Cristiano Ronaldo made a goalscoring debut in La Liga Saturday, helping Real Madrid squeeze through its first test of the season 3-2 at home to Deportivo Coruna. Raul gave Real the lead after some great work from Kaka, another of its big-money signings, only for poor marking to gift Deportivo its first equalizer. World Player of the Year Ronaldo restored the lead with a penalty and after Deportivo had once again come back a long range strike from Lassana Diarra gave the home side the points. The result will come as a relief to new coach Manuel Pellegrini after the club spent 250 million euros ($359 million) on players, including a world record fee to sign Ronaldo from Manchester United, following Florentino Perez's return to the presidency. Real, obliged now to mount an effective challenge to treble-winner Barcelona, started briskly, with Brazilian playmaker Kaka looking particularly dangerous. Kaka's pass in the 26th minute should have been cleared but the ball fell to Karim Benzema and Raul was on hand to tap in the rebound when the Frenchman's shot came back off a post. Riki was left unmarked four minutes later to head Juca's deep cross past Real goalkeeper Iker Casillas before Raul was felled by Depor keeper Daniel Aranzubia and Ronaldo stroked the resulting 35th-minute penalty into the bottom left corner. Depor stunned Real with a second equalizer immediately after the restart. Mexican midfielder Jose Guardado picked out Juan Carlos Valeron on the edge of the area and he drilled a superb shot low past Casillas. Diarra grabbed the winner on the hour when he rounded Juca and struck a powerful shot into the far corner. Barcelona's opening match against Sporting Gijon has been put back to Monday because of the champions' European Super Cup match against Shakhtar Donetsk Friday, which it won 1-0. The 80,000 spectators at the Bernabeu gave world 100 and 200 metres champion Usain Bolt a huge ovation when he came on to the pitch before kickoff and showed off some ball skills. Shevchenko returns to Kiev Former European Footballer of the Year Andriy Shevchenko has agreed to rejoin Dynamo Kiev from Chelsea. “Shevchenko has signed a two-year contract,” the Ukrainian club said on their website (www.fcdynamo.kiev.ua) Saturday. Kiev added the 32-year-old Ukraine striker would be presented as its player Sunday. Friday, Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti said he could not guarantee Shevchenko first-team football. Shevchenko never justified the club record 30 million pounds fee that Chelsea paid AC Milan for him in 2006. He scored only nine league goals in his first two campaigns and was loaned back to the Italian team last season. Inter hammers AC Milan Serie A champion Inter Milan humiliated 10-man AC Milan 4-0 to emphatically earn the derby spoils Saturday with new striker Diego Milito in fine form. In the other match of the day, Bari and Bologna drew goalless. Thiago Motta coolly curled in the first on the half hour after quick passes from fellow close-season signings Samuel Eto'o and Milito, with former Genoa frontman Milito soon doubling their lead from the penalty spot. Gennaro Gattuso had hauled down the runaway Eto'o to concede the penalty and shortly afterwards he received a second booking for fouling surprise debutant Wesley Sneijder. Rookie Milan coach Leonardo's horror half was completed by Inter right back Maicon finishing off another fine move to make it 3-0, with Dejan Stankovic smashing home from distance in the second period.
