hodgson: we won't play for a draw

... "luiz adriano's goal has given the 2009 uefa cup winners room for optimism, as did an eye-catching display in west london

shakhtar will unleash their brilliant brazilians as they aim to dump fulham out the europa league

... and their quality was in full evidence last week as the likes of willian, ilsinho, fernandinho, luiz adriano and jadsen all showed off talents at craven cottage

gonzalez earns cska vital draw

mark gonzalez earned an out-of-sorts cska moscow side a hard-earned 1-1 draw against sevilla in the first leg of their uefa champions league last-16 clash. gonzalez smashed a fierce 35-yard effort in the 66th minute to cancel out alvaro negredo's first-half opener after sevilla had created the better chances.tomas necid had a good chance to snatch a win for the hosts in the closing minutes, but sevilla held on to hold the advantage ahead of the second leg.

milan looking to re-open title race

... but milan could shave another point off that with a victory and vice-president adriano galliani believes that would be in the best interests of everyone watching serie a

des kelly- its jose vs the world italians are fed up with the inter boss

... ac milan general manager adriano galliani, former president of the italian league, went a stage further

roy hodgson hails fulham win over shakhtar donetsk

... zoltan gera and bobby zamora sealed a 2-1 win after luiz adriano had levelled for last year's uefa cup winners

all the a-league line-ups for week one of the finals series

all the full squads for week one of the a-league finals series. thursday, february 18 melbourne victory v sydney fcetihad stadium, melbourne (730pm edt)melbourne victory: 1.mitchell langerak, 2.kevin muscat (captain), 3.mate dugandzic, 5.surat sukha, 6.leigh broxham, 8.grant brebner, 11.marvin angulo, 12.rodrigo vargas, 13.nathan elasi, 15.tom pondeljak, 16.carlos hernandez, 17.

fulham's europa league opponents are barred entry to harrods

fulham face shakhtar donetsk in the last 32 of the europa league, with the ukrainian team smarting after being refused entry yesterday to harrods, which is owned by their opponents' chairman, mohamed al fayed. the incident is bound to cause him embarrassment.shakhtar, who won last year's competition when it was still the uefa cup, have made public their disappointment at being denied access to the knightsbridge store.

berlusconi baffled at mancini switch

... "he's not really played for two years, i'm not in agreement with the signing and i told [club vice-president, adriano] galliani

roberto mancini prepared to let robinho come and go

... the city manager believes that robinho should heed the example of adriano, his brazil team-mate, who returned to inter milan — then managed by mancini — revitalised after a six-month spell on loan at são paulo in 2008 ... “with adriano, it was the same situation