Alfredo Relaño looks at the "poker game" currently being played out between Florentino Pérez and Sergio Ramos at Real Madrid amid the ongoing impasse in contract talks.

AS columnist Alfredo Relaño looks back on Juventus' resounding victory over Barcelona, where Cristiano Ronaldo and Gianluigi Buffon got the better of Lionel Messi.

The French Open champion's greatest asset is his ability is to keep waging battle when the war is already won.

French football is embarrassed about the incidents that occurred during the closing stages of PSG-Marseille, as five red cards were brandished.

The Ballon d’Or was created by journalists, just as the European Cup - today’s Champions League - was, and came into existence in 1956 as an accompaniment to the competition.

Now that Real Madrid have sorted their defensive issues, it's time for Hazard and Co. to step up in attack, writes Alfredo Relaño

It was a phrase that John Toshak used and it served Zidane well as he kept faith with the side that succumbed to PSG in Seville and was rewarded with victory.

The gaping difference between Atlético and Madrid was that the former had unyielding belief while the latter did not, hence the respective outcomes on Wednesday night.