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Zaragoza

  • Oliveira 19’
  • Fernández 86’

Real Madrid

  • Van Nistelrooy 25’
  • Robinho 77’

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Zaragoza
    • Real Madrid
    • 90+4' Zaragoza pour forward and Garcia is in acres of space at the back post but the ball doesn't get to him, and the final whistle goes! And so ends a terrific game of attacking football. 2-2 the final score, Real Zaragoza slip into the relegation zone.
    • 90+2' Amazing stuff from Dudek! He parries a long-range effort and then springs to his feet to somehow keep out the close-range follow-up!
    • 90' What a chance for Zaragoza! Garcia dinks in a cross from the right but it's headed back instead of goalwards by the man at the back post and the chances goes begging! There will be four minutes of added time!
    • 87' Garcia's clever cross from the right is just too close to Dudek. Can they find a winner?! Tremendous atmosphere here.
    • 86' GOAL! 2-2! A free-kick is half-cleared to Oliveira, and he tees up Sergio who composes himself before placing the ball inside the left-hand post!
    • 85' Great save Dudek! He rushes from his line to deny Garcia! What do they have to do to score? Real make their final change, with Higuain being replaced by Javier Saviola.
    • 84' Torres produces a terrific tackle to deny Milito!
    • 83' Sergio is booked for chopping down Baptista.
    • 81' Fantastic chance for Zaragoza! Oliveira's header is blocked into the path of Sergio by Cannavaro but he thrashes his shot over the crossbar from six yards!
    • 80' Real replace Marcelo with Miguel Torres. And Garcia's shot clips Torres and hits the side netting, before Dudek is forced to push out a long-range effort from Celades!
    • 79' Oliveira is caught offside.
    • 78' Zaragoza introduce Oscar in place of Francelino Matuzalem.
    • 77' GOAL! 2-1 Real! Robinho is set free down the left by Higuain and he draws Cesar from his line before coolly scooping the ball over him and into the net! Brilliant goal.
    • 75' Fifteen minutes to go. Osasuna and Recreativo are both 2-0 to the good in their games, meaning a goal for the home side is imperative if they are to avoid going into the final fixture of the season (away to Mallorca) inside the drop zone.
    • 74' Ramos goes down in a heap after being caught by Garcia. The home fans are distinctly and noisily unimpressed.
    • 73' Real make a change. Julio 'The Beast' Baptista comes on for Ruud van Nistelrooy. Albert Celades goes into the book for jumping in on Sneijder.
    • 72' Gabi's free-kick is headed back across goal and hoofed clear from right in front of goal by Ramos!
    • 71' Metzelder is cautioned for a foul on Oliveira right on the edge of the Real area on the Zaragoza right.
    • 70' Garcia snatches at a right-footed half-volley from about 25 yards out and it flies across goal and wide of the left-hand post.
    • 69' Sneijder fires the ensuing free-kick well over the bar.
    • 68' Milito's header is deflected behind for a corner by Cannavaro. The corner is just too long, enabling Real to clear. Parades is then booked for chopping down Sneijder.
    • 67' Robinho cuts inside onto his right foot before sending in a tame shot that's comfortably held by Cesar.
    • 66' Great defending Ayala! Van Nistelrooy appears certain to score but the Argentine throws his body in the way!
    • 65' Matuzalem cracks a left-footed shot wide from distance.
    • 64' Robinho wins a free-kick just inside the Zaragoza half.
    • 63' Great save Dudek! Sergio Fernandez meets the corner with a looping header that the Real keeper brilliantly tips over the crossbar!
    • 62' Milito's shot is deflected just over the Real crossbar.
    • 60' Matuzalem wins a corner off Diarra on the Zaragoza left, although the home fans are vociferously claiming a hand-ball.
    • 58' Matuzalem sends a low shot skidding across goal and wide from outside the Real box.
    • 57' Oliveira sends a weak shot straight at Dudek. Zaragoza make a change, with Aimar being replaced by Gabi. Always a shame to see such a talented player leave the pitch.
    • 56' Van Nistelrooy is caught offside.
    • 55' Paredes produces a superb challenge to deny Van Nistelrooy, before Sneijder is cautioned for making a meal of a challenge from Ayala inside the Zaragoza penalty area.
    • 54' Cannavaro hurt himself making that attempted clearance, and leaves the field to receive treatment.
    • 53' What a chance for Zaragoza! Oliveira seizes onto the ball after Cannavaro makes a hash of an attempted acrobatic clearance, but he elects to slide the ball across goal towards Milito rather than shoot, and the pass is cut out!
    • 52' Javier Paredes advances into Real territory before seeing a shot deflected behind for a corner.
    • 50' Superb start to the second half for the home side. You suspect if they can keep it up a goal will come.
    • 48' Zaragoza so close! First Dudek reacts well to deny Aimar and then Aimar's diving header deflects off Ramos and hits the crossbar!
    • 47' Garcia fires a shot over the bar from just inside the Real area.
    • 46' The second half begins. With Osasuna and Recreativo both currently winning, Zaragoza go into the second half in the bottom three as things stand.
    • 45+1' The half-time whistle goes after an entertaining first half. 1-1 the score at the break.
    • 45' Garcia wins a corner on the Zaragoza right. It's cleared to the right, put back into the box and chested away by Cannavaro.
    • 43' Ayala puts a header well over the bar from Celades's right-wing corner.
    • 42' VAN NISTELROOY IN LONG-RANGE EFFORT SHOCKER! The Dutchman sends a shot narrowly over the crossbar from all of 35 yards.
    • 41' Zaragoza threaten again! This time Aimar sends a header fractionally wide of the right-hand post.
    • 40' Chance for Zaragoza! Dudek weakly palms out a low cross from the left straight to Oliveira, whose shot is cleared off the line!
    • 38' Van Nistelrooy gets caught on the back of the heel by Ayala, who protests his innocence with customary believability.
    • 37' Garcia can't quite get on the end of a pass down the inside-right channel. He's been at the heart of all Zaragoza's best stuff so far.
    • 36' Ouch! Robinho, chasing a weak backpass, slides in on Cesar and catches him late, earning himself a deserved booking.
    • 35' Cesar to the rescue again! Ramos meets Guti's cross from the left with a thumping header that Cesar saves low down to his right!
    • 32' Great save Cesar! Ramos's close-range half-volley from Marcelo's bouncing long-range effort is brilliantly pushed out by Cesar, before Van Nistelrooy is given offside.
    • 31' Sneijder's pass down the inside-left channel towards Van Nistelrooy is put behind for a corner by Alberto Zapater.
    • 30' Sneijder sends a free-kick straight into the wall.
    • 29' Chance for Real! Marcelo breaks free down the left and lays the ball back to Robinho, whose side-footed effort is blocked at close range by a defender.
    • 28' Real starting to see a lot more of the ball now. Can't see them breaking their necks for victory in this one though.
    • 26' GOAL! 1-1! Higuain picks out Robinho at the back post, he chests the ball down and shoots, and Cesar pushes the ball into the path of arch-poacher Van Nistelrooy who gladly accepts the invitation of an open goal!
    • 25' Van Nistelrooy is given offside from Higuain's pass, but it was mighty tight.
    • 24' Aimar's shot is blocked at close range by Ramos.
    • 23' Milito hobbles off after receiving treatment but looks like he'll be able to continue.
    • 22' Real threaten! Cesar denies Van Nistelrooy as he attacks a cross from the right. Mahamadou Diarra is then guilty of a nasty studs-up challenge on Milito.
    • 21' Lovely stuff from Zaragoza! Garcia's pass is expertly controlled by Aimar on the left but he's off balance as he crosses and Dudek gathers.
    • 19' GOAL! 1-0 Zaragoza! Garcia gets away down the right and slides in a perfectly weighted low cross that Oliveira slams home at the back post!
    • 18' Chance for Real! Higuain's fierce shot from Robinho's lay-off is repelled by Cesar and Van Nistelrooy nods the rebound over the bar!
    • 17' Marcelo is booked for a foul on Garcia on the Zaragoza right.
    • 16' Christoph Metzelder is penalised for a clumsy challenge from behind on Milito.
    • 14' Zaragoza have made a bright start here and the home fans are in good voice. It's quite incredible that a team containing players like Roberto Ayala, Pablo Aimar, Ricardo Oliveira and Diego Milito is having to struggle against relegation.
    • 12' Sighter from Wesley Sneijder! The Dutchman collects a pass and fires a right-footed effort narrowly over the crossbar from 25 yards. And then Ramos nearly gifts Zaragoza a goal! His horrendously misjudged backheel leads to a shot from Milito that is deflected into the air before being cleared!
    • 10' Great stuff from Garcia! He chests the ball down on the edge of the box and jinks inside Fabio Cannavaro before stabbing a shot just wide of the left-hand post!
    • 9' Guti's pass into the Zaragoza box flicks up off a defender and is fielded by goalkeeper Cesar Sanchez.
    • 8' Zaragoza win another corner on the right, and Garcia's delivery is hacked away by Gonzalo Higuain.
    • 7' Oliveira hooks a volley wide of the right-hand post from just inside the Real box.
    • 6' Garcia's cross from the Zaragoza right is put behind for a corner. Roberto Ayala heads the corner back across goal from the back post and Guti clears.
    • 5' Guti wins a free-kick midway inside the home side's half after being nudged by Albert Celades.
    • 4' Oliveira goes close! Garcia finds the Brazilian with a perfectly weighted outside-of-the-foot pass down the inside-right channel, and Oliveira latches onto it before thumping a shot into the side netting!
    • 2' Chance for Zaragoza! Sergio Garcia's cross from the right is deflected into the path of Ricardo Oliveira, whose header is untidily blocked by Sergio Ramos before being pounced upon by Dudek.
    • 1' We're underway!
    • 20:00 TEAM NEWS: Former Real Madrid defender Carlos Diogo misses out for Zaragoza with a knee ligament problem. Former Liverpool goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek makes his first league start for Real, while Ruud van Nistelrooy is back in the starting XI after a six-week absence.
    • 19:58 Zaragoza form a guard of honour for the newly crowned champions as they make their way onto the pitch. Zaragoza are in white shirts, blue shorts and white socks, Real are in a change strip of all black.
    • 19:45 Good evening and welcome to LIVE coverage of Real Zaragoza v Real Madrid from La Romareda in Zaragoza. Champions Real celebrated retaining their title with a 4-1 trouncing of arch rivals Barcelona on Wednesday night, but they now face a Zaragoza side one point above the relegation zone and desperate for points. Kick-off is at 20:00 BST.

  • Team Stats

    Zaragoza Stats Real Madrid
    46% Possession 54%
    34 Shots 18
    11 Shots on target 7
    3 Saves 6
    14 Corners 5
    13 Fouls 16
    4 Offsides 5
    3 Yellow cards 5
    0 Red cards 0
    11 Tackles 16
    310 Accurate passes 351
    49 Bad passes 57

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Zaragoza
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 César Sánchez Dominguez 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 0 0
      23 Sergio Fernández 1 5 2 1 0 0 0 35 7 0
      3 Javier Paredes 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 34 11 3
      6 Roberto Ayala 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 27 1 1
      16 Albert Celades 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 41 3 0
      20 Francesco Matuzalem 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 38 10 0
      21 Alberto Zapater 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 26 0 4
      8 Pablo Aimar 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 20 3 0
      22 Diego Milito 0 3 0 2 2 3 0 17 4 0
      12 Ricardo Oliveira 1 9 3 1 1 1 1 14 1 0
      9 Sergio Garcia 0 7 2 1 2 0 1 25 4 1
      11 Juan Francisco Garcia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      28 Oscar Valero 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      7 Peter Luccin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      15 Francisco Pavón 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      5 Óscar González 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 3 0
      14 Gabriel Fernández 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 17 2 2
      13 Miguel Martinez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Real Madrid
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      25 Jerzy Dudek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 1 0
      4 Sergio Ramos 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 25 1 1
      21 Christoph Metzelder 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 20 3 1
      12 Marcelo Vieira da Silva Júnior 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 23 8 4
      5 Fabio Cannavaro 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 12 0 1
      23 Wesley Sneijder 0 4 0 3 4 0 0 58 15 1
      14 José Maria Guti 0 2 1 1 3 0 0 57 7 0
      6 Mahamadou Diarra 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 50 5 2
      17 Ruud van Nistelrooy 1 4 1 0 1 4 0 9 2 0
      20 Gonzalo Higuaín 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 40 5 1
      10 Robson de Souza 1 5 3 3 1 0 0 34 9 2
      15 Royston Drenthe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      24 Javier Balboa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      13 Jordi Codina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      2 Míchel Salgado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      19 Julio Baptista 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 10 0 1
      22 Miguel Torres Gómez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2
      18 Javier Saviola 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0

  • Summary

    • 90+2' Amazing stuff from Dudek! He parries a long-range effort and then springs to his feet to somehow keep out the close-range follow-up!
    • 90' What a chance for Zaragoza! Garcia dinks in a cross from the right but it's headed back instead of goalwards by the man at the back post and the chances goes begging! There will be four minutes of added time!
    • 86' GOAL! 2-2! A free-kick is half-cleared to Oliveira, and he tees up Sergio who composes himself before placing the ball inside the left-hand post!
    • 85' Great save Dudek! He rushes from his line to deny Garcia! What do they have to do to score? Real make their final change, with Higuain being replaced by Javier Saviola.
    • 84' Torres produces a terrific tackle to deny Milito!
    • 81' Fantastic chance for Zaragoza! Oliveira's header is blocked into the path of Sergio by Cannavaro but he thrashes his shot over the crossbar from six yards!
    • 77' GOAL! 2-1 Real! Robinho is set free down the left by Higuain and he draws Cesar from his line before coolly scooping the ball over him and into the net! Brilliant goal.
    • 72' Gabi's free-kick is headed back across goal and hoofed clear from right in front of goal by Ramos!
    • 66' Great defending Ayala! Van Nistelrooy appears certain to score but the Argentine throws his body in the way!
    • 63' Great save Dudek! Sergio Fernandez meets the corner with a looping header that the Real keeper brilliantly tips over the crossbar!
    • 62' Milito's shot is deflected just over the Real crossbar.
    • 53' What a chance for Zaragoza! Oliveira seizes onto the ball after Cannavaro makes a hash of an attempted acrobatic clearance, but he elects to slide the ball across goal towards Milito rather than shoot, and the pass is cut out!
    • 48' Zaragoza so close! First Dudek reacts well to deny Aimar and then Aimar's diving header deflects off Ramos and hits the crossbar!
    • 41' Zaragoza threaten again! This time Aimar sends a header fractionally wide of the right-hand post.
    • 40' Chance for Zaragoza! Dudek weakly palms out a low cross from the left straight to Oliveira, whose shot is cleared off the line!
    • 35' Cesar to the rescue again! Ramos meets Guti's cross from the left with a thumping header that Cesar saves low down to his right!
    • 32' Great save Cesar! Ramos's close-range half-volley from Marcelo's bouncing long-range effort is brilliantly pushed out by Cesar, before Van Nistelrooy is given offside.
    • 29' Chance for Real! Marcelo breaks free down the left and lays the ball back to Robinho, whose side-footed effort is blocked at close range by a defender.
    • 26' GOAL! 1-1! Higuain picks out Robinho at the back post, he chests the ball down and shoots, and Cesar pushes the ball into the path of arch-poacher Van Nistelrooy who gladly accepts the invitation of an open goal!
    • 19' GOAL! 1-0 Zaragoza! Garcia gets away down the right and slides in a perfectly weighted low cross that Oliveira slams home at the back post!
    • 18' Chance for Real! Higuain's fierce shot from Robinho's lay-off is repelled by Cesar and Van Nistelrooy nods the rebound over the bar!
    • 12' Sighter from Wesley Sneijder! The Dutchman collects a pass and fires a right-footed effort narrowly over the crossbar from 25 yards. And then Ramos nearly gifts Zaragoza a goal! His horrendously misjudged backheel leads to a shot from Milito that is deflected into the air before being cleared!
    • 10' Great stuff from Garcia! He chests the ball down on the edge of the box and jinks inside Fabio Cannavaro before stabbing a shot just wide of the left-hand post!
    • 4' Oliveira goes close! Garcia finds the Brazilian with a perfectly weighted outside-of-the-foot pass down the inside-right channel, and Oliveira latches onto it before thumping a shot into the side netting!
    • 2' Chance for Zaragoza! Sergio Garcia's cross from the right is deflected into the path of Ricardo Oliveira, whose header is untidily blocked by Sergio Ramos before being pounced upon by Dudek.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Miguel Angel Perez Lasa

  • Zaragoza

    Manager: Manolo Villanova

    On the Field

    • Sánchez
    • Zapater
    • Fernández Goal Yellow Card
    • Ayala
    • Paredes Yellow Card
    • Celades Yellow Card
    • Matuzalem
    • García
    • Aimar Substitution Out (56′)
    • Milito
    • Oliveira Goal

    Subs

    • 7. Luccin
    • 11. Juanfran
    • 15. Pavón
    • 5. González
    • 14. Fernández "Gabi" Substitution In56′
    • 13. Martínez
    • 28. Valero

    Injured

    • 4. Cuartero
    • 19. Generelo
    • 2. Diogo
    • 24. Chus

    Suspended

    None

  • Real Madrid

    Manager: Bernd Schuster

    On the Field

    • Dudek
    • Ramos
    • Metzelder
    • Cannavaro
    • Marcelo Yellow Card
    • Diarra
    • Guti
    • Sneijder Yellow Card
    • Higuaín
    • Robinho Goal Yellow Card
    • Van Nistelrooy Goal Substitution Out (74′)

    Subs

    • 2. Salgado
    • 18. Saviola
    • 19. Baptista Substitution In74′
    • 24. Balboa
    • 13. Codina
    • 15. Drenthe
    • 22. Torres

    Injured

    • 11. Robben
    • 16. Gago

    Suspended

    • 16. Heinze
    • 3. Pepe