| Top
scorers in all club competitions. Rivaldo scored from a free kick in
Barcelona's cup match against Espanyol to extend his lead at the top. Curiously
though, neither he nor Kluivert scored at all in their team's seven goal rout
of Athletic Bilbao. Luis Enrique did get three though, and he comes in to our
chart for the first time. Raúl closed up on Javi Moreno with two headed
goals from successive Figo crosses in three minutes against Málaga, and
Guti got another to get his goalscoring act back on track. Raúl's goals
take him above Ziganda as the highest active scorer in the league with 113, and
he is still ony 23. Dely Valdés returned after an injury and tucked one
away at the other end to take his total for the season to ten. Elsewhere
Valencia's captain Mendieta got his ninth of the season, a rare volley with his
left foot, to take him level with two of his teammates, Carew and Juan
Sánchez. It was the equal highest scoring weekend of the league this
season, with 39 goals in the ten matches, and Roy Makaay was in the thick of
things again with another brace to take his tally to twelve, including six in
the last four league games. His first goal was however quite controversial, the
Racing defenders stopping as a linesman lifted his flag for offside. Makaay
stopped as well, but then thought perhaps he was in the right as he did receive
the ball from a wild backpass from Mazzoni, and just in the case he stuck the
ball in the net. Much to the dismay of the visiting players referee
Megía Dávila allowed the goal, correctly as it proved, although
the linesman can cross Santander off his holiday list for a few years at least
judging from the reaction of some of the players. (05.02.01) |
