Chelsea continued to make light of their off-pitch turmoil with another impressive display on it as they reached the FA Cup semi-finals with a 2-0 victory at Middlesbrough on Saturday at the “Riverside” stadium. Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku scored the first goal for the Blues in the 15th minute, while the Moroccan star Hakim Ziyech knocked the stuffing out of second-tier Middlesbrough who had eliminated Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur in previous rounds added the second goal in the 31st minute of the match. Chelsea played Middlesbrough with the following squad:

Paris St Germain coach Mauricio Pochettino has announced his list squad to face Monaco, scheduled for Sunday afternoon, at Louis II stadium, in the top of the matches of the twenty-ninth round of the French League. The Argentine star, Lionel Messi, was absent from the list announced by Mauricio Pochettino, coach of the Paris Saint-Germain team, to face his host Monaco, scheduled for 2:00 pm, tomorrow, Sunday, at the “Louis II” stadium, in the top of the matches of the twenty-ninth round of the League. Messi will miss afternoon's Ligue 1 clash with Monaco due to illness. Keylor Navas has also come down with the same illness, while Sergio Ramos and Angel Di Maria are notable injury absentees with calf and hamstring issues respectively. Paris Saint-Germain leads the French Ligue 1 standings with 65 points, while Monaco is ninth with 41 points.

Bayern Munich received a painful blow to the team's defense line, after defender Nicholas Soley suffered injury, which keeps him absent for 4 weeks. On Thursday, Bayern Munich announced that its defender, Nicholas Soley, suffered a tear in the right thigh during the team’s training Wednesday, and he ruled out for at least 4 weeks to rejoin the team. The Bavarian will miss the services of its 26-year-old defender in the Champions League quarter-final matches, as well as the team's confrontations in the German League. Bayern Munich leads the German league standings right now with 60 points, 4 points ahead of runner-up Dortmund, with 56 points.

German Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel led his team Chelsea, to qualify for the quarter-finals of the European Champions League, at the expense of French Lille, after repeating his victory in the round of 16 with a score of 2-1 on Wednesday, after he finished the first leg in London with a 2-0. Tuchel has equaled the record for most Champions League victories inside 50 matches as the Blues rolled victory over Lille. The "Opta" network, which specializes in monitoring statistics, stated that Tuchel managed to reach the 32nd victory during his 50th match in the Champions League, equaling the record for the most technical manager to win in the first 50 matches recorded by Jupp Heynckes, who achieved them in 47 matches. It was Tuchel's 32nd triumph in the Champions League - the same as former Bayern Munich coach Jupp Heynckes, who only managed 47 games in the format before retirement.

For the third consecutive season, Italian Juventus failed to overcome the obstacle of the 16th round of the European Champions League, after its sudden collapse on Wednesday against its guest  Europa League champion Villarreal scored three second-half goals in a 3-0 win the Allianz Stadium on Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals for the first time in 13 years. In Turin, Villarreal inflicted a humiliating 3-0 defeat on Juventus to go through to the quarter-finals 4-1 on aggregate. The "Opta" network, which specializes in monitoring statistics, stated that Juventus had bid farewell to the European Champions League from the round of 16 in the last 3 copies of the competition, which is the number of exclusion, as happened in 10 previous matches at this stage of the competition.

The Italian press commented on Juventus' farewell from the round of 16 in the Champions League for the current season 2021-2022, after it collapsed in front of its guest, Villarreal, Spain, with three clean goals, yesterday, Wednesday, in the second leg, to leave the last representatives of Italian football in the competition. Italian media have slammed Juventus for 'crumbling' following their shock last-16 Champions League exit at the hands of Villarreal.The Serie A giants conceded two penalties which were scored by Gerard Moreno and Arnaut Danjuma either side of Pau Torres' 85th-minute goal in a 3-0 win for the Spanish side in Turin. Massimiliano Allegri's side therefore crashed out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage for the third year running following a 4-1 aggregate defeat against Unai Emery's outfit.

Italian press reports revealed that Inter Milan's desire to obtain the services of Ivorian striker Sebastian Haller, the Dutch striker, Ajax, during the next summer transfer market, in order to strengthen the team's attack next season. The Italian newspaper Gazzetta Dello Sport claim Inter Milan want to spend £29.5million to sign Sebastien Haller from Ajax – less than 18 months after West Ham boss David Moyes decided to sell the Ivory Coast striker. Haller, 27, cost West Ham an enormous £45million when he joined the club from Eintracht Frankfurt in the summer of 2019. Little surprise, after he netted 33 goals in 77 games for the Bundesliga side. But he struggled.

Veteran Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, the Manchester United striker, set a new Champions League historic record in terms of the number of minutes participating in the Champions League, surpassing the number of former Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas, as Manchester United crashed out of the Champions League. Ronaldo appeared in his team's match against Atletico Madrid, in the decisive confrontation between them at the "Old Trafford" stadium, in the second leg of the 16th round of the European Champions League. According to what was published by the global network "Opta", Cristiano Ronaldo surpassed Iker Casillas as the most played minutes in the history of the Champions League, after the 57th minute of the match, to become the most participating player in history in the tournament.

For the second year in a row, the Argentine star Lionel Messi of PSG and Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo of Manchester United both failed to overcome the obstacle and surpass the round of 16 of the Champions League. Messi bid farewell to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League against Real Madrid, as the Parisian put in the driving seat with a 2-0 lead in the aggregate scoring but Benzema scored three goals after the break as Madrid claimed a 3-2 victory.