While on vacation in Barcelona with her mother last month, Laura Caddick had seen a lot of people tooling around on red-and-white bicycles. But the bikes that she saw everywhere — part of the city’s bicycle-sharing program — were for use by local residents only. Fortunately, Ms. Caddick’s hotel, ME Barcelona, had several bicycles for guests.

That is not a misprint. At Bernabeu. And Real scored first. Henry, Puyol and Messi in the first half. Henry, Messi and Pique in the second half.

After playing a boring, defensive and utterly unsatisfying 0-0 tie in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League semifinal series, Barcelona and Chelsea threw off the shackles and turned on the offense in their league games only hours apart on Saturday.

Translation is a tricky business. You never know exactly where, or how, you’re going to end up.

Chelsea deployed dark arts of anti-soccer to suppress Barcelona, 0-0, in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal.

Frank Lampard scored in the 76th and 89th minutes, and Chelsea withstood Liverpool’s surge to advance to the European Champions League semifinals with a 4-4 tie in London on Tuesday night.

Barcelona produced a stunning display of attacking football to overwhelm Bayern Munich 4-0 in their Champions League quarter-final first leg at the Nou Camp on Wednesday.