Battle for being amongst four best clubs

Beginning from next midweek, semifinal places will be decided for both European Cup competitions. All 8 duels, who are having the same kick-off, are in danger of having additional times or even penalties.

Following the rule (but not always) Champions league is first on schedule. With this competition we are going to be tortured two nights when we will have two games each.

Tuesday, 16 April at 21.00 CET: Barcelona - Manchester United.
Tuesday, 16 April at 21.00 CET: Juventus - Ajax.

Wednesday, 17 April at 21.00 CET: Manchester United - Tottenham.
Wednesday, 17 April at 21.00 CET: Porto - Liverpool.

On the other hand, if we want to see plenty of competing, running and more importantly: big amount of goals than the predecessor in only one night (again not always...however this very rarely happened), then Europa league is the best event to watch. As now nobody has the right to start early, all 8 teams are going to be on the field at one single night.

Thursday, 18 April at 21.00 CET: Chelsea - Slavia Prague.
Thursday, 18 April at 21.00 CET: Eintracht Frankfurt - Benfica.
Thursday, 18 April at 21.00 CET: Napoli - Arsenal.
Thursday, 18 April at 21.00 CET: Valencia - Villarreal.

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Suspension of a second football division

Just one month before the end of the championship the Cyprus football association has decided to suspend its second league due to match-fixing. Several games have been suspicious played last weekend which prompted this Wednesday the league to be cancelled until further notice. It is announced that the competition will resume until the end of the season without giving any information. The organization is going to change the structure of this championship next year.

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Draws finished for couple of summer tournaments

In a space of one day and a half, 10 groups has been drawn from two separate confederations at two thrilling competitions which both are going to start in two months time.
At Los Angeles (United States of America, USA) ceremony on Wednesday night (local time) / Thursday morning (CET) the following 16 teams have learned their fate in which groups they will play for the Gold Cup 2019 which is going to appear for the fifteenth time from 16 June in the morning hours.

Group A: Mexico, Canada, Martinique, Cuba.

Group B: Costa Rica, Haiti, Nicaragua, Bermuda.

Group C: Honduras, Jamaica, El Salvador, Curacao.

Group D: USA, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana.

Seventeen more editions than its predecessor has the Total African Cup of Nations whose going to start at the same month but 5 nights later. Tonight, at the Egyptian capital Cairo 24 teams was divided in 6 groups for the 2019 final competition.

Group A: Egypt, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Group B: Nigeria, Guinea, Madagascar, Burundi.

Group C: Senegal, Algeria, Kenya, Tanzania.

Group D: Morocco, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Namibia.

Group E: Tunisia, Mali, Mauritania, Angola.

Group F: Cameroon, Ghana, Benin, Guinea-Bissau.

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Two punishments in a match, one saved plus a hat-trick scorer in other

Villarreal - Valencia 1:3

Scorers: 0:1 06 (05.30) Goncalo Guedes
              1:1 36-pen (36.00) Santi Cazorla
              1:2 90 (90.01) Daniel Wass
              1:3 90+3 (92.34) Goncalo Guedes

- Andres Fernandez (Villarreal) perfectly saved a penalty from Dani Parejo (Valencia) at 06 (05.29), but the ball still went into his net 1 second later.

Benfica - Eintracht Frankfurt 4:2

Scorers: 1:0 21-pen (20.23) Joao Felix
              1:1 40 (39.46) Luka Jovic
              2:1 43 (42.21) Joao Felix
              3:1 50 (49.35) Ruben Dias
              4:1 53 (53.00) Joao Felix
              4:2 72 (71.31) Goncalo Paciencia

- For a nasty foul at 19 (19.06) Obite Evan N'Dicka (Eintracht Frankfurt) received a direct red card.

Slavia Prague - Chelsea 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 85 (85.03) Marcos Alonso

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At both games the guests have scored first but only one survived to keep the win

Ajax - Juventus 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 45 (44.35) Cristiano Ronaldo
              1:1 46 (45.30) David Neres

Manchester United - Barcelona 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 12-own goal (11.35) Luke Shaw

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