Man City on guard for Barcelona baptism

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Barcelona appear to have hit form with ominous timing for Champions League knockout-phase debutants Manchester City ahead of Tuesday's last 16 first leg between the sides at the Etihad Stadium.
After a run of one win in four Liga games, including a rare home defeat against Valencia, the Catalan giants have won their last two matches in emphatic style, scoring 10 goals in the process.
Following a 4-1 success at Sevilla last weekend, Saturday's 6-0 demolition of Rayo Vallecano further strengthened their position at the top of the table on goal difference from Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid.
The game featured a goal-scoring return from injury for Neymar, while the team's fourth goal, a dizzying passing move finished by Pedro Rodriguez, bore the hallmarks of Barcelona's Pep Guardiola-era pomp.

Arsenal to face Everton in quarters

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Arsenal set up an FA Cup quarterfinal meeting with Everton after overcoming Liverpool 2-1 in a feisty and gripping fifth-round match at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday.
Liverpool had trounced Arsenal 5-1 at Anfield in the Premier League last weekend, but the London club took revenge through goals in each half by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Lukas Podolski.
Steven Gerrard halved Arsenal's advantage with a 59th-minute penalty after Podolski was adjudged to have tripped Luis Suarez.
The visitors felt they should have been awarded a second spot-kick moments later after Oxlade-Chamberlain appeared to foul Suarez, but their appeals were dismissed by referee Howard Webb.
Victory in a game splattered with yellow cards means that Arsenal will host Everton in the last eight, but they will have bruises to nurse ahead of Wednesday's meeting with Bayern Munich in the Uefa Champions League last 16.

Gareth Bale Revealed That Cristiano Ronaldo Is His Idol

Gareth Bale who is currently in Spain after his transfer from Tottenham to join Real Madrid has said Cristiano Ronaldo, his teammate is his idol and is helping him with the transition especially the language barrier , he is already finding his feet in the Spanish league and cannot be thankful enough to Ronaldo who has been of tremendous support to him
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Bale said Ronaldo is a great teammate and friend. He always gives him lots of advice and is helping him a great deal. He claims Ronaldo was his idol before he met him and that’s even more the case now. He has made everything a lot easier for him. They can strike up a great partnership on the pitch.

Christina Aguilera Is Engaged To Boyfriend, Matt Rutler

It was a memorial Valentine’s Day that Christina Aguilera is not going to forget in her life, while people like Timi Dakolo had to buy multi million naira mansion for his wife, Tonto Dikeh spolit lavishly with gold and lovers jumping from one fast food location to another, Matt Rutler had to take a knee on the ground and propose to Christina, this is going to be the second marriage for Christina, who was previously married to Jordan Bratman.
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The couple met on set of a movie and they have been too close to deny that they will not get far, Christina and her ex-man, Jordan are sharing custody of their six-year-old son Max. Christina announced the news to her Twitter fans that she is now ready to walk down the aisle with Matt

Femi Kuti Admits He Lost At The Grammy Because Of Poor Publicity In The States

For the first time since he lost out at the Grammy Awards last month, Femi Kuti have explain the reasons why he was unable to win the World Best Music Category after four nominations. Femi Kuti says his last album “No place for my Dream” is worth winning the most coveted price but because of the high level of politics that was involved and the financial implications attached, the album could not win.
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He says even though he have no intention of playing along with the politics, but if the politics was well played the album could have won. Femi lamented that pushing the album in the United States is also one of the major problem. He says aggressive publicity for the album on all radio stations for the voting audience to listen is very expensive for his management and music company.

Buzz Around Hollywood… Drake Gave Rihanna A Special Treat

This week, Drake gave Chris Brown the ‘heartbutt’ by treating Rihanna like his Caribbean queen, leaving Mychal Kendricks to salivate in his smitten and love trance with Rihanna, however he went beyond his border when he lashed out at Rolling Stone for replacing him on the cover with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, he has apologized. With a lot of troubles still peeping out like demons around Justin Bieber, fans added more pain to his head when his wax figure at Hollywood’s Madame Tussauds museum in Time Square has had to go into early retirement due to damage from excessive fondling from his fan while they allowed Sandra Bullock wax model to solidify.

Cavani out of PSG's trip to Leverkusen

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Paris St Germain's Edinson Cavani is out of next week's Champions League trip to Bayer Leverkusen as he recovers from a thigh problem, coach Laurent Blanc said on Thursday.
Cavani suffered the injury in a Ligue 1 game on January 31 and was set to be out of action for three weeks, the club said at the time.
Blanc made it clear that although the striker's recovery was going well, he would not be ready for the last-16 first-leg match in Germany on Tuesday.
"It has never been considered that he could be available for Leverkusen," Blanc told a news conference. "But we will see him back very soon, all signs are very good."
Cavani has scored 20 goals in 30 matches in all competitions since joining the Ligue 1 leaders from Napoli last year for a French record fee of €64 million.
PSG host Leverkusen in the return leg on March 12.