Browsing: Copa del Rey

Ronaldo has won three Champions Leagues in a row at Madrid but decided against staying at the club

Griezmann’s signature comes on the back of countless rumours of the forward leaving for Barcelona.

Ernesto Valverde rested Lionel Messi for his team’s penultimate match of the campaign, but it was a defensive horror-show that allowed Emmanuel Boateng to score a hat trick of his own and Enis Bardhi a brace at the City of Valencia Stadium

Luis Suarez opened the scoring on a memorable evening for Ernesto Valverde’s charges

Coutinho, who joined Barca from Liverpool for a club record 142 million pounds ($197.66 million) in January, had been on the pitch less than three minutes when he scored

Barcelona, the record 29-time winners of the tournament, are attempting to become the first team to lift the cup four years in a row since Athletic Bilbao in the 1930s

Coutinho, who has been handed the number 14 shirt vacated by China-bound Javier Mascherano, had been sidelined by a thigh injury since his drawn-out transfer saga came to an end on January 6

Madrid had taken the first leg of the quarter final 1-0 last week at Leganes, but back in Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday, a forward line that included Karim Benzema, Marco Asensio, Lucas Vazquez and Isco found the Leganes team too difficult to handle

“We knew this day would come, we tried to delay it as much as possible but it couldn’t be today,” said Sergio Busquets after the match

The new contract, signed on Saturday, will see Messi at Barcelona until 2021

Ronaldo – who won the inaugural award last year – helped Real Madrid to a second consecutive Champions League title earlier this year, also finishing as the tournament’s top scorer with 12 goals.

For the first time in five years the El Clasico rivals face off in the curtain-raising fixture, with both aiming to claim first blood ahead of what should be another entertaining season

The Argentine will replace Franck Passi, named on Wednesday as interim coach for the rest of the season

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Suarez was booked twice in Tuesday’s 1-1 semi-final second leg draw against Atletico Madrid

Atletico began with remarkable intensity and they might have found a lead on the night inside the first 10 minutes

The Uruguayan is the third-fastest player to reach a century of goals for FC Barcelona

The former Granada boss oversaw five league games and three Copa del Rey clashes, losing seven matches and earning his sole victory against his former side before Christmas

A much-changed Barcelona were held to a 1-1 draw by third-tier outfit, Hercules, in the Copa del Rey in midweek – the Catalan giants’ third draw in their last four matches in all competitions

Both teams had players sent off in what was a cagey 90 minutes of action, but Barcelona came strong in extra-time and goals from Jordi Alba and Neymar ensured that the Catalan giants would complete a domestic double

Valencia were three goals down inside 29 minutes and were forced to play the entirety of the second period with 10 players when Shkodran Mustafi was given the marching orders for a challenge on Messi inside the penalty box