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Messi Europe's top scorer for third straight year
Lionel Messi has become the first player to win Europe’s Golden Shoe award for three straight years after his nearest challenger Kylian Mbappe failed to score the four goals he needed in Paris St Germain’s final league match of the season on Friday.
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Liverpool’s dream comeback in memes
Liverpool stunned Barcelona 4-0 at Anfield last night to book a second consecutive Champions League final with a 4-3 aggregate win.
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Emotional Klopp hails 'unbelievable' triumph over Barca
The German was clearly swept up in the emotion at the end of the game as a delirious Anfield crowd sang the club’s anthem “You’ll never walk alone” with the players lined up in front of the Kop.
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'It's very painful': Valverde rocked by Barca collapse
Barca were blown away on an incredible night at Anfield as Liverpool won 4-0 to overturn a three-goal first-leg defeat.
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Liverpool defy the odds to beat Barca and reach UCL final
Divock Origi was the unlikely hero as Liverpool pulled off the greatest semi-final comeback in Champions League history against Barcelona.
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Battered and bruised Liverpool face balancing act against Barcelona
Liverpool have overcome such deficits before in the Champions League, most famously in the 2005 final against AC Milan.
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Liverpool could not have played much better - Klopp
Liverpool went in 1-0 down at the break but after dominating the early part of the second half, Messi struck twice including a superb long-range free kick.
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Messi torments Liverpool with 600th Barca goal in 3-0 win
Liverpool, who were beaten 3-1 in last year’s final by Real Madrid, played far better than the scoreline suggested, carving out a number of clear chances but spurning them all.
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Klopp highlights Liverpool progress without 'world class' Coutinho
While the playmaker has struggled to adapt to his new surroundings, Liverpool have soared, taking the Premier League title race with Manchester City to the wire and fighting to reach a second consecutive European Cup final.
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Liverpool's flying full-backs ready for Barca test
Virgil van Dijk has hogged the spotlight among Liverpool's defenders with a superb campaign that earned the Dutch centre-back the Professional Footballers' Association player of the year award.
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Relentless Barca in Liga of their own
After dropping points in five of their opening 12 games, Barca went on a relentless run after the Betis loss, winning 18 of their next 23 matches to get their hands on the trophy.
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Careless United undone by Messi double as Barca cruise into semis
After an excellent start, United were undone twice in four minutes by Messi, who first nicked the ball off the careless Ashley Young and then watched as a weak shot from distance squirmed underneath David de Gea.
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United get set for another comeback attempt at Camp Nou
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer completed the club's most famous comeback there in 1999 and hopes to see a repeat on the same turf, this time against Barca in the Champions League quarter-finals.
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Solskjaer will use 'gut feeling' to pick United team for Barca
Alexis Sanchez and Nemanja Matic were part of United’s 22-man travelling squad as they look to overturn a 1-0 first-leg deficit.
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Real Madrid secure financing to remodel Bernabeu stadium
The club will service an annual debt of €29.5 million per year on the works throughout the period.
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Goal-shy Man Utd pray for another Champions League miracle
Unlike their experience in losing the first leg of their last-16 tie on home soil 2-0 to Paris Saint-Germain, United were not outclassed by the Catalan giants in a 1-0 defeat on Wednesday.
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Injured Suarez to miss China Cup for Uruguay
Suarez, 32, is expected to miss between 10 and 15 days after limping off late in Sunday's 4-1 win at Real Betis in La Liga.
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Crunch time for Solari as Madrid left relying on Europe again
After being knocked out of the Copa del Rey and effectively deemed irrelevant in the title race, a third loss in as many games could see Madrid's season wiped out in a week.
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Barca, Real Madrid wrestle fatigue and form ahead of Clasico double-header
This weekend, Barca travel to fourth-placed Sevilla on Saturday and Madrid to Levante on Sunday, when priorities, rest and rotation will all be high on the agenda again.
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Valverde finds positives as Barcelona draw blank in Lyon to leave tie open
The Spanish side had most of the chances at the Groupama Stadium, with Luis Suarez firing just wide in the second half, although it was Lyon who came the closest when Martin Terrier hit the bar early on.
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Blow for Madrid's title hopes as Girona inflict shock defeat
Girona had not won in 13 matches and looked on course for a seventh straight defeat when Casemiro headed a dominant Madrid ahead in the first half.
