Thursday 19 January 2012

Weekly European Football Report

Spain: LA Liga

The big two both won their games at the weekend Real beating Mallorca 2-1 away from home and Barcelona beating Real Betis 4-2 at home. Villarreal are still struggling being outclassed away to Atlético Madrid 3-0.

Real Zaragoza look to be fighting a losing cause to stay up as they are now 8 points from safety, as mentioned above Villarreal continue to struggle and they currently sit 19th in the table. Athletic Bilbao beat Levante 3-0 to close the gap from 5th to 4th down to 4 points. Look for the 4th place race and relation fight to go late into the season.

Italy: Serie A

The stand out game of the weekend was the Milan derby, which was won by Inter and help them close the gap to the top places. Inter Milan are now only 6 points behind the current leaders Juventus.

The bottom two are beginning to get cut off from the rest, as they are both 6 points from the 17th placed team Sienna. It looks as though the bottom two will struggle to stay up

France: Ligue 1

The French league Montpellier beat Lyon at home to stay within three points of league leaders PSG who beat Toulouse 3-1 at home. The league is still very tight with only 4 points separating 12th place Evian Thonon Gaillar and bottom of the table AC Ajaccio.

The Champions League places are still very much up for grabs, with only 5 points separating Lille in 3rd place to St Etienne in 7th place.

England: Premier League

Manchester United won to keep up the Pressure on Manchester City, in the title race. Tottenham meanwhile dropped their first points at home in while drawing with Wolves, Chelsea closed the gap with a win over Sunderland and Arsenal lost further ground losing to Swansea in one of the two Sunday Games.

Blackburn beat Fulham at home to move out of the relegation zone for the first time in a long time and give manger some breathing space.

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