Here are the latest stories from Wednesday.
BAYERN MUNICH: Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola hopes that incoming manager Carlo Ancelotti can take the club to the Champions League final after they exited in the semifinals to Atletico Madrid on Tuesday night.- Bayern Munich feel "cheated" after some tight decisions allowed Atletico Madrid to advance, chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said.
- Bayern defender Medhi Benatia is contemplating a return to Italy should Mats Hummels move to the Allianz Arena.
ATLETICO MADRID: Atletico coach Diego Simeone hailed his side's character
and fighting spirit after they lost Tuesday evening's Champions League
semifinal 2-1 at Bayern Munich but qualified for the final on away
goals.- Atletico Madrid goal scorer Antoine Griezmann said the "better team had gone through" after his side's dramatic progress.
REAL MADRID: With Cristiano Ronaldo is "100 percent" fit
to face Manchester City, the club must figure out how to deal with the
absence of Casemiro and Karim Benzema to injury. Real blogger Eduardo
Alvarez explains how manager Zinedine Zidane might handle the dilemma.- Zidane admitted to reporters that despite his team's home-field advantage, the second leg would be trickier than the first. Watch.
MAN CITY: Manchester City's first Champions League semifinal will only be special if they get past Real Madrid, according to defender Gael Clichy.- Manuel Pellegrini realises the threat a fit Ronaldo poses to his squad, but says they are preparing for much more than just the Portuguese star ahead of the second leg.
- One potential boost for City is the availability of Yaya Toure. He traveled to Madrid with the club and should be available for selection should he fit into Pellegrini's tactics for the match.
LEICESTER: Claudio Ranieri's former assistant coach Christian Damiano believes that the Italian will finish his managerial career at Leicester City.- Ranieri says it could take him two years to understand what he has achieved after winning the Premier League.
- Leicester City striker Leonardo Ulloa has told ESPN Radio in Argentina that it would be "very strange but very nice" if a street is named after him following the club's Premier League glory.
ARSENAL: Santi Cazorla played his first game in nearly six months
and completed more than an hour for Arsenal's under-21s against
Blackburn on Tuesday. Cazorla started alongside Tomas Rosicky and Calum
Chambers at the Emirates
CHELSEA: Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois says he is "100 percent" certain to stay
with the club despite the absence of Champions League football next
season. The goalkeeper, who signed a new five-year contract at Chelsea
in 2014, has been linked with a move to Ligue 1 champions Paris
Saint-Germain.- Eden Hazard has said he hopes Chelsea can challenge for the Premier League title next season after scoring the decisive goal in the title race for the second successive year.
AC MILAN: Former AC Milan midfielder Gennaro Gattuso says he does not believe the current crop of Rossoneri players are worthy of wearing the shirt.
FIFA: Paraguay's top court has rejected a petition by Nicolas Leoz,
the former head of the CONMEBOL, to halt his extradition to the United
States. Leoz is being held under house arrest in Paraguay. He is accused
of receiving millions in bribes and kickbacks and was among dozens of
top officials indicted in the FIFA corruption scandal.
LIGA MX: Pumas kept Liga MX's Copa Libertadores hopes alive with a 2-0 win versus Venezuelan side Deportivo Tachira to secure a 2-1 aggregate success and passage to the quarterfinals.CREDIT TO:http://www.espn.co.uk/football/uefa-champions-league/2/blog/post/2864530/whats-trending-in-football-daily-news-around-the-world
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