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SWEDEN: Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo controls the ball during the UEFA Champions League Group A football match against Malmo. — AP

MALM1: Cristiano Ronaldo surpassed 500 career Madrid coach Rafael Benitez. James Rodriguez or Gareth Bale while Los Blancos as the right-back’s half-volley with the outside of his goals and tied Raul as Real Madrid’s all-time leading “Hopefully, he has no limits. I said he was unques- were also without injured defensive pair Sergio foot bounced back off the crossbar with Wiland well scorer with a double in the Spanish giants 2-0 win tionable in the past and his merit is what he has done Ramos and Pepe. beaten. Mateo Kovacic fired just wide with the sec- away at Malmo yesterday. in far less time than the rest. That adds more value to Malmo, European Cup runners-up in 1979, made a ond half only five minutes old but Madrid were given Ronaldo, 30, netted his 500th and 501st goals to what he has achieved.” reasonable start with skipper and a scare when Rosenberg sent a header skipping just propel Madrid to victory against the Swedish champi- The double also moved Ronaldo ahead of Raul as Anton Tinnerholm testing Real goalkeeper Keylor wide of the target. ons in the Group A clash, also extending his record the top goalscorer for the 10-time European champi- Navas from distance. Malmo’s hopes of salvaging something were dealt Champions League tally to 82. ons in the Champions League with 67. But Madrid gradually asserted their dominance as a big blow when Peruvian left-back Yoshimar Yotun Additionally, the Portuguese star pulled level with Ronaldo reached the 500-goal landmark in his the first half wore on with Ronaldo, scorer of a hat- was dismissed for a second booking on 78 minutes. Raul on 323 goals for Madrid despite playing over 753rd game with 118 goals coming during his time at trick in an opening 4-0 win over Shakhtar, drawing a Only the heroics of Wiland prevented Ronaldo 400 games fewer for Los Blancos than the Spanish Manchester United, five while at boyhood club pair of saves from home ‘keeper Johan Wiland in from adding to his haul shortly after as the Swede legend. Sporting Lisbon and 55 for Portugal. quick succession. flung himself to his left to tip over a goalbound strike However, according to club records Ronaldo is The victory left Madrid with a maximum six points Malmo failed to heed those warning signs and with another stunning one-handed save denying the already Madrid’s top scorer of all-time as they add a from two games and ahead of Paris Saint-Germain, 3- paid the price on 29 minutes when Isco slipped a ball Portuguese again a few minutes later. goal officially awarded by the Spanish league to Pepe 0 winners over Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine, on goal through to an unmarked Ronaldo who calmly fired But Ronaldo eventually wrapped up the victory in in a 2-1 defeat of Real Sociedad in 2010. difference. past Wiland to extend his Champions League goals the final minute of normal time, stabbing home a “He has surpassed Raul, who was a phenomenon With Sunday’s Madrid derby against Atletico on record to 81. Dani Carvajal was desperately unlucky Lucas Vazquez cross from close range to write his and that shows that he has scored a lot of goals,” said the horizon, Rafa Benitez opted against rushing back not to add to the lead a few minutes before half-time name into Real’s record books. — AFP Mata magic gets Man Morata, Zaza on target, United up and running Juventus down Sevilla MANCHESTER: Juan Mata scored right-back and it was courtesy of one goal and made another as the Ecuadorian’s sleepiness that : Alvaro Morata opened the scoring into a pre-match friendly with Marseille, was Manchester United came from Wolfsburg went ahead. on the stroke of half-time and Simone Zaza making a great impression on the 32,908 hit his maiden Champions League goal at spectators given his two-month absence behind to beat Wolfsburg 2-1 yes- Darting in from the right flank, the death as Juventus dominated a listless from competition. terday and kick their Champions Caligiuri laid the ball off to Max Sevilla 2-0 to go top of group D yesterday. The German was given rousing applause League campaign into gear. Kruse before running into the box Juventus, last season’s beaten finalists, wel- when he deftly chested down a long ball at Beaten 2-1 at PSV Eindhoven in for the return pass and, with comed Unai Emery’s Europa League champi- the left byeline to set up Dybala, but the their opening game two weeks Valencia the only defender not to ons to Turin looking to prove that the poor Argentinian wasted the opportunity in front ago, Louis van Gaal’s side fell step up, the Wolfsburg winger domestic form that has seen them slump to of goal. Sevilla went on a rare counter when behind to a fourth-minute Daniel had all the time he needed to 15th in is simply a blip. By the end of skipper Jose Antonio Reyes stole possession Caligiuri goal at Old Trafford place a shot past David de Gea. a completely one-sided encounter, it from Morata to set up Kevin Gameiro, but it before Mata rode to the home Old Trafford was silenced, but became apparent that Sevilla’s own domes- came to nothing. team’s rescue. The Spain midfield- before long Wolfsburg were strug- tic woes are likely to pose a much bigger Juventus finally broke the deadlock on 41 er won and scored a 34th-minute gling to get out of their own threat for them this season. minutes when Morata rose above the Sevilla penalty and then set up Chris penalty area. After just 30 seconds Paul Pogba spurned defence to meet Cuadrado’s delivery from Smalling with a stunning impro- a great chance for the hosts when he mis-hit the right byeline and beat Rico down low at vised flick eight minutes into the ELECTRIC MARTIAL Morata’s chip over a thankful Sergio Rico’s his far post. It was Morata’s second goal in second half to give improving Mata saw a goal-bound shot MANCHESTER: Wolfsburg’s Brazilian defender Naldo (left) clashes in crossbar. the competition this season after his late United a fourth consecutive victo- headed over the bar by Dante and the air with Manchester United’s English forward Wayne Rooney If fans thought it was a flash in the pan, winner at Manchester City. they would be soon mistaken. Juventus set- Juve resumed where they had left off ry. United are back on top of the fired a snapshot straight at Diego during the UEFA Champions League Group B football match. —AFP tled quickly and were in complete com- after the interval and created two quick for the first time Benaglio, Bastian Schweinsteiger The Spaniard took the kick ghosted in to beat Benaglio. mand, annulling the threat of the listless chances immediately after the restart. in two years and their defeat of curled over and Anthony Martial himself-as Rooney, United’s regu- Shortly after, De Gea had to Spaniards as they went about laying the ’s long ball from midfield Wolfsburg, coupled with PSV’s 3-2 shot wide with his left foot after lar penalty-taker, looked on-and save at his near post from foundations for Morata’s opener four min- found Dybala on the run but the diminutive loss at CSKA Moscow, left them in explosively bursting between tucked it into the bottom-left cor- Caligiuri, but with United stand- utes from the interval. striker’s deflected toe poke was blocked by a four-way tie for first place in Dante and Ricardo Rodriguez. ner. Mata then picked out Depay ing firm, Wolfsburg coach Dieter After Pogba’s early chance, Brazilian Rico’s legs, while Pogba found space and Group B ahead of their trip to the The Frenchman electrified the for a shot that Benaglio blocked Hecking turned to his bench, Hernanes came close with a 30-metre drive time to fire a bicycle kick effort well over the Russian capital on October 21. crowd every time he got the ball with his legs and, after Ashley sending on Nicklas Bendtner that went just wide of Rico’s upright. Minutes crossbar from the edge of the area. Wolfsburg finished the game and in the 26th minute he danced Young had come on for Valencia and Andre Schuerrle for the last later right-back set Juan Cuadrado’s movement and pace was too strongly but could not prevent a to the byline before picking out at half-time, the former Chelsea 20 minutes. It coincided with a Cuadrado free with fans screaming at the much for French left-back Benoit fourth successive defeat in Wayne Rooney, only for the United man created the crucial second loss of composure in the United Colombian to set up Morata, who was Tremoulinas, and on 64 minutes the on-loan unmarked running through midfield. Chelsea forward skipped by two players to England, which left last season’s captain to blaze the ball over from goal with an arresting piece of midfield brought on by Van German Cup winners and 12 yards. Mata was also keeping Morata ultimately lost possession, but the set up Patrice Evra deep on the left but the improvisation. Gaal’s decision to send on Phil ease with which Juve were creating space Frenchman’s low delivery for Dybala yards Bundesliga runners-up without a Wolfsburg’s defenders on their Schweinsteiger’s mishit shot Jones for Schweinsteiger, but win in three matches. Luke Shaw’s toes and after he had picked out was worrying for the visitors. Moments later, from goal was deflected out. from outside the box looked to be despite Wolfsburg pressing- after a great exchange of passes Paulo Emery made two quick substitutions, graphic double leg break at PSV Memphis Depay for a header that bouncing behind Mata, but Schuerrle drilling a shot across has forced United into a defensive failed to trouble Benaglio, he pro- Dybala sent a superb left-footed curling replacing Gameiro and United’s number eight jutted out goal and Rodriguez whipping a effort just wide of Rico’s right-hand post. Vicente Iborra coming on for Steven reshuffle that has seen Antonio voked the penalty with a cross that his leg and back-heeled the ball free-kick narrowly wide-United Midfielder Sami Khedira, making his first N’Zonzi, although the changes made little Valencia come into the team at struck Caligiuri’s outstretched arm. into the box, where Smalling held on. — AFP appearance since hobbling off 25 minutes difference. — AFP