Champions League
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The Italy midfielder tells Johanna Frändén that PSG will attack Chelsea from the start and talks of his admiration for Cesc Fàbregas, the controversy surrounding Serge Aurier – and his attempts to stop getting booked all the time
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Guus Hiddink has called on his Chelsea team to be ‘tough underdogs’ when they face Paris Saint-Germain, without injured captain John Terry, in the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie on Wednesday at Stamford Bridge
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Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri says his focus remains on his team ahead of their visit to Watford on Saturday, dismissing pressure from other Premier League contenders by saying they are ‘not important’
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Charlie Stillitano’s Champions League plans are an insult to Leicester City – and football
Sachin NakraniThe American’s suggestion that it is better to have teams such as Manchester United rather than Leicester City in the Champions League makes it abundantly clear he has no idea of what makes football such a great sport
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The American sports executive who held talks with five Premier League teams about a shake-up to league structures has said ‘there are wonderful elements to relegation and promotion and there are good arguments for a closed system’
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Pep Guardiola would not have contemplated season in Europe’s second tier when he took the City job in January, but may face exactly that
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Galatasaray have been banned from European competition for two years by Uefa for non-compliance with financial fair play regulations
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The Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema is expected to be out for up to a month because of a right leg muscle injury
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Celtic won five competitions, Dundee United beat Barcelona home and away, Rangers made it to the Cup Winners’ Cup final and the national team beat England at Wembley. Scottish football may never enjoy success like this again
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The stats do not look good for Arsene Wenger’s chances of getting past Barcelona but the decline in home wins in European games strengthens his case for a rule change
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This week’s quiz is bidding farewell to Robert Pirès years after he left
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Manchester City warm up for their League Cup final against Liverpool with a 3-1 win in Ukraine, but Arsenal encounter their traditional Champions League quarter-final stumbling block. Plus, previews of the rest of the action in the Premier League this weekend, including West Ham v Sunderland
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Manuel Pellegrini said Manchester City’s 3-1 win at Dynamo Kyiv in the Champions League last-16 first leg vindicated his controversial decision to rest key players at Chelsea
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After losing 2-0 to Barcelona on Tuesday night, Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger expressed frustration during a press conference and said his team could have won the game “if it kept the discipline until the end.” The defeat gives Arsenal as little as a 5% chance of progressing, the manager adds
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Per Mertesacker believes Arsenal are being held back by a lack of goals and penetration, not by poor defending
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We sent Guardian photographer Tom Jenkins along to the Emirates to capture all the action as Barcelona took on Arsenal in the Champions League last 16 first leg
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The Barcelona coach, Luis Enrique, has denied that Gerard Piqué got himself deliberately booked in order to have a clean slate for a probable quarter-final in April
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Sportblog Barcelona’s miracle worker Lionel Messi leaves Arsenal praying for one
Barney Ronay at the Emirates Stadium
Podcast Football Weekly: Leicester the big winners after north London derby draw