Italy to Spain deserves more discussion (and data points), but the early season returns from the league’s top three clubs provide plenty of evidence for those arguing Spanish primacy. [...]