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  • Jurgen Klopp laughed off Sergio Conceicao’s suggestion that his Liverpool side can sometimes play like the best team in the world before the two resume battle on Wednesday night. Liverpool are aiming to dump Porto out of the Champions League for a second year running and go into the second leg of their quarter-final at…

  • Tottenham captain Hugo Lloris says his side are “ready to suffer” in order to see off Manchester City in the Champions League quarter-finals. Spurs head to the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday with a 1-0 first-leg lead, thanks to Son Heung-min’s later winner, but City are still favourites to progress to the last four as their…

  • Karim Benzema rescued a point for Real Madrid in a 1-1 draw with Leganes in LaLiga. Leganes, who are now 10 points clear of the bottom three, led through Jonathan Silva at the Butarque Municipal Stadium before Benzema hauled Zinedine Zidane’s misfiring side level early in the second half. The result means Real trail second-placed Atletico Madrid…

  • Arsenal moved back into the Premier League top four as 10-man Watford provided the tonic for their away-day ills. With questions hanging over their poor form on the road, the Gunners benefited from a rare Ben Foster mistake and a rash moment from Troy Deeney, which saw the Watford skipper sent off as Arsenal still…

  • Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri has warned it will take a repeat of his side’s Champions League heroics against Atletico Madrid in the previous round to see off Ajax. Juve are favourites to reach the last four after drawing the first leg of their quarter-final 1-1 in Amsterdam last week when Cristiano Ronaldo’s 125th Champions League goal…

  • Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen believes their one-goal advantage over Manchester United is “not enough to defend” ahead of the return leg of their Champions League quarter-final. The Spanish champions walked away from Old Trafford with a 1-0 win following Luke Shaw’s early own goal but Ter Stegen is wary of a United side that…

  • Ole Gunnar Solskjaer attempted to tone down the significance of the 1999 Champions League final but the Manchester United manager feels the fixture proved anything is possible in football. Solskjaer claimed a special place in the hearts of United supporters 20 years ago when his last-gasp strike against Bayern Munich at the Nou Camp sealed…