Something for everyone in busy European soccer weekend

Your guide to what’s happening in Europe’s leading soccer leagues this weekend: under Shakespeare, who has also steered the Champions League newcomers into the quarter-finals.

Middlesbrough will be hoping the end of Aitor Karanka’s reign on Thursday produces a similar uplift as it sits next-to-last in the standings going into Sunday’s game at sixth-place Manchester United. is coming off two league draws.

Unlike Sevilla, Atletico is through to the Champions League quarter-finals after ousting Bayer Leverkusen. It also won its last two domestic matches.

Real Madrid will be defending its two-point lead over Barcelona when it visits seventh-place Athletic Bilbao on Saturday. The next day, Barcelona, coming off a 2-1 loss at Deportivo La Coruna, hosts Valencia at the Camp Nou.

Hamburger SV and Werder Bremen are behind Wolfsburg on goal difference. Hamburg is at sixth-place Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday when Werder Bremen hosts second-place Leipzig.

Next-to-last Ingolstadt has a tough trip to third-place Borussia Dortmund.

It will be a clash of Serie A’s top scorers when Inter Milan visits Torino on Saturday.

Torino forward Andrea Belotti is at the top of the scoring chart with 22 goals. Mauro Icardi scored a nineminute hat trick in Inter’s 7-1 rout of Atalanta last weekend to take his tally to 20.

Inter’s victory kept its hopes of qualifying for the Champions League alive. Inter is fifth, six points behind third-place Napoli and the final Champions League spot.

Napoli visits Empoli on Sunday when it will be a case of the league’s best attack against the weakest. Napoli has scored 65 goals, while Empoli has found the back of the net only 15 times.

Lazio, which is four points below Napoli, visits Cagliari, while second-place Roma hosts Sassuolo.

Also, Juventus visits Sampdoria as its goes for a record sixth straight Serie A title.