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Marek Hamsik gave hosts Napoli an early lead 10 minutes into the game before Paolo Cannavaro and a Davide Astori own goal made it 3-0 as they galloped towards a

Unitedlost 3-2 at home to a fearless and skilfulAthletic Bilbao, their second successive European defeat at Old Trafford, in the first leg of their round-of-16 tie. Central defender Xandao scored

Benfica overturned a 3-2 deficit from the first leg in Russia to progress 4-3 on aggregate after dominating possession and restricting Zenit to sporadic counter-attacks. Benfica kept pouring forward and

The Portuguese forward, last season’s European Golden Boot winner with 40 league goals, opened the scoring from Gonzalo Higuain’s layoff in the 23rd minute, to take his total in all

Menezes said that Brazil’s moves had tended to break down when they reached Ronaldinho, who was recalled to the side last year after being left out of the 2010 World

Levante, who are in the race for a berth in Europe’s elite club competition despite having one of the oldest squads in the league, snatched victory at the Cornella Stadium

Jose Mourinho’sRealthumpedRacing Santander4-0 on Saturday to put pressure on the champions, who conceded to Pablo Piatti after only nine minutes at the Nou Camp. World Player of the Year Messi

Guidetti grabbed his 18th of the season after 77 minutes before his second booking but Robert Braber headed an equaliser 10 minutes later to leave fourh-placed Feyenoord four points behind

Winger Ashley Young put three-times European champions United ahead just before the hour mark and Javier Hernandez extended the lead five minutes from time as they showed they meant business

Ibrahimovic set up two goals for Robinho and won and converted a penalty for the fourth to leave Milan almost certain of ending their dismal recent record against English opposition.