Villarreal 1-0 Real Madrid: Roberto Soldado ....

The Villarreal match which won for the first part was. A nonexistent Real Madrid did not attend the party to finish the rest, which was a defeat which means pick the head of the league . Roberto Soldado took advantage of a mistake by Modric to score the only goal of the game and allows the Villarreal continue fighting to get into positions of Champions League .

He shot the yellow set. Bakambu stole the ball and threw to the goal of Keylor Navas to give the ball to Jonathan Dos Santos. Mexico, without thinking twice, shot door to shake the timber and the souls of the Whites. He was a soldier in 9 minutes' who stood before the Costa Rican goalkeeper to colarle the ball between the legs and make it 1-0. Modric terrible mistake, losing the ball in front and promoted the clearest chance of scoring.

Real Madrid did not seem to recover from the shock when the both against. Inaccuracies, lack of attitude and ideas in attack, blurred-and how the image of the set target. According happened minutes, the faint idea that players had more possession Benitez was increasingly common, but he could embarrass a team coming to play on Thursday. Villarreal deserved more, especially after a hand to hand Bakambu missed.

Merengue played a bad game and lost the chance to reach Barcelona and Atletico, Liga leaders ... The rest meant a new party for whites, who left with a much better attitude to the pitch. Continuous approximations clear chances and staged the first minutes of the second half. The three members of the BBC had in his boots several times the opportunity to put the tie on the scoreboard. However, the punch of Real Madrid again conspicuous by their absence and failed to break the meshes of the goal of Areola, luxury viewer to inaccuracies in the shooting of the meringues players.

The Rafa Benitez saw as the minutes passed quickly could not tie a game, for pride and intensity in the second 45 minutes, they deserved. James had in the 79 ', but after having left several rivals and penetrate the area of ​​Villarreal, his bad leg shot goes slightly wide of the right post.

The worst news of the day came with the injury to Marcelo , who left with signs of pain about 90 minutes'. However, the dismal first part of Real Madrid weighed more than his second effort, he could not avoid a defeat that means not take the sting of Barcelona and to fight for the first position.

Griezmann gives chase to Barcelona

A French incontestable - Antoine Griezmann was the difference between Atletico Madrid and Athletic Club Bilbao , situated in Madrid set at the height of Barcelona at the top of the leaderboard and frustrated a good team Bilbao, which was not sufficient merit to be defeated.

Atletico has a treasure with the French international, a player who wins games, like Sunday, when his team felt that he went two points between struggling to attack and defend that generated the Athletic, who raised 0 -1 Laporte with a header Saul and the decisive goal by Griezmann.

2-1 perhaps unfair to Athletic, who won in many sections of the duel, which overcome the impetuous staging the home side -four minutes bilbaíno- burden for the team, continually lowered the offensive vividness of Atletico, which since she tangled in its pressure and determination.

And hit him in his net a few times, both 26 minutes First a beautiful Vaseline control and Aritz Aduriz the troubles resolved with the Slovenian Jan Oblak towards the corner. In the back corner, a good pitch, a touch at the near post and the ball past the second Aymeric Laporte joined the 0-1.

Had changed minutes before, at 20, the Argentine Diego Simeone its initial plan from the 4-4-2. He then turned back to 4-3-3 in recent meetings, beginning no effect on the rate proposed by the Athletic and on which the duel was developing until the final minutes of the half, to 1-1.

He had not finished off into the net all Madrid from the 18th minute, a goal or canceled for offside Argentine Luciano Vietto until the stroke of half, first with a volley of Belgian Yannick Carrasco and then in the corner immediately, with the draw. Put Koke , headed Ñíguez Saul.

There was no time even to put the ball back into play after a 1-1 midfielder, as the second top scorer this season with Atletico four goals, surpassed only by the French Antoine Griezmann. Strategy, with a new header Saul's goalkeeper, identical to week and a half ago in Reus .

From there, from their productive skills pieces, revalued in recent duels, left the rush Atletico among the lamentations of the Athletic for the time being as inconvenient to their interests as the key to all Madrid goal, but for which He rebuilt immediately on his return from the locker room.

For Athletic, contrary to what might assume the 1-1, the meeting resumed with conviction, determined to shake again marker, unmoved by two sensational appearances Oblak. The first to Eneko Boveda center; the second, saving in an individual duel with Aduriz, who guessed the intention of your shot.

The match was the Bilbao set until Griezmann broke. He had had no role in the whole game ... until 66 minutes until it made ​​the difference in a loose ball on the edge of the area with an unstoppable left-footed shot which suffered worth three points and shared top of the league with Barcelona .

- Technical sheet:

2 - Atletico Madrid: Oblak, Juanfran , Gimenez, Godin, Filipe ; Saul, Gabi , Koke, Carrasco (Correa, 57 m.); Griezmann (Savic, m. 87) and Vietto ( Fernando Torres , m. 60).

1 - Athletic Club: Gorka Iraizoz ; Eneko Bóveda (Susaeta, 70 m.), Xabi Etxeita, Laporte, Balenziaga; Iturraspe ( Mikel Rico , 58 m.), Beñat; Oscar de Marcos, Raul Garcia , Iñaki Williams ( Kike Sola , 85 m.); and Aduriz.

Goals: 0-1, m. 26: Laporte satin finished at the far post corner. 1-1 m. 45: Saul header a corner of Koke. 2-1 m. 66: Griezmann with a left-footed shot from outside the box.

Referee: Martínez Munuera (C. Valenciano). He admonished visitors Aduriz (m. 73).

Subs: the fifteenth day of the Premier League match at the Vicente Calderon stadium before some 53,000 spectators. Before kickoff, the captains of both teams, Gabi for Atletico and Athletic Gorka Iraizoz, sweatshirts delivered their equipment to Auxi and Gari, ages eight and nine, with seven five transplanted organs and followers of Atletico Madrid and Athletic Club, respectively.

Scolari: It is not impossible to beat Barcelona

The Brazilian coach of Guangzhou Evergrande - Felipe Scolari has managed to classify yours for the Club World Cup semifinal after winning 2-1 at America in Mexico in the quarterfinals.

"A 90-minute game and really what we wanted, our goal was to be in the semifinals. We do not imñortaba nothing. So I decided to make some changes, even if that meant an increased risk for the team. We risky and it went well" he explained about the match press conference.

He also explained that "I know the team and what it can do. Maybe in another situation would not have risked so much, but this time he has responded very well."

Scolari gave much credit to the victory over the Mexicans and now has his sights to Barcelona : "The Club America is a great team with a great history, but we played well, defended and in the end we got the win. Now we must continue to dream for the forthcoming match against Barcelona. The victory is not impossible. "

B. Dortmund - Porto and Sporting - Leverkusen in the Europa League

It was held this morning in Nyon ( Switzerland ) corresponding to the round knockout phase, which already ranked teams enter the draw Champions League ranked third in their groups.

Matches will be played on 18 and 25 February. In this competition there are two teams with Mexican players. On the one hand, the Porto of Miguel Layún , Jesus Corona Tecatito and Hector Herrera will face in this round at Borussia Dortmund . For its part, Bayer Leverkusen of Javier Chicharito Hernandez played in this round against Sporting Lisbon, current leader of Portugal .

These were the pairings that have occurred, given that they could not face teams from the same group or the same association and because of a decision of the Executive Committee of UEFA, the Russian and Ukrainian teams are not crossed:

Valencia (ESP) - Rapid Vienna (AUT) Fiorentina (ITA) - Tottenham (ENG) Borussia Dortmund (GER) - Porto (POR) Fenerbahce (TUR) - Lokomotiv (RUS) Anderlecht (BEL) - Olympiakos (GRE) Midtjylland (DIN ) - Manchester United (ENG) Augsburg (GER) - Liverpool (ENG) Sparta Prague (CZE) - Krasnodar (RUS) Galatasaray (TUR) - Lazio (ITA) Sion (SUI) - Sporting Braga (POR) Shakhtar (UCR) - Schalke (GER) Olympique Marseille (FRA) - Athletic Club (ESP) Sevilla (ESP) - Molde (NOR) Sporting (POR) - Bayer Leverkusen (GER) Villarreal (ESP) - Naples (ITA) St. Etienne (FRA) - Basel (SUI)

The knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League 2015/2016

UEFA on Monday held the draw for the knockout stages of the Champions League in Nyon, Switzerland , qualifying draw that left the stars Juventus - Bayern, Arsenal - Barcelona and PSG - Chelsea .

The group winners will play the first leg away from home round on 16/17 and 23/24 February and the return in their stadium on 8/9 and 15/16 March. The draw for the quarterfinals will be held on March 18 at 12:00 CET, and the semifinals will be on 15 April, also at 12:00 CET.

The Barcelona will face Arsenal, who starred in one of the comebacks in the group stage, classifying the buzzer. The Real Madrid will face AS Roma, a team that just finished in second place in the group of the Catalans. The Athletic had fortune and play against PSV , a priori one of the weakest opponents.

The remaining matches will be Ghent - Wolfsburg, PSG - Chelsea, Juventus - Bayern, Benfica - Zenit and Dynamo Kiev - Manchester City .

Gent - Wolfsburg AS Roma - Real Madrid PSG - Chelsea Arsenal - Barcelona Juventus - Bayern Munchen PSV - Atletico Madrid Benfica - Zenit Dinamo Kiev - Manchester City

29 years later, River replays to be the best of all

Monday, December 14 marks 29 years of the greatest milestone in the history of River. In 1986, the set of Hector Veira won 1-0 at Steaua Bucharest revived thanks to Norberto Alonso played a quick free kick, to put a subtext good pass to Antonio Alzamendi for the Uruguayan suspense, goal goal that gave the Intercontinental Cup Millionaire.

Bambino team that was in memory of all fans who can relate holder 11 without hesitation: Nery Pumpido ; Gordillo Gutierrez, Ruggeri, Montenegro; the Black Enrique, the Tolo Gallego, Alfaro; Beto Alonso; Alzamendi and Buffalo Funes .

These men beat a Romanian group , which although not part of the soccer elite, at the time he won the European Champions Cup no more and no less than Barcelona in the definition from the 12 steps. Moreover, that still hold a record on the continent since from 1986 to 1989 he reached 106 official matches unbeaten.

Now led by Marcelo Gallardo seek to restore the glory River in the World Cup. The company will not be easy, but this team has already demonstrated on more than one occasion in difficult enlarges: He raised the American displaying a flashy game and putting on overalls at the right times to get to Boca; He was left with a Libertadores began in the worst way, they left him alive again brought Boca and neither "super" Tigers of Gignac and company could stop. Twice in six months Gallardo eliminated Boca and were champions twice.

Pisculichi seek dressing Beto, Alario Buffalo Funes, Mora compatriot River Alzamendi ... all will attempt to suit hero once again and touch the sky with your hands like 29 years ago.