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Barcelona beat Real Zaragoza 3-0 to stay on course for a 22nd La Liga soccer title as the top three teams won in Spain. Napoli missed the chance to close within six points of Italian leader Juventus by tying AC Milan.
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Lionel Messi extended his scoring run to 18 straight Spanish soccer league matches in a 3-1 win against Rayo Vallecano that maintained Barcelona’s 13-point lead over Real Madrid at the top.
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Bayern Munich beat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in German soccer’s season-opening Super Cup. Juventus, whose coach was suspended last week for failing to report a match- fixing incident, won Italy’s Super Cup.
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Atletico Madrid cut Barcelona’s lead atop La Liga to eight points with a 2-0 victory against Levante yesterday. Inter Milan tied 1-1 in Italian soccer’s Serie A.
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Napoli failed to take full advantage of Italian Serie A soccer leader Juventus’s loss to Roma by drawing 0-0 with Sampdoria. Paris-Saint Germain’s lead in France was cut to three points after it lost at Sochaux.
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AC Milan rebounded from last week’s defeat to local rival Inter to beat Novara 3-0 and maintain the pressure on Juventus in Italian soccer’s Serie A. Three teams are tied atop German’s Bundesliga after Borussia Dortmund won 5- 1 at Hamburg.
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Juventus beat Catania 1-0 to extend its unbeaten start in Italian soccer’s Serie A as Bayern Munich lost for the first time this season in Germany’s Bundesliga. Real Madrid routed Mallorca 5-0 in Spain’s Primera Liga.
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Juventus rallied to beat Genoa 3-1 in Italian soccer’s Serie A, with Napoli, Lazio and Sampdoria also maintaining winning starts. Marseille extended its 100 percent record in France.
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Juventus beat Inter Milan 2-0 to stay unbeaten in Italian soccer’s Serie A and keep within four points of leader AC Milan. Malaga won 2-1 at Espanyol to pull even on points with third-place Valencia in Spain.
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Edinson Cavani scored with five minutes remaining to give Napoli a 2-1 win at Parma to cut Juventus’s lead in Italian soccer’s Serie A to three points. Barcelona beat Osasuna 5-1 in La Liga as Lionel Messi had four goals.