Manchester City's Erling Haaland celebrates after scoring his third goal during the FA Cup quarter-final soccer match between Manchester City and Liverpool in Manchester, England. AP
Having lost the League Cup final two weeks ago, Arsenal squandered another chance of silverware by falling to a surprise defeat against Championship side Southampton.
In Ligue 1's Derby du Nord, it was Lille who flattened arch-rivals Lens with a 3-0 win at home. While the visitors lost ground on league leaders Paris Saint-Germain, Lille provisionally climbed back up to third place in the table.
Barcelona are well on their way to retaining their La Liga title after a late Robert Lewandowski goal saw off ten-man Atlético Madrid on Saturday evening and establish a seven-point lead. Real Madrid, who lost to Mallorca earlier in the day, are now seven points adrift of the Catalans.
The spoils were shared at this year's Boat Race between Cambridge and Oxford students, as the latter university put an end to an eight-year losing streak in the women's race. French rower Noam Mouelle later led his Cambridge teammates to a fourth consecutive victory in the men's race.
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