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BARCELONA: Karim Benzema struck a hat-trick as Real Madrid hammered Barcelona 4-0 at Camp Nou to reach the Copa del Rey final on Wednesday, progressing 4-1 on aggregate. Vinicius Junior opened the scoring just before the break as Carlo Ancelotti’s side mounted a spectacular comeback from their one-goal semifinal first leg deficit, with Benzema adding a second-half treble.
CREMONA, Italy : Fiorentina earned a 2-0 win over Cremonese in the first leg of their Coppa Italia semi-final on Wednesday, with goals by forwards Arthur Cabral and Nicolas Gonzalez.
LISBON: Aleksander Ceferin railed against the rebel clubs backing a breakaway European Super League, likening the project to “Little Red Riding Hood,” as he was re-elected unopposed for a third term as UEFA president on Wednesday. The 55-year-old Slovenian lawyer, first elected in 2016 following the downfall of Frenchman Michel Platini, will now remain in the role until 2027. “I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your unanimous support.
LONDON: Chelsea could turn to club great Frank Lampard to lead the team until the end of the season amid the search for a full-time replacement for Graham Potter. Lampard was reportedly in talks with Chelsea on Wednesday about taking over as interim coach. He has been without a job since being fired by Everton in January after a year in charge.
Marcus Rashford's goal gave Manchester United a 1-0 win over Brentford and sent them to fourth in the Premier League. Erik ten Hag's side dominated the early proceedings at Old Trafford, they penned Brentford in their own half and moved the ball about confidently in the final third. Ad The Red Devils took a deserved lead after 28 minutes.
GENEVA: Champions League winners Real Madrid earned the most prize money from a European club competition last season with €133.7 million ($146.4 million), UEFA said Wednesday.
Kylian Mbappe has shown support for Romelu Lukaku and demanded an end to racism after the Inter Milan striker was abused during their 1-1 draw against Juventus. Lukaku was sent off after receiving a second yellow card for gesturing to the crowd after scoring a penalty in the Italian Cup semi-final. Ad He held his finger to his lips as if to silence supporters who he says directed racist abuse towards him during the match.
MILAN, Italy: Police carried out searches at the offices of Serie A clubs Roma, Lazio and Salernitana on Wednesday as part of a probe into their past transfer dealings, according to Italian media reports.The investigation into Roma concerns transfers made between 2017-2019 and 2021, while the searches carried out on Lazio and Salernitana regard deals made between those two clubs between 2017 and 2021 when they were both owned by Lazio owner Claudio Lotito.Businessman Lotito was forced to relinquish Salernitana to trustees in June 2021 after promotion from Serie B as Italian FA rules banned him from owning two clubs in the same division.An end-of-year deadline for sale to new ownership was put in place, and the club would have been kicked out of the league had current owner Danilo Iervolino not had his bid accepted at the last minute.In a statement released on Wednesday, Salernitana said “the current ownership has nothing to do with the transfers being investigated as they relate to the seasons before the club changed hands.”News agency AGI reports that Lazio are being investigated for issuing invoices non-existent transactions and false accounting.Transfer trickery has become one of the major scandals in Italian football over the past year, with Juventus docked 15 points in January for using transfers to artificially boost their balance sheet.Juve are also embroiled in a criminal investigation over their finances, with the club and a raft of former directors including former chairman Andrea Agnelli accused of a variety of financial crimes.