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LONDON: English football player Kyle Walker says Manchester City are a step away from invincibility and matching football’s greatest sides. Having won the Premier League and FA Cup, Pep Guardiola’s team will seal a treble if they beat Inter Milan in Saturday’s Champions League final. Only Manchester United, back in 1999 under Sir Alex Ferguson, have ever achieved that feat among English clubs.
"When you look at Guardiola's reaction, the outpouring of emotion, I think he knew that this was the trickiest game of the two."
MADRID: Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema said farewell to Real Madrid in a small, private ceremony closed to fans and media on Tuesday following a trophy-laden 14-year stay with the LaLiga club. The French striker, 35, will leave as a free agent in the close season and is set to move to Saudi Arabian side Al-Ittihad, signing a two-year deal estimated by media reports to be worth more than 100 million euros ($106.93 million). There were no tears in a ceremony that lasted less than 20 minutes and in which only players, family and close friends were allowed to attend.
Manchester City have learned from past failures in Europe as they prepare to face Inter Milan in the Champions League final, according to Rodri.
TOKYO: Andres Iniesta said goodbye to old friends as he played for his Japanese club Vissel Kobe against his former club Barcelona in a friendly at the National Stadium on Tuesday. Barcelona won the match 2-0. Iniesta played 674 games for Barcelona from 2002-18, winning 30 trophies.
PARIS: Aryna Sabalenka and Karolina Muchova are in the French Open semifinals for the first time.The second-seeded Sabalenka overpowered Elina Svitolina 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday to set up a semifinal against the unseeded Muchova. The Czech beat 2021 runner-up Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 7-5, 6-2.Muchova and Sabalenka had never progressed beyond the third round in Paris.Svitolina was booed by some sections of the crowd because she snubbed the Australian Open champion after the final point, instead of shaking her hand at the net.Sabalenka walked up to the net, and leaned on the top of it with both hands, looking at Svitolina as she walked.
Pep Guardiola has described Manchester City reaching the Champions League final as a “dream” but says their superb form this season will count for nothing going into the clash with Inter Milan on Saturday.
TURIN, Italy: Juventus plan to leave the Super League project still being pursued by Real Madrid and Barcelona, though the club denied Tuesday they had been threatened with a European ban by UEFA. The three storied clubs are awaiting a ruling expected within weeks from the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg into their legal challenge against what they claimed is UEFA’s monopoly control of European club competitions. But Juventus responded to reports they already left the Super League by explaining they contacted the two Spanish clubs “to initiate a discussion period” about their exit.