Pressure mounted on Xabi Alonso on Wednesday as his Real Madrid side were beaten 2-1 by Man City at the Bernabeu. It was a second consecutive home defeat for Los Blancos after an eight-man Madrid were beaten by Celta Vigo at the weekend,

At the spaceship-like rebuilt Santiago Bernabéu, Manchester City had lift-off. It was only their second ever win in this celestial stadium and it propelled them into the top eight of the Champions League.

Manchester City jumped up to fourth in the Champions League table thanks to a stellar 4-1 victory over Borussia Dortmund at the Etihad Stadium. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

Sunderland are back in Premier League action as they travel to face Pep Guardiola’s Man City Sunderland are looking to build on another strong Premier League performance and result when they face Man City this afternoon.

City – akin to Rudyard Kipling's If. A tale about resilience and virtue, both qualities that were needed to overturn Europe's serial winners. As the poem goes: 'If you can keep your head, when all about you are losing theirs' and with one win in five La Liga games,