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The weekend preview

Spain – La Liga: Champions Barcelona are off to La Mestalla to play Valencia. The Catalan club are sweating on the fitness of midfield playmaker Xavi, who came back injured from the international break. Star striker David Villa is out for the home team.
Real Madrid are at home to Valladolid and are expected to be [...]

The weekend round-up

Spain-La Liga: Real Madrid tonked Espanyol 3-0 away at the host’s new stadium thanks to goals from Granero, Guti and Ronaldo as Manuel Pellegrini rested one or two key players but came up trumps in a win which maintain’s Real’s 100 per cent record.
Ironically it was Granero (pictured), a former Real youth team player who [...]

The weekend preview

Germany – Bundesliga: What is now the hottest title race in Europe is going to the wire with Wolfsburg two points ahead of Bayern Munich going into the final day on Saturday.
Bayern are at home to Stuttgart, and Wolfsburg are home to Werder Bremen. All eyes will be on the Wolfsburg front two of Brazilian [...]

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