Monthly Archives: April 2011

Quick Reactions To Manchester City-Manchester United Semifinal

Manchester City are heading to the FA Cup final as they ended Manchester United’s dreams of a treble. They won with a goal in the 52nd minute from Yaya Toure as he capitalized by a turnover by Michael Carrick. United

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El Clasico Preview

This will be a brief preview as this is the least important of their four matches they will be playing in the next 18 days. There could be some rotation in the lineups as the players are saved for the

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FA Cup Semifinal Preview

The tournament returns with the two semifinals at Wembley. The first game is a Manchester Derby while the game on Sunday has Bolton and Stoke squaring off for a spot in the Europa League. Here is a preview for both

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Premier League: Gameweek 33 I Know The Score

The weekend is a bit light with FA Cup matches, but there are games in the coming midweek. Arsenal and Chelsea both have two games this coming gameweek where both play their games in hand on Manchester United. It is

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Weekend Watch List: El Clasico And More

The big game of the weekend is the start of the Real Madrid vs. Barcelona battles. However, there are a number of big games across Europe including Paris Saint-Germain squaring off with Lyon on Sunday, which didn’t quite make my

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Europa League: All-Iberian Semifinals Are Set

The semifinals are set with Benfica and Braga meeting in one semifinal while FC Porto and Villarreal will square off in another. Here is a rundown of the results today. Spartak Moscow 2-5 FC Porto (FC Porto advances 10-3 on

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Major League Soccer: Gameweek 5 I Know The Score

It was a hard week for the defending champions going to FC Dallas and then traveling to Real Salt Lake where they fell to a last second goal. The New York Red Bulls have struggled at the start of the

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Europa League: Quarterfinal 2nd Leg Preview

The Iberian peninsula dominated the first leg and similar to the Champions League, all of the ties seem to be over except one of the ties. Here is a quick look at the four quarterfinals. Spartak Moscow vs. FC Porto

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UEFA Champions League: Schalke And Real Madrid Advance

It was a bit of an uneventful day in the Champions League as two teams with big leads from the first leg held on to win comfortably. Real Madrid won 1-0 over Tottenham when Cristiano Ronaldo scored from a long

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UEFA Champions League: Quarterfinal Second Leg Preview, Part 2

The last two semifinalists will be decided on Wednesday. Tottenham come in with a big 4-0 deficit from the first leg against Real Madrid. In the other match, Inter will have to overturn a 5-2 deficit from the first leg,

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