Lionel Messi's brace helped Barcelona claim the 2021 Copa del Rey title with a 4-0 victory over Athletic Bilbao in the final on Saturday.

The Blaugrana scored four goals in 12 second-half minutes to hand Athletic their second Copa del Rey final defeat in the past 14 days. The Basque side lost the long-delayed 2020 final to Real Sociedad 1-0 on April 3.

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After a cagey first half, Barcelona opened the scoring on the hour mark through Antoine Griezmann, who turned in Frenkie de Jong's cross after slipping in front of a defender at the near post.

Barca added a second two minutes later when De Jong headed in a sumptuous cross from Jordi Alba. The Netherlands midfielder took advantage of the defence tracking a run at the near post to convert from close range.

Messi added a third with a sensational effort in the 68th minute. After picking up the ball near midfield, Messi exchanged passes with teammates and ghosted by defenders before outfoxing two defenders in the box and coolly slotting home from close range.

He completed the scoring five minutes later when he popped up in the box and guided a Alba cross off Athletic keeper Unai Simon and into the net.

LONDON -- Manchester City are still on course for an incredible season, but history will have to wait. Hakim Ziyech's second-half goal for Chelsea ensured a 1-0 defeat for Pep Guardiola's team in the FA Cup semifinal and ended dreams of an unprecedented Quadruple, for another year at least.

The Premier League leaders can still win three major trophies this season, with the league title almost in the bag and a Carabao Cup final against Tottenham Hotspur later this month before a two-legged Champions League semifinal against Paris Saint-Germain. But at Wembley on Saturday, Thomas Tuchel's Chelsea deservedly booked their fourth FA Cup final in five years (they will face Southampton or Leicester City on May 15) by being fitter, slicker and more decisive over 90 minutes. Ziyech's goal was enough to win the game, but the Moroccan winger and substitute Christian Pulisic both saw goals ruled out for offside in a game that Chelsea dominated.

With City's Quadruple chase over, Guardiola insisted he and his players have done well to even get this far.

"What could I say? We have two and a half days to recover and play away and have to travel, we were on the train for three hours and we were stopped one hour," Guardiola said after the match. "It was a tight game, congratulations to Chelsea -- they are a top side. This can happen. These guys [City] fight every game like never before I've seen."

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For Chelsea, this victory extended the revival under Tuchel's management since his appointment as Frank Lampard's successor in January. They have lost just twice in 19 games in all competitions (and kept 14 clean sheets) under the German tactician, reached the FA Cup final and are favourites to win the race for fourth place in the Premier League following West Ham United's surprise defeat at Newcastle United on Saturday. And if they overcome Real Madrid in the Champions League semifinals, they could face City once again, in the final in Istanbul, and deny Guardiola's team a first European Cup by taking it to Stamford Bridge for a second time.

In the past 10 years, City and Chelsea have dominated the English football landscape, and there can be no denying that they have usurped the old order -- Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal -- to become top dogs. City have won nine major trophies and Chelsea have won eight since 2011-12. United (four) and Arsenal (four) have won just eight between them, while Liverpool have only just started winning again by clinching the Champions League in 2019 and Premier League last year.

But while Chelsea have been consistent winners, City have threatened to leave the rest in their wake under Guardiola. Their domestic Treble in 2019 was the first time it had been achieved in English football history, so a Quadruple would have been on another scale.

United's Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in 1999 remains the high-water mark, though, now that City have succumbed in the FA Cup. They can still pull off a Treble, of course, by winning the league, Carabao Cup and Champions League, but Liverpool managed that in 1984, so they would only be treading a path already walked by others.

A Quadruple would have been unprecedented and relegated all those previous Trebles to footnotes in the history books, but City's challenge now is to ensure that their pursuit of four trophies does not fizzle out and end in comparative disappointment. If they end up winning the Champions League for the first time, nobody at the Etihad will spend too much time worrying about the FA Cup. But while City remain alive in three other competitions, this defeat -- and last Saturday's Premier League loss against a 10-man Leeds United squad -- highlighted shortcomings and problems that could see Guardiola's team slip up in the Carabao Cup and Champions League.

Chelsea's tactic of hitting City on the counterattack, with the pace of Ziyech, Mason Mount and Timo Werner, was successful on several occasions. It also led directly to Ziyech's goal, when Werner raced into the penalty area before pulling the ball back to the former Ajax man. United deployed a similar tactic in their Premier League win at the Etihad earlier this season, and it is likely that PSG coach Mauricio Pochettino will tell his own flying forwards -- Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Angel Di Maria -- to expose City's defensive weakness.

And against Chelsea, City looked tired. Worryingly so. The Londoners had an extra day of rest following their Champions League clash with FC Porto in Seville on Tuesday, 24 hours before City's win against Borussia Dortmund in Germany, which is perhaps why Guardiola made eight changes to his team. But those who started still travelled to Dortmund, so they didn't enjoy a midweek off, and they won't have this midweek off either because City must travel to Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday.

Then comes the Carabao Cup final on Sunday, before the first leg in Paris three days later, so the games are mounting and so is the fatigue. The sight of Kevin De Bruyne limping off with a second-half ankle injury will also be a concern to Guardiola.

"It doesn't look good, he has pain," the City manager said. "We will see. Tomorrow he will have a test."

Raheem Sterling was ineffective against Chelsea, as was Brazilian forward Gabriel Jesus, and Guardiola will need his attacking players to carry more threat against Spurs next weekend and PSG in the Champions League.

"We have not had a midweek free for eight months," Guardiola said. "We have played a lot of games, and it will continue. Now it is the Premier League, the Carabao Cup next week. It's just one more game."

But this is the business end of the season, when all great teams overcome injury and tiredness by finding an extra something to get them over the line. There are plenty of obstacles in City's path, though, before they reach that finishing line, and winning three trophies this season will still be a tall order.

Guardiola has always insisted it would be close to impossible to win four, and he has been proved right. The question now is how many they can still win, and whether this season will ultimately leave City feeling like they could have won more.

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Bryce Young stepped into the first-team quarterback role and impressed during Alabama's spring game on Saturday, winning Most Valuable Player honors after completing 25 of 44 passes for 333 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions.

Young, a former five-star prospect, was Mac Jones' primary backup as a freshman last season. He appeared in nine games, including late during Alabama's win over Ohio State in the national championship game.

Coach Nick Saban said after the scrimmage that Young played well all spring.

"We continue to work on him kind of having a presence out there that affects other people in a positive way," Saban said. "And I think he's starting to get more and more respect from the other players by the way he plays.

"But every scrimmage we had he performed really well and I thought he performed well today."

Young wasn't the only underclassman to stand out during the spring game, which saw a number of veterans sidelined by injuries, including starting wide receiver John Metchie, defensive back Malachi Moore and offensive lineman Emil Ekiyor.

Freshman early enrollee Agiye Hall -- a four-star prospect and the No. 3-rated receiver in the 2021 class, according to ESPN -- caught four passes for 72 yards.

"He's someone we think has a lot of potential," Saban said of Hall. "He makes a lot of contested catches. He's got great size and he's really got some explosive speed."

Sophomore Jah-Marien Latham was named most valuable lineman. The 6-foot-3, 285-pound defensive tackle finished the scrimmage with one sack, two quarterback hurries and four tackles.

Junior defensive back DeMarcco Hellams led all players with 12 total tackles. He also broke up a pass and forced a fumble.

Saban said that overall it was a "very productive spring" for the team.

"For the most part, we didn't have any issues all spring long, so we made a lot of practice," he said. "I'm not satisfied with where we are -- we have a lot of work to do as a team."

Alabama is scheduled to open the season on Sept. 4 against Miami in Atlanta.

NEW YORK -- New York Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez left Saturday's game an inning after taking a foul ball off his right hand.

New York said X-rays of Sanchez's hand were negative and that he has a contusion on his right index and middle fingers. The club said he's day to day.

Sánchez's throwing hand was unprotected when Tampa Bay's Randy Arozarena tipped a pitch that appeared to hit Sánchez in the knuckles in the fourth inning.

Sánchez fell to the ground and writhed in pain before a trainer came out to inspect him. He remained in the game and finished the inning, then flew out to center field in the bottom of the fourth. He was replaced by Kyle Higashioka to begin the fifth.

The two-time All-Star was 0-for-1 with a walk Saturday and is hitting .237 with two homers and four RBIs this season.

MILWAUKEE -- Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich, who has missed four straight games because of a sore back, was placed on the 10-day injured list Saturday.

"There's nothing new, nothing to add," manager Craig Counsell said. "That's what it is. We'll take a couple more days without baseball activities and see where that leaves us."

The move was retroactive to April 14. The Brewers announced Yelich's injury as a lower back strain.

Milwaukee filled Yelich's spot on the roster by recalling right-handed reliever Eric Yardley from the organization's alternate training site in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Yelich, the 2018 NL MVP, is hitting .333 with no home runs and 1 RBI.

Two other Brewers starters, second baseman Kolten Wong and outfielder Lorenzo Cain, are also on the injured list, weakening the offense.

"We'll just have to fill in around them until those guys get back. We're not expecting this to be long term,'' Counsell said.

The Brewers host the Pirates on Saturday in the second game of a three-game series. Pittsburgh won 6-1 on Friday.

Former British number one Kyle Edmund is likely to miss several more months of the season after having surgery on his left knee.

It was performed by Dr Roland Biedert, who has operated on Roger Federer, Stan Wawrinka and Juan Martin del Potro.

Edmund's problems began in October 2018, when a scan revealed fluid behind the left knee.

The 26-year-old had reached the Australian Open semi-finals that January, and just won the European Open to climb to a career-high ranking of 14.

But despite winning a second ATP title in New York in February last year, Edmund's progress since has been consistently thwarted.

He currently stands at 69 in the world and has not played since losing in the first round of qualifying in Vienna last October.

Edmund had been resisting surgery, due to the obvious risks for a professional athlete, but the nagging pain in his knee has increased since the start of the year and prevented him from practising.

A long period of rehabilitation is now underway, and an appearance at Wimbledon seems a forlorn hope.

Harlequins climbed back into the Premiership play-off places with an eight-try demolition of Worcester.

Flanker Will Evans scored two tries either side of half-time, with winger Tyrone Green and replacement Luke Northmore also going over for Quins.

Worcester scored twice late on to earn a four-try bonus point of their own.

The tries from wing Alex Hearle and replacement prop Richard Palframan and first-half scores from hooker Niall Annett and lock Joe Batley at least gave Worcester something to show from their afternoon.

But they were well beaten and slumped to a 13th defeat of the season to stay seven points adrift at the bottom of the table.

Harlequins were fresh for the game having selected a much-changed side to the one that lost to Ulster in the Challenge Cup - a defeat which afforded them a week off.

They took advantage by returning with a rampant display to keep their bid for a semi-final firmly on course.

The pick of their tries was perhaps Evans' first, as he was sent away down the right wing and dived to the corner, touching down just before Worcester scrum-half Francois Hougaard could tackle him into touch.

Harlequins: Brown; Green, Marchant, Esterhuizen, Murley; Smith, Care; Marler, Baldwin, Louw, Symons, Lamb, Lawday, Evans, Dombrandt (capt).

Replacements: Gray, Els, Collier, Tizard, Kenningham, Landajo, Herron, Northmore.

Worcester: Shillcock; Humphreys, Lawrence, Venter, Hearle; Searle, Hougaard; Waller, Annett, Schonert , Batley, G Kitchener, Hill (capt), Kvesic, Van Velze.

Replacements: Miller, Thomas, Palframan, Bresler, Dodd, Simpson, Beck, Doel.

Referee: Craig Maxwell-Keys (RFU).

Premiership leaders Bristol took control after a tricky start to gain a bonus-point win at Newcastle and regain their 12-point lead at the top.

But Jake Heenan ran through, Max Malins dummied his way to score and Luke Morahan twisted in as Bristol replied.

The visitors went clear with tries from Ben Earl and Malins before Kyle Cooper's consolation score for Falcons.

Pat Lam's Bears are now unbeaten in their past eight Premiership matches, winning six in a row, while 10th-placed Newcastle are on a run of five successive defeats.

Bristol made nine changes from their European Champions Cup defeat by Bordeaux-Begles and were scrappy in the opening 20 minutes, Earl's no-look pass in his own 22 cut out by Young for a try after the hosts had Brocklebank yellow-carded for a shoulder charge into the back of Callum Sheedy.

Fly-half Sheedy was forced off after the incident but Bristol soon found their stride, Earl cutting inside, accelerating and playing a reverse pass for Heenan to score before Malins, on his first start of 2021, wrong-footed two defenders to go over.

Newcastle's Young then missed a tackle on Morahan to allow the table-toppers to hold a 19-10 half-time lead.

England back-row Earl took a lovely line on an inside angle for Bristol's fourth try and though Niyi Adeolokun was denied a score after a knock-on, Malins sprinted through for his second after a Falcons chip over the defensive line took an unfortunate bounce.

Bristol host second-placed Exeter at Ashton Gate on Friday.

Newcastle: Penny; Vuna, Wacokecoke, Lucock, Stevenson; Flood, Young; Brocklebank, McGuigan, Mulipola, Peterson, Robinson, Welch, Wilson (capt), Chick.

Replacements: Blamire, Cooper, Ah You, Fuser, Van der Walt, Schreuder, Connon, Graham.

Bristol: Malins; Morahan, O'Conor, S Piutau (co-capt), Adeolokun; Sheedy, Uren; Y Thomas, Capon, Afoa, Joyce, Vui, Harding, Earl, Heenan (co-capt).

Replacements: Kloska, Woolmore, Lahiff, Holmes, D Thomas, Kessell, Lloyd, Leiua.

Referee: Christophe Ridley (RFU).