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The remaining four teams that qualified for quarter-finals of this year's UEFA Champions League became known on Wednesday, March 12. Earlier, on Tuesday, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Inter Milan had booked their places in the last-eight. On Wednesday, the last batch of four also qualified. Real beat Atletico in dramatic penalty shootout (Atletico Madrid 1-0 Real Madrid; agg: 2-2, 2-4 on pens) Atletico Madrid's Julian Alvarez had a penalty dramatically ruled out in the shootout as Real Madrid edged out their city rivals to reach the quarter-finals. They will face Arsenal in the last eight, having kept…

By Felix Durumbah,and bbc.com reports Different tales of grit, self-belief, skill and motivation marked the first batch of second leg Round of 16 matches of the UEFA Champions League concluded tonight, Tuesday, March 11. When hostilities ended, Barcelona, Bayern, PSG, and Inter qualified for the Quarter-Final of the prestigious, money-spinning competition, watched by hundreds of millions around the world. Liverpool 0 PSG 1 (after penalties 1-4) In what turned out to be the most thrilling encounter, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) knocked out English Premiership-topping lords, Liverpool, at the latter's feared Anfield base, via a tricky penalty shootout after over 120 minutes…

By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu Enugu State Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Barrister Lloyd Ikechukwu Ekweremadu, has assured that the Governor Peter Mbah-led administration in the South-East Nigerian state will soon revive school sports and inter-house sports competitions do as to make sports mandatory in schools. Commissioner Ekweremadu disclosed this on Sunday, February 23, at the inter-house sports meet of Command Day Secondary School, Abakpa Cantonment, 82 Division, Nigerian Army. He pointed out that sport has the inherent values of encouraging fair play,respect for one another, responsibility as well as deviates the minds of young people from crime. He commended the…

Mbappe hat-trick as Real Madrid knock Man City out of Champions League Kylian Mbappe struck a brilliant hat-trick for Champions League holders Real Madrid in a 3-1 win over Manchester City on Wednesday, February 19, helping Los Blancos reach the last 16 with a 6-3 aggregate victory. Pep Guardiola's side suffered a painful early exit without laying a glove on the completely dominant 15-time record winners until Nico Gonzalez tapped home in stoppage time. French superstar Mbappe broke the deadlock with a lob in the fourth minute and netted a fine second after combining with his attacking partners as the…

Bayern München left it late on Tuesday, February 18, to beat Celtic and book their place in the UEFA Champions League round of 16, where they will be joined by Benfica, Club Brugge and Feyenoord after they also won their knockout phase play-off ties on Tuesday. UEFA.com rounds up all the action. Bayern Munchen 1 Celtic 1 (Agg 3-2): Alphonso Davies struck in the fourth minute of added time to edge Bayern through at the expense of Celtic, who looked for more than half an hour like taking this tie to extra time. After missing four first-half chances, Nicolas Kühn…

By our reporter Following the successful completion of zonal preliminaries, the Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike Renewed Hope School Sports Festival 2025 enters the conference stage. This was disclosed by Director, Department of School Sports, Education Secretariat (equivalent of Ministry of Education), Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Malam Hashimu Adamu. Speaking at the end of the first phase, Adamu explained that the next stage will resume on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, with two major conferences. According to him, they are the Western Conference, featuring teams from Abaji, Kwali, Gwagwalada, and Tunga Maje with thevenue being Government Secondary School (GSS), Gwagwalada; and…

Manchester City versus Real Madrid lived up to its top billing on Tuesday, February 11 with fireworks from both teams as they battled for a spot in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16. Jude Bellingham delivered a 92nd-minute winner as Real beat City 2-3 away in a typically dramatic Champions League clash between the two sides. Erling Haaland broke his duck against Real Madrid with a brace but it was not enough for even a draw, as Brahim Diaz equalised against his former club with four minutes of normal time remaining, and Bellingham then slid in to turn the…

By Felix Durumbah with other reports Fans of English Premier League (EPL) champions Manchester City and defending Champions League kings, Real Madrid, across the world wait with bated breath as both giants clash today in the first leg of the first-ever knockout play-offs of the reformatted UEFA Champions League (UCL). Both teams found themselves in this 'strange' situation following their failure to make it straight to the Round of 16 knockout stage,after indifferent performances in the extended league stage which featured 36 teams. Under the new guidelines, only the first eight qualify directly for the Round of 16 while the…

Barcelona and Arsenal legend Thierry Henry claims Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is ''not well mentally'' after shock split from wife Cristina Serra as Man City crisis continued with a 5-1 away loss to Arsenal weekend. Guardiola separated from Serra after more than three decades of marriage. This season has been particularly challenging for Guardiola, both professionally and personally. City have been plunged into a crisis of form and confidence, with their latest setback coming in the form of a humiliating 5-1 defeat to Arsenal. Despite doing just enough to make it through to the Champions League knockout stage play-offs,…

Manuel Neuer has signed a one-year contract extension that will keep him at Bayern Munich until the end of the 2025/26 season. Neuer, who is widely regarded as the greatest goalkeeper in history, joined Bayern from boyhood club Schalke in summer 2011. The new deal means he will remain at the record champions until past his 40th birthday. "I really enjoy playing football and want to remain a Bayern player," Neuer told the Bayern website. "I’m still hungry and am looking forward to another year at this special club. We’ve always had good talks. That’s a good feeling. It feels good and we’ve still…