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European football's elite club competition has reached the last four, with the Reds chasing a sixth continental crown and the Blancos three in a roW Liverpool will face Roma in the Champions League semi-finals, with Real Madrid taking on Bayern Munich. The Reds stunned Premier League leaders Manchester City in the last eight, and have been rewarded with a meeting against Serie A opponents who caused their own shock at the quarter-final stage. Roma trailed La Liga giants Barcelona by three goals heading into the second leg of a heavyweight encounter, RELATD CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL A DREAM FOR LIVERPOOL, SAYS OXLADE-CHAMBERLAIN MARCELO: WHAT HAPPENED TO BARCELONA WASN'T GOING TO HAPPEN TO US RONALDO LEADS CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TEAM OF THE QUARTER-FINALS MESSI NEEDS HELP AND FIVE THINGS BARCELONA MUST DO FOLLOWING ROMAN COLLAPSE Liverpool also did much of their best work in front of their own supporters to reach this point, with City thumped 3-0 at Anfield. Ju...

R oma pulled off an extraordinary comeback to knock Barcelona out of the Champions League on Tuesday, winning 3-0 at home to reach the semi-finals by overturning a three-goal deficit from the first leg. Roma entered the game as massive underdogs after losing the first leg of their quarter-final 4-1 against a Lionel Messi-led team that was one of the big favorites to win the competition. But they advanced on away goals after center back Kostas Manolas scored the decider with a header from a corner in the 82nd minute amid a deafening atmosphere inside the Stadio Olimpico. "It wasn't luck. This is what happened," Roma coach Eusebio Di Francesco said. "But this isn't enough. We can't be satisfied. This squad needs to aim for (the final in) Kiev. This is an extraordinary squad. Why shouldn't we aim to get there?" Di Francesco acknowledged before the match that his team needed a "miracle" to advance, and they got the start they neede...

Sunrisers  Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals will have to overcome the unexpected loss of their respective captains, David Warner and Steve Smith, when the two teams clash in the IPL. As they were the most valuable player who had lead their teams to victory in various IPL's . But due to alligations imposed on them of BALL TEMPERING, they are not allowed to play this IPL SEASON . So now with the new captian and new team RAJASTHAN ROYALS AND SUNRISERS HYDERABAD will face each other today ie 9th April 2018 at 8pm . Royals, back in the tournament after serving a two-year suspension, and Sunrisers, lost their influential players after BCCI barred them from the league following their role in the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa. Ajinkya Rahane will be leading Royals in Smith's absence while New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson will captain the Hyderabad franchise. Warner and Smith are irreplaceable in most teams but both Royals and Sunrisers still look well-balanced si...

Two Roma own goals help Barcelona to home victory in first leg A pair of own goals helped Barcelona take a major step toward the Champions League semifinals with a 4-1 win over Roma at the Camp Nou on Wednesday. Gerard Pique and Luis Suarez added second-half goals either side of Edin Dzeko's response for Roma as Barcelona grabbed the advantage after the first leg of the quarterfinal.  This match was an amazing match as Roma scored two own goals in order to defence.   A Diego Perotti cross caused panic in the Barcelona defence but Jordi Alba was able to clear with Florenzi lurking.Roma were closing down Lionel Messi in numbers but still the Argentinian engineered a chance in the 11th minute, turning and firing in a shot that Alisson pushed away. But they doubled their lead 10 minutes after the break when Messi and Rakitic engineered a short corner and the Croatian sent in a cross. Umtiti's shot hit a post but the rebound went in off Manolas Then at last Saur...

South Africa  (Playing XI): Dean Elgar, Aiden Markram, Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, Faf du Plessis(c), Temba Bavuma, Quinton de Kock(w), Vernon Philander, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Morne Morkel Australia  (Playing XI): Joe Burns, Matt Renshaw, Usman Khawaja, Peter Handscomb, Shaun Marsh, Mitchell Marsh, Tim Paine(w/c), Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon, Chadd Sayers, Josh Hazlewood Toss :-  South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first lets see what will happen either it is a good decision or not. And they are at lead of 2-1 till now and if they win this test , they will win series too so Autralia need now to tighten there Bowling. The start: A gift from Josh Hazlewood on the leg allows Dean Elgar to get off the mark with a four off the first ball of the Test. A decent first over from debutant Sayers, apart from one delivery bowled on leg, which Elgar clipped for a couple. It takes Aiden Markram seven deliveries to get off the mark, which he does by opening ...

The European champions, Portugal, suffered a dramatic first-half collapse and had João Cancelo sent off just after the hour in an embarrassing 3-0 World Cup warm-up defeat by the Netherlands on Monday. Memphis Depay, Ryan Babel and Virgil van Dijk scored the goals after taking advantage of uncharacteristically slack defending by Portugal as  failed to qualify, secured a first win for their new coach, Ronald Koeman. Babelwas completely unwelled Worl Cup group, dominated possession for the opening few minutes but the Dutch struck first when Depay beat José Fonte to a loose ball and fired into the net after 12 minutes. marked to head in from Matthijs de Ligt’s cross at the far post in the 32nd minute and only a superb save by Anthony Lopes kept out a Depay header shortly afterwards. Then, on the stroke of half-time, a Depay free kick was teed up by De Ligt for the unmarked Van Dijk to fire home the third.The Portugal captain, Cristiano Ronaldo, began the match a hat-trick ...