No real surprises in Europe midweek, with Barcelona going through to the Champions League final after drawing 1-1 on Tuesday night in the Nou Camp against arch-rivals Real Madrid. Coming on top of Messi's two from the first leg, Pedro's goal put the result beyond Madrid's reach before Marcelo equalised. And on Thursday Villarreal were unable to overturn a 5-1 result against Porto, albeit that they did clock up a brave 3-2 win on the night thanks to Rossi's late penalty.

So to the league, and Cristiano Ronaldo took a big step towards tying up this season's La Liga Pichichi title with four goals in a 2-6 drubbing of Sevilla. Marca, the Madrid based sports paper who give the award, have added one to his tally for a goal earlier in the season which the referee awarded to Pepe (Ronaldo's shot hit him on the back and went in!), and with Messi not scoring this weekend it looks like Ronaldo has the edge. Still three games to go though, so who knows?

Both Sevilla's goals were scored by Negredo, who is one of several Spanish strikers vying for a place in Del Bosque's squad for the end of season matches against USA and Venezuela. The coach is spoiled for choice though as Soldado also scored two more for Valencia against Real Sociedad, Llorente got one of Athletic's three against Levante, and under 21 striker Adrián scored both of Deportivo's goals at Sporting (although the Galicians were denied the three points by two controversial penalties and are now in the relegation zone). One man they may come up against in Venezuela is Rondón, who together with Baptista is helping Málaga escape the drop. They both scored again this weekend in a surprise 0-3 victory at Atlético. (10.05.11)