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Getafe halts Barca run
By Paul Logothetis
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 24 - 11 - 2008

Barcelona's impressive run of league wins stopped at nine as Getafe snatched a 1-1 draw at Camp Nou on Sunday as the league leader allowed champion Real Madrid to make up ground in the title race.
Seydou Keita scored a second-half equalizer Sunday for Barcelona to draw 1-1 with Getafe and end its winning streak in the Spanish league at nine matches.
Seydou Keita headed in Daniel Alves' cross to the far post in the 72nd minute at the Camp Nou Stadium to extend Barcelona's unbeaten run in all competitions to 17 games.
Barcelona leads the Spanish league standings by three points. Barcelona has 29 points, Real Madrid has 26, followed by Villarreal on 25. Valencia and Sevilla are both on 24.
Getafe's Manu del Moral gathered his own blocked pass to curl a 20-meter shot beyond goalkeeper Victor Valdes to score in the 19th minute.
Samuel Eto'o hit the bar from long range in the 39th, before coach Pep Guardiola brought on Thierry Henry for Krkic in the 56th.
Valdes let Juan Angel Albin's high shot slip through his hands in the 70th but it flashed past by the post. The hosts then dominated to the final whistle, with Henry and Carles Puyol both heading wide from close range after Keita's goal.
Earlier, Javier Barkero's injury-time penalty gave Numancia a 1-1 draw with Atletico Madrid.
Barkero scored in the fifth minute of added time after Gorka Brit was brought down inside the area after getting tangled up with defenders Luis Perea and John Heitinga.
Atletico, which has 18 points, went ahead through Diego Forlan's 35th-minute goal - the Uruguay striker's third in two games.
But Numancia pressed for a second-half equalizer with two chances hitting the woodwork. Late in the game, Atletico goalkeeper Leo Franco reached back to keep Asier Goiria's header out with replays showing the ball may have crossed the goal line.
In Sunday's other games, Real Betis won 2-1 at Sporting Gijon; Osasuna beat Almeria 3-1; Mallorca drew 2-2 with Malaga and Racing Santander beat Espanyol 3-0. Also Athletic Bilbao beat Deportivo La Coruna 3-1.
Spurs out of danger zone
Roman Pavlyuchenko scored an early goal Sunday to give Tottenham a 1-0 victory over 10-man Blackburn and lift Harry Redknapp's team out of the Premier League relegation zone.
In Sunday's other game, West Ham won 1-0 at Sunderland to end a run of seven games without a win and inflict a fourth home loss in a row on the Black Cats through Valon Behrami's goal.


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