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Real's Spanish rivals Barcelona, England's Arsenal and German side Bayern Munich rounded out the top five.

Taylor could miss all of next season after his comeback from a serious knee injury in August was cut short.

Deportivo rolled to a 4-0 win at Levante to provisionally escape the Spanish league's relegation zone for the first time in 18 weeks.

Reading ended their club's record eight-game losing run with a 0-0 draw against Liverpool.

Southampton captain Adam Lallana has signed a new five-year deal at the Premier League club.

The sanction comes due to the racist behaviour of their fans at a Champions League game in November.

Mohun Bagan will look at the morale-boosting 5-1 win against Sporting Clube de Goa in the previous round when they take on Mumbai FC.

"This year we have made some mistakes unfortunately but now we can't do anything," said City coach Roberto Mancini.

FIFA security director Ralf Mutschke believes the 500 plus qualifying matches so far for the 2014 World Cup have been clean of match-fixing.

Four players have been detained for interrogation after a confrontation with police at a Copa Libertadores match.

Blaise Matuidi, who netted the stoppage time equaliser at home, will miss the CL return leg QF through suspension.

After signing star players like Zlatan Ibrahimovic and David Beckham, PSG are anxious for a major Champions League victory that would justify their engorged payroll.

Beckham said he's ready to start in the club's biggest game in recent history when it takes on Barcelona in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final.

Goals from Carlos Tevez, David Silva, Vincent Kompany and Yaya Toure secured a comfortable 4-0 win for Roberto Mancini's men.

With a goal against Celta Vigo on Saturday, the Barcelona striker can become the first player to score against every Spanish league opponent in consecutive order.

Platini said that the goal-line technology is too expensive for the Champions League and UEFA would rather spend the money on youth football.