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.

Some of the world’s best footballers have shared personal memories of their childhood and told stories of the first place they remember playing football.

Big matches often fail to live up to their billing, but Real Madrid and Barcelona produced a belter on Sunday night that genuinely deserved the title of El Clasico.

Lionel Messi struck a late winner for the second straight weekend as Barcelona defeated LaLiga title rivals Atletico Madrid 2-1 at the Vicente Calderon.

Celtic 0 Barcelona 2: Celtic were knocked out of Europe as a Lionel Messi double gave Barcelona a 2-0 Champions League win at Parkhead.

LaLiga champions Barcelona claimed an impressive 1-0 win away to Athletic Bilbao on Sunday night thanks to an Ivan Rakitic goal after 20 minutes.

Barcelona maintained their position at the Primera Division summit after second-half goals from Ivan Rakitic and Luis Suarez lifted them to a 2-0 win at 10-man Real Betis.

Deportivo La Coruna 0 Barcelona 8: Barcelona restated their title ambitions by thrashing Deportivo La Coruna 8-0 away from home, with Luis Suarez scoring four times and contributing three assists as they showed no mercy.

Atletico Madrid 2 Barcelona 0, Atletico win 3-2 on aggregate: Holders Barcelona are out of the Champions League after Antoine Griezmann’s brace sent Atletico Madrid through to semi-finals with a 2-0 quarter-final second-leg victory.

Barcelona head to Atletico Madrid for the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final tonight aiming to show their campaign is still on track for domestic and European success.

Barcelona 2 Atletico Madrid 1: Luis Suarez scored twice as Barcelona came from behind to beat Atletico Madrid 2-1 in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final at the Nou Camp, where Fernando Torres was sent off having given the visitors the lead.

Barcelona 3 Arsenal 1 (Barcelona win 5-1 on aggregate): Arsenal were hoping for a miracle last night but it failed to materialise as Barcelona powered to the Champions League quarter-finals, with Gunners boss Arsene Wenger conceding the Catalans “have two or three players who transfer normal life into art”.

So how does Luis Enrique get the best out of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, and Neymar? Simple.

Barcelona strengthened their position at the top of Champions League Group E as a brace from substitute Ivan Rakitic steered them to a comfortable 2-0 win at BATE Borisov.

Luis Suarez made it a perfect ending to Barcelona’s astonishing season with the Champions League final winner against Juventus.

Two quick-fire moments of individual magic from Lionel Messi made the difference, and Neymar added a late added goal, as Barcelona beat Bayern Munich 3-0 in Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final first leg at the Camp Nou.

Barcelona 2 Paris St Germain 0 (Barcelona win 5-1 on aggregate ): Barcelona reached the Champions League semi-finals for the seventh time in eight years after comfortably brushing aside the challenge of Paris St Germain last night.

PSG 1 Barcelona 3: Barcelona took a big step towards the Champions League semi-finals with a resounding 3-1 victory over Paris St Germain in yesterday’s quarter-final first leg at the Parc des Princes.

Barcelona 1 Man City 0 (Barcelona win 3-1 on agg): Lionel Messi starred once more as Barcelona progressed to the Champions League quarter-finals for a ninth consecutive season thanks to a 1-0 last 16 second leg victory over Manchester City at the Camp Nou last night.

Barcelona enter their biggest week of the season in optimistic mood.

On Saturday evening, at the Camp Nou, Barcelona’s big name strike-force started their second game together, as Luis Suarez made his competitive home debut alongside fellow South American superstars Lionel Messi and Neymar.

Real Madrid overcame Neymar’s early opening goal to see off arch rivals Barcelona 3-1 at the Bernabeu as Luis Suarez made his long-awaited debut for Barca.

Mexico will face Louis van Gaal’s impressive Dutch side in the World Cup knockout stages after seeing off Croatia last night.

Sevilla 0 Benfica 0 (4-2 on penalties)

Iceland are planning to ratchet up the pressure on Croatia tonight and become the smallest nation ever to reach the World Cup finals.

“We were too emotional in the first game, and we were overwhelmed,” said Real Betis coach Pepe Mel ahead of Friday’s clash with Sevilla, where his side were looking to avenge their 5-1 hammering in November’s previous city derby.

Sevilla 2 Atletico Madrid 2 (Atletico win 4-3 on aggregate)

Croatia 2 Wales 0

Spain manager Vicente del Bosque has congratulated his players for progressing to the quarter-finals of the European Championships despite widespread criticism of their performance in the 1-0 win over Croatia on Monday.

Spain coach Vicente del Bosque expressed relief after the champions defeated Croatia 1-0 and secure their spot in the last eight.

Spain 1 Croatia 0

Old habits die hard.

By Brendan O'Brien

CROATIA all but guaranteed themselves a place at Euro 2012 after hammering hosts Turkey in the first leg of their play-off at the Ataturk Stadium last night.

THE last meeting between the sides has been playing on the mind of the Croatia coach, Slaven Bilic. That was in the quarter-final of Euro 2008. Turkey, having gone behind to Ivan Klasnic’s header in the final minute of extra-time, levelled through Semih Senturk in injury-time, a goal that seemed to shatter Croatia.

Croatia 2 Wales 0

Emile Heskey has held off the challenge of Jermain Defoe to maintain his England spot for the crucial World Cup qualifier against Croatia at Wembley tonight.

MARK HUGHES hailed Manchester City’s “excellent” night after their 2-0 UEFA Cup victory at Schalke put them into the knockout stages.

Croatia 1 Turkey 1 (Turkey won 3-1 on penalties)

CROATIA coach Slaven Bilic believes Turkey’s two stunning comeback victories during the group shows both the strengths and the weaknesses of their quarter-final opponents.

Poland 0 Croatia 1

Croatia 2 Germany 1