UCL draw...Real Madrid to face Bayern, Barcelona gets Juventus

Hi beautiful readers of Dassyb's Blog, hope your week has been spectacular?
The draw for the quarter finals was just held today and we are in for a treat of interesting matches. Don't we just love the champions league.

Craig Shakespeare's side overcame the odds to knock Sevilla out of the last 16, and will now face Diego Simeone's side for a place in the semi-final.
Elsewhere, reigning champions Real Madrid take on German giants Bayern Munich, while Juventus are set to do battle against Barcelona in a repeat of the 2015 final. Borussia Dortmind will play Monaco, who dumped Manchester City out of the competition on Wednesday night.

The first leg will be played on the 11th and 12th April while the second leg takes place on the 18th and 19th.

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UCL...Monaco kicks Manchester city out, Atletico Madrid in the next round

Hello Dassyb's blog readers and football fans. The final two games of the round of 16 were played tonight and it lived up to expectations. Manchester city crashed out after losing by 3-1 to Monaco and 6-6 on aggregate. Monaco qualified on the away goal rule after losing 5-3 in the first leg.

Monaco dominated the first half and opened the scoring through teenager Kylian Mbappe’s poked finish from close range from Bernardo Silva’s drilled cross.
Mbappe had a goal ruled out for offside and Valere Germain struck narrowly over, before the Ligue 1 side deservedly doubled their advantage on the night via Fabinho’s well-taken strike from inside the area.
City failed to muster any sort of shot in the opening 45 minutes and it took until the 65th minute for Sergio Aguero to force goalkeeper Danijel Subasic into a sharp save.
They forced their way back into the game as Leroy Sane swept in after Subasic parried Raheem Sterling’s low strike – only for the hosts to hit back quickly through Tiemoue Bakayoko’s header 12 minutes from time.

UCL round of 16 results
Monaco 3-1 Man city (Agg 6-6)
Atletico Madrid 0-0 B. Leverkusen (Agg 4-2)

In the other match Atletico Madrid played a goalless draw with Bayern Leverkusen and qualified having won 4-2 away in Germany, the Spanish side were largely unflustered as they held the German side at bay. However, home keeper Jan Oblak did make two superb saves in quick succession to deny Julian Brandt and Kevin Volland. Bayer keeper Bernd Leno produced two excellent stops of his own to tip away Angel Correa and Koke shots.

Victory means Monaco join last year’s runners-up Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, Leicester City and holders Real Madrid in Friday’s quarter-final draw.
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UCL...Leicester city and Juventus makes it to the Quarter finals.

Hello Dassyb's blog readers and football fans, 2 matches were played last night with Leicester city continuing their fairy tale by qualifying to the quarter finals after losing 2-1 in Spain to Sevilla.

Captain Wes Morgan set them on their way with the opening goal, forcing home a cross.
The Foxes went two goals up through Marc Albrighton. Kasper Schmeichal saved Steven Nzonzi’s penalty after Samir Nasri was sent off for Sevilla.
In the other game of the night, Juventus defeated 10-man FC Porto 1-0 in Turin, to qualify for the next round on a 3-0 aggregate.
The remaining 2 games from the round of 16 will be played tonight. Will Monaco do a comeback against Manchester city or will Bayern Leverkusen stun Atletico Madrid.
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Barcelona completes a stunning and historic comeback against PSG while Borussia Dortmund thrashes Benfica

Hi Dassyb's Blog readers and football fans. Yesterday night saw an historic and magical comeback from Fc Barcelona where they were 5-3 down on aggregate in the 88th minute, but scored three goals in the final seven minutes in one of the greatest European ties of all time. A goal in the fifth-minute of injury time from Sergi Roberto gave Barcelona a miracle 6-1 win over Paris Saint Germain to reach the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday in breathtaking style.Barca scored three times in the last few minutes to go through 6-5 on aggregate having lost 4-0 in Paris in the first leg.

Barcelona had led 2-0 at the break courtesy of Luis Suarez's header after just three minutes and Layvin Kurzawa's own goal.And they added another shortly after half-time when Neymar fell over Thomas Meunier in the box and Lionel Messi converted the penalty.

Edinson Cavani lashed home for PSG on 61 minutes and the quarter-finals looked beyond Barca, but they obviously had not read the script.

Neymar curled a sumptuous free-kick into the top corner before Suarez won a penalty and gave it to the Brazilian to convert - which he did comfortably, leaving Barca with one goal to find in injury time.And Neymar, who put in one of his finest ever performances, turned provider for substitute Roberto who poked home his first goal of the season as the Nou Camp exploded.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored a hat-trick as Borussia Dortmund thrashed Benfica to ease into the Champions League quarter-finals.

The hosts trailed 1-0 on aggregate from the first leg but Aubameyang levelled the last-16 tie after just four minutes with a header at the back post. Dortmund took control after Christian Pulisic scored on 59 minutes.The 18-year-old winger brilliantly chipped onrushing goalkeeper Ederson after being slid in by Lukasz Piszczek.

Aubameyang, who missed a penalty in the first leg in Lisbon, then swept in Marcel Schmelzer's low cross two minutes later before an unmarked Marc Bartra hit the post from a corner.

The Gabon striker completed his treble with five minutes remaining as he turned in Erik Durm's sublime pass.

Dortmund have now lost only one of their last 12 European home matches under coach Thomas Tuchel as they reached the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time since 2014.

What a great night of champions league we witnessed. And this will be a night to talk about and remember in years to come. Congratulations to Barcelona and Dortmund.

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Bayern demolishes Arsenal while Madrid cruise through

Hello Dassyb's blog readers and football fans. Hope you are all good? two matches kicked off the second leg of round of 16 UEFA champions league matches with a repetition of first leg results being recorded.

Bayern Munich and Real Madrid took care of business on Tuesday, becoming the first two teams to qualify for the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League with wins over Arsenal and Napoli, respectively.

Both teams struggled in the first half but turned up the jets after the break, replicating the scorelines from the first legs. For Bayern, that meant a monstrous 10-2 aggregate win over the Gunners, while Real had to settle for a 6-2 aggregate score.

Here's a look at Tuesday's results:

Arsenal 1-5 Bayern Munich (agg 2-10)

Napoli 1-3 Real Madrid (agg 2-6)

Devastated gunners

A debated decision in the 53rd minute shattered any hopes of the Gunners becoming the first side in Champions League history to overturn a four-goal deficit, having also lost the first leg in Germany 5-1.
They led through Theo Walcott's stunning 20th-minute goal, before Bayern were awarded a penalty that also resulted in the sending off of defender Laurent Koscielny. The France centre-back was initially shown a yellow card by referee Anastasios Sidiropoulos for his foul on Robert Lewandowski inside the area - but it was upgraded to a red once he decided Koscielny made no attempt to win the ball.
Lewandowski placed his spot-kick beyond the reach of David Ospina to give Bayern a 6-2 aggregate lead and effectively kill off the tie. The home side then folded as Bayern scored four goals in 17 minutes. Arjen Robben robbed Alexis Sanchez of the ball and beat Ospina, before Douglas Costa made it 3-1 with a stunning solo goal. Fellow midfielder Arturo Vidal grabbed a late double, first with an impudent chip before slotting in from Costa's square pass.

 

Bayern Munich celebrates scoring one of their goals

Real Madrid’s captain fantastic Sergio Ramos headed Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-finals with two goals in six second half minutes. Madrid were given a first-half scare by Napoli who dominated and took the lead through Dries Mertens but the second period was a very different story.

 

Zinedine Zidane’s team had forced only one corner in the first half but they won two at the start of the second 45 minutes and Ramos rose to head home both Toni Kroos kicks, the second via a huge deflection off Dries Mertens that was given by UEFA as an away goal.

Celebrations in Madrid

Will Barcelona and Borrusia Dortmund overturn deficits. fingers crossed as those games takes place tonight. Thanks for reading, don't forget to like, comment and share.

Feel like giving up? Think again.... Midweeek motivations...

Hi Dassyb's blog readers, hope you have all been doing well? well its the first time I am writing this year so happy new year to you all. Today I just felt like writing on never giving up on that dream of yours no matter how small or useless every other person thinks it is or the challenges against that dream because you see a winner is a dreamer who never gave up no matter the challenges, so keep fighting for that dream today because it may be difficult to wait but  regret is worse.

We are born with the instinct not to give up. As babies, we cry and scream until we get what we want. But somewhere along the line we lose that ability. People talk us out of our crazy ideas—people who live in the so-called real world, where things “make sense.” They’ve never attempted the impossible. But you have, many, many times.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on: it is going on when you don't have the strength. So If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "first attempt in learning" END is not the end , in fact E.N.D. means "Effort never dies" and if you get no as an answer remember N.O.means "Next opportunity:

So you see as you march down the street not giving up, hold your head high and swing your elbows. People will recognize you as someone who won’t give up, and they will get out of your way. Some of them will even hide. and no matter hoe you feel, get up, show up and never give up. mistakes are prove that you are trying.

On a final note, you never know how close you are so never give up on your dreams, its worth fighting for.

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