Barcelona Tops La Liga

The leader Barcelona confirmed its recovery with another victory, this time in the area of Mallorca (3-0), Saturday in the 25 th day of the Spanish league, which scored three of their offensive figures, Argentina's Lionel Messi (38), David Villa (57) and Pedro (66).

With this victory, the Catalan team was provisionally with eight points clear of Real Madrid, who play on Saturday against Deportivo La Coruna and could again be five in case of victory in Galicia.

After his victory last weekend 2-1 at Athletic Bilbao, Barcelona confirmed their improvement after a small bump in performance, which drew in the field of Sporting de Gijón (1-1) in League and which lost 2-1 to Arsenal in the knockout round of the Champions League.

The game against Mallorca appeared uncomfortable with the casualties of men like Xavi Hernandez, Carles Puyol, Dani Alves and Victor Valdes, but the Barca team avenged one of the few who could stop him in the first round of the championship, reaching draw at the Nou Camp.

Ronaldo Scored 2 goals in Real Madrid

 

Cristiano Ronaldo

Real Madrid defeated Monday in Getafe (7th) 3-2, at the 17th. day of the Spanish league with a brace of Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, and is two points behind leaders Barcelona, who beat Levante on Sunday (17 º) 2-1, with two goals from Pedro Rodriguez.

Luso player scored the first goal at 11 minutes to convert a penalty committed on Argentine Angel di Maria and also scored the third and last of his team at 57 with a low shot inside the area after receiving a cross from France's Karim Benzema .

The other goal was scored by Real Madrid german Mesut Ozil German in the minute 19, which at that time was 2-0. 

Germany midfielder received a lead pass from Di Maria and rounded the Getafe goalkeeper Jordi Codina, to score.

With his two goals, Cristiano Ronaldo was highlighted as leading the scoring charts with 20 goals, ahead of Argentine Leo Messi, who has 17 and that did not play in Barcelona's win against Levante, having had his license club to lengthen the Christmas holidays at home.