Mikel Arteta revealed as the man who provoked Messi in the tunnel

Remember the tunnel incident involving Messi and an unnamed man few days ago? Read it here

The unnamed man has been identified. It was Guardiola’s assistant, Mikel Arteta who irked and insulted the Argentine at the tunnel shortly after their clash with Barcelona on Tuesday.

Spanish radio station, La Cope learnt that immediately the former Arsenal player sighted Messi waiting outside the referee’s room, he said: ‘Anda tontorrón, vete y métete en tu vestuario,’ meaning: ‘Move along stupid, get yourself in your dressing room.’
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UCL: Manchester City makes history, Ronaldo's hat-trick sinks Wolfsburg

Manchester City FC are through to the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in club history! The English team won PSG on 3-2 aggregate, all thanks to a strike by De Bruyne at the 76th minute.
For the second leg of their game which took place at the Bernabeu Santiago, Cristiano Ronaldo’s hat-trick at the 16th, 17th and 77th minutes of the game ensured that Wolfsburg were dumped out of the UEFA Champions League. The Portuguese however has become the first player to score three hat-tricks in the competition in one season. 

Arsenal, Chelsea, Barca, others through to the knock out stages

Arsenal Vs Okympiakos: 3 superb goals from Oliver Giroud was enough to see Arsenal through to the Champions League knockout stages for the 16th consecutive season.

Chelsea vs Porto: The Blues also eased to the next stage of the competition,  thanks to an own goal by Marcano and a productive strike by Willian.

Other clubs who made it to the UCL last 16 in include Barcelona,  Real Madrid,  Atletico Madrid,  Juventus,  Manchester City, PSV,  Romania,  Wolfsburg, Benfica, Zenit, Bayern Munich, Gent, Dynamo Kiev

Manchester United: The only English club knocked out of the UEFA Champions League in the group stages!

Thomas Muller sets new UCL record

Bayern Munich star, Thomas Muller has become the youngest player ever to reach 50 CL-wins. The Germany international achieved the feat on Tuesday evening during his side’s 4-0 victory over Olympiacos.

The German who netted the third goal of the night beat Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Real Madrid player, Cristiano Ronaldo to the new record.

UCL Quarter-finals draw: See who your favourite team has been paired with

The official result of the Uefa Champions. League draw is out. Which quarter-final are you looking forward to most? For me it’s Real Madrid Vs Athletico Madrid. Some interesting tie there. Matches will be played on April 14/15 and 21/22 2015.
(1) Paris Saint Germain vs Barcelona
(2) Atletico Madrid vs Real Madrid,
(3) FC Porto vs Bayern Munich
(4) Juventus vs AS Monaco

UCL win: Real Madrid players record 'Hala Madrid' song

The entire Real Madrid squad are still revelling in their UCL glory! The players, led by Cristiano Ronaldo have teamed up to record another version of the club’s classic song ‘Hala Madrid’. Haven’t downloaded or listened to the song but we can all “forgive” their voices, should they fall less of our expectations.lol. The most important thing for fans especially is the message; celebrating their historic win.
The song which has reportedly been released on iTunes was recorded shortly after their trophy parade at the Bernabeu. Hala Madrid according to elated fans will top the Spanish music charts this week.
Watch out for their trophy parade pictures

Quote of the day: Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Swedish player Zlatan. Ibrahimovic shared this quote/photo ahead of his team (PSG) ‘s UCL match against Chelsea. It reads thus,
“Why would we fear the Special One’s team when we have the only One?”
We shall see after 90mins
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