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AS editor Alfredo Relaño looks ahead to Real Madrid's meeting with Vallodolid.

First Barça, Madrid and Atlético, now Chelsea.

Cristiano Ronaldo arrived back in Madrid yesterday ahead of one of the most appealing ties in the Champions League Round of 16, the very same day that Luis Rubiales outlined a new proposal for Spanish football...

Alfredo Relaño reflects on a dismal Barça display at Camp Nou - one which Gerard Piqué admits they cannot afford to repeat against Lyon on Tuesday.

VAR or no VAR, that is the question...? Actually it's not a question anymore as tonight, for the first time in the Champions League, as the competition reaches the Round of 16 stage, we´ll see the debut of the VAR system.

I like the Madrid derby. To some degree, more than the Clásico, perhaps because that game has become so global that it doesn't really feel like it's mine.

There is a tradition at AS where we try and meet up almost every Monday for lunch with representatives from a sports federation (tennis, handball, rugby etc).

Alfredo Relaño looks at Javier Tebas' plan to take the Week 21 game between Girona and Barcelona to the United States. A project which never came to fruition.

Alfredo Relaño looks back at last night's Copa del Rey quarter final at the Bernabéu and concludes that Solari's Real Madrid are now on an upward trajectory.

The ‘Chumi case’, in reference to the Barça centre-back – whose development and realised potential will become clear in the future - brings us back, face to face, to the whole ‘Cheryshev question mark’.