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Manchester City’s “monstrous” Champions League semi-final task against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu presents Kevin De Bruyne with the platform to deliver the success to match his world-class talent, says Gary Neville. One week on from City’s astounding 4-3 first-leg triumph at the Etihad Stadium , the champions of England and Spain lock horns in Madrid with their Champions League semi-final on a knife edge. Sky Sports pundit Neville believes Pep Guardiola’s side must produce the “performance of their lives” to reach successive European finals at the expense of the 13-time winners, and keep their hopes of a Premier League and Champions League double alive. “This is a monstrous game in midweek for City,” Neville said. “Manchester City versus Real Madrid is an event. The game last week was, but this on Wednesday is like a heavyweight boxing clash of the century. “You have one every few years whereby you’ve got this historic club that has basically got this inbuilt resilience in this ...

With two nights of the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the books, we move on to Game 2 for Boston-Carolina, Toronto-Tampa Bay, Edmonton-Los Angeles and Minnesota-St. Louis. Here’s a look at some things to keep an eye out for tonight. And May the fourth be with you. Will the penalty standards from Game 1 continue? The first two nights of the Stanley Cup Playoffs brought more power plays than were averaged in the regular season. On the first night especially the number of calls being made was discussed and noticed all over. Was this the beginning of a standard that we’re not quite used to, or a one off? “You look around the league there’s penalties everywhere,” Wild coach Dean Evason said. “Obviously there was a, I don’t know if it was a mandate, but obviously they were making sure everything was tight right away. Everybody’s ramped up and running around so they were trying to take care of it.” Minnesota-St. Louis was the most penalized game on the first night, with Toronto-Tampa Bay...

Diaz the Liverpool game-changer Image: Luis Diaz breathed life into Liverpool’s charge Liverpool’s players walked off the pitch in stunned silence as the home crowd roared with delight. It was half-time at the Estadio de la Ceramica and Villarreal had hauled themselves level on aggregate. Jurgen Klopp’ side looked in serious trouble but fortunately for them, that was as bad as it got. By the end, a night which threatened disaster had turned into one of celebration. A third Champions League final in five years beckons and it owes a lot to Luis Diaz . The Colombian, outstanding since his arrival from Porto in January, changed the game after replacing Diogo Jota at the interval, scoring Liverpool’s second goal when he headed home Trent Alexander-Arnold’s cross and causing near-constant panic in Villarreal’s previously untroubled defence. Within 15 minutes of his introduction, he had touched the ball more times than Jota did in the whole of the first half and every one of thos...

EDMONTON — They cracked first. After all the wins on home ice, all the work on defensive structure and settling their game down to a style that can take them somewhere in the post-season, the Edmonton Oilers cracked first on Monday. “It was a 3-3 hockey game in the third period,” assessed head coach Jay Woodcroft. “We made one more mistake than they did (and) it ended up a 4-3 game.” One mistake. That’s like calling Mount Everest “one hike.” Like calling Connor McDavid “one NHL player.” With six minutes to play in a tight, 3-3 playoff game, The Big Mistake came, and it was made by Oilers goalie Mike Smith . A leader who should know better, a veteran who made a rookie mistake. Playing the puck the way he always does when an opponent dumps it in, Smith forced a pass up the middle that began a series of events that cost Edmonton the fourth goal in a 4-3 loss to the Los Angeles Kings . With plenty of time and a simple pass available to a defenceman waiting in the corner, Smith ins...

Jurgen Klopp said reaching his fourth Champions League final as a coach felt almost like a new experience as his Liverpool side came back from two goals down against Villarreal to secure a 5-2 aggregate win in their semi-final on Tuesday. While the three-goal cushion may look comfortable, this was a test of Liverpool’s nerve and powers of recovery as an awful first half by their standards saw their first-leg advantage wiped out by debut goals in the competition from Boulaye Dia and Francis Coquelin. But the half-time introduction of £37.5m January signing Luis Diaz, who has reinvigorated 2022 for Klopp’s side, changed the game – aided by a poor goalkeeping performance from the hosts’ Geronimo Rulli. Both Fabinho and Diaz’s goals went through Rulli’s legs, while the goalkeeper was beaten to the ball by Sadio Mane when he came charging out to leave the Senegalese forward with an unguarded net to seal the win on the night. Image: Luis Diaz’s introduction galvanised Liverpool “...

Because of the nature of the CFL Draft, it’s rare to have an all-but-guaranteed franchise player waiting to be taken in the top spot.  With the top prospects often bound for the NFL and the fact the event only includes Canadian players, it can be a bit tricky for casual fans to really dive into the draft.  But while it may not be as star-studded as other drafts, Tuesday night is a critical part of the off-season for the nine CFL teams – if a team doesn’t have solid starting Canadians and the necessary depth behind them, good luck winning many games.  History shows teams at the top have their hands full. Just take a look at the last five first picks.  2021 – TE Jake Burt (Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Boston College): Didn’t play at all last season because of a quad injury.  2020 —  LB Jordan Williams (B.C. Lions, East Carolina): After missing his first season because of the pandemic, Williams was a force last year, winning the league’s rookie of the year award...

TORONTO — It took just 12 minutes of the first period of the first game of this first-round series against the defending champions for the  Toronto Maple Leafs  to dispense with all those post-season ghosts. Those shape-shifting doubts that loomed over them in the days leading up to the puck dropping on Monday night at Scotiabank Arena. There was talk of violence, of the damage veteran, Cup-winning bulls like Pat Maroon and Corey Perry would try to inflict upon these young Maple Leafs, of whether Sheldon Keefe’s side was scrambling trying to prepare a response. There was talk of offensive juggernauts, of Stamkoses and Kucherovs and historic scoring paces in the weeks preceding this series-opening affair, of some type of otherworldliness Toronto would have to simply survive. Twelve minutes in, these Leafs had that script crumpled up in the bin. It started two minutes in, when T.J. Brodie was sent to the box on a hooking call, putting the Lightning’s power play monsters — St...