Barcelona, Real Madrid Remain Perfect; Sevilla in Third With Win Over Bilbao
September 27, 2009
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Madrid. Barcelona and Real Madrid maintained their perfect La Liga
starts on Saturday, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic setting the champions on
their way to a 2-0 victory at Malaga and Real winning 3-0 at home to
Tenerife.
Real made it five wins out of five thanks to a Karim
Benzema double and a picturesque curler from Kaka and lead with 15
points, ahead of Barcelona on goal difference alone.
Sevilla,
who won 4-0 at Athletic Bilbao, are third on 12, while Maxi Rodriguez
struck in added time to earn struggling Atletico Madrid a 2-2 draw at
Valencia.
Ibrahimovic needed just 10 minutes to score his
fifth goal in five games after coming off the bench for the injured
Thierry Henry in the 29th minute of a bad-tempered clash.
Lionel Messi lifted the ball over the static Malaga defence and the Sweden striker controlled with his chest and fired in.
Defender
Gerard Pique poked home a Xavi freekick three minutes after replacing
Dmytro Chygrynskiy, who appeared to have picked up a knee problem, in
the 56th minute.
In a match littered with yellow cards, Malaga
defender Weligton looked fortunate to stay on the pitch after TV
replays showed him treading on Messi’s ankle.
The referee
later sent Barca assistant coach Tito Vilanova off the bench for
protesting a decision and with five minutes to go showed Malaga forward
Albert Luque a straight red card for a wild challenge on Daniel Alves.
“It was a very aggressive match that took a lot out of us,” Barca coach Pep Guardiola said at a news conference.
Brazilian
playmaker Kaka, a second-half substitute earlier at the Bernabeu, bent
in a stunning shot to end any hopes of a fightback from promoted
Tenerife after Benzema had netted twice in 11 second-half minutes.
Tenerife
has been dubbed Real’s ‘Cursed Island’ by the Spanish media after the
Canary Islanders twice deprived the Madrid club of the league title in
the early 1990s.
After a closely-fought first half with few
clear chances, Benzema rose early in the second half to nod in Xabi
Alonso’s cross and then outmuscled Manuel Martinez and curled a shot
into the far corner.
The Real defense looked far from solid in
the second half despite the return of Portuguese international Pepe to
the starting lineup after a 10-match ban.
Forward Nino
narrowly missed with a lob with Iker Casillas off his line and a
mistake from the Real keeper almost let in Julian Omar before Kaka beat
the keeper from the edge of the penalty area.
Reuters
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