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Defender hails ‘entertaining’ Chelsea

Chelsea defender Gary Cahill is already feeling at home with his new teammates, describing the squad as an ‘entertaining’ group following the club’s short training camp in Mallorca. The Blues returned home earlier today and after spending most of the time in Mallorca training together in the warm weather, Cahill feels that the bonding within...

Real Madrid open up eight point gap over Barcelona in La Liga

• José Mourinho's side defeated Mallorca 2-1• Barça play Real Betis on SundayGoals from Gonzalo Higuaín and José María Callejón gave La Liga leaders Real Madrid a 2-1 win at Real Mallorca after a gritty comeback stretched their advantage over...

Real Madrid cruise past Ponferradina in Copa del Rey

• Madrid win 7-1 on aggregate• Mallorca, Sporting and Sevilla also progressReal Madrid's José Callejón scored twice and Nuri Sahin scored his first goal for the club as the holders beat Ponferradina 5-1 in the Copa del Rey last-32 second leg on T...

La Liga round-up: Levante beat Real Sociedad to return to the top

• Injury-time goal from Rubén Suárez secures three points• Karim Benzema scores as Real Madrid beat VillarrealRubén Suárez scored a wonderful free-kick deep into injury time to give Levante a 3-2 home win over Real Sociedad, which took them bac...

Alvaro Negredo makes Málaga’s brave new world feel remarkably familiar | Sid Lowe

The new season has finally started in La Liga but there was no sign of a revolution at the Sánchez PizjuánEverything changes, it all stays the same. The first Monday morning of the new season and it feels like the close of the most tedious saga ever,...

La Liga 2011-12 season preview | Sid Lowe

Strike threats, two superpowers getting even stronger, plus a team-by-team guide for the new season. It's all hereYou can tell the season is about to start when it might not be about to start after all. With barely a fortnight to go, the Spanish player...

Let them eat paella: Real Mallorca give Manzano a white-hot homecoming | Sid Lowe

Having criticised mallorquines in his Son Moix tenure, Gregorio Manzano's return with Sevilla was always going to be livelyThey were so excited about his homecoming that they prepared his favourite meal specially, cooking up a colossal paella in his ho...

Mallorca 0-3 Barcelona | La Liga match report

Lionel Messi scored a magical header to set a depleted Barcelona on their way to a 3-0 win over Real Mallorca in La Liga on Saturday. The win stretched their lead over Real Madrid, who drew 0-0 away to Deportivo La Coruña, at the top to seven points.B...

La Liga Preview and U.S. T.V. Listings for Jornada 23: Feb. 12 — Feb. 14

Round 23 of 38 might be a little too early to mention relegation six-pointers, but with teams twelfth to twentieth a within a slender five points of each other and the gap widening between these teams and the first eleven of La Liga, a three-point win should not be underestimated as time snowballs downward to...

La Liga Preview and U.S. T.V. Listings for Jornada 22: Feb. 5 — Feb. 6

Two of the most active clubs in the January transfer window meet together this weekend in an Andalucian derby at the Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán between Sevilla and Málaga.  Málaga and new owner Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani scoured the world in January for bright, young talents and seasoned veterans (or washed-up former stars depending on...

La Liga Preview and U.S. T.V. Listings for Jornada 21: Jan. 29 — Jan. 31

Espanyol's surprising start has not only stretched to this juncture of the season but has also improved from a club that only garnered points at home to a team that can win the tough matches away from home.  Impressively winning at Sevilla and Getafe in their last two games have shown that a top-six finish...

La Liga Jornada 20 Review: Real Madrid Struggles Yet Again and Wins Unconvincingly Yet Again

Maybe Florentino Pérez might start to appreciate Gonzalo Higuaín now. The man that Pérez wanted to offload since he returned for his second stint as Real president sits in the stands because he is recovering from surgery that repaired a herniated lumbar disc in his back, and José Mourinho has not developed a successful system...