Europa League Soccer 27 February, 2014

Today, Europa League Knockout stage, matches will be held.Apart from Napoli, Italy also has the leader of the Serie A, Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina. Lazio is down on his series, but Fiorentina and Juve walk steadily.

Lazio, Tottenham and Ajax are in danger of taking leave of the Europa League on Thursday when they are defined by their series 16vos final, where Napoli and Sevilla are also in compromising positions.

For his part, Maribor, after rescuing a draw in the first leg , facing the match against Sevilla with the dream to make history and get into the knockout stages of the competition.

Ante Simundza recognizes that he hopes to complete a good game at the Sanchez Pizjuan , "In the first game a good game show 90 minutes and that motivates and engages us do an even better job."

For the duel of the European League , Valencia Juan Antonio Pizzi has significant injury concerns and sanctions , so had to include homegrown Salva Ruiz , Cristian Portugues , Manu Molina and Robert Ibañez .

Among the players who will not play with Valencia are Jonas Goncalves , Pablo Piatti, Javi Fuego and Oriol Romeu , who are injured, while Victor Ruiz will be low due to suspension.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian team awaits the return of her attacker Yarmolenko , not to give the pass to eighth in the duel that hiss German referee Deniz Aytekin .

Apart from Napoli, Italy also has the leader of the Serie A, Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina. Lazio is down on his series, but Fiorentina and Juve walk steadily.

Defeated Fiorentina 3-1 Esbjerg in Denmark in the first leg, and has almost secured the ticket, while Juventus beat Trabzonspor 2-0 in Turin.

Juventus coach Antonio Conte does not want any surprises in the definition in Turkey.

"We have to score as soon as possible, because we play in a hot environment and assessment is not assured," said Conte.

Juve and Fiorentina could clash in the next round.

Real Madrid vs Schalke 04 UEFA Champions League 2014

Wednesday February 26, 2014 at 20:45 pm ( Spanish time), will one of the most anticipated matches of the first leg of the knockout round of the Champions League between Real Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo and Bale , will face Schalke 04 at the Veltins -Arena .

The set comes with the moral Ancelotti the clouds, has managed to unseat the leadership of the local league no less than Barca and Atletico Madrid, and part in this tie as favorites to progress to the quarter of the League of Champions .

The white team is very solid, unbeaten in the last 26 games played and ranked Iker Casillas without conceding a goal for almost three months ago. It is expected that the Italian coach did not make excessive changes , Cristiano Ronaldo and Bale surely be in the starting inicial.El Schalke 04 in turn, try to cope with the white power and not lose hope to cause an upset against one of the greats Europe . Jens Keller 's team has regained no level after losing in their last eight games , totaling six wins and two draws.

While Ancelotti papers are favorites , Real Madrid visits to German teams have always been difficult . The balance on Teutonic soil is 18 losses , 6 draws and one win in the 2000-2001 season, when the targets were imposed at Bayer Leverkusen 2-3 .

The more recent history , resulted in a landslide that hit Borussia Dortmund 4-1 Real Madrid in April 2013 , in the semifinals of Champions .The eleven - holders knockout round Champions League 2013-2014 - Schalke 04 Lineups -Real Madrid, barcelona training equipment today , pre-match

Galatasaray vs Chelsea UEFA Champions League 2014

Chelsea will face Galatasaray today , Wednesday, for the first leg of the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League. The match to be played in the Ali Sami Yen Spor Kompleksi , also known as Turk Telecom Arena, generated great expectations about reunion of old friends and meeting promises to be a good quality to have two great football teams in the field .

"We are not favorites , that's obvious , but I think when one team reaches the finals , anything is possible , so this round is very important for all teams ," said Jose Mourinho , referring to the possibilities of the Chelsea reach the final in Lisbon.

"The teams that reach the quarter finals can have chances even if they are not favorites: Chelsea won [ in 2012 ] without being favorites, won twice without being favorite and did not win the trophy when my team was one favorite to win . This competition has some room for surprises, but it is clear that there are at least three , perhaps four or five teams that quality and experience are obviously favorites " .

"We've been having a good time with good results, we want to continue with that in tomorrow's game . Expect a difficult game against a tough opponent , so let's see what happens , but we know we must be ready ," said Petr Cech in the press conference today . " This is a new situation for us , for nine years Didier [ Drogba ] was a big part of the team , a successful team. This is the first time you'll play against us and we know how important he is to his team , as well we'll make sure to play well against him and make sure he can not chalk up " .

It is not easy to escape the buzz that will be in tomorrow , when Didier Drogba faces Chelsea for the first time since leaving the club at the end of the 2011/ 12 season . Also marking the reunion of his former striker with coach Jose Mourinho, although good memories and friendships will be set aside for 90 minutes when both teams looking to keep the victory to qualify for the next round .

"People know how much I love the club and the fans. 'll Be happy if I write down because I want to qualify for the next round , but you have to show respect. Can not forget what I did there and all the memories in the club . Chelsea always have a special place in my heart and in my life , "admitted Didier Drogba, current Galatasaray striker .

English Premier League Football Week 27

Chelsea receives this Saturday at Everton at Stamford Bridge in a duel in which the Blues will try to leave behind the painful defeat to Manchester City in the fifth round of the FA Cup

The team coached by Jose Mourinho will downward David Luiz , Marco van Ginkel and John Terry .The leader of the Premier League , will try not to puncture before an Everton under coach Roberto Martinez is doing a more than worthy season. The ' Toffees ' are sixth with 45 points , three ahead of Manchester United, which occupies the seventh position.

The Liverpool team will Romelu Lukaku casualties , Bryan Oviedo and Steven Naismith doubt .Manchester City will try to forget the defeat against FC Barcelona focusing its efforts on the Premier League.

The team coached by Manuel Pellegrini gets to Stoke City, which is three points behind demotion .Sergio Aguero officially recovered , could return this evening after prolonged injury, although Pellegrini expects the Argentine is a major in the second leg in Barcelona part.

The repetitive Manchester City vs Stoke City 's historic 3-0 result . The goal difference between the teams reaches 30 to 12 in favor of the home side.Stoke City has not won a match in 2014 , although in the last game away before the two tied Southampton.

Their top scorers are Peter Crouch and Charlie Adam , who have already scored 6 points each in this edition of the Premier League.Arsene Wegner received a severe correction in the Champions League on Wednesday . The Arsenal , after missing a penalty through Mesut Ozil, defeated by Bayern Munich (0-2 ) and is virtually eliminated from European competition .

The English side and know when the result of the match Chelsea vs Everton , starting at 13:45 hours begins.Arsenal remains in second place in the Premier League Manchester City and haunted by Liverpool , which could reach to any adverse outcome.

His rival, Sunderland , took relegation , although it is a dangerous team in their desplazamentos .In the last two games away , Sunderland has been imposed on Newcastle ( 0-3) and Fulham (1-4).

PSG vs Bayer Leverkusen Champions League Soccer 2014

Catarí project billionaire Paris Saint- Germain is accused of not facing great duels , given the great distance that separates it from its French rivals, which gives the match against Bayer Leverkusen character revalidation for a club willing to grow.

Laurent Blanc 's team , that much is the Swedish Zlatan Ibrahimovic, performance has dropped somewhat , but even at half throttle is enough to lead a championship in Monaco that only seems able to stand up weight.

If the imperial PSG showed at the end of 2013 , in the current year has shown his human side , granted two draws and a defeat that left him out of the French Cup . But even these concessions have so far limited sense of power and reliability.

Just know if catarí project formed the basis for the book , shows the same strength in the Champions League and in duels a coin , where the experience is as important as quality.

Most players faced last year for the first time the Champions League and in almost no time , now rebuild it with the seal of favorites.

Without the Uruguayan Edison Cavani , injured, the team loses a major offensive asset, the most expensive signing in the history of French football , author of thirteen league goals and four in the preliminary stage of the Champions League .

His place will be occupied by an Argentine , either by Javier Pastore , who has raised his level of play in recent weeks and appears as a clear commitment Blanc or by Ezequiel Lavezzi , describing the opposite path , somewhat blurred as 2014 will .

The rest of the team will be the gala , with a great defense led by Thiago Silva, center field with very complementary Verratti , Thiago Motta and Matuidi and Brazilian Lucas as the third man complement attack and Ibra .

The Leverkusen reach the match against PSG amid a drop in performance that meant among other things the removal of the German Cup at the hands of Kaiserslautern , which is currently in the second category of German football.

In the last seven official matches , Leverkusen has lost five , the last at home to Schalke 1-2 , so it can be said that the second round of the Champions League will arrive late to a team of aspirin .

However, the expected Leverkusen despite the clear favoritism - PSG- out of the slump and regain effectiveness he showed in the first half of the season.

"We will give everything to try to take the small chance we have," said Omer Toprak center .

The recipe to try to cause an upset against PSG has to do primarily with the defensive work and the use of counterattack opportunities by taking advantage of the speed of Sidney Sam .

Man City vs Barcelona Champions League February 18, 2014

Manchester City and Barcelona will meet at the Etihad Stadium star in the knockout stages of the Champions League , a confrontation that may mark the future of both teams this season tie.

They are two of the fittest teams from Europe, the scorers and many points of connection with each other , in the field and also in the box.At the club everyone knows what team is playing . The big moment arrives and makes a good club. Ghosts away after accumulated against Athletic Club doubt the Levante or Valencia , the team of ' Tata ' appears to be in the best time just as it begins to take shape the future of this season.

It has all the equipment to complete and just need to arrange the pieces on the board in front of a full of talent and eager to vindicate senior team in Europe , something that has not done so far.The dilemma is how to play Barca coach their teams. The fabulous fitness of Iniesta 's imbalance invite a schema change .

The best version of Barca this season has seen four midfielders , the reference in front of Messi and an asymmetric drawing from the side , with Pedro or Alexis. That's the only question that could have Martino .A back four and a scheme next to the classic 4-3-3 to 4-4-2 . Busquets is the closest to the central point and Cesc playing closer to Messi. Xavi , who will return after recovering from an overload in the soleus , and Iniesta will be the architects of the Barca football.

Messi is undisputed and lack closing eleven with the presence of Pedro or Alexis. Either provide pressure on the first line and subsequent imbalance. Both are in a good scorer and decision time is Martino .

The City had two games without a goal , against lowly Norwich ( 0-0 ) and against Chelsea , who took the three points of Manchester two weeks ( 0-1 ) ago.

The win against Mourinho on Saturday gave confidence to City , who had finished a meeting with the score to zero since September and in the previous seven games to defeat the " blues " had 29 goals .

The match against Barcelona is a litmus test for Pellegrini , who replaced Italian Roberto Mancini on the bench this summer with the slogan to guide the team to the latter stages of the Champions League after two consecutive seasons in which the City fell in the group stage .

The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 9

More than two months separate the eighth chapter of the fourth installment of The Walking Dead 's coveted ninth episode, which is called After. The apocalyptic script returns tonight to the small screen , and melty.es recommend to fans of the AMC series not to miss , as this turn comes fraught with danger for two of the most important characters in the plot . The official trailer for After, next chapter of the 4th season of The Walking Dead , we see Carl and Rick in an extreme situation . After the attack on the prison orchestrated by the Governor , father and son left the scene believing that Judith had been eaten by a walker . Recently, Robert Kirkman has confirmed that the response to the true whereabouts of the little will be known in the next chapters of the story.

To entertain their fans waiting , the American chain has dared to make a mock zombie invasion on the streets of New York. You will find on these lines the result of such hard work, and the reactions of the American people to see that they were not alone in the city ... Looking at the quality of this production , we can only count the remaining minutes to check in chapter 9, the quality of work that characterizes the makeup of the Walking Dead .

Remember that 'After ' will , after the first episode of the first season , the most true to Kirkman 's comics section . Terrible news for those hoping for a quick meeting between members of the prison.

Sochi Winter Olympics 2014

The Sochi 2014 Olympic Games will be held from 7 to 23 February 2014. This spa in Russia , located on the shores of black sea , was elected last July 2007 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC ) to host the Winter Olympics in 2014

Sochi 2014

Sochi is hosting the first Winter Olympics sports event getting the XXII edition. To perform the various sporting activities that are carried out in this competition , the city has prepared a total of ten facilities with outstanding Olympic Stadium (where the opening and closing ceremony will take place ), plus three other stadiums and Olympic villages .

Sochi 2014 mascot

As part of preparations for the XXII Olympic Winter Games, were elected to three pets: a snow leopard , a polar bear and a hare being given official notice by Dmitri Chernishenko , president of the Organizing Committee Sochi 2014 , after that participate in the election more than a million voters through text messages, online votes , emails , phone calls, among others.

Among the skills that we see in the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi are: Biathlon , Bobsleigh , Curling, Combined Nordic , Freestyle / Alpine / background Skiing , Ice Hockey , figure skating , speed skating , snowboarding and ski jumping .

Schedule of 2014 Winter Olympics

The timing of the 2014 Winter Olympics has been officially released and has announced that will total 89 events to be held to elect the best representative of each of the fifteen winter sports are included in the Olympics.

We should note that the simultaneous Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games will be made , the same as the Olympic Winter Games are organized by the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee .

Lions and Tigers are close due to the top of Dominican baseball

Licey Tigers came to a game of the top of the championship semifinal Dominican professional baseball , with its 7-3 victory on Monday Escogisdo Lions in the Quisqueya stadium , on a day which also the Cibao Eagles beat the Gigantes del Cibao .

The Tigers (5-4 ) came to a game of first place occupied by the Lions, champions and favorites to advance to the tournament final.

Outfielder Engel Beltre hit three of the nine hits overall winner and also drove in a run to become the offensive blue hero , while Creole Esmil Rogers threw five innings of a return to the win against the " scarlet " (6 and 3) .

The pitcher was imported defeated Graham Godfrey, who punished the winners with three touchdowns in four chapters.

In the other match of the day, the Eagles , playing as local prevailed 5-2 in Giants Stadium in the northern Cibao Santiago de los Caballeros, which allowed the winning troop enhance your brand in four wins and five defeats, a second important game , which gives a ticket to the final.

The " cuyayas " managed to clear side marker (1-2 ) with a bunch of four laps in the eighth , including a homer outfielder Juan Carlos Perez with a partner on board, against reliever Zack Segovia , who was defeated pitcher .

The junior right Tony Peña was the winning pitcher as the closer Marcos Mateo scored his third save , to get three outs in the ninth. Imported Joey Terdoslavich four hits , to activate a aguilucha offense that has been somewhat asleep.

Zachary Kroenke lefty dominated the " cuyayas " in the first four innings , but his replacement, Fabio Castro allowed a return in the sixth and then , Segovia was attacked in the eighth.

Outfielder Francisco Peguero hit a homer four corners by the defeated troops, who slipped to the bottom of the table with three wins mark six setbacks.

Tuesday no scheduled match in the competition , agreed to 18 games.

91-86. Johnson returned to be the executioner of Hawks

The guard Joe Johnson again met his best flick of the wrist and led the attack of the Brooklyn Nets 91-86 beat his exequipo of the Atlanta Hawks .

Johnson , in the absence of injured starting point guard Deron Williams, was commissioned to lead the attack of the Nets to get 23 points and lead a list of four players who had double digits .

The former player for the Hawks came up with some key baskets and also able to overcome the barrier of 10 points after five games in the past could not get it , something happened for the first time in eleven seasons.

The victory was the third straight getting the Nets ( 13-21) , who tied the best streak so far this season.

Along with Johnson , who also had four assists and grabbed three rebounds , Serbian power forward Mirza Teletovic was the sixth player to contribute 16 points and grabbed three balls under the basket .

While the guard-forward Alan Anderson reached the 14 goals to go in the first five of the Nets, who had the lowest injury of guard Deron Williams, who joins the U.S. Cuban center Brook Lopez.

Williams missed the twelfth game so far this season after Sunday suffered swelling of the left ankle and an MRI exam confirmed he has a slight sprain that will keep you from the team for a few games.

The basis Shaun Livingston took over the post of Williams in the direction of the Nets game and had 12 points , five rebounds , three fumbles recovered , he gave an assist and made a plug.

The veteran power forward Kevin Garnett became the leader of the game under the basket Nets capturing 10 rebounds , including nine who were defensive , and scored four points .

The Nets now have two more games to play in his field on Wednesday when they face the Golden State Warriors and Friday against the Miami Heat .

The power forward Paul Millsap and Jeff Teague scored 16 basis points each and topped the list of four Hawks players who had double digits , but could not avoid a third consecutive defeat of his team .

Teague, who handed out five assists , missed 10 of 15 field goals , while forward DeMarre Carroll and power forward Elton Brand scored 10 points apiece and also captured seven rebounds.

The guard Kyle Korver was the most complete of the Hawks to get seven points, including a triple in three attempts, seven rebounds and six assists , leading the team in that facet of the game.

2-5, Villarreal is not clear in Vallecas

Villarreal , a triplet and a doublet Nigerian Uche French Perbet , won a victory (2-5 ) in Vallecas very comfortable with a Ray who again showed their defensive shortcomings errors and never gave sense to aspire to more than a defeat.

The Madrid team , junior classification , faced a must-win for their leave of that danger zone shock, something which he said his coach Paco Jemez in the previous had been raised as a challenge before the end of the first round of the championship next week.

With the idea of ​​winning the Ray left the field , and it is true that exuded attitude and intensity in the early going , but the seven -minute meeting, the first approach to door Villarreal received the first blow.

The set Castellon made ​​clear the huge gaps Rayo defensive when the Nigerian Uche completely unmarked inside the area , received a ball from French Perbet and only had to cross the ball to the exit from goal Cobeño .

The goal iced the age of Vallecas and franjirrojo equipment itself , without even assimilate the first goal conceded the second , this see through Perbet who their marker ahead to finish off pleasure in from the left of Moses Gómez .

With this handicap on the scoreboard , the visiting team came relaxed and the best minutes of Lightning , which had accumulated several opportunities to danger , like a shot to stick Jonathan Viera or a distant Lass scored from a corner that sent Asenjo .

Before the break the siege reacted Villarreal Rayo and again on a defensive error franjirrojos , Perbet reimposed his defender to finish just inside the area a center of Moisés Gómez .

In the second half , the match followed the same course it did at the end of the first part , with Ray trying to take the initiative and attack the game , but with a solid defensive Villarreal and unhurried save .

At twelve minutes after the restart , a move to counter attack led by Villarreal ended with a shot that clears Cobeño Perbet and dead ball falls to Aquinas , which focuses to Uche , alone again , push the ball to the network in the small area .

Just seven minutes later , the Nigerian Uche completed his treble pleasure to push the ball clear after a foul by Cobeño Trigueros to which any player Ray came to defend the rebound.

That was the trigger for both dozens of fans Rayo , with whistles made ​​the team rise from their seats and enfilaran the way out the door to leave the stadium when there were still more than twenty minutes remaining .

Rayo pulled one back with a goal from Mexican Nery Castillo with a left after receiving a ball from Jonathan Viera lines , scored his first goal in Spain .

In the time off , a penalty of Uche on Trashorras was transformed by Castillo on makeup and the result for the home .