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Real Madrid responded well to Copa del Rey exit with fight back from one goal behind to win the La liga tie against Real Zaragoza 3-1 at the Bernabeu, thanks to goals from Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo and Mezil Ozil.

Earlier Angel Lafita put Zaragoza infront at 11th minute before the special one club cruise to comfortable win and goes seven points clear at La Liga summit. La Liga champions, Barcelona has the opportunity to cut Real Madrid lead back to form five points but they failed to beat struggling Villarreal. Real Madrid stay top with 52 points and four more goals difference than Barcelona at second place with 45 points after 20 matches.

Villarreal goalkeeper, Diego Lopez inspired his club and he was top man of the match and goal.com gave him 8.5 points. Diego Lopez denied Lionel Messi and his accomplices to earn the deserved one point against UEFA champions. Though the host was doing better in most position had better position 35% than most team against Barcelona.

Real Madrid vs Real Zaragoza goals summary

La liga results and fixtures
Espanyol vs Mallorca 1-0
Athletic Bilbao vs Rayo Vallecano 3-2


szólj hozzá: Real Madrid 3-1 Zaragoza

Real Madrid derby 4-1 victory over Atletico Madrid saw them open a six points gap in La liga thank to brace and assist from Cristiano Ronaldo and Getafe 1-0 win over defending champions Barcelona. Cristiano Ronaldo have now moved from 14 goals in top scorers log to 16 La liga goals one more than Lionel Messi.


szólj hozzá: Real Madrid 4-1 Atletico

Cristiano Ronaldo scored his fourth hat trick of the season and 12th for Real Madrid in 7-1 victory over struggling Osasuna at Santiago Bernabeu. Los Galacticos enjoyed 77% possession with 61% (11/18) shots on goal in a game which Angel Di Maria set up three goals and add his goal assist tally to 10 before he was substituted after an injury. Jose Mourinho team has now won 10 consecutive games in all competition, seven in the league.

The world most expensive player is now second on La liga top scorers table with 13 goals after 930 minutes after the world’s best player Lionel Messi with 14 La Liga goals after 840 minutes. But in terms of La liga goals and goals ratio per minute Gonzalo Higuain stand at 11 goals in 565 minutes.

Ronaldo shy away from talking about his performance by rather praise team performance; He said

……..I’m very happy about scoring today, but what matters is the team won……. Without my team-mates alongside me I wouldn’t be able to score as many goals as I have done.

In 2010-2011 Ronaldo score 40 La Liga goals and won the pichichi as well as the European Golden boot and yesterday he received his golden boot award. He became the first play to have won European Golden Shoe award with two different championships (Barclays Premier League in 2007–08 and Spanish La Liga in 2010–11).

Later Barcelona managed to save one point in 2-2 draw with Athletico Madrid and allowed Real Madrid a 3 point lead at the top of La Liga log.

Osasuna have conceded 15 to Barcelona and Real Madrid alone having losing 8-0 to Barcelona at the start of the season.

Barcelona FC beat Osasuna in La Liga as Lionel messi score hat-trick. This is his first hattrick of the season and he has opened the race for Pichichi with Cristiano ronaldo. Last season Messi was UEFA top scorer while Cristiano Ronaldo won La Liga top scorer and also won European golden boot.

Barcelona vs Osasuna video highlights of all goals

Lionel Messi 5'
Cesc Fábregas 12'
David Villa 34'
Rovérsio (og) 40'
Lionel Messi 41'
Xavi 56'
David Villa 75'
Lionel Messi 79'

La liga completed transfer deals for summer 2011 for all La liga clubs including newly promted Granada, Real Betis and Rayo Vallecano. Complted transfer deals will be updated soon as transfer occur. Also see Barclay's premier league transfers La liga transfer rumours sources. La liga transfer updated on 01 Aug 2011

Athletic Bilbao
Transfer out
Ion Velez to Girona

Atletico Madrid
Transfer in
Silvio from Braga
Gabi from Real Zaragoza
Joao Miranda from Sao Paulo
Adrián from Deportivo La Coruna

Transfer out
Ibrahima Balde to Osasuna
Sergio Aguero to Manchester City

Barcelona
Transfer in
Fontás from Barcelona B
Kiko from Hercules
Thiago from Barcelona B

Transfer out
Martin Caceres to Sevilla

Espanyol
Transfer in
Hector Moreno from AZ Alkmaar

Transfer out
Jose Maria Callejon to Real Madrid
Molina to Huesca

Granada
Transfer in
David Cortes from Hercules

Getafe
Transfer in
Medhi Lacen from Racing Santander
Miguel Angel Moya from Valencia
Juan Rodriguez from Deportivo
Pablo Sarabia from Real Madrid
Alberto Lopo from Deportivo La Coruna

Transfer out
Daniel Parejo to Valencia
Luis Collantes to FC Cartagena

Levante
Transfer in
Francisco Farinos from Hercules
Jose Barkero from Numancia

Malaga
Transfer in
Joris Mathijsen from Hamburg
Ruud van Nistelrooy from Hamburg
Joaquin from Valencia
Sergio Sanchez from Sevilla
Jeremy Toulalan from Lyon
Nacho Monreal from Osasuna
Martin Demichelis from Bayern Munich
Isco from Valencia

Rayo Vallecano
Transfer out
Coke to Sevilla
Borja to Cordoba

Real Betis
Transfer in
Jefferson Montero from Villarreal
Javier Matilla from Real Villarreal
Fabricio from Valladolid

Transfer out
Israel to Xerez

Real Mallorca
Transfer in
Gianni Zuiverloon from west Bromwich
Pablo Caceres from Tigre
Juan Calatayud from Hercules

Transfer out
Oscar Trejo to Sporting Gijon
Sergi Enrich to Recreativo Huelva
Tuni to Gimnastic de Tarragona
German Lux to Deportivo La Coruna
Ayoze to Deportivo La Coruna

Osasuna
Transfer in
Ibrahima Balde from Atletico Madrid
Nino from Tenerife
Marc Bertrán from Tenerife

Transfer out
Oier to Celta Vigo
Nacho Zabal to Numancia
Fernando Soriano to Almeria

Racing Satander
Transfer in
Brian Sarmiento from U.D. Salamanca
Edu Bedia from U.D. Salamanca

Transfer out
Ivan Bolado to FC Cartagena

Real Madrid
Transfer in
Fabio Coentrao from Benifica
Raphael Varane from Lens
Nuri Sahin from Borrusia Dortmund
Hamit Altintop from Bayern Munich
Jose Maria Callejon from Espanyol
Royston Drenthe from Hercules

Transfer out
Pablo Sarabia to Getafe
David Mateos to Real Zaragoza
Juan Carlos Perez to Real Zaragoza

Real Sociedad
Transfer in
Viguera from Gimnastic de Tarragona

Transfer out
Diego Rivas Gutiérrez to Hercules

Real Zaragoza
Transfer in
David Mateos from Real Madrid
Juan Carlos Perez from Real Madrid
Edu Oriol from Barcelona B
Abraham Minero from Barcelona B

Transfer out
Gabi to Atletico Madrid

Sevilla
Transfer in
Martin Caceres from Barcelona
Emir Spahic from Montpellier
Coke from Rayo Vallecano

Transfer out
Sergio Sanchez to Malaga

Sporting Gijon
Transfer in
Oscar Trejo from Real Mallorca

Transfer out
Rafael Sastre to Huesca

Valencia
Transfer in
Daniel Parejo from Getafe
Adil Rami from Lille
Pablo Piatti from Almeria
Sunny from Valencia
Diego Alves from Almeria

Transfer out
Miguel Angel Moya to Getafe
Joaquin to Malaga
Cesar Sanchez to Villarreal
Isco to Malaga
Michel to Hercules
Aarón Níguez to Almeria


Villarreal
Transfer in
Cesar Sanchez from Valencia
Borja Valero from West Bromwich Albion
Cristian Zapata from Udinese

Transfer out
Jefferson Montero to Real Betis
Javier Matilla to Real Betis
Juan Carlos to Elche

Arsenal Football Club has confirmed participants for 2011 Emirates cup which will kick-off Saturday 30th July. The three invited teams are unique in one way or another have something special to excite Arsenal fans at Emirates Stadium and around the world. The major league soccer side, New York Red Bulls will bring Arsenal legend, Thierry Henry. Thierry Henry played 369 games for Arsenal FC, scored 226 goals and assisted 92. At Emirates he won 2 Premier League titles, 3 FA Cup, and 2 Community Shield while at Arsenal before he moves to Barcelona. Paris Saint-Germain, one of top League one clubs in France and Club Atlético Boca Juniors from South America which is regarded as the most successful club of all time in Argentine and South America. The Emirates Cup competition will involve two matches for each team, three points for a win and one for a draw. In case of tie in points and goal difference, goal scored and shots on target will be rewarded and used to decide the winner.

Emirates cup history preview 2007-2011
Tournament was inaugurated in 2007 and scheduled to be played at Emirates stadium as a two day tournament. The first edition,in 2007 featured hosts, Premier league club Arsenal FC, Serie A champions Inter Milan, League one side; Paris Saint-Germain and La liga club Valencia two day tournament.

In 2008, the second edition featured the premier league host club, La liga club; Real Madrid, Serie A club; Juventus, and Bundesliga club Hamburg.

2009 host was joined by La liga Atlético Madrid, Scottish premier league club; Rangers, and League one Paris Saint-Germain.

2010 edition of the Emirates Cup featured the Barclay’s Premier leagues host, Arsenal FC and AC Milan, Celtic, and Lyon as invited teams. The coming 2011 Emirates Cup edition will feature, Boca Juniors, Paris Saint-Germain and the Major League Soccer team, New York Red Bulls.

Year	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Winner
2007	Arsenal	Paris Saint-Germain	Valencia	Internazionale	Arsenal
2008	Hamburg	Real Madrid	Arsenal	Juventus	Hamburg
2009	Arsenal	Rangers	Atlético Madrid	Paris Saint-Germain	Arsenal
2010	Arsenal	Celtic	Lyon	Milan	Arsenal
2011	Arsenal	Paris Saint-Germain	New York Red Bulls	Club Atlético Boca Juniors	???

Emirates Cup 2011 match schedule:
Saturday 30th July
New York Red Bulls v Paris Saint-Germain (2pm)
Arsenal v Boca Juniors (4.20pm)
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Sunday 31st July
Boca Juniors v Paris Saint-Germain (2pm)
Arsenal v New York Red Bulls (4.20pm)

AC Milan home kits, Away kits and third kits for 2011-2012.
Inter milan new home kits and away kits for 2011-2012.
See also new kits for premier league new kits (Manchester United kits, Arsenal kits, Chelsea and Liverpool kits) and La Liga new kits (Real Madrid and Barcelona kits)

Barcelona Football team 2009-2010
Goalkeepers
Victor Valdes Arribas/Spain
José Manuel Pinto Colorado/Spain

Defenders
Daniel Alves da Silva/Brazil
Gerard Piqué Bernabeu/Spain
Rafael Márquez Álvarez/Mexico
Carles Puyol Saforcada/Spain
Éric Abidal/France
Gabriel Alejandro Milito/Argentina
Scherrer Cabelino Maxwell Andrade/Brazil
Henrique Adriano Buss/Brazil
Click Picture to see big picture

Midfielders

Touré Yaya/Ivory Coast
Xavier Hernandez Creus/Spain
Andrés Iniesta Lujan/Spain
Pedro Rodríguez Ledesma/Spain
Sergio Busquets Burgos/Spain

Wingers and Strikers
Zlatan Ibrahimovic/Sweden
Lionel Andrés Messi/Argentina
Bojan Krkic Pérez/Spain
Thierry Henry/France
Seydou Keita/Senegal
Eidur Smari Gudjohnsen/Iceland
Albert Jorquera Fortia/Spain
Manager
Josep Guardiola/Spain

More Barcelona pictures at zimbio.com

Barcelona FC players Samuel Eto’o and Thierry Henry becaome joint winner of the Most Improved Player award 2009; the LLTO La Liga Awards

The clubs set La Liga top score record of 105 goals, Thierry Henry scored a total of 36 goals this season (17 goals previous season); 19 league goals, 5 Champions League goals. Samuel etoo scored a total of 39 goals this season (19 goals previous season), 30 leagues season goals, 4 Champions League goal. (including one in the final against Man U), and 39 total goals on the year.

Real Madrid cruised to a 5-1 victory over Toronto FC in a friendly game in Canada. Raul Gonzalez score twice for La liga club as Cristiano ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Arjen Robbien score one each. The Major League Soccer Toronto got their consolation gola on 75th minute though Gabe Gala

The game attract 22,000 fans who enjoyed beautiful display by the galacticos as Kaka and Xabi Alonso make debut.
It took 12 minutes for Raul Gonzalez to open the score 1-0. In 18th minute impressive Ronaldo footwork and one-two pass with Karim Benzema, open up TFC defence as Ronaldo net second goal. The galacticos proved a move superior powerhouse when Real Madrid captain score his second of the day and 3-0 lead for Florentina Perez’s club. Total domination of the galaticos continues with 91% to 9% possession for Real Madrid. The France international, Karim Benzema added fourth goal with easy tap-in followed great work by Negrado. TFC fan went mad on 75 minutes cheering as Geba Gala beat substitute Dudek to register first goal for Toronto FC against the world most expensive team. It was like a "world cup winning goal" for the fans. Arjen Robben sealed the 5-I score on 85th minute after impressive run to shed TFC defenders.
Real Madrid vs Toronto FC Video Highlights

Video Credit CatrachitoXD

Barcelona FC scored 59 goals in first half of the 2008/2009 season