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Barca stumbles at Nou Camp

Premier League Round 26

Aston Villa 1-2 Stoke City

Chelsea 1-1 Burnley

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Crystal Palace 1-2 Arsenal
Hull City 2-1 QPR
Sunderland 0-0 West Brom
Swansea 2-1 MU

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Man City 5-0 Newcastle

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Round 21 La Liga

Barcelona 0-1 Malaga
Cordoba 1-2 Valencia
Atletico Madrid 3-0 Almeria
Deportivo 0-2 Celta Vigo

Bundesliga Round 22

Schalke 1-1 Werder Bremen
Mainz 3-1 Frankfurt
Augsburg 2-2 Leverkusen
Freiburg 1-1 Hoffenheim
Paderborn 0-6 Bayern Munich
Cologne 1-1 Hannover

Round 26 Ligue 1

PSG 3-1 Toulouse
Bastia 2-1 Lille
Caen 4-1 Lens
Rennes 1-1 Bordeaux

- Round 26 of the Premier League saw Chelsea's gap with Man City reduced to 5 points in the rankings after a disappointing 1-1 draw with the team ranked 3rd from bottom, Burnley right at Stamford Bridge, while Man City won 5-0 against Newcastle at home. In other developments, Arsenal temporarily jumped to 3rd place after a narrow 2-1 victory over Crystal Palace away, while MU suffered a humiliating 1-2 defeat to Swansea.

MU still struggles under Van Gaal

- The only goal of striker Juanmi in the 7th minute helped Malaga to a memorable 1-0 victory over Barca at the Nou Camp. Meanwhile, Blaugrana's direct competitor Atletico Madrid had an easy home win against Almeria with a score of 3-0, thereby reducing the gap with Barca to 3 points. In another notable development, Valencia had to work very hard to overcome Cordoba away with a score of 2-1.

- Despite having to play away, Bayern Munich showed their superior strength with a "destructive" 6-0 victory over Paderborn, thereby helping the "Gray Tigers" temporarily increase the gap with the team behind Wolfsburg to 11 points. In other notable developments, both "big guys" of Bundesliga, Schalke 04 and Bayer Leverkusen, were held to a draw at home and away by Werder Bremen and Augsburg with the scores of 1-1 and 2-2, respectively.

- A comfortable 3-1 win over Toulouse has helped PSG temporarily take the top spot from Lyon (52 points after 26 matches compared to 51 points after 25 matches), before the "Lion of the Rhone" kicks off tonight. Elsewhere, Lille surprisingly lost 1-2 away to Bastia, Bordeaux were held to a 1-1 draw at Rennes, while Caen had an easy 4-1 home win over the second-bottom Lens.

PSG temporarily takes the top spot in Ligue 1

- Coach Jose Mourinho refused to comment on midfielder Nemanja Matic's red card in the match against Burnley last night, but pointed out four unfavorable referee decisions for Chelsea in the 30th, 33rd, 43rd and 69th minutes.

- Coach Arsene Wenger said Arsenal had to rely on luck to avoid leaving with only 1 point in their away match against Crystal Palace last night.

- The red card in the match against Burnley will make Chelsea midfielder Nemanja Matic absent from the League Cup final against Tottenham on March 1.

Matic's sending off

- Coach Louis van Gaal said he was very surprised by MU's defeat to Swansea last night, and that the Welsh team did not deserve to win.

- Coach Luis Enrique said Barca deserved to lose to Malaga when the Nou Camp team's central play was ineffective.

- Man Utd striker Robin van Persie had to use crutches to leave the Liberty Stadium after the match against Swansea last night, with a protective boot on his right leg.

Percy seems to have suffered an injury.

- The trio Per Mertesacker, David Opsina and Laurent Koscienly posted a video of them simultaneously chanting the name of former Arsenal goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski on Twitter after he made a great contribution to Swansea's comeback win over MU, thereby indirectly helping the "Gunners" take 3rd place.

- The name of midfielder Kieran Richardson (Aston Villa) was misspelled as Kevin Richardson in the registration list for the match against Stoke City last night. Notably, Kevin Richardson is a former player of Aston Villa (1991-1995).

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