Real Madrid derby 4-1 victory over Atletico Madrid saw them open a six points gap in La liga thank to brace and assist from Cristiano Ronaldo and Getafe 1-0 win over defending champions Barcelona. Cristiano Ronaldo have now moved from 14 goals in top scorers log to 16 La liga goals one more than Lionel Messi.
szólj hozzá: Real Madrid 4-1 Atletico
Sergio Aguero scored two goals for Argentina to book a place in Copa America quarter-finals. The Atletico Madrid striker scored on 45th min and 52nd minutes before Real Madrid's Angel Di Maria sealed victory in the 63rd minute. Barcelona’s star; Lionel Messi feed Aguero and Di Maria for second and third goals respectively and created many chances for his team mates. In Group A winners Argentina and Colombia progress to last eight and Costa will wait for results from other game to go their way for two best third placed teams. Argentina will now meet team from Group C, it could be Chile, Uruguay or Peru - while Costa Rica could still progress in third if other results go their way.
Sergio Aguero is satisfied with the win and team performance
"We played very, very well. We scored the goal we had needed in the previous match, but the most important thing is that we played great football tonight."
Sergio Batista changes
The manager made 4 changes in starting line-up dropping Ever Banega, Esteban Cambiasso, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Carlos Tevez for Fernando Gago, Di Maria, Aguero and Gonzalo Higuain. Batista is very delighted with Lionel Messi performance and especially the two assist.
Batista said
"Lionel was brilliant, like the rest of the team, I'm very happy with the attitude. We had a number of opportunities to score goals in the first half’’
Video highlights: all three goals
Top scorers Copa America
Sergio Agüero, Argentina 3
Radamel Falcao, Colombia 2
José Paolo Guerrero, Peru 2
Nelson Haedo Valdez, Paraguay 1
Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguay 1
Arsenal FC have win second match against Celtic 3-1 and see-off the Scotland team after winning 2-0 in first match. The Wembley cup champions were not strong enough to resist Arsenal pressure and easy allowed a 5-1 aggregate for Arsenal.
| CHAMPIONLEAGUE QUALIFICATION PLAY OFF | |||||
| TEAMS | Score1 | Score2 | Aggregate | ||
| Anderlecht | Lyon FC | 1-5 | 1-3 | 2-8 | |
| Atletico Madrid | Panathinaikos | 3-2 | 2-0 | 5-2 | |
| Debrecen | LevsikSofia | 2-1 | 2-0 | 4-1 | |
| FC Zurich | Ventispils | 3-0 | 2-1 | 5-1 | |
| Maccabi Haifa | Salzburg | 2-1 | 3-0 | 5-1 | |
| Arsenal FC | vs | Celtic FC | 2-0 | 3-1 | 5-1 |
| APOEL Nicosia | vs | Copenhagen | 0-1 | 3-1 | 3-2 |
| Florentina | vs | Sporting CP | 2-2 | 1-1 | 3-3 |
| Olympiakos | vs | FCSheriff | 2-0 | 1-0 | 3-0 |
| VfB Stuttgart | vs | Timisoara | 2-0 | 0-0 | 2-0 |
Champions League draw
Arsenal may face Wembley cup winner Celtic in the final stage of champion league qualifying round. Tony Mowbray's have to beat Dinamo Moscow in away game to enter this stage. Qualification play off have been schedule ton 18/19 August and 25/26 August
The 10 remaining clubs in big league in Europe that did not win in domestic league will compete for 5 places to in champion league
Another path is for 10 league winner in leagues which are not given much weight in Europe football. Will also compete for five places to go to champion league. Ten qualifying team will join 20 team which qualified automatically to make a list of 32 teams
Full Champions League play-off draw:
FC Sheriff v Olympiakos
SV Red Bull Salzburg v Maccabi Haifa
FK Ventspils v FC Zurich
FC Copenhagen v Apoel Nicosia
Levski Sofia v Debrecen
Lyon v Anderlecht
CELTIC v ARSENAL
FC Timisoara v VfB Stuttgart
Sporting v Fiorentina
Panathinaikos v Atletico Madrid
Tomorrow match schedule
Sunday 2nd August 2009
Atletico Madrid v Paris Saint-Germain (2pm kick-off)
Arsenal v Rangers (4.15pm kick-off)
