UEFA Champions League & Europa League Knockout stage Fixtures

Champions League Round of 16

Lyon vs APOEL
Napoli vs Chelsea
AC Milan vs Arsenal
Basel vs Bayern Munich
Bayer Leverkusen vs Barcelona
CSKA Moscow vs Real Madrid
Zenit St Petersburg vs Benfica
Marseille vs Inter Milan

 Europa League Round of 32

Porto v Man City
Ajax v Manchester Utd
Lokomotiv Moscow v Athletic Bilbao
Salzburg v Metalist Kharkiv
Stoke City v Valencia
Rubin Kazan v Olympiakos
AZ Alkmaar v Anderlecht
Lazio v Atletico Madrid
Steaua Bucharest v FC Twente
Plzen v Schalke
Wisla Krakow v Standard Liege
Braga v Besiktas
Udinese v PAOK
Trabzonspor v PSV Eindhoven
Hannover v Club Brugge
Legia Warsaw v Sporting

*First leg on  16  Feb and Second Leg on 23 Feb

Europa League Round of 16 draw

Salzburg/Metalist v Rubin K/Olympiacos
Legia W/Sporting v Porto/Man City
Steaua/Twente v Plzen/Schalke
Wisla K/Standard L v Hannover/Club Brugge
Stoke/Valencia v Trabzonspor/PSV
AZ Alkmaar/Anderlecht v Udinese/PAOK
Lazio/Atletico M v Braga/Besiktas
Ajax/Man Utd v Lokomotiv M/Athletic B

*First Leg on March 8 and Second leg on March 16

Premier League Saturday Results

Wayne Rooney and team celebrating

Manchester United 4 – 1 Wolverhampton

Champions Manchester United bounced back after a heart breaking champions league exit with a thumping victory over Mick McCarthy’s Wolves at Old Trafford. Winger Nani and striker Wayne Rooney scored 2 goals each.  

Van persie scored his 15th goal of the season

 Arsenal 1 – 0 Everton

Arsenal’s winning run continues and skipper Van Persie scored his 31^st goal in 2011 with a fantastic volley. Alex Song provided a fantastic chipped through pass and Van Persie slotted the only goal of the match with his left foot. 

Luis Suarez celebrates after scoring against QPR

Liverpool 1 – 0 QPR

Uruguay international Luis Suarez proved his quality once again with a match winning goal in the 46^th minute. This victory takes the Reds to 6^th spot in the table.

G Holt battling for the ball with Simpson

 Norwich City 4 – 2 Newcastle United

Norwich scored 4 goals past Tim Krul’s net and Newcastle dropped to 7^th spot in the table after a fantastic start to the season. Wes Hoolahan scored the first goal, skipper Holt scored a brace and his strike partner Morrison also added to the score line. For Newcastle Demba Ba scored a brace but was in the losing cause.

Michel Vorm saved a crucial Client Dempsey penalty

 Swansea 2 – 0 Fulham

Swansea continued their home winning streak with goals from winger Scott Sinclair and striker Danny Graham. But the real man behind the victory was goal keeper Michel Vorm, made some fantastic saves and stopped Client Dempsey’s penalty with an acrobatic effort.

Victor Moses celebrated his birthday with a goal against West Brom

 West Bromwich 1 – 2 Wigan Athletic

Birthday boy Victor Moses scored and Jordy Gomez penalty helped Roberto Martinez Wigan climb above the relegation zone. Reid scored a consolation goal for the home side.

Marcus Albrighton scored the first goal in Aston villas 2-1 victory over Bolton

Bolton 1 – 2 Aston Villa

Owen Coyle’s position as manager of Bolton is under a big threat after losing to Aston villa at home. Bolton are at the bottom of the table with just 9 points in 15 games this campaign. Albrighton and Petrov scored for Aston Villa and Klasnic scored for Bolton.

Juve Legend keen on Premier League

Italian international Alessandro Del Piero has confirmed he dreams of playing in the English Premier League before the end of his memorable career.

The Juve legend has been at the club for 18 years having signed from Padova in 1993 and he is their all-time leading goal scorer and also record appearance holder.

The 37-year-old veteran was expected to hang-up his boots when his current deal with Juve expires at the end of the campaign.

The Turin outfit will not be offering their legend a new deal, but the Italian has no intention of retiring.

He told France Football: "I have to confess a secret. I love the Premier League.

"What a great league. Of course I would like to play there before retiring."

Del Piero has made 684 appearance for Juventus and has scored 285 goals in all competitions. He was also a part of Italian world cup winner team in Germany 2006. He has made 91 appearance for Italy and has netted 27 goals.

Del Piero has won 7 Serie A title, 4 Supercoppa Italiana, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and Intercontinental Cup with Juve.

The 37 year-old has won UEFA U-21 European Championship, Fifa World Cup 2006 with his national side.  

Sir Alex keep faith in his Young guns

Legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson things he is doing the right thing by blending young talents to his Manchester United first –team line-up.

Young quartet of English youngsters in Phil Jones, Danny Welbeck, Tom Cleverly and Cris Smalling has been installed in to this season’s first team squad , it could prove to be a great platform for the Red devils over the next decade.

Ferguson told "I believe in young people,"

"You need a foundation at a football club and that is vital. You can build a first team, but you really do need the back-up and the foundation to make it a football club."

The 69 year-old has repeatedly stated he has no plans to retire, even though he will celebrate his 70th birthday on New Year's Eve.

However, in a tribute to Sir Alex shown on MUTV, chief executive David Gill has stated that the person who eventually replaces the former Aberdeen manager must share the same vision.

"It will be difficult to replace him - it's naive to say anything other than that," said Gill.

"But we are a great club whose values go back in history to our heritage to the 50s and 60s and the last 25 years with Alex.

"To continue with that, the new manager needs to understand those values and the vision for the club and must buy into that."

The Scot will forever be remembered for bringing through the renowned 'Class of 92'.
But, he takes just as much delight in the development of Cristiano Ronaldo to world player of the year given he was just an unprocessed youngster when he first arrived from Portuguese outfit Sporting Lisbon in 2003.

"With all the young players that come to us in their formative years, you have got a job to make them good footballers but also to show them how to grow up the right way," he said.

"Cristiano came to us at 18, just a young lad from Portugal who didn't know the country.

"But he learned the language, adapted very well and he has turned out fantastically as a human being, just as was the case with the Nevilles, Scholes, Beckhams, Giggs and all those lads."