A powerful 8.7 magnitude earthquake hit the coast of Indonesia. A tsunami watch was issued for countries across the Indian Ocean. The magnitude 8.7 quake was centered 20 miles beneath the ocean floor around 269 miles from Aceh’s provincial capital. The quake was so powerful it was felt in Thailand, Singapore, Bangladesh, Malaysia and India. [...]
Real Madrid won all six of their UEFA Champions League group games and looked on course for a seventh victory in the first leg of their round of 16 tie at CSKA Moskva only to be pegged back at the last. Cristiano Ronaldo’s 28th-minute strike in Moscow gave Madrid the lead, but CSKA debutant Pontus [...]
Manchester United‘s quest for an important piece of missing silverware continues as they take on Athletic Club for the first time in over 50 years in the UEFA Europa League round of 16. The clubs’ only previous meeting came over 50 years ago, in what was both sides’ third competitive two-legged tie in UEFA competition. [...]
Guardiola’s first four appearances in Europe’s premier club competition as a player came against FC Hansa Rostock and 1. FC Kaiserslautern in autumn 1991. Barcelona, that season’s eventual winners, won both home legs but lost both away. Ballack was in the Chelsea FC side denied a 2008/09 UEFA Champions League final place by Iniesta’s added-time [...]
PAOK FC are within sight of a UEFA Europa League round of 16 meeting with AZ Alkmaar or RSC Anderlecht after drawing 0-0 at Udinese Calcio in the first leg of their last-32 tie. Having eliminated Udinese once before, PAOK held firm at the Stadio Friuli, though Almen Abdi hit a post for the home [...]
Birmingham City must beat Group H’s bottom side NK Maribor and hope SC Braga win at Club Brugge KV to make it to the UEFA Europa League round of 32. The Blues trail the top two in the section by three points but have an inferior head-to-head record in their games against Braga. However, they [...]
Routed to the bottom of UEFA Europa League Group E, Maccabi Tel-Aviv know victory is paramount against Besiktas, if they harbour ambitions of reaching the round of 32. Besiktas matched their best previous European home win and inflicted a repeat of Maccabi’s heaviest continental defeat on matchday one, with the Black Eagles winning 5-1 in [...]
The UEFA Europa League trail has already gone cold for both Rapid Bucuresti and Hapoel Tel-Aviv, but the Romanian side can guarantee a third-placed finish with a second Group C win against their visitors. Ovidiu Herea’s header (55) was enough to earn Rapid a 1-0 win at Bloomfield Stadium when the sides met on matchday [...]
Atletico de Madrid will look to avenge a 2-0 matchday three defeat as they take on Udinese Calcio again in a meeting of the top sides in UEFA Europa League Group I. When the teams met for the first time in UEFA competition on matchday three, it was Atletico who created the majority of the [...]
Lazio and FC Zurich have one less qualifying place to play for after Sporting Clube de Portugal ensured they would finish in the top two in UEFA Europa League Group D on matchday three. The sides drew 1-1 as they met for the first time in UEFA competition on matchday three, Adrian Nikci (23) responding [...]