Champions League - Neymar saves day for Barca after Diego wonder strike

A Neymar told everything from teatrero up ineffective. However, the Brazilian only responds with goals and good football and is slowly recovering the high level shown on first dates . On Tuesday, the Brazilian scored a goal when Barcelona needed him most . He did after Andres Iniesta genius .

Good Neymar . Neymar was considered from the start even though doubts were ownership. The Brazilian was participatory from the first half but the second was where he left his legacy after converting the impressive goal pass.

No brain no ideas. As in the match against Real Madrid a week ago , Andrés Iniesta was one of the best players of Barcelona. He had the ball, rotated , played it and even made an occasional luxury. But his most important contribution was the pass to Neymar that the goal .

Neymar and their numbers. Thus, Neymar reaches 4 goals in the current season of the Champions League. The Brazilian will have the chance to grow this brand when Barcelona visit the Vicente Calderon on Wednesday looking to pass semis .

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Barca - Atletico Madrid: The battle moves to the Champions League

The FC Barcelona at the Camp Nou receives Atletico Madrid in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Champions League , the first European assault between two very evenly matched teams have tied three games played this season and move to the ' Old Continent ' the struggle to stay in the Premier League , but probably all be decided on the ' final battle ' of Calderon.

With Atletico leader in the domestic competition , and the club to a point below , this pulse moves to the Champions League in which they have never met , in a back and forth battle that viewed the background this season among the Martino and Simeone long , equalizer, tense and can decide for details is expected .

This happened earlier in the season , when he foresaw what was going to happen in this final installment in the Supercopa of Spain . The title was won by the FC Barcelona but without being able to win at Atletico , nor the ' mattress ' were able to win the Blaugrana at the Vicente Calderon in the first round match in the league. Three games , three tables, but with the club as benefited and winner of the Super Cup twice the value of away goals .

In search of a goal away from home

Surely now Champions League dialing away still have more importance, the value of the stage. The club is advised , as stated by himself in the previous Martino , that Atletico will try to dial out to the Camp Nou from turning blank Madrid , but is not expected to open game of twists and turns, but one in which the Blaugrana imposed, on home soil , his style .

For the first game of this junction, Diego Pablo Simeone , you could lose striker Diego Costa , who on Monday withdrew early training of his team in the Camp Nou. "I appreciate the doctors - in - tonight and tomorrow . A player who retires ... I see it difficult for tomorrow ," the Argentine coach .

Furthermore, it will be without the suspended Raul Garcia, one of the key players in the scheme especially for its unexpected offensive power and importance in the set pieces , where do great harm to athletic club, which has not sanctioned . Instead could play Diego Ribas , Sosa or , in a more offensive bet, the Guaje Villa .

The search for the goal will be key , and that three games and played ' Catalans ' and ' mattress ' this season, six will play this season, and have been only two goals, the equalizer ( 1 - 1 ) in the first leg of the Supercopa at the Calderon. Villa was commissioned to mark them to your exequipo while Neymar achieved his first goal as Catalans and the lead actor in his first title.

Barca want to rediscover your style

The two Brazilian goals against Celtic confirm a progression , with superstition and the memory of that goal , may place him in the starting lineup of Martino , who may have Andres Iniesta in midfield at the expense of Cesc Fabregas who was a little off in the Catalan derby against Espanyol at Cornella-El Prat (0-1 ) in a game similar to what can be found the Blaugrana against Atletico script.

In the club want to shine their style of play , imposing it and have the ball , but must add it to a high level of intensity that matches the great athletic asset. It will not work if you do not play and play something of verticality , but the Blaugrana know they should monitor the cons of a very fast and lethal Atlético in this sense, as in the air.

There will also be several duels to watch closely. The bad news Low Valdes operated knee Monday and seven months out of the pitch , Pinto will make it a robe who Courtois in top form. The ' tufting ' , now, seems stronger than behind the Catalans , but the return of Iniesta gives 'a priori' Barça superiority in midfield . Top with luxury side , the spotlight will be focused on Leo Messi ( 8 goals in the Champions League ) and if you can finally play , Diego Costa ( 7).

Definitely have to Leo Messi in his best form this season is a security for the club, but the ' beast ' hispanobrasileña wants to recover against Barca . And is if Messi Atletico has among its favorite victims , and dreams remain a nightmare for Courtois and all the ' tufting ' family, Diego Costa will seek first mark as Atletico Barca , something he has resisted .

Therefore, his teammates look like a beacon in the attack is the Simeone to schedule or attend Villa, Diego, Arda and Koke , duper battery to try to score , win and go to sleep Calderon go to a semifinal of the Champions League . For Barca would be the seventh straight .

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Joel Campbell wanted by two Premier League clubs

The great season that makes Joel Campbell Olympiacos in the Greek football scene opens on other computers.

Now the national steals the attention of scouts from the English Premier League. According knew Al Día, there are at least two teams that give Campbell a special track .

This newspaper learned that one of the teams that claim to being selected in the top 10 of the standings .

Instead, the other is the bottom of the standings.

Joel , who is Arsenal's record in England, unknown what will happen in the next season, because in principle has to return to Arsenal after the World Cup in Brazil .

" We would all like to know what they want with it. I think , by what has been said here , that Wenger ( Arsenal manager ) wants him back next season , "said Mike Campbell , a journalist for The Sun English.

For the communicator , the interest from other teams in England 's normal, after the good performance he had against Manchester United in the first knockout round of the Champions League .

"He played very well against a great team , I would be very surprised if he had not succeeded in drawing attention ," he said .

Thus, the future of exfutbolista Saprissa has more suitors , although people close to the situation say that Joel is then defined his involvement with the National Team in the quote from Brazil .

Meanwhile , Olympiacos retains the hope of buying it, but it seems that Joel will be good football in England, with either Arsenal or another campus.

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Arsenal draw with Manchester City to leave league title race wide open

Arsenal drew 1-1 with Manchester City match at Emirates Stadium, by week 32 of the Premier League.

Manchester City stunned the home team in the 18th minute of play when he scored the Spanish midfielder David Silva. The first half ended 0-1 .

Arsenal , led by French coach Arsene Wenger, found the equalizer in the 53rd through the French midfielder Mathieu Flamini .

With this result, Arsenal reached 64 points , five behind the leader of the Premier League , Chelsea of Jose Mourinho. Meanwhile , Manchester City now has 67 units.

Next week, Arsenal and Manchester City face Everton and Southampton respectively.

One of the most attractive matches of world football this weekend is the star in Arsenal and Manchester City. This commitment will be played under the date 32 of the Premier League.

This match can serve to Arsenal to regain lost self-esteem in the win against Chelsea (6-0 ) last week.

Chelsea, engaged in melee with the City for the Premiership title , humbled on Saturday to Wenger , who led the table for much of the first round, but are now forced to defend the three points.

Arsene Wenger himself admitted after midweek draw with Swansea (2-2 ) , their main goal is not to fight for the top spot , but keep in Champions League positions .

Meanwhile, Manchester City is conscious that he is the favorite to win the league back to London , as it did two seasons ago.

The Manchester team is second , three points of the " blues " , but has played two games , so it would be leader if Sumara those six points have not yet played .

At 30 , the Ivorian Yaya Toure combines this season at Manchester City his work as a holding midfielder with a renewed attacking side that has led him to be , with 17 goals , top scorer of his team in the Premiership.

This Saturday will be a key part of the team of Chilean Pellegrini , who has found Touré, former player of Barcelona of 1.91 meters, one of the key pieces to bring stability to the center field without sacrificing attacking football .

After 29 league matches, stats Touré exceed the front as the Argentine Sergio 'Kun' Aguero, who has 15 goals , Bosnian Edin Dzeko , who is ten , and the Spanish Álvaro Negredo , with nine .

He has only scored more goals in the Premier League who have scored the home teams like West Bromwich ( 16), Norwich ( 15) and Crystal Palace ( 13).

Manchester City are concerned about the evolution of the main Argentine Sergio Aguero, who suffered a thigh injury that kept him from last Tuesday's derby against United that " citizens" won 0-3 and likely will leave too out of grief at the Emirates Stadium.

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Beckham confirmed to be a team owner in Miami

The English former player David Beckham has announced that it has become the new owner of Miami football team in Major League Soccer (MLS ) , a franchise that is not yet created and born of the hand that was Manchester United footballer and Real Madrid.

"It's a big moment for me , for my family , relatives and friends and something you really want to build in Miami. I've worked for some of the largest in the world and with some of the best players in the world equipment and this is a dream " Beckham said in an appearance with commissioner Don Garber MLS .

The former captain of the England team is ambitious with his new project . " It's going to be some problems along the way but want to do in Miami not only the best team in America , we want to make a global team " wanted.

For MLS commissioner Beckham 's decision is a " historic day for soccer in America," because the English will be the first former player to own a team 'soccer' American.

Beckham, who also played for Los Angeles Galaxy , kept a clause in his contract with the MLS in which a choice of $ 25 million was set to start a new franchise. Now , English is talking to the Miami -Dade County for a stadium with capacity for 25,000 people.

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