| | | Gigi and CR7 | In InternationalSoccer: Competition completed this week determinednext month's Champions League Final, to take place at Millenium Stadium, inCardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, on June3. To reach the finals, Turin Iuventus, led by captain Gianluigi "Gigi" Buffon,bested Monaco, and Real Madrid, led by Cristiano Ronaldo bested Atletico de Madrid, in the same playofffor four years in a row. Real Madridrepeats their appearance in the finals, and are the defending champions. They last played Iuventus for the overalltitle in 1998. In the Champions League no team hassuccessfully defended a title from one year to the next, but these teams are equally matched. Madrid have a better attack. Juventus, who knocked them out in 2015, havea better defense, and several top level players on the attack. Thebuildup to this game will include challenging games for both teams. Iuventus faces Lazio for the Coppa Italiathis coming week. Real Madrid arecurrently in second place in La Liga standings and hoping for a miracle, in thenext to the last weekend of league play. InSpain: International Tennis: Rafael Nadal will aim to keep his unbeatenstart to the clay season going when he meets Novak Djokovic for a 50th time inthe Madrid Masters semi-finals on Saturday. Nadal is now 13-0 on clay this year as he swept aside Belgian ninth seedDavid Goffin 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 much to the delight a boisterous home crowd underthe roof on the Manolo Santana centre court. Nadal eased past Goffin in their only previous meeting on his way towinning the Monte Carlo Masters 6-3, 6-1 last month before also lifting a 10th BarcelonaOpen. Djokovic has a slight lead in thehead to head matchup of these two tennis stars. | | | Geelong Cats | In Aussie RulesFootball, it is losers, and winners and losers night... The Essendon Bombers takes on the Geelong Cats this evening, and the AdelaideCrows take on the Melbourne Demons. TheCats have dominated Essendon in recent seasons, winning their last sixmeetings, but Geelong will enter this contest smarting following back-to-backlosses to Collingwood and Gold Coast, two teams the Cats were expected toovercome after winning their first five games of the season. The Cats were wellbelow their best against the Suns last weekend but come up against an out ofsorts Essendon line-up, which has lost four of its past five games. The Catsare expected to win. Adelaide is also astrong favorite in their game this evening against Melbourne at the AdelaideOval. Both clubs will be desperate tomake amends for disappointing losses last weekend. The Crows – unbeaten afterthe first six rounds – unbelievably conceded 10 unanswered goals in the firstquarter to North Melbourne at Hobart. Meanwhile, the Demons dropped a game manyexpected them to win in a three-point defeat to a struggling Hawthorn side. TheCrows are hard to beat at the Adelaide Oval. However, the Kangaroos may haveunveiled the blueprint to slowing down the Crows that all other teams will nowaim to replicate. The Demons will need to follow their lead and restrict theCrows' ball movement and keep their dangerous forwards under control. The match may be more of a challenged thaneither side expected. In Italy: The Giro d'Italia continues with Stage 8. More Tomorrow -- Posted By Rex to SR at 5/13/2017 03:18:00 AM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
