La Liga Round-Up

After one third of the season is over in the Spanish league Barcelona stand on top with a lead of one point to the Madrid Giants. Sevilla are not far behind with the difference between the champions and them being only two points. Barcelona had a steady start to the season but soon injury vows took over. First was the star striker Samuel Eto'o, out with a broken leg. Secondly the young Argentinian Lionel Messi went out with a broken metatarsal. then Saviola also went out with injury, though expected to be back earliest of the three strikers followed by Eto'o in January and Messi in February. But with Ronaldiho and Eidur starting to score for the Catalan side they remain on top for now.
Real Madrid had a slow start to the season with the new coach Fabio Capello from Juventus settling with his new signings Ruud Van Nistelrooy(ManU), Fabio Cannavaro(Juve), Emerson(Juve), Mahmadou Diarra(Lyon), Jose Antinio Reyes(Arsnl) and Antonio Cassano(Roma). Nistelrooy soon found his goal scoring for form and madrid's season started improving, with Raul also coming back in form. Ronaldo has also become fit now and scored three in the last week. Robinho has also started games and looks to be in good form. With the squad becoming fitter under Cappelo Madrid look to end their cup drought now. Sevilla on third place are maintaining their contention for the La Liga. the current UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup holders have been consistent this season winning all their home games. If they could also improve their away form they could become a real threat to the top two.
Atletico Madrid, Real Zargoza and the new entrant Recreativo Huelva follow.
Teams currently facing relegation danger, Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad and Gimnastic de Tarragona.

Top 5 Scorers in the league this season:

Player - Team - Goals
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Milito, D.- Zara- 11
Kanoute, F. -Sev -10
Ronaldinho -Barca- 10
Van Nistelrooy, R. - Real- 8
Baiano, F. -Cel -6

Top five teams in the last 10 games (after 13 games):

Team - Last 10(W-D-L)
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Real Madrid (7-1-2)
Barcelona (6-3-1)
Villareal (6-2-2)
Sevilla (6-1-3)
Atletico Madrid (5-3-2)

Ronaldinho Goals

Barca goes one up against the Germans in the Champions League with this fine free kick.
With everybody expecting him to go over the top of wall he kicks it under the wall.




Barcelona beat Villareal 4-0 to remain on top of the La Liga with this brilliant Ronaldinho Goal.
Ron beats the offside trap then controls the lobbed ball with his chest to take it away from the defender and then the bicycle kick.

Eight teams decided for UCL Knockout stages

Today Eight teams were decided to go through to knockout stages of the champions league remaining eight will be decided after the Wednesday's fixtures.

From Group A Chelsea and Barcelona proceed with both clinching a 2-0 victory at their respective homes.

From Group B Bayern Munich and Inter Milan go through. Both sides were drawn level on match day 6 with a last minute strike from Patrick Vieira.

From Group C Liverpool and PSV Eindhoven go through. Both lost their ties on match day 6.

From Group D Valencia and Roma progress with the Italian side beating the Spanish in their last group tie.

Barcelona v/s Werder Bremen(5th December, 2006)

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Barcelona will look to avoid an embarrassing early exit from the Champions League and an unwanted place in the history books when they take on Werder Bremen on Tuesday.It is crunch time for Frank Rijkaard's side, who know anything other than three points at the Nou Camp will see Barca become the first defending champions to fail to make the knockout stage of the Champions League.For German opponents Bremen, a point in Spain would be enough for them to join Chelsea in the last 16.