0 Raul Gonzalez stretch his UEFA competition goals record to 76 after brace vs Athletic Bilbao

Former Real Madrid and Spain national team striker Raul Gonzalez scored a brace vs Athletico Bilbao to extend his goal tally in European club competitions to 76, 6 goals more than Filippo Inzaghi, the AC Milan poacher. 

Raul Gonzalez 76 goals summary

Champions league 71

Real Madrid 66

Schalke 04 FC 5

EUSA Cup or Intercontinental Cup

Real Madrid 1

UEFA Super Cup

Real Madrid 1

UEFA Europa League

Schalke 04 FC 3

Recently messi scored 19th goal in European league knock-out stage breaking record formerly set by Raul, but after Raul double against Athletic Bilbao, he set new record and raise the bar to 20 goals. Surely Messi having more time in football will break the record again.

Raul has played for Atlético Madrid, Real Madrid CF and FC Schalke 04 in his carrier. His success so far are linked to Real Madrid were he won several award in European competitions.

UEFA Champions League: Trophy winner 1998, 2000, 2002

UEFA Champions League: Top scorer leading scorer 1999/2000, 2000/01

UEFA Super Cup: Trophy winner 2002

UEFA Club Forward of the Year: 2000, 2001, 2002.

0 Premier league video highlights: Demba Ba bang his 15th league goals in as Newcastle vs Manchester United ended 3-0.

Demba Ba has now proved without doubt that he can take on any team any defender when he scored his 15th premier league goal, to be second after top scorer Robin Van Persie. He was a nuisance to United, denied call for a penalty early on after Rio brought him down on penalty box though the referee saw otherwise. He went on to be denied call for fouls and miss to connect a mouth watering cross.

United manager Fergusson brought in Anders Lindegaard for De Gea on to see the goalie concede for the first time in premier league and went on to concede three. There was nothing much he could do for all three goals. For the third goal it is not clear if he would have reached the ball before Leon Best if Jones avoided deflecting the ball. Demba score the open with a nice volley over Rio Ferdinand who block Anders Lindegaard vision. The second was pretty much super strike though Cabaye went just two steps behind before hitting the ball that hit crossbar and went inn. It was similar to Lampard goal vs Germany that was denied but Howard Webb did not require goal line technology to make decision. Then came the final nail, Jones own goal as he tries to obstruct the ball from Leon Best. He accidentally deflected the ball but Anders Lindegaard was already moving the other direction. 

Results add to the tally of surprising recent premier league results:

Chelsea vs Aston Villa 1-3

Manchester United vs Blackburn 2-3

Sunderland vs Manchester City 0-1

Fulham vs Arsenal 1-2

Wayne Rooney coming from unpaid week after misbehavior in holiday season was unable to prevent Manchester United consecutive defeat and was withdrawn on 75 minute. United made substitutions and played with 3 forwards before Rooney replacement but still could find a goal.

1 Republic of Ireland on edge to Euro 2012 final as Robbie Keane score a brace to be second in Euro championship all time top scorer table.

Giovanni Trapattoni team, Republic of Ireland enjoyed 4-0 victory over 9 men Estonia in Euro 2012 play-off. Republic of Ireland are now set to take the first leg advantage to home ground and should only avoid a more than 4 goal difference lost to confirm their place in Poland and Ukraine Euro 2012 finals.

Republic of Ireland are on the edge to end the lack on big competition as their last were in 2002 World cup in Japan and Korea

Goal scoring record for national team
Robbie Keane netted a brace to rose his national team goal tally to 53. Keane also close on Hakan Suker and Jon Tomasson on all time Euro championship top scorers with 18 goals one shot to the two leading top scorers. Other two player with 18 goals are Raul Gonzales and Jan Koller.

Euro Championship all time top scorers

1	Hakar Suker	Turkey	19
2	Jon Tomasson	Denmark	19
3	Raul Gonzalez	Spain	18
4	Jan Koller	Republic Czech	18
5	Robbie Keane	Republic of Ireland	18

Goal scorers

Keith Andrews 13'

Jonathan Walters 68'

Robbie Keane 71'

Robbie Keane 88'