Soccer: Manchester City Picked Out For the Champions League

Manchester City qualified for the Soccer Champions League for the first time, beating Tottenham 1-0 Tuesday to deny the London club next season in European competition for elite clubs.

 The victory came thanks to a 30th minute own goal by Peter Crouch, who scored the only goal at Eastlands in May last year that took the Spurs in the Champions League this season at the expense of Manchester City.

A hardening of England four Champions League places is an important goal for the owners of the city of Abu Dhabi when they bought the club in 2008.

We used to give performances and results, said goalkeeper Joe Hart. Whatever the money spent by the club, we are a team and show that.

If you saw the Champions League this season, the Spurs have done brilliantly (reaching the quarter-finals) and it is a shame for them that can not be there again as it brought something. But travel to Real Madrid AC Milan and Inter Milan, what do you want?

An investment of over 1 billion players by Sheikh Mansour has also put the city in a battle to end his title drought of 35 years.

Stoke is next to the FA Cup on Saturday, and striker Carlos Tevez the city is to be fit for the match at Wembley Stadium after making a last-minute substitute appearance has recovered from a thigh injury.

We now have a trophy and this Saturday, said Hart. We have this evening and now we have to give these fans a trophy.

Own goal from Crouch came to the same end where he scored a year ago. City winger James Milner has led to Adam Johnson pass short and low center of the penalty area in a crowd from where crouch rose a foot and turned the ball into his own net.

The City intended to ensure playing in the European Cup for the first time since 1968-1924 years before the tournament has been changed in the Champions League.

If the city finished fourth in the Premier League, played a playoff team in August to reach the group stage.

After two subsequent rounds, the city is two points behind Arsenal and five adrift of Chelsea. Manchester United needs just one point to win the title.

This does not mean that we are in the Champions League. Would have to qualify, why not Arsenal? Said the captain of the Town of Vincent Company. We believe they can lose points and we believe we can get six points.

NBA: Chicago Bulls Beat Atlanta Hawks with 3-2 Series Lead

Derrick Rose scored 33 points, Luol Deng added 23 and the Chicago Bulls beat the Atlanta Hawks 95-83 in Game 5 of the semifinals of Basketball League in the Eastern Conference Tuesday night, taking a lead of 3-2 in the best-of-seven series.




Chicago Taj Gibson had 11 points - all in the fourth quarter. Rose also scored 11 in the quarter; the Bulls beat the Hawks 26-15 in the fourth.

Taj, man, he not only knows how good he is at this moment, said Rose. Still young, still trying to learn the game, but he came and did what I should do.

Game 6 is Thursday in Atlanta and Chicago is a victory for its final conference first appearance since 1998, when Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen finished their second championship three peat.

Josh Smith led the Hawks with 16 points. Jamal Crawford graduated from Rainier Beach High School in Seattle, which had just two points on 1-of-9 shooting.

Open Tennis Madrid Final 2011: Djokovic beat Nadal.

Novak Djokovic Vs Rafael Nadal Live Tennis Match was held on Sunday, May 8th 2011, it’s a Masters Madrid open Tennis 2011 Final played at Clay Court.


Rafael Nadal belongs to Spain.A top ranked tennis player in the world. He won French Open five times, Wimbledon two times, the Australian Open once on Sep 13, 2010. He was the youngest player in the era to achieve that feat. He won the Olympic Gold Medal at  Beijing in the year 2008.In Open Nadal defeated Djokovic.But Djokovic had beaten him in the last three matches.

The Match Statistics was:

                        Match Result        1. Set    2. Set    3. Set    4. Set     5. Set 
 R. Nadal                 0                        5            4          n/a        n/a         n/a
 N. Djokovic            2                        7             6         n/a        n/a          n/a

Djokovic defeated nadal in the Clay Court for the first time out of ten tries. This is Djokovic’s third straight victory over Nadal in finals this season. Djokovic’s sixth title of 2011 allowed him to go by Bjorn Borg’s 31-match season-opening run in 1980. He trails only John McEnroe’s 42-0 start in 1984.

Djokovic spent most of the seasons as No. 3 player in the world behind Nadal and Federer, but he started the year by winning the Australian Open and did not looked back. On Sunday, Djokovic raced out to  4-0 lead after Nadal cleared to be broken for the second time. Djokovic stepped on the pedal from word 'go' and maintained that rhythm till the end. Nadal did not looked in that sort of confidence which he displayed against Roger Federer last nite, and struggled to match Djokovic intensity in the match.

NBA: Atlanta Hawks Beats Chicago Bulls

Chicago Bulls Vs Atlanta Hawks NBA Match was held on Sunday, May 8th 2011.These two teams played at Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA at 8:00 PM ET and Atlanta Hawks won the match against Chicago Bulls.

In this game Chicago has scored 26 points in first quarter where as Atlanta scored 28 points. As like Chicago and Atlanta scored in second quarter with 20-19 points. In the third quarter Chicago scores 23 points and Atlanta scores 20. In the fourth quarter Chicago scored 19 points and Atlanta 33.

And in the final statistics Chicago scored 88 and Atlanta scored 100 points.

Derrick Rose was scored 34 points in Chicago team, 4 Rebs with 10 Assists where as from Atlanta team J.Smith scored 23 points, 16 Rebs with 8 Assists. Here the series tied to 2-2.In this game J.Smith had done a brilliant job, he faced the basket, he defended, he rebounded, he passed the ball very brilliantly. Atlanta Hawks are fine with what they had done.

Atlanta Hawks ends with the nine game straight defeats in the second round of their victory against Orlando on May 13, 1996.

The real MVP was 34 points. But Rose needed 32 rounds to do it, and it was not nearly as effective as he was a man in his career, scoring 44 more points in Game 3 that the Chicago Bulls 99-82 route to restore the home-court advantage. Bulls seeded may still be excluded from the series just winning at home, but the Hawks will know that at least one home game.

And the next schedule between Atlanta Hawks Vs Chicago Bulls was going to be held on Tuesday, May 10th 2011 at United Center, Chicago at 8:00 pm ET.

Tennis Madrid 2011: Federer Vs Malisse R -16.

Roger Federer Vs Xavier Malisse Live Tennis Match was held on Thursday, May 05, 2011 at 14:05 hr,its an series Masters Madrid open Tennis 2011 R – 16 played at Clay Type Court.

 Till now Federer has won total 600 Tennis Matches and loss 85 matches. In Clay Court won 155 and loss 30,in Hard Court won 301 and loss 43,in Carpet Court won 10 and loss 5,in Indoor Hard Court won 54 and loss 4,in Grass Court won 80 and loss 3.And coming to Malisse till now won total 176 and loss 155 matches. In Clay Court won 28 and loss 36,in Hard Court won 102 and loss 75,in Carpet Court won 11 and loss 9,in Indoor Hard Court won 12 and loss 19,in Grass Court won 25 and loss 16.

The Match Statistics was:
                        Match Result        1. Set    2. Set    3. Set    4. Set     5. Set 
 R. Federer             2                        6            6          n/a        n/a         n/a
X. Malisse               0                        4             3         n/a        n/a          n/a

Before this Federer played recently Vs. F. Lopez within Tournament Masters Series Madrid
and won with Result 2:1 and Malisse played with Y.Lu within Tournament Masters Series Madrid
and won with Result 2:0.

Malisse tries his level best to extend this match and in doing so, holds his serve for a 3-5 scoreline. The Belgian needs to do something now before Federer flies away with the match while serving for it now.

Federer in cruise control of the match. The Swiss is seeking his second title of the year and his first big triumph since winning the ATP World Tour Finals in November last year where he beat arch rival Rafael Nadal in the championship match in three gruelling sets.

Next Match schedule Federer  Vs Soderling will be on (6 May 11 at 10:30).