Villarreal joins Barcelona in the pursuit of leaders Real Madrid

Goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi accelerated the race Saturday Real Madrid and Barcelona , but Villarreal anticipated today at the end of the day, football has to stand up to the greats.

Madrid leads the standings with 20 points, followed by Villarreal and Barcelona level on 19, while Valencia defeated in Mestalla by Mallorca (1-2), lost strength and ranks fourth with 16, one more than amazing Espanyol .

The Real Madrid thrashed Racing Santander, with a resounding 6-1 at the Santiago Bernabeu. Cristiano Ronaldo led the white roller signing four goals, one penalty, for the first time in his career. Topping the list with 10 gunners. The Argentine Gonzalo Higuain and German Mesut Ozil completed the rout.

"Who is a Christian has much more than a football player," said the captain of Real Madrid, Iker Casillas .

Villarreal won 2-0 at El Madrigal and Atletico Madrid, which claimed a penalty when Argentine "Kun" Aguero at the close of the first time, protest cost him his expulsion to his coach, Quique Flores.

Cani , a pass from Brazilian Nilmar , and Italian Giuseppe Rossi converted the many of the "Yellow Submarine", which has won four home games without conceding a goal.

Barcelona defeated at home to bottom club Zaragoza by 0-2, both of Leo Messi (min 42 and 66), in a game played with 10 premises from 47 minutes after the expulsion of Argentine Leonardo Ponzio by a slap to the Brazilian Dani Alves.

Valencia missed the train of Madrid, Villarreal and Barcelona. Mallorca's Michael Laudrup went through Mestalla and took all three points with a 1-2 victory. Uruguay's "Chori" Castro got the two goals of 0-2, the first from the penalty spot, and Roberto Soldado shortened distances. All so many were recorded in the first half.

Espanyol, who heads the Argentine Mauricio Pochettino , added his fourth victory in as many games at home by beating Levante 2-1 with goals by Argentine Datolo after 12 minutes of play and a Joseph Lane in 80.

The Uruguayan Christian Stuani. who relieved in 56 to Ecuadorian Felipe Caicedo , won both the Levant, his first goal in the first division after it was last season, in Albacete, the second gunner Second, with 22 goals.

Suffered in a match, Sevilla beat Athletic Bilbao 4-3, in a game the hosts dominated with a clear 3-0 in the 62 but that overturned the expulsion of Fernando Navarro two minutes later.

Two goals from Brazilian Luis Fabiano and another from the Malian Frederic Kanoute , penalty, signed the 3-0. Llorente was the nerves in the stands with two goals for the 3-2, but Kanoute hit a new release from penalty. In the twilight of grief, Igor Gabilondo closed the account of 4-3.

El Getafe no mistake to Sporting Gijon , who came with high spirits after beating the previous day to Sevilla. A clear win by 3-0, scored by the Ghanaian Derek Boateng, Adrián Colunga, a penalty caused by the Uruguayan Juan Albin, and Ivan Marcano.

Gave Almeria a draw in their field to the Hercules, which was advanced in 36 with a goal by Paraguayan Nelson Valdez. The Argentine Leo Ulloa premises saved from defeat with a draw in 86.

The Hercules was able to rout, but the Brazilian goalkeeper Diego Alves starred in another great performance. The bad game of Almeria, which remained winless at home and is placed third from bottom, left on the coach tightrope, Juanma Lillo.

The Osasuna left the relegation places thanks to a 3-0 win over Malaga, with goals from the Iranian Javad Nekounam and Masoud Shojaei, both in the first half, and Carlos Aranda.

The visitors lost their unbeaten away from home in a match that I miss their leading scorer, Venezuelan striker Jose Rondon, with three goals, low physical problems.