La Liga round-up: Five-star Barça rout Málaga; Real overcome Almería
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| Samuel Eto'o 56 |
Barcelona showed a fantastic display of attacking football as they routed Málaga 6-0 at Camp Nou and maintained a six-point advantage over Real Madrid.
Xavi fired Barça in front in the 19th minute when he latched onto Samuel Eto'o's pass and clipped a low shot past Iñaki Goitia.
Lionel Messi doubled the lead six minutes later with a typical piece of magic. The diminutive Argentine controlled the ball with his chest on the wing, skipped past Hélder and into the area before firing into the roof of the net with his right foot.
It was 3-0 just after the half-hour mark when Thierry Henry latched onto Xavi's pass, rounded Goitia and rolled the ball into the empty net.
Eto'o made it four just before the break as the Cameroon striker ended a flowing team move by sliding a low shot through Goitia's legs and into the net.
Barcelona took six minutes of the second half to increase the lead, with Daniel Alves heading a fifth following a tremendous pass from Andrés Iniesta.
Eto'o completed the rout in the 56th minute when Henry's pass enabled Eto'o to slide the ball home from close range after Goitia had parried Sylvinho's initial blistering shot.
Barcelona v Málaga goal & highlights
A Klaas-Jan Huntelaar double helped Real Madrid beat Almería 3-0 and left Hugo Sánchez, the legendary former Los Blancos hitman, empty-handed on his return to the Bernabéu.
Sánchez, who scored 207 goals in 283 matches for Real in the 1980s and 90s, was making his first appearance at the Bernabéu as a La Liga coach and was given a warm reception from the home supporters.
But Sánchez's Almería side fell behind after 23 minutes as Marcelo seize a loose ball at the edge of the area and sent an unstoppable right-footed effort into the roof of the Almería net with visiting goalkeeper Diego Alves virtually motionless.
Marcelo, whose form has improved since coach Juande Ramos recently modified his position from defense to midfield, might have been celebrating a hat-trick before the hour-mark.
Five minutes into the second half he fired a rasping shot against the crossbar from a tight angle before seeing his goalbound drive blocked by Alves two minutes later.
However, Alves could do nothing to stop Huntelaar from volleying into the roof of the net from the resulting corner.
Gabriel Heinze almost added a third on on the hour mark when he saw his header from a Wesley Sneijder corner cleared off the line by Jose Ortiz.
But it wasn’t long before the third came. Sneijder's superb through-ball put Arjen Robben away and although his shot was saved by Alves, the prolific Huntelaar was on hand to volley home the rebound.
Real Madrid v Almería goal & highlights
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Xavi fired Barça in front in the 19th minute when he latched onto Samuel Eto'o's pass and clipped a low shot past Iñaki Goitia.
Lionel Messi doubled the lead six minutes later with a typical piece of magic. The diminutive Argentine controlled the ball with his chest on the wing, skipped past Hélder and into the area before firing into the roof of the net with his right foot.
It was 3-0 just after the half-hour mark when Thierry Henry latched onto Xavi's pass, rounded Goitia and rolled the ball into the empty net.
Eto'o made it four just before the break as the Cameroon striker ended a flowing team move by sliding a low shot through Goitia's legs and into the net.
Barcelona took six minutes of the second half to increase the lead, with Daniel Alves heading a fifth following a tremendous pass from Andrés Iniesta.
Eto'o completed the rout in the 56th minute when Henry's pass enabled Eto'o to slide the ball home from close range after Goitia had parried Sylvinho's initial blistering shot.
Barcelona v Málaga goal & highlights
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| Real Madrid striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar of reacts after scoring against Almería Photo: AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza |
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| Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 66 |
A Klaas-Jan Huntelaar double helped Real Madrid beat Almería 3-0 and left Hugo Sánchez, the legendary former Los Blancos hitman, empty-handed on his return to the Bernabéu.
Sánchez, who scored 207 goals in 283 matches for Real in the 1980s and 90s, was making his first appearance at the Bernabéu as a La Liga coach and was given a warm reception from the home supporters.
But Sánchez's Almería side fell behind after 23 minutes as Marcelo seize a loose ball at the edge of the area and sent an unstoppable right-footed effort into the roof of the Almería net with visiting goalkeeper Diego Alves virtually motionless.
Marcelo, whose form has improved since coach Juande Ramos recently modified his position from defense to midfield, might have been celebrating a hat-trick before the hour-mark.
Five minutes into the second half he fired a rasping shot against the crossbar from a tight angle before seeing his goalbound drive blocked by Alves two minutes later.
However, Alves could do nothing to stop Huntelaar from volleying into the roof of the net from the resulting corner.
Gabriel Heinze almost added a third on on the hour mark when he saw his header from a Wesley Sneijder corner cleared off the line by Jose Ortiz.
But it wasn’t long before the third came. Sneijder's superb through-ball put Arjen Robben away and although his shot was saved by Alves, the prolific Huntelaar was on hand to volley home the rebound.
Real Madrid v Almería goal & highlights
Elsewhere in La Liga on Sunday:
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