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United will surely be the team to avoid in the Champions League quarter-finals after crushing Milan 4-0 on the night, 7-2 on aggregate.

Sir Alex Ferguson will certainly not shudder at any last-eight prospect, having seen the way his rampant Reds tore the Rossoneri to shreds.

“With the kind of team I’ve got, it doesn’t matter who we play next,” said the United manager. “When we play with that tempo, we’re difficult to play against. It was a real solid Manchester United performance.” @Man U

Assuming the Spanish FA turn down the Club’s appeal against Ibrahimovic’s suspension then the Swedish striker will miss the game against Valencia. So far this season Guardiola has used Bojan, Messi and Henry to lead the attack in place of Ibra

Ibrahimovic has missed seven matches this season: four in the league, two in the Cup and one in the Champions League. These seven matches have ended in five wins and two draws for Barça with Henry, Messi and Bojan taking turns to fill in for the big Swede. @Barca

Beckham accepted a Manchester United supporters’ protest scarf as he departed the pitch – a huge coup for the fans’ campaign to force the Glazers out of the club.

Although Avram, the United co-chairman, Bryan and Kevin Glazer travelled from Florida to Wembley for the Carling Cup final victory against Aston Villa last month, the Glazers have been conspicuously absent from fixtures at Old Trafford since the opposition against their stewardship of the club intensified following January’s announcement of the controversial £500  million bond issue, aimed at alleviating United’s £716.5 million debt. @Telegraph

Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has warned his team-mates they must win every game between now and the end of the season to be crowned Premier League champions.

The Blues go into Saturday’s home game against West Ham two points behind Manchester United with a game in hand.

Arsenal have also played a game more but are on the same points as Chelsea following Carlo Ancelotti’s side suffering a recent dip in form. @Dailymail

Nicklas Bendtner’s outspoken confidence appears contagious. In the heady aftermath of Arsenal’s march into the Champions League quarter-finals, courtesy of Tuesday night’s thumping of Porto, the whole team bristled with assurance.

“I’m convinced that we can win this competition, otherwise I wouldn’t be stood here,” said the defender Thomas Vermaelen. “You have to stay focused in every game and be confident in every game. As a football player, you can never be afraid of anyone.”

Arsenal have drawn strength from adversity. In the last-16 second leg against Porto, they were without what the manager, Arsène Wenger, considered, at the beginning of the season, to be the spine of his team: the defender William Gallas, the midfielder Cesc Fábregas and the striker Robin van Persie. It did not matter, as the supporting cast, led by Bendtner, Vermaelen, Samir Nasri and Andrey Arshavin, rose to the challenge. The Emirates pulsed to a delirious beat as a 2-1 first-leg deficit became a 6-2 aggregate triumph. @Guardian

Florentino Pérez did not spend £240m for this. Real Madrid may have gone to the top of the league on Sunday night but this season was always going to be defined by the European Cup, the tournament to which Madrid believe they have a divine right. The final will be held at the Bernabéu but they will not be there, except as hosts. For the sixth successive season they have been eliminated at the first knockout stage. When it comes to European competition it turns out that the biggest club of them all is not really a big club at all.

A second-half goal by Miralem Pjanic nullified Cristiano Ronaldo’s early opener – a goal that promised to make this an easy passage into the quarter-final. As he struck the ball beyond Iker Casillas the score was levelled at 1-1, leaving the French side 2-1 up on aggregate and Madrid needing two goals in a quarter of an hour. They did not find them. Lyon nearly made it even more humiliating, only to waste two glorious breakaway chances in the dying minutes, after Madrid’s impressive first half gave way to an utterly impotent second. @Guardian

There was no fairytale Old Trafford return for David Beckham as Wayne Rooney led a Manchester United cruise into the Champions League quarter-finals.

Rooney scored a goal in each half to take his tally for the season to 30 and snuff out any chance AC Milan had of crowning Beckham’s appearance against his former club in glory.

Instead, the joy was all the hosts’ as Park Ji-sung ran on to Paul Scholes’ pass to widen the gap before Darren Fletcher headed a fourth near the end. @Dailymail

Sir Alex Ferguson has launched an astonishing attack on the BBC, saying that the national broadcaster is “arrogant beyond belief”, has an “inability to apologise”, and does not care about being sued “because they are so huge and have insurance.” The Manchester United manager has also reiterated his stance that he will never speak to the corporation again.

Ferguson is not the only football manager who now refuses to talk to the BBC. Newcastle’s Sam Allardyce and Portsmouth’s Harry Redknapp have both declined to be interviewed by the broadcaster since last year’s Panorama investigation into alleged malpractice in football transfers. The pair both featured in that programme but have never been accused of any rule infringement or faced charges for any wrongdoing. @Independent

Leonardo gave credit to Manchester United and confessed “the psychological aspect” was crucial in Milan’s collapse.

“I think there are many things to analyse and it’s not the right time. Apart from the fact the first half could’ve been a different result, but it was a clear victory for Manchester tonight and that is obvious,” he said of the 4-0 defeat, 7-2 on aggregate.

“We knew it took an incredible performance to overturn the first leg, but Manchester United got off to a very strong start and scored an early goal.

“This match was strongly affected by the psychological approach of the two teams. I don’t think it can affect us in Serie A, as the team is very mature and we will discuss it between ourselves. @Italia