SUMMARY OF THE WEEK
The feat of Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani becoming the top scorer in the history of Paris Saint Germain, and the elimination of Liverpool of the England Cup at the hands of West Bromwich Albion (2-3), have constituted the "face and the cross" football this weekend in Europe.
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To this, the successful return of the Brazilian Neymar, author of a double in the PSG, and the taking of oxygen of a Real Madrid that returned to win out, with two maximum penalties marked by Cristiano Ronaldo.
Cavani, without a doubt, has made history. If just two weeks ago he equaled the number of 156 goals that kept the Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic at the top of the PSG.
In LaLiga, PSG's next rival in the Champions League reacted: Real Madrid, current European and world champion, but immersed in a clear crisis worsened during the week with its surprising elimination of the Copa del Rey against the modest Leganés.
With the return in the ownership of the BBC (Bale, Benzema, Cristiano), after 280 days without being together in the starting lineup, he saved his visit to a Valencia (1-4) third place, although he continued to show some other dangerous disconnection.
Two penalties executed by Cristiano Ronaldo, put very face the game for Real Madrid, which then suffered with 1-2, but that killed things in the last six minutes with Marcelo and Toni Kroos. Since last October did not win at home in the League a Madrid team that, interestingly, has to his credit the record of consecutive foreign victories of the competition.
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He continues unstoppable, and unbeaten, the Barcelona despite, in the debut of Coutinho as a starter, suffer from the beautiful before a Alavés (2-1) that stood him up, that was ahead in the score until the 72nd minute and that he had occasions to increase your advantage.
But, Luis Suarez (m.72) and Leo Messi (m.84), the latter in masterful fault, avoided the surprise and gave three points to a Barcelona that still takes 19 to the Real Madrid.
Atlético de Madrid, second classified, to eleven points, needed one hour to start getting rid of the penultimate, Las Palmas (3-0). AntoineGriezmann opened the account, which was closed by Fernando Torres and Vítolo.
The Bundesliga remains the same, with the triumph of the first three: Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen and Schalke; with 16 points of advantage of the first ones over the rest. Yes, the Munich team, which ended up beating Hoffenheim (5-2), was scared to see how his opponent got a 0-2 at twelve minutes of play.
In Portugal there was the final of the League Cup, with a title for Sporting on Vitória de Setúbal, when they made the penalty shoot-out after a 1-1 draw after regulation time.
In the Netherlands, PSV Eindhoven is more leader. It won the Twente (0-2), with many of the Mexican Hirving Lozano and the Colombian Santiago Arias; while Ajax Amsterdam did not go beyond goalless draw in Utrecht. The distance between the two is 7 points.
Sorpresón in Belgium with the defeat of the Leader, the Club Brugge, in Ghent (2-0), in spite of which his advantage at the head of the classification is abusive: eleven points on the Charleroi.
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