Real Madrid striker Ronaldo hat-trick keeps Barcelona from celebrating: La Liga round up
Real Madrid delayed http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604’s celebrations for at least another day as they thrashed La Liga strugglers Getafe 4-0 on Tuesday.
A http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ronaldo-c31734 hat-trick helped Jose Mourinho’s side to delay the inevitable by 24 hours as Barcelona will now have to secure a point they need to seal the La Liga title against Levante later on Wednesday.
Anything other than 3 points for the Los Merengues would have started the party early in Catalunya but Ronaldo made sure that did not happen. The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Portugal-c2984 international took his season’s tally of goals to 36 as he netted in the 24th, 58th
and 89th minute to pile on the misery on a woeful Getafe side.
The twinkle-toed winger from Portugal, who also netted 4 times in his side’s previous 6-2 win over Sevilla took his season’s goal tally past http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296 in the process and now just stands two goal shy of equalling the all-time Primera Division record.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Karim-Benzema-c20350 scored the other goal on the night to make sure Real kept their slender hopes of winning the title on track and close the gap at the top to just 5 points.
In another match of the night, Atletico Madrid squandered a goal advantage to lose 2-1 to Racing Santander, who made sure their top-flight status remains intact for at least another season. Kennedy Bakircioglu and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Markus-Rosenberg-c24251 were the two goal scorers
for Santander.
The defeat is a bitter blow to Rojiblancos’ hopes of qualification for the Europa League as they remain sixth in the La Liga table tied on points with Sevilla, who have a game in hand against Osasuna.
Also looking certain to play in the La Liga next season are Malaga who eased to a 2-0 victory over Sporting Gijon.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Manuel-c23383 Pellegrini’s side who were looking destined for the drop not too long ago.
The Brazilian striker opened the scoring for the Andalusians Tuesday with only nine minutes on the clock while http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Eliseu-c12315 Pereira scored another in the second half to seal the victory.
Deportivo La Coruna also made a statement of intent as they came from a goal down to beat Athletic Bilbao 2-1.
Deportivo suffered an early setback as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Juan-c19640 Carlos Valeron’s inspirational performance made sure they were not going down without a fight.
After having started the game in the relegation zone with just 39 points, own goals from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Xabier-Castillo-c37047 gave Deportivo a much-needed win and a big boost for survival in the League.
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