Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal will take on Russians CSKA Moscow in an eye-catching Europa League quarter-final drawn in Nyon on Friday as an all Iberian pairs Atletico Madrid against Sporting Lisbon. Atletico Madrid, twice winners, face Sporting Lisbon while Bundesliga side RB Leipzig, in the competition for the first time, take on Marseille.
Liverpool and Manchester City will face each other in the Champions League quarter-final in an all-English clash. The two Premier League clubs will go up against one another at Anfield in the first leg before the return leg at the Etihad Stadium. The three Spanish clubs have all been kept apart with Barcelona facing Roma, Real Madrid playing Juventus — a repeat of last year's final — and Sevilla going up against German giants Bayern Munich.
Super Eagles manager Gernot Rohr has reiterated that there's no going back over his decision to omit Lille netminder Vincent Enyeama from Nigeria's 2018 World Cup roster.
Enyeama called time on his international career in October 2015 following a row with former Nigeria coach Sunday Oliseh, but there were rumours that he may go back on his decision to quit the national team.
Enyeama's inactivity for Ligue 1 strugglers Lille has counted against him and Rohr has kept faith with the goalkeepers he utilized during the World Cup qualifiers and November's friendly vs Argentina in his latest roster.
The England Football Association has revealed on its official website, ticket prizes for the pre-World Cup friendly between England and Nigeria at the National Stadium in London on June 2, 2018.
According to the Ebglish FA, it will cost Nigerian fans a minimum of 35 pounds (approximately N17,395.00) to watch the friendly at Wembley, though Family Enclosure tickets cost less, £20 Adults/£10 Children under the age of sixteen.
The other ticket categories are priced at £70, £55 and £45 but concessions are available for OAPs.
Nigeria’s Super Eagles has retained her previous 52nd position in the world and seventh in Africa in the March FIFA/Coca-Cola World rankings released on Thursday. Nigeria had 609 points, two points below Cameroon that is 51st in the world. The top five remains unaltered, with Germany still on top, while Poland that will be up against the Super Eagles in a friendly are the only movers in the top 20, having climbed into joint-sixth position alongside Spain.
Icelandic Football Association President Guðni Bergsson is confident that the team can get to the knockout rounds of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia like they did in the 2016 European Championship in France.
Iceland got to the knockout phase of the 2016 European Championship in France without losing any of their Group F matches before losing to France in the last eight.
The underdogs, who are going into their first World Cup, are drawn in the same Russia 2018 group as Nigeria, Croatia and Argentina.
