3 h. ago Football Daily | Bigger Cup’s Bigger Draw serves up a buffet of fantasy football thrills

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!A Bigger Cup needs a Bigger Draw. Last year Uefa set out the tournament brackets from the quarter-final onwards, showing Real Madrid which particular jails they might need to escape to win the competition for the 15th time. This year Uefa have gone one better by doing the draw for the rest of the tournament at the last-16 stage. It’s a punch up the bracket for Manchester City, who can now empathise with every failed Bullseye contestant. Look what they could have won: Atlético Madrid in the last 16, then Arsenal or PSV Eindhoven in the quarter-finals, then maybe Liverpool in the semis. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Pep Guardiola on Haaland injury and De Bruyne absence – live football news

Champions League draw: PSG-Liverpool, Madrid derbyEuropa League: Spurs face AZ, Man Utd face SociedadGet in touch with John | Sign up to Football Daily hereA video explains just how the draw works. I was confused eight seconds in. It’ll be done soon.Live scenes from Nyon show some men in suits watching football highlights. Giovane Elber, a former Champions League winner with Bayern, is the special guest. He looks particularly smart. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Pep Guardiola on Haaland injury and De Bruyne absence – live news

Champions League draw: PSG-Liverpool, Madrid derbyEuropa League: Spurs face AZ, Man Utd face SociedadGet in touch with John | Sign up to Football Daily hereA video explains just how the draw works. I was confused eight seconds in. It’ll be done soon.Live scenes from Nyon show some men in suits watching football highlights. Giovane Elber, a former Champions League winner with Bayern, is the special guest. He looks particularly smart. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Chelsea play Copenhagen in Conference League; Man Utd face Real Sociedad in Europa – live

UCL last 16: PSG-Liverpool, PSV-Arsenal, Real-AtléticoEuropa League: Spurs face AZ, Rangers draw FenerbahceGet in touch with David | Sign up to Football Daily hereA video explains just how the draw works. I was confused eight seconds in. It’ll be done soon.Live scenes from Nyon show some men in suits watching football highlights. Giovane Elber, a former Champions League winner with Bayern, is the special guest. He looks particularly smart. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Europa League last 16 draw: Man Utd face Sociedad, Tottenham draw AZ – live

UCL last 16: PSG v Liverpool, PSV v Arsenal, Real v AtléticoGet in touch with David | Sign up to Football Daily hereA video explains just how the draw works. I was confused eight seconds in. It’ll be done soon.Live scenes from Nyon show some men in suits watching football highlights. Giovane Elber, a former Champions League winner with Bayern, is the special guest. He looks particularly smart. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Champions League last 16: PSG v Liverpool, PSV v Arsenal, Club Brugge v Villa – live

Real Madrid to face Atlético, Leverkusen draw BayernGet in touch with David | Sign up to Football Daily hereA video explains just how the draw works. I was confused eight seconds in. It’ll be done soon.Live scenes from Nyon show some men in suits watching football highlights. Giovane Elber, a former Champions League winner with Bayern, is the special guest. He looks particularly smart. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Europa League playoffs: Roma v Porto, Galatasaray v AZ and more – live

Europa League updates from around the groundsLive scoreboard | Read Football Daily | And mail Rob45 min: Roma 2-1 Porto (agg: 3-2) Roma almost scored a third a moment ago, with a shot cleared off the line by Otavio. I didn’t see exactly what happened because THERE IS SO MUCH GOING ON.Welcome to heaven. AZ Alkmaar are cruising into the last 16 of the Europa League, having done a helluva number on one of the tournament favourties. After a superb run from Ernest Poku, Gabriel Sara’s attempted clearance hit Seiya Maikuma and ricocheted into the net. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Europa League playoffs: Ajax, Fenerbahce, Real Sociedad and more in action – live

Europa League updates from around the groundsLive scoreboard | Read Football Daily | And mail RobEuropa League latestRoma 0-1 Porto (agg: 1-2)Bodo/Glimt 0-1 FC Twente (agg: 1-3)FCSB 1-0 PAOK (agg: 3-1)Galatasaray 0-0 Alkmaar (agg: 1-4) Continue reading...

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28 h. ago Football Daily | Kylian Mbappé, Darwin Núñez and Manchester City’s week from hell

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Three minutes, 35 seconds. That was all it took for Manchester City’s fragile hopes of a Bigger Cup comeback at the Bernabéu to be extinguished as Pep Guardiola’s side were exposed to their kryptonite – a very fast forward running on to a long ball. Kylian Mbappé jogged away from Rúben Dias and John Stones, and lifted the ball over Ederson with a single, devastating touch. Stones hobbled off injured moments later, and he may as well have taken the rest of his team with him. Mbappé wasn’t finished; the Real Madrid forward added another two beautifully taken goals in a merciless individual display. He has now scored seven Big Cup goals against City – the same as Lionel Messi – and for three different clubs to boot. In a competition that has, in the last decade, become essentially Real Madrid v Everyone Else (with Madrid leading 5-4 since 2015-16) the other 15 sides still in the perspex bowl for Friday’s last-16 draw must contemplate h...

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48 h. ago Real Madrid v Manchester City: Champions League playoff round, second leg – live

Champions League, 8pm GMT kick-off (first leg: 3-2)Aston Villa v Liverpool: our Premier League liveblogLive scores | Read today’s Football Daily | Mail MichaelFor Real Madrid, there’s a big boost with the return of Antonio Rüdiger in central defence. The German hasn’t played in nearly three weeks, since the defeat to Espanyol on 1 February. I wonder how fit he is.Just as he did in Manchester, Dani Ceballos is selected in central midfield. Camavinga, Guler and Modric on the bench.Erling trained a bit yesterday but we spoke and he said he didn’t feel good. He is massively important to us but it is what it is. Hopefully we will stay in the game for many, many, many minutes. We know what we have to do in terms of courage. Continue reading...

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52 h. ago Football Daily | Rafael Tolói slips up and loses the plot in a generational meltdown

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!In a quickfire Q&A conducted with Uefa TV last year, Rafael Tolói was asked to describe the final thing he’d like to achieve in football, replying: “I’d like to get Atalanta to [Bigger Cup] or win a trophy.” As luck would have it, the veteran defender who has represented the side from Bergamo with no little distinction for almost a decade wasn’t forced to choose between his two ambitions. He and his teammates would subsequently hoist Big Vase towards the sky over Dublin, rubber stamping a place in Bigger Cup they had already secured anyway by dint of their fourth-placed finish in the Italian league. Having seen his two big dreams come true, all that was left for the 34-year-old Italian international to leave an indelible mark on this season’s competition while representing the club he loves before his contract expires later this season. And how Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Russia releases second US citizen in a week as a gesture of 'goodwill' as America and Kremlin prepare for Ukraine peace talks in Saudi

Kalob Wayne Byers, 28, a nurse and musician, was identified as the American who was detained at Moscow 's Vnukovo Airport on February 7 on drug smuggling charges.

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4 d. ago More than 900 Labour figures decry party’s migration and asylum policy

Joint statement accuses government of copying Tories’ ‘performative cruelty’A group of more than 900 Labour members and trade unionists, including MPs and peers, have accused the government of copying the “performative cruelty” of the Conservatives in its migration and asylum policy.In a joint statement, they singled out the Home Office’s decision, revealed last week, to refuse citizenship to anyone who arrives in the UK via “a dangerous journey” such as a small boat over the Channel. Continue reading...

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