Diego Tristán and Raúl open up a three goal gap over the rest of the pack after both adding to their totals this week. Tristán scored his team's winner from the penalty spot in the battle of two of the league's giants, Deportivo and Valencia, and Raúl got a pair of opportunist goals in the second half of Champions League game with Panathinaikos. They are followed by a trio (or a trident?) of Barcelona players, with Saviola joining Kluivert and Rivaldo after scoring three times in the week, two in the Champions League to lead the comeback against Galatasaray, and another in the league against Celta. Saviola will be 20 tomorrow, and he looks a good bet for the future. So though does, Edu, who got his eighth of the season in the same match, which he started as centre forward to the detriment of Catanha.

Urzaiz kept up his lead as the league's Pichichi though with his ninth league goal in Bilbao's exciting come back at Sevilla. He is one ahead of Tristán and two in front of several players, including Moisés, who also scored in that game. Tamudo comes in to the chart for the first time with his sixth of the season as his side picked up a draw at Villarreal, and Figo also improves his position in the table with a controversial last minute penalty at Tenerife, his fifth spot kick success of the season. Below the top spots two players got a couple of goals each at the weekend in what was otherwise a low scoring round of games. Rubén Navarro kept Alavés at the top of the table with two, the second of which was surely the goal of the week, and Sevilla's Reyes shook off his fear of being bitten to get a brace in the aforementioned 3-3 draw with Bilbao. (10.12.01)