Real Madrid 1-1 Man City: Jack Grealish says City are ‘unstoppable’ at home but who will win?

Jack Grealish says Manchester City will feel “unstoppable” when they host Real Madrid in a finely balanced second leg of their Champions League semi-final next Wednesday. Kevin de Bruyne’s second-half effort cancelled out Vinicius Jr’s opener for 14-time winners Real, to earn City a 1-1 draw at the Bernabeu, on Tuesday. Real scored twice in added time before dramatically triumphing against City in Spain at the same stage last term “We’ve learned so much since last year,” Grealish told BT Sport. “We have a new team this year, different players. It’s a…

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Miami Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton calls Mercedes practice pace ‘a kick in the guts’

Lewis Hamilton said his Mercedes team “desperately” need car upgrades after a difficult Friday practice at the Miami Grand Prix. The seven-time champion was 0.928 seconds slower than Max Verstappen’s Red Bull, which set an imposing pace. Hamilton said: “It’s a kick in the guts and it’s a little bit difficult to take sometimes.” Mercedes are due to introduce a major car development at the next race, the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix on 19-21 May. “We desperately need those upgrades,” Hamilton said. “We have to keep our head down for one…

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Football remains spectacular, but the trust between clubs and the public is broken

The game’s richest teams have disfigured the economic terrain of the sport – but a reckoning is on the horizon. So if Manchester City didn’t win, who did? In the alternate reality of English football, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is a Premier League champion, having led Manchester United to an unlikely title in 2021. So is Brendan Rodgers, who ended Liverpool’s drought in 2014. That same season, Everton qualify for the Champions League, earning them a substantial financial windfall and allowing them to attract some of the best players in Europe.…

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