in italy, atalanta are through to the final of the coppa italia.l, to reach the final for the first time in 23 years. the teams were level at 3—3 from the first leg, and the return match was only three minutes old when luis muriel put fiorentina ahead in the tie. 10 minutes later, atalanta equalised with a penalty — josip ilicic the scorer, and the home side were ahead on away goals. it was papu gomez who scored the goal that secured a 2—1 victory on the night, and a 5—4 win on aggregate. atalanta, who won the cup, for the only time, back in 1963, will play lazio in next month's final. voting is now open for this year's bbc women's footballer of the year award. the award is in its fifth year and we're hearing from all five nominees over the course of the week. today is the turn of one of the world's best defenders — saki kumagai. she won the world cup with japan back in 2011 and the asian cup last year when she also won the european champions league for the third year in a row with her french club olympique lyonnais. translation: without football l

back ahead of roma into the final champions league spot days after booking their ticket to the coppa italia climb three places to 10th following their victory at fiorentina. while in spain a late goal from real betis‘s moroccan international zouhair feddal salvaged a 1—1 draw at home to espanyol leaving both sides level on points mid table. tottenham manager mauricio pochettino says he's living the dream and has even invoked buzz lightyear ahead of the first leg of their champions league semi final against ajax on tuesday. it's the club's biggest european night for more than half a century and will take place in their new stadium but they'll be without both harry kane, who's still injured, and son hyeung—min who's suspended and whose goals against manchester city helped get them this far. you need to settle your dreams on infinity and beyond, no? because if you put your dream here and in the moment you know if you do not get this dream, you get this and maybe it's a bottle without water, you know, it is not too difficult to accept. i think when you are ambitious and you want to achieve big

and lazio are through to next month's coppa italia final after a 1—0 win over milan in their semi—finalanding them an aggregate win by the same margin. simone inzaghi's side will now play the winner of thursday's second semi final between atalanta and fiorentina which is level at 3—3 after the opening game. in the asian champions league, there was a shock defeat for the holders kashima antlers on wednesday. they were beaten — at home — by debutants gyeongnam from south korea. takahiro kunimoto scored the only of the game, just after the hour mark, as the champions suffered their first defeat of the group stage. that result means that shandong luneng are the new leaders of group e. they beatjohordarulta'zim1—nil in malaysia where graziano pelle scored his 6th goal of the competition. shandong are now a point clear of kashima at the top of the table. elsewhere, jeonbuk motors remain top of group g. kim shin—wook scored what turned out to be the winner as the k—league side beat the 2017 champions urawa red diamonds 2—1. they're still two points clear at the top. and their nearest challenge

amd atalanta will play lazio in the coppa italia final after a 5—4 aggregate win over fiorentina.he tennis news that rafael nadal is through to the quarter finals of the barcelona 0pen where he'll face jan lennard struff. that's after a straight sets win overfellow spaniard david ferrer who's retiring next month. nadal, who dropped a set in his second round win over leonardo mayer, managed to beat his great rival, ferrer, in straight sets, 6—3 6—3, as he looks to make it four titles in a row at this event

and atlanta will play lazio in the coppa italia final after they beat fiorentina 2—1 in their semi final of the premier league with a win over already relegated huddersfield town later on friday at anfield. there are 7a points between the two sides and the visitors last recorded a win over liverpool 60 years ago. it's clear we are one point behind city. and we you, for a long time, that if we win our last two games, the next two games, then the decision will be made in the last game, in the last match there, and thatis game, in the last match there, and that is pretty special. but for that we have to win the next two games morejust difficult we have to win the next two games more just difficult enough, adverse of all we to play the against huddersfield. and that is what we are concentrating on. top seed and world number one naomi 0saka will play donna vekic later as both players look to move into the stuttgart grand prix semi—finals. 0saka's win over shay su way on thursday was her first clay court match of the season and the 21—year—old japanese player will now hope to move past croatia