Luis Suarez scored his first Champions League goal of the season to earn Barcelona a 4-1 victory over Roma in the first leg of their quarter-final.

Roma striker Edin Dzeko is hoping his side can catch Champions League opponents Shakhtar Donetsk cold in their quarter-final tie tonight.

Antonio Conte insists Chelsea’s season will be considered a success — even if it finishes without a trophy.

Roma 3 Chelsea 0: Chelsea crumbled last night as Roma moved to the top of Champions League Group C with a 3-0 victory at Stadio Olimpico last night.

Chelsea crumbled as Roma moved to the top of Champions League Group C with a 3-0 victory at Stadio Olimpico on Tuesday night.

In preparing to face the threat of Danish dangerman Christian Eriksen in the World Cup play-off, Martin O’Neill believes his players are entitled to take encouragement from how they coped in the recent past with other standout stars like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Gareth Bale and the Bosnian duo of Edin Dzeko and Miralem Pjanic.

Chelsea 3 - Roma 3: Eden Hazard scored twice as Chelsea battled to a 3-3 draw with Roma to stay top of Champions League Group C. Chelsea had surrendered a two-goal lead to trail 3-2 with 20 minutes remaining after former Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko’s quick-fire double.

Eden Hazard scored twice as Chelsea battled to a 3-3 draw with Roma to stay top of Champions League Group C.

With Chelsea forging clear in the Premier League, James Whelan casts his eye over the pacesetters and chasing packs in Europe’s top flight competitions.

Gonzalo Higuain scored the winner on his league debut to clinch reigning Serie A champions Juventus a 2-1 opening-day win over Fiorentina.

As Richard Keogh outlines every bump along his trek to the Euros, he’s well within his rights to pause and describe it as a “good story”.

When Roy Hodgson was asked recently to contrast the centre-halves England have brought to France (John Stones, Gary Cahill, Chris Smalling) with the choice Sven-Goran Eriksson had at World Cup in 2006 (Sol Campbell, Rio Ferdinand, Jamie Carragher and John Terry), he couldn’t quite bring himself to dispute the gulf in quality.

Goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and James Rodriguez left Roma ruing a host of missed chances as Real Madrid moved into the quarter-finals of the Champions League 4-0 on aggregate with a 2-0 win last night.

On the evidence of what we saw on Friday night in Zenica - when the fog wasn’t making it impossible to see anything at all - Ireland now have a big chance of qualifying for next year’s European Championship finals by beating Bosnia & Herzegovina in the Aviva Stadium tonight.

Bosnia & Herzegovina 1 Republic of Ireland 1: After the fog of Zenica, we’re guaranteed clarity in Dublin on Monday night, with this European Championship play-off against Bosnia still finely poised.

Edin Dzeko tried to be diplomatic, even if he didn’t try too hard to think. After the Bosnia and Herzegovina striker spent a few minutes talking about how Ireland’s many absent players wouldn’t negatively affect Martin O’Neill’s side, the 29-year-old was asked which opposition players had impressed him.

Bosnia has been here before, and so has Miralem Pjanic.

Arsenal must win their two remaining group games to stand any chance of progressing.

The first obstacle facing Ireland in Bosnia-Herzegovina next month will be the Zenica’s intimate Bilino Polje Stadium itself, its capacity of 12,000 meaning that the official allocation of tickets for the Green Army could be as low as 600.

Vincent Kompany insists Kevin De Bruyne would be a phenomenal signing for Manchester City.

Manchester United’s transfers aspirations suffered a double blow yesterday as Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge declared Thomas Muller priceless while Rafael Benitez claimed he is “100%” sure Sergio Ramos will stay at Real Madrid.

The agent of Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko has denied reports he had talks with Roma over a possible transfer of the player to the Serie A club.

FRANK Lampard concedes the day of reckoning is nigh for Manuel Pellegrini and his under-achieving Manchester City stars, but the veteran former Chelsea midfielder is not prepared to write off his manager just yet.

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Manchester City 2 Leicester City 0: Manuel Pellegrini lives to fight another day as manager of slumping Manchester City but the unconvincing nature of this victory, courtesy of goals from David Silva and James Milner, raised more questions than it offered answers concerning the Chilean’s ability to lead the club to the heights desired by their billionaire owners.

Check out the starting line-ups for all of tonight's matches.

Manchester City 5 Newcastle United 0: THE prospect of facing mighty Barcelona - Messi, Neymar, Suarez et al - will presumably offer Manchester City more concern than this perfunctory five-goal thrashing of Newcastle but so schizophrenic are the mood swings at the Etihad Stadium these days that captain Vincent Kompany is relishing the prospect.

Man City 4 Stoke City 1

Man City 1 Hull 1: Samir Nasri picked through the wreckage of a season that is rapidly spiralling out of control for Manuel Pellegrini and Manchester City with a stark warning for his under-achieving team mates.

Team news for the 3pm Premier League games

Manchester City have left striker Stevan Jovetic out of their Champions League squad to accommodate new £25m (€33m) signing Wilfried Bony.

Manchester City have left striker Stevan Jovetic out of their Champions League squad to accommodate new £25m signing Wilfried Bony.

Chelsea made the only big-money signing of a surprisingly low-key transfer deadline day as they brought in Fiorentina winger Juan Cuadrado for €30m; but in a sign that perhaps Financial Fair Play is beginning to bite, even they had to sell Andre Schurrle before signing the cheque.

Cesc Fabregas and Filipe Luis joined the suspended Diego Costa in missing Chelsea’s top of the Premier League clash at home to Manchester City.

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Manuel Pellegrini will have to find a way to stop compatriot Alexis Sanchez as the two highest-profile Chileans in the English game clash on Sunday.

Everton 1 Man City 1: James Milner will finally sign a new Manchester City contract in the coming days but it was the forward positions that dominated the talk, and thoughts, of manager Manuel Pellegrini after his side dropped two points at Goodison.

Bacary Sagna hopes to have brought the FA Cup-winning formula with him to Manchester City.