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Ronaldo hat-trick inspires Real Madrid rout” plus 1 moreCristiano Ronaldo hat-trick inspires Real Madrid rout Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:47 PM PST A Cristiano Ronaldo hat-trick helped Real Madrid keep within reach of leaders Barcelona as José Mourinho’s men thrashed Málaga at the Bernabéu on Thursday night. The Portuguese winger added his three-goal haul to Ángel Di María and Marcelo’s first-half strikes and Karim Benzema’s brace to help Los Blancos close the gap on their Catalan rivals to seven points. It proved a torrid night for ex-Real coach Manuel Pellegrini, whose relegation-threatened Málaga side now sit just two points off the foot of the La Liga table. The Chilean was left to rue his decision to play a team of fringe players as he kept one eye on next weekend's vital clash with fellow strugglers Osasuna. Real took the lead after 26 minutes when Benzema converted Xabi Alonso's free kick, and Di María doubled the home side’s lead moments later after a rapid break from Mourinho’s men. Marcelo then expertly volleyed Di María’s cross past Málaga goalkeeper Willy Caballero to add a third before the break. Ronaldo scored his first of the night six minutes into the second half before Benzema's header put Real five goals to the good. A bad night got worse for Málaga when Manolo was show a second yellow card after he handled Marcelo’s cross in the box, and Ronaldo was on hand to smash the resulting penalty into the roof of the net. The former Manchester United forward grabbed his third of the night—and his 31st of the season—when he tapped home substitute Sergio Canales’s teasing cross to cap a magnificent performance and preserve Real’s 100 per cent home record. La Liga table snapshot Kenny Dalglish has breathed new life into Liverpool Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:56 PM PST Roy Hodgson's short and catastrophic tenure as manager of England's most successful club was ended in the wake of Liverpool's 3-0 defeat at Blackburn on a bitterly cold Wednesday night in early January. His removal by Fenway Sports Group, the club's new owners, did not come as a surprise to anyone who had been paying attention to the goings on around Anfield in the six months previous. The football was dire at best, the players were bereft of confidence and Hodgson was increasingly isolating himself from Liverpool's supporters. Hodgson is not a bad manager by anyone's standards, but in taking the Liverpool hotseat he took on a job he simply couldn't handle. He was overwhelmed by the size of the club and by the task at hand. Rafael Benítez's final season at Anfield was a disappointment and with Tom Hicks and George Gillett close to gone, Liverpool needed someone who could rebuild from the ground up – that never was Hodgson, and his appointment was a poor one. So, in stepped the man whose application for the job had been turned down by then managing director Christian Purslow last summer. Kenny Dalglish was back in the Liverpool dugout, and his appointment was met by the unanimous backing of everyone surrounding the Merseyside outfit. "We aim to gain as many victories as we possibly can. We will do our very best and hope it's good enough," Dalglish said when he was unveiled to the press. It was a perfect statement of intent from the manager. He wasn’t falling in to the trap of promising a top-four finish—as Benítez did to his peril in his final season—and was not attempting to reduce expectations – one of the key criticisms of Hodgson in his short spell at the helm. And thus far Dalglish has stuck by his initial pledge, tackling the remainder of the season fixture-by-fixture and overseeing a huge improvement in the football on display. The Reds have won four of their eight league games under Dalglish, including a huge victory over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, while losing two. Even in their FA Cup defeat at Old Trafford—Dalglish's first game back in charge—Liverpool supporters left with their heads held high having watched their side battle for every ball until the death – even in a match which had seen Steven Gerrard dismissed mid-way through the first half. Liverpool are looking stronger at the back, with the appointment of Steve Clarke as first team coach helping to ensure the back four—or three, depending on the formation—are more organised than they ever were under Hodgson. And while work still has to be done to improve Liverpool's attacking game, the addition of both Luis Suárez and Andy Carroll has helped overshadow Fernando Torres's January exit. Dalglish has also helped those already at the club come on leaps and bounds. Portuguese midfielder Raul Meireles has notched up five goals since Dalglish moved him into a more attacking and free role while young full-back Martin Kelly has gone from an unknown prospect to a potential candidate for an England call-up in the space of a couple of months. But most importantly, Liverpool look confident. The drastic improvement is testament both to Dalglish's man management skills and his ability to coerce a group of individuals into working effectively as a team, with every man moving in the same direction. Liverpool's last game at West Ham ended in defeat. In truth, the Hammers were deserved winners: Liverpool were sloppy at the back, lacked a cutting edge going forward and were outplayed in the middle of the park by a team propping up the rest of the league. Indeed, there were many parallels to be drawn between Liverpool's performance at Upton Park and the one which put the final nail in the coffin of Hodgson's Anfield career at Ewood Park in January. Yet even after last weekend's loss Reds fans are still full of optimism. With new owners, new signings and a new manager—the man they call King—at the helm, things are finally moving in the right direction again. You are subscribed to email updates from The Sport Review To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Email delivery powered by Google Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 -- Posted By Mas Item Arekjowo to The Sport Review at 3/03/2011 11:25:00 PM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gugukluhayat" group. 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