madrid: real madrid put an end to their domestic doldrums with an emphatic 5-1 win over espanyol on saturday, their first win in four league matches this season. the spanish champions threw everything at their visitors right from the whistle and it seemed espanyol were standing in front of a firing squad for the first quarter of the match. zidane opened the scoring and later roberto carlos, luis figo, raul and steve mcmanaman scored for real owen out with injury: in london, michael owen suffered a hamstring injury that will rule him out of england's world cup qualifier against greece as liverpool edged tottenham by a solitary goal on saturday.
michael ricketts scored a late equaliser as 10-men bolton gained a 1-1 tie at arsenal to stay top of the premier league. defending champion manchester united jumped into third after beating ipswich 4-0 with two strikes by norwegian strikers ol gunnar solskjaer and ronny johnsen and one by andy cole. italian striker corrado grabbi scored his first goal for blackburn rovers as they edged everton 1-0. sunderland hit back from 0-2 down to salvage a point against charlton.