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62 NEW VISION, Monday May 4, 2015 VISION SPORT Ronaldo keeps Real in touch CHAMPIONS La Liga results Espanyol 1 - 1 Vallecano Cordoba 0 - 8 Barcelona Atletico 0 - 0 Bilbao Sevilla 2 - 3 Real Madrid Deportivo 1 - 1 Villarreal

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A hat-trick maintained Real Madrid’s La Liga title aspirations as they ended Sevilla’s 34-game unbeaten run at home with a 3-2 win on Saturday. Victory kept the European champions just two points behind Barcelona with three games to play after Luis Suarez scored his first hat- trick for the Catalans in a 8-0 humiliation of Cordoba. “It was not easy to win here and we have managed it. We are very happy and we keep fighting,” said Real Madrid boss . “It is not by coincidence that they haven’t lost for 34 games at this stadium.” The game swung massively in Madrid’s favour in the space of two first-half minutes whilst Sevilla were down to 10 men as Grzegorz Krychowiak Chelsea players celebrate victory at Crystal Palace yesterday. The win also ensured the Blues with a fourth English Premiership title with three games remaining was off the field receiving treatment for a facial injury. Ronaldo headed home expertly from Isco’s cross and then prodded in from Javier Hazard storms Palace to snatch title for Mourinho’s Chelsea Hernandez’s flick-on moments later. P results strategy by creating a siege Atletico — has supplied the Sevilla were handed a route Chelsea 1 - 0 C. Palace mentality. goals that were badly missed back into the game when The Premier League title Champions as City outscored Chelsea Sergio Ramos upended Vidal beckoned for Chelsea from A. Villa 3 - 2 Everton 2014-15: Chelsea Hazard irrepressible 102-71 in 2013-14. 2013-14: Man City inside the area in first-half the moment Andre Schuer- Leicester 3 - 0 Newcastle After Fabregas was booked The sales of and stoppage time and Carlos rle put them ahead after 20 2012-13: Man United for diving during a 1-1 draw Romelu Lukaku helped fund Bacca converted from the minutes and 45 seconds Liverpool 2 - 1 QPR 2011-12: Man City at Southampton in late the rearmament and despite 2010-11: Man United penalty spot. of their opening fixture at Man Utd 0 - 1 West Brom December, the Portuguese Chelsea also signing Filipe Burnley on August 18. 2009-10: Chelsea declared that there was a Luis, Loic Remy and Juan ’s first Chelsea S’derland 2 - 1 S’pton 2008-09: Man United “campaign” against his team Cuadrado, they will finish the 2007-08: Man United goal cancelled out Scott 2 - 0 Stoke orchestrated by the media and season with a transfer spend- Roma go 2nd Arfield’s opener and four min- 2006-07: Man United opposition coaches. ing surplus. utes later Schuerrle converted West Ham 1 - 0 Burnley 2005-06: Chelsea He was fined £25,000 Typically of Mourinho, the 2004-05: Chelsea results a sumptuous, half-volleyed Spurs 0 - 1 Man City ($38,310, 34,900 euros) by title success was founded pass from Cesc Fabregas at 2003-04: Arsenal , but it upon a defence imperiously Roma 2 - 0 Genoa 2002-03: Man United the culmination of a superb Chelsea won 11 and drew did not prevent him repeating marshalled by 34-year-old Inter 0 - 0 Chievo 25-pass move. 2001-02: Arsenal the accusation after Costa was Terry that has recorded a three of their first 14 games, 2000-01: Man United Fiorentina 3 - 1 Cesena Branislav Ivanovic’s 34th- notably beating Arsenal and roundly criticised for treading league-high 17 clean sheets. minute goal completed a 3-1 1999-00: Man United on Liverpool pair Emre Can The star of the show, how- Liverpool and crushing 1998-99: Man United Atalanta 1 - 1 Lazio win that took Jose Mourinho’s Everton 6-3, which sparked and Martin Skrtel in the ever, has been the irrepress- side above defending champi- 1997-98: Arsenal League Cup semi-finals. ible Hazard, scorer of the title- Verona 0 - 1 Udinese talk of an unbeaten campaign. 1996-97: Man United ons Manchester City on goals But they lost 2-0 at But if the stage-managed clinching goal against Crystal Sampdoria 0 - 1 Juventus scored at the top of the table, 1995-96: Man United scowling was classic Palace and who Mourinho Newcastle United in early 1994-95: Blackburn Sassuolo 0 - 0 Palermo and they have been there December and a 5-3 humbling Mourinho, so too were the says he now values at “£100 largely ever since. 1993-94: Man United masterful close-season trans- million for each leg”. at Tottenham Hotspur on 1992-93: Man United ROME “They’ve definitely been the New Year’s Day prompted fer dealings that saw him The league title followed a best team in the league,” Mourinho to circle the wag- strengthen his squad in almost 2-0 victory over Tottenham in admits Arsenal every department. the League Cup final, which Roma moved ahead of lo- ons. them closer to the title, but Aaron Ramsey. “They’ve only Stalwarts gave Mourinho the first silver- cal rivals Lazio into second There was an emphatic 5-0 captain said the lost twice this season. Their and Ashley Cole left, while ware of his second stint at place in Serie A and the victory at Swansea City on criticism was unfounded. consistency has been the best Petr Cech’s 11-year stint as Chelsea. final automatic Champions January 17, but despite their “Possession and tippy-tappy and that’s what you need.” first-choice goalkeeper ended But there was a sensation in League spot on Sunday challengers all falling away, football’s great, but if you are That win at Burnley, with after Thibaut Courtois arrived the FA Cup, as third-tier after a 2-0 win over in-form Mourinho reverted to type not winning games, you’re not dazzling, Costa and Chelsea’s next seven going to win the league,” he following a three-year loan at Bradford City came from 2-0 Genoa. down to win 4-2 at Stamford Seydou Doumbia's second scoring and Fabregas supply- league wins would all come said. Atletico Madrid. Bridge, and an oddly passive goal in Italy and a wonderful ing two assists, provided the by a one-goal margin. Despite their dominance, Fabregas has brought tro- exit from the Champions Alessandro Florenzì solo strike blueprint for the Blues’ entire The leaders were taunted Chelsea have seemed to phy-winning know-how and League, where Paris Saint- in stoppage time gave Roma season, but the formula was with chants of ‘Boring, boring spend much of the season an eye for the killer pass, Germain progressed on away the three points. tweaked after the turn of the Chelsea!’ during a 0-0 draw at with their backs to the wall as while the snarling Costa -- a year. £32 million acquisition from goals. AFP Arsenal in April that edged Mourinho employed a familiar