Real Madrid & Barcelona Win, Cup Fun As Liverpool, Bayern Munich, Lazio, PSG Advance

Why always me?

Woop! How is everyone today? Excellent. As expected, the top two sides in La Liga won without too much trouble. Ronny scored his 300th goal for Real and Messi and Suarez were in the money for Barca. Sid Lowe was kind enough to file a special Thursday report with more on the mid-week happenings in Spain.

Cups? Cups. Bayern Munich's treble run is still alive after they edged Leverkusen on penalties in the German Cup. Raphael Honigstein is in Germany and has a look at Bayern here. And down in France, The Zlatan scored a hat-trick to lead PSG to the French Cup final. Meanwhile, over in Italy, Lazio won at Napoli to advance to the final of the Coppa Italia where they will meet Juventus. In England, Liverpool finally overcame a stubborn Blackburn side and earned a trip to Wembley with a 0 - 1 win at Ewood Park. Andy Hunter was there and filed this report. Liverpool will face Villa in their FA Cup semi-final. Richard Jolly was also there, and he came away with Three Observations. Phil McNulty would like to join in, too. He says it's the FA Cup or bust for Liverpool this season.

Here's a nice article about Roma. Read it.

Now, go on.

Onward!!

-SSN

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