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Solari.Referee: M Fernandez.Man of the match: Benayoun.Attendance: 17, 383.. Substitutes not used: Mauro (gk), Arizmendi, Marques, Aganzo.Real Madrid (4-4-2): Casillas; Salgado, Helguera, Samuel, Bravo; Figo, Guti, Garcia (Celades, 77), Zidane; Raul (Pavon, 90), Owen (Morientes, 89) Substitutes not used: Cesar (gk), Roberto Carlos, Beckham. However, it was Real who eventually made off with all three points thanks to Zidane’s late goal.The Frenchman headed in from five yards out after the out-of-favour Fernando Morientes, who had replaced Owen in the last minute of normal time, nodded a Figo corner back towards the near post as the final whistle was about to be blown.Goals: Benayoun (24) 1-0; Owen (36)1-1; Guerrero (51) 2-1; Raul (61) 2-2; Zidane (90) 2-3.Racing Santander (4-4-2): Aouate; Lopez, Oriol (Juanma, 70), Moraton, Bertin; Regueiro (Alvarez, 82), Moran, Anderson, Nafti (Parri, 75); Benayoun, Guerrero. This time Raul produced a trademark poacher’s finish in the six-yard box after Samuel had headed a Figo cross back across the area.Owen, who was by far and away Real’s most impressive player, had the ball in the net again 18 minutes from time when he beat the offside trap and volleyed home from 15 yards out, but the England striker was rightly penalised for controlling the ball with his hand.In a breathless final quarter, the two sides traded attacks as they went in search of victory and Casillas had to produce a fantastic diving save to push a stinging shot from Medhi Nafti over the bar.

Zinedine Zidane spared Real Madrid’s blushes as he scored a winner deep into injury-time that allowed them to snatch victory and claw back two points on the leaders Barcelona in La Liga. However, the humble northern club’s hopes of winning the scudetto are being taken about as seriously as Everton’s chances of winning the Premiership. Serie A will remain a two-horse race until the end of the season.Juventus (4-4-2): Buffon; Zebina, Thuram, Cannavaro, Zambrotta; Emerson, Camoranesi, Nedved, Blasi (Tacchinardi, 80); Del Piero (Zalayeta, h-t), Ibrahimovic. Substitutes not used: Chimenti (gk), Montero, Pessotto, Appiah, Kapo.Milan (4-3-1-2): Dida; Cafu, Nesta, Costacurta, Kaladze (Pancaro, 62); Gattuso, Pirlo, Seedorf; Kaka; Crespo, Shevchenko. Substitutes not used: Abbiati (gk), Coloccini, Ambrosini, Dhorasoo, Rui Costa, Serginho.Referee: P Bertini.Man of the match: Cannavaro.Attendance: 70,000.. However, United will need to match the speed of Juve’s central defenders Lilian Thuram and Fabio Cannavaro and the aggression of their defensive midfield shield Emerson, if they are to have any joy when they welcome Milan to Old Trafford in February’s Champions’ League encounter.The draw allowed third-placed Udinese to close the gap on Milan to four points by beating Lazio 3-0 yesterday.

In the end it was happening so often that I stopped getting angry about it Maybe there was too much tension before the game. Thank goodness for the holidays, we need to recharge our batteries.”Billed as the match of the season, the game was a big disappointment. With both teams closing down their opponents quickly, space was limited. Juventus took route one, pumping balls down the middle to Zlatan Ibrahimovic but the Swedish striker received little support from Alessandro Del Piero, who was again disappointing and replaced at half-time by the Uruguayan Marcelo Zalayeta.The Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, may take some comfort from the way Juventus kept the two Milan forwards, Shevchenko and Hernan Crespo, as well as the in-form Brazilian Kaka, away from the danger area. In the final minute, the Ukrainian set up Andrea Pirlo with the best chance of the game, only for the unmarked Pirlo to side-foot wide from the edge of the penalty area. A below-par Juventus rarely threatened Dida’s goal.The Juve coach, Fabio Capello, will not be unduly worried. His team enjoys a four-point lead over Milan and the Christmas break – Serie A teams do not play again until 6 January – will give his tiring players time to recuperate.

He was characteristically frank about his side’s performance: “Juventus gave the ball away far too often And I mean Juventus, not just one or two players. “We controlled the game from the first minute to the last,” he said. “We didn’t enjoy much luck with our finishing but I can’t criticise any of my players.”The tough-tackling midfielder Gennaro Gattuso was more succinct: “We are clearly a better team than Juventus.”On a night of few real goal-scoring opportunities, Milan’s Andriy Shevchenko hit the post with a low drive from 22 yards in the first half. “This is outside the statutes of Fifa and we shall intervene through the national associations to stop such a procedure,” said Blatter.. Juventus may have maintained their Serie A lead over second-placed Milan with this goalless draw, but a one-sided game confirmed that the reigning champions are Italy’s form team as the year ends. He said following the Fifa executive committee meeting in Zurich: “We have taken a historical and courageous decision. We saw player burn-out in 2002 and also at Euro 2004.”"All the European leagues will be stopping their competitions on 14 May at the latest to enable international players to have a week’s holiday and then be available for two-and-a-half weeks before the tournament for preparation.” Head of media at the FA, Adrian Bevington, said the Wembley date was still under review.Fifa’s disciplinary committee will decide today on any punishment for the Spanish federation over the racist abuse by fans towards England players during last month’s friendly in Madrid.Blatter also threatened disciplinary action against the 15 leagues – including the Premiership and Scottish Premier League – who are planning to form an association of European leagues based in Brussels to act as a focus for their interests.

He remained always a loyal member of this institution, even when outspokenly hostile to some of its practices.One of his colleagues at the Academy, Frederick Gore, was the first to discern a shift of focus in Peter Coker’s art in 1968, after a summer spent in the north of England: At first he had used particular motifs or landscape details. Both his parents came from the East End, but his father, having gone into trade and become manager of a wholesale confectionary company, moved his family out to Leytonstone, Essex, soon after Peter was born. Among his childhood memories was the experience of his maternal grandfather’s engraving workshop, where the array of tools and materials and the purposeful atmosphere awoke him to the dignity and pleasure of craftsmanship.On leaving school, he initially worked under his father as an assistant at Kerland and Haskin, the confectioners. He hated it and soon moved on, becoming a studio assistant at Odhams Press in Long Acre where he was encouraged to attend St Martin’s School of Art, first in the evenings and at weekends and then on a day- release scheme. To calm the nerves, Blackburn require a string of maybe three wins, something that, despite Saturday’s humiliation at White Hart Lane, you imagine Harry Redknapp might tease out of Southampton.Souness will find that not much has changed when he returns to Blackburn on Boxing Day with Newcastle, although Hughes argued he would see a fitter squad than the one he abandoned in September. Under Mark Hughes they are crawling forward at exactly a point a game, still weighed down by the same inability to force victories at Ewood Park that last season threatened to drag Graeme Souness’s side to the brink.