Lionel Messi score 4 to reach 50 goals in La Liga, 72 all competition and close to Pichichi trophy and Golden boot

The Barcelona star score 4 goals to set new high La Liga goals record and the world record of most goals in a season Barcelona 4-0 win against Espanyol at Nou Camp.  Messi has now scored 50 goals in La Liga this season and 72 goals in all competition this season alone. With his 14^th hat-trick in Spanish league puts him ahead of Cesar Rodriguez for 5 goals more. Argentinian has reached 251 in 327 Barcelona appearances. 

Pep Guardiola received the best sent off with hug from Messi following 50^th league goal. In his four seasons with Barcelona, Guardiola has won 13 titles.

The new La Ligachampions, Real Madrid also won 2-1 against Granada with Cristiano Ronaldo score to reach 45 goals in La Liga season, 59 in all competitions and 300^thgoal in Real Madrid jersey. And he raised his record to 111 goals in just 100 league appearances for the Spanish giants. With Messi leading other top scorers by far, he has almost secured the pichichi trophy and Golden Boot.

Excluding penalty kick for 11 Messi and 19 for Ronaldo, Messi would still be leading Ronaldo at 61 goals against 40 goals in all competition. 

Barcelona vs Espanyol goals summary 
Lionel Messi  12'
Lionel Messi (pen)  64'
Lionel Messi  74'
Lionel Messi (pen)  79'

Barcelona vs Espanyol video highlight of all goals 4-0

Barcelona - Espanyol 08.05.2011 Highlights HD by iNfRaS0NiC 

Arsenal striker Robbin Van Persie score 30th EPL goals and close on Premier league Golden boot and a EPL record of 31 goal per season by Shearer and Ronaldo

Arsenal FC failed to take a big step toward Champions league qualification after forced to a 3-3 draw with Norwich City. The gunners are currently two points ahead of Tottenham and Newcastle with the two having a game at hand. Meaning Arsenal can easily surrender third position, and force to fight for fourth position, which is a risk position this year.

With Chelsea hopes for Champions league qualification being dented after 2-0 defeat by Newcastle, The blue could still participate in Champions league if they win the UEFA trophy and force fourth team to drop to Europa league.

Robbin Van Persie close on Premier league top scorer record in a season

Robin Van Persie is just one goal shot to reach Premier league top scorer record achieved by Alan Shearer and Cristiano Ronaldo of 31 goals in 38 games season. Being four goals ahead of Wayne Rooney (26), Van Persie has put himself in better position to win Premier League Golden Boot as the EPL top scorer. So far the striker has won FWA award and PFA award as best player of the year in those categories.

Arsenal vs Norwich City match

Arsenal vs Norwich City goals summary 3-3

Yossi Benayoun 2'

Wesley Hoolahan 12'

Grant Holt 27'

Robin Van Persie 72'

Robin Van Persie 80'

Steve Morison 85'

Arsenal vs Norwich City all goals highlights

szólj hozzá: Highlights [HD]

Sandved player Talat Abunima see red card protesting for penalty kick awarded to him in Norwegian fifth division vs Ild

Sandved player Talat Abunima was red carded while complain about a penalty awarded to him when playing against Ild with Sandved leading 3-1. He tripped and falls in penalty area and referee Nedzad Munjic signal for a penalty kick. Abunima protested a penalty decision to the referee and received yellow card. He continued protesting and was sent off after a second yellow card. Abunima talking to Sandnesposten, he said "I went past an Ild player and then tripped over my own feet. It was unbelievably clumsy of me and when the referee pointed to the spot I felt I had to speak out."

Sandved player Talat Abunima. Picture by http://sandnesposten.no

His protest was supported by his team mate who took the penalty and sending the ball wide deliberately. Super honesty!!! Ild decided to repay Sandved honesty by withdrawing one player from the pitch to make 10 players on the pitch for each teams. Two later penalty awarded by Munjic help Ild to level the score 3-3.

According Norwegian Referees' Association boss Rune Pedersen who withdraw Abunima red card "A referee can change any decision he has taken until the play resumes," And Law of the game by FIFA supported this under decision of international FA board "The referee may only change a decison on realizing that it is incorrect or at his discretion, on the advice of an assitant referee or the fourth official, provided that he has not restarted play or terminated the match"

However Munjic commented on his decision on VG Nett "It was a clear penalty. The player got it all wrong – I don't think the players know the rules properly. And when I've blown the whistle, I can't change my mind."

Lionel Messi score hat-trick to break Gerd Muller’s goals scoring record and be close to golden boot and pichichi awards

Lionel Messi score hat-trick in Barcelona 4-1 victory against Malaga and break 67 goals record set by Bayern Munich's striker Gerd Muller after adding his goal tally to 68 a new European goal scoring record. 

The hat-trick also raised his La Liga goal tally to 46, three more than Ronaldo and more close to the pichichi award and European golden boot. The win keEP Real Madrid waiting for La Liga title and they have to win today to be crowned champions. 

Barcelona vs Malaga goals summary

Carles Puyol (13') 1-0
Rondon (26') 1-1   
Lionel Messi (pen 35') 2-1   
Lionel Messi (pen 59') 3-1
Lionel Messi (64') 4-1

Barcelona vs Malaga video highlights all goals

szólj hozzá: Barcelona 4-1 Malaga Goals

Real Madrid one win away from 32nd La Liga title as both Ronaldo and Messi set Spanish league top goals scorers record to 43.

Real Madrid recover from champions league semi-final defeat and moved closer and close to La Liga Championship after 3-0 win over Sevilla to end Barcelona three years dominance.  Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 43rd league goal and 57th in this season. The goal was followed by a brace from Karim Benzema. 

Real Madrid vs Sevilla video highlights all goals

Real Madrid vs Sevilla 3:0 GOALS HIGHLIGHTS by maidb7abc

Later defending champion Barcelona FC under Tito Vilanova earned a massive 7-0 victory over Rayo Vallecano, a brace from Lionel Messi to tally La Liga goals to 43 and right on course for pichichi. Both Ronaldo and Messi has registered new Spanish league most goals per season records which was set by Ronaldo last years after he scored 40 goals. Messi add his season goal tallies to 65 goals in all competitions. Bayern Munich’s striker, Gerd Muller scored 67 goals in 1972/1973 season a European top scorers record. Other Barcelona goals came from Pedro Rodriguez two goals, Seydou Keita and Thiago Alcantara and Rober (Rayo Vallecano’s defender) scored own goals.

Barcelona vs Rayo Vallecano video highlights all goals

Rayo Vallecano vs Barcelona 0:7 GOALS HIGHLIGHTS by maidb7abc

Real Madrid set Spanish leagues goals record to 112.

More football records set and broken. With three top scoring strikers Ronaldo, Benzema and Higuan as well as two top goal assistant Mezut Ozil and Angel Di Maria, Jose Mourinho’s club have set new La Liga most goals record of 112 goals. In La Liga the strikers scored 84 goals, Ronaldo (43), Higuan (21) and Benzema (20) but 30 assists from Mezut Ozil (16) and Angel Di Maria (14) alone. Having being denied early championship celebration with Barcelona win, Madrid can clinch their 32nd La Liga title with win against the on form Athletic Bilbao on Wednesday.

Chelsea's Fernando Torres bang hat-trick against QPR but stay 6th in Premier league log

Fernando Torres successes in Champions league continues in Barclays Premier League with his first hat-trick for Chelsea in 6-1 victory over Queens Park Rangers and add premier league hat-tricks tally to 19. The hat-trick is his fourth in Premier league.

The £50m striker scores his first hat-trick since Sep 2009 and he promises many more. "My last hat-trick was a long time ago but hopefully it will be the first of many" Torres said. His manager well satisfied with his performance. "I was always pleased with his contribution and he was always working hard for the team, putting the assists in". Di Matteo commented.

The UEFA championship and FA Cup finalist still sixth in the premier league log but close the gap with Newcastle to one point. The blues benefited from retuning back to traditional Chelsea game and performing better under Di Mateo who has only lost once and drew three of 16 games. Next trip they will face Liverpool in FA cup final before tough fight for fourth position against Newcastle.

UEFA Champions’ league final  

Chelsea FC also rely on players’ rotation in these important fixtures to avoid players’ exhaustion while protecting important players for Champions league final with Bayern Munich in Allianz Arena in May 19. The two clubs met on 2004-2005 champions’ league quarter final were Chelsea under Jose Mourinho supervision won 6-5 on aggregate after Chelsea 4-2 win on first leg and Bayern won 3-2 on second leg.

Chelsea FC vs Queens Park Rangers goals highlights  

Daniel Sturridge (1') 1-0 

John Terry (13') 2-0 

Fernando Torres (19') 3-0 

Fernando Torres (25') 4-0 

Fernando Torres (64') 5-0 

Florent Malouda (80') 6-0 

Djibril Cissé (84') 6-1 

Chelsea FC vs Queens Park Rangers video highlights of all goals szólj hozzá: g=6-18;[Matchhighlight.com]HL

Manchester city and Manchester United in crucial Manchester derby: The Premier league championship decider

Manchester United travel to Manchester City in crucial Manchester derby is more likely to be the decider for Premier league champion this season. Sir Alex Ferguson singled the tie as one of those unique ties “It means everything, ... “Everything. Going into work on Tuesday morning will feel like the most important day of their lives. For both sets of supporters“.

With three matches on hand for each teams and United having 3 points advantage but four goals short on goal difference compared to City, the tie could be tell who win the league. Even a draw will be better results for United who will then maintain three points advantage. For Mancini a win is a must to level point and go top of the table with goal difference advantage. 

If City defeat defending champion on this tie, the results of who win the league will still depend who perform better in final two matches of which City seems to have more ambitious opponents.  If both City and United win their final two games, the more goals one score could still determine the league champion.With this options, United still have a bigger chance to clinch 20th league title

The final United and City fixtures

Newcastle United vs Manchester City

Manchester United vs Swansea City

Manchester City vs Queens Park Rangers     

Sunderland vs Manchester United

Manchester derby history

Manchester United has won more derbies than city 67 vs 44, but since the new premier league start, the record stands at 13 vs 10 in favor of United. This swing of United vs City win might still be changing in favor of City because of the recent investment done at City. With this investment city have became more superior than other EPL top clubs and Mancini quoted proving this fact  "We have 22 points more than Chelsea, who are in the Champions League final, and 14 more than Arsenal - and 31 more than Liverpool.

Previous league tie saw United defeated by 6-1, heaviest United defeat in this derby, but they also one defeated City 5-0 in 1994. The 6-1 score mean nothing to the upcoming tie, it is a totally a new game. The best game plan or individual player magic like would be crucial. Most fans would like to see luck or referee decision pick the winner.