Christian Ronaldo scored his 12th goal of the season in the Champions League with an a amazing strike into the top corner, putting Real Madrid on the edge against AS Roma with a 2-0 win on Wednesday.

Roma frustrated Real Madrid in the first half but Ronaldo ended their resistance by boldly controlling a fine pass from Marcelo before releasing a powerful and curling shot that bounced off Alessandro Florenzi and twisted over the goal keeper into the net.

The much struggled finish ignited a joyous celebration from Ronaldo who ran across the field to embrace their coach Zinedine Zidane.

“Ronaldo played well and the rest of the team as well,” Zidane said.

“I am delighted about the celebration but most importantly that he scored,” Zidane added.

Coach Zinedine Zidane is a Frenchman who is a former player of Real and haswon the Champions league back in 2002 and today, is now developing his career as coach.

“Today has been a very special day, the team played well but it was also a difficult match because Roma also played well”

“This was one of our best performance this season against a top team,” Florenzi said.

“We are bitter because we played very well but the scores are not pleasing.” He added.

During the first half, Real did not have any single short on target, but they have to thank Raphael Varane who came to their rescue when the ball was superbly intercepted from Mohamed Salah to Diego Perotti, before a shot was blocked by El Shaarawy.

Coach Zidane remains unbeaten ever since he took over leadership from Rafa Benitez, who was sacked last month.

“We are very happy with Zinedine Zidane and I am pleased that we are moving on the same wavelength,” Ramos said.

Well, despite being a super power as a nation, China has also great prospects when it comes to football. Recent news has claimed that a club in the Chinese league is focusing on bringing the Manchester United and England skipper Wayne Rooney. They are ready to cash out the Red Devils require for their captain as well as more than willing to make Rooney one of the best football income earners. The departure of Rooney may see Fulham’s Moussa Dembele or Leed’s Lewis Cook wearing the Manchester United jersey.

Steve McClaren is faced by a tough time as the Head coach of Newcastle United after a disappointing start of the campaign. This week he travels to London to face Crystal Palace, a team mentored by former Newcastle boss Allan Pardew. If he fails to deliver, then there is a high possibility of being fired with Clarence Seedorf being a possible replacement.

Sunderland on the other hand is on the verge of signing Auxerre winger Nils Bouekou in summer. However, they face a stiff competition from league rival Tottenham Hotspurs.

Last year’s FIFA Balloon d’or winner Cristiano Ronaldo has been on the spot with many having different dimensions about his career. Many still think that he will eventually go back to Manchester United. Others claim that he has dedicated his life at the Bernabeu and would see his carrer there. Some still have the notion that he will join French power house Paris Saint-Germain.

Arsene Wenger on the other hand has been keen to bring in a central midfielder to his squad. Two names including long time admirer William Carvalho and Lars Bender have been on the spot light. However, Mathieu Flamini and Francis Coquelin will have to build their trust on Wenger by performing beyond doubts. Wenger also opts to bring another striker and interested candidate for the position is Inter’s Mauro Icardi.

Liverpool and Chelsea are in search of new strikers and possible candidates have been Empoli’s Riccardo Saponara and Jonathan Calleri of Boca Juniors respectively.

If by any chance Real Madrid coach Rafa Benitez leaves Santiago Bernabeu, the club will have to recruit their former coach Carlo Ancelotti who has been jobless since he left the stint.

The English Premier League is the most watched football league around the world, with a broadcast of 4.7 billion people in over 200 countries. On the other hand, La Liga may have Real Madrid and Barcelona but fans find it predictable. In contrast, the premier league’s title can change often. This is evident by the championship victories in the past three years by Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea.

English Premier League is an intensely competitive league. This is what makes it even more engaging for its fans, who can even enhance their experience through betting on outcomes of various games. This is the main reason why the partnership of sports betting operators and football clubs is on the rise these days. The latest footballclub partnership is Aston Villa who has agreed to work with Betfair and Bet365.

New concept of co-exclusive betting rights

Aston Villa begun its partnerships with the two sports betting companies on 1 July,2015. This partnership will go on until the end of the Premier league season. However, the unusual bit about the partnership is that Aston Villa will be dividing responsibility between bet365 and betfair. This means that the two companies have co-exclusive rights for the club. This as a result, has changed the way the entire Premier league will do business in future.

Aston villa officially announced that bet365 and betfair have the right to be associated with them and both companies will appear on the Club’s interview backdrops and LED screens.

Aston Villa has a history of joining forces with betting operators. It previously partnered with Dafabet and William Hill. Dafabet was its official betting partner for the last two seasons.

Charlie Wijeratna, who is the chief commercial officer of Aston Villa, said that the co-partnership deal from Betfair and bet365 will have a significant commercial increase compared to last year’s partnership.

AFL Club Essendoncalls time on betting partnerships

While English football clubs are welcoming betting partnerships, An Australian team called Essendon does not share that spirit.

Xavier Campbell, the chief executive of Essendon acknowledges that gambling partnerships are highly lucrative. However, the team believes that sports betting have negative impression in Australia. In addition to that, he said that the decision of not partnering with sports betting would cause “short-term financial pain” to the club regardless of the club posting its revenue record for most of its financial year.

On Wednesday there was a dinner hosted by GeekWire that was held to talk about sports and technology. In the dinner that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed his plans multimillion dollar partnership they had set with Real Madrid Football club there was more to his speech that touched on sports and technology.

He said that sport was one of the industries that was greatly receiving transformation with the advancement in technology as well as data digitalization. This was evident as in attendance to the dinner that was held in Seattle were sport personalities including an NFL linebacker, Olympic medalist, Veteran Journalist among other individuals relevant to sports. There was a lot on discussion during the event among the topics of discussion on how injuries had been prevented and performances of players improved by the use of wearable trackers. There were also talks on how by indulging fans using technology, the fan base would be improved both in and out of the arenas and Stadia.

Those who attended seem to have good and positive response after the diner. Adrian Hanauer, who is the owner of Seattle Sounders said that this had not been invested on and would greatly help on the fans on how they get to watch the game. This would go a long way in helping in the availability of the tickets to the fans and as well as influence greatly on those fans watching the game through TV.

From the player’s point of view, Kevin Pierre- Louis who is s linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks also shared his opinion on the matter. He said that he was excited on the use of technology to help improve player’s performance. He added that this was essential as it would help in prepping player’s body. Kevin said that many veterans had been in the past sidelined because of injury and with the technology this could be easily avoided. With the technology he added player’s performance could be easily monitored while on the field and thus predicting any ailment or injury in an early stage and thus treatment something that would have a great influence on an athlete’s trajectory.

Jennie Reed was the other sport personality that was interviewed after the dinner, and the 2012 silver medal winner and three-time Olympic cyclist showed her support from a financial perspective. She said that the data on sports was now available even to those countries that are not financially well off as the data can be obtained through devices that are cheap to acquire.