Another round of midweek league matches this week, as the calendar is shortened for the Euro 2004 championships next summer. Without doubt the man of the day was Málaga's Salva, who bounced back from the humiliation of being loaned on twice by Valencia to score a hat-trick for his new club in their 5-1 thrashing of Barcelona. The Andalucians are trying to find a way to pay his buy-out clause and purchase him outright, but after this performance his price will have gone up.

Ronaldo inevitably got his goal again this week, and this time it only took thirteen seconds before he had scored against arch rivals Atlético. Raúl added a second to prove he is not as off-form as people think. Eto'o consolidated his second place behind Ronaldo with his eleventh of the season, Elsewhere Darío Silva got one for Sevilla as they beat Racing 0-4 and Tiko comes back into our chart after scoring his sixth of the season. (05.12.03)