Champions League Watch/AC MILAN: Striker Andriy Shevchenko will miss Wednesday's clash with Manchester United after fracturing a cheekbone and an eye socket during his side's 1-0 win over Cagliari on Saturday.
The European Footballer of the Year was forced to leave the pitch in the 11th minute after clashing heads with a Cagliari defender.
A statement on Milan's website said Shevchenko would have an operation today and is expected to recover within 10 to 12 days, ruling him out of the first knockout round, first leg clash against United at Old Trafford.
JUVENTUS: Striker David Trezeguet will miss tomorrow's match against Real Madrid after being sidelined by flu, the Serie A club said yesterday.
The French international, who missed Saturday's 0-0 draw with Messina, was left out of Juventus' 20-man squad for the match. In his absence, Alessandro Del Piero is expected to come in alongside Zlatan Ibrahimovic in attack.
Included, however, is Pavel Nedved, who has not played a competitive match since injuring his knee in a Serie A game against Brescia on January 23rd.
BARCELONA: Barcelona midfielder Deco warmed up for Wednesday's clash with Chelsea and his former mentor Jose Mourinho by scoring twice against Mallorca.
The former Porto player gave the Catalans the lead after 16 minutes. Barca then made the game safe with another strike from the Portuguese international after 56 minutes.
BAYER LEVERKUSEN: Leverkusen, who visit Liverpool tomorrow, had to suffer in the snow to clinch a 4-2 away win over FC Nuremberg that keeps them in the Bundesliga hunt.
Dimitar Berbatov headed in to put them ahead in the second minute before Marek Mintal equalised on the half-hour.
Carsten Ramelow turned in at the far post to put Leverkusen back ahead three minutes later, but Mintal was again on hand to equalise eight minutes after the break. Leverkusen edged ahead when Berbatov headed in from Robson's cross and a stunning free kick from Jacek Krzynowek sealed it.
BAYERN MUNICH: Arsenal look set for a rough time in Munich after Bundesliga leaders Bayern hammered troubled Borussia Dortmund 5-0 on Saturday.
Inspirational Dutch international striker Roy Makaay scored a hat-trick to provide the perfect tonic ahead tomorrow's clash with the stuttering Premiership champions.
FC PORTO: Defending Portuguese Premier league champions Porto opened up a three-point lead at the top of the table with a hard-fought 1-0 victory at mid-table Belenenses on Friday.
The victory served as a morale booster ahead of Wednesday's knockout round, first leg at home to Inter Milan.
INTER MILAN: Inter are still unbeaten in Serie A this season but on Saturday had to settle for yet another draw, their 15th of the 24 games so far this season, this time against Udinese.
Inter found themselves on the receiving end of a last-minute goal by Udinese's Henok Goitom, which cancelled out Juan Sebastian Veron's earlier strike.
OLYMPIQUE LYON: Ligue 1 leaders Olympique Lyon, who play Werder Bremen tomorrow, salvaged a 1-1 draw with 10 men at Monaco, who travel to PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday, thanks to a goal by substitute Jeremy Clement on the final whistle as they strengthened their chances of a fourth successive title last Friday.
Monaco seemed to have the match won after captain Julien Rodriguez broke the deadlock in the 84th minute. But Lyon, a player down after the dismissal of Ghana's Michael Essien in the 65th minute, struck back four minutes into injury time when Clement nodded home a free-kick taken by Brazil's Juninho Pernambucano.
AS MONACO: see above.
PSV EINDHOVEN: PSV had a comfortable 4-1 win over NEC Nijmegen to move five points clear at the top of the Dutch first division on Saturday.
Korean Ji-Sung Park was instrumental in PSV's 2-0 half-time lead when he scored after 21 minutes and then set up DaMarcus Beasley to double their advantage on the stroke of half time.
With tomorrow's match against Monaco on their minds PSV started the second half in a lower gear, but when Said Boutahar pulled one back for Nijmegen on 55 minutes PSV woke up.
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink restored a two-goal lead after 71 minutes and Andre Ooijer's header wrapped up a facile win six minutes later.
REAL MADRID: Athletic Bilbao put an end to Real Madrid's seven-match winning streak under Wanderley Luxemburgo thanks to a header from fullback Asier del Horno and a cool finish from midfielder Andoni Iraola, leaving Madrid troubled ahead of their clash with Juventus.
Del Horno gave the visitors the lead 13 minutes after the break when he headed home Orbaiz's cross, and Iraola made sure the Basques extended their unbeaten run to 10 games when he shot past Iker Casillas in the 73rd.
WERDER BREMEN: Werder, who play Lyon on Wednesday, stayed in the Bundesliga title chase on Saturday, beating Hanover 96 4-1.
Ludovic Magnin gave Werder the lead in the fifth minute and Tim Borowski scored the second two minutes later. Hanover pulled one back in the 38th minute, through Dariusz Zuraw, before Werder went 3-1 up with Ernst's turn and shot.
New Egyptian signing Mohamed Zidan - brought in after the club off-loaded Greek striker Angelos Charisteas in the winter transfer window - made it two goals from two games for Werder when he came off bench to score five minutes from the end.
