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Primera Liga preview

No time for slip ups
MADRID. March 3:With Deportivo I.a Coruna six points clear of the chasing pack the lop five teams in Spain s Primera Liga all fa< v what should be simple fixtures this weekend -but all will be aware failure to take maximum points could prove costly at the end of the season, reports AFP.
Realistically there are only live teams still in the title race -Deportivo. Real Zaragoza. Real Madrid, surprise packages Alaves and defending champions Barcelona.
With 12 rounds of games remaining and with a six point lead Deportivo. who visit Malaga on Sunday would ordi-nartlv be hul favourites weyc it not for llulr reputations as eternal chokers.
The Galician club has never won the title and twice snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, most famously in 1993-4 when their Brazilian World Cup winner Bebeto missed a penalty that would have taken the crown to the north west for the first time.
Failure to take all three points in Malaga would set alarm bells ringing. Their 5-1 spanking by Arsenal in the UEFA Cup will not have helped morale although as far as most Deportivo fans are concerned they are very focused on what would be a milestone Primera Liga crown.
But the remaining leading quartet also know that they can not afford to concede any more ground and none more so than Barca, whose hopes of a third consecutive title were further hit by a 3-0 drubbing at the hands of arch-rivals Real Madrid last weekend.
They are eight points behind Deportivo in fifth and only victory will do against 11th-placea Numancia on Saturday at the Nou Camp.
Barca's setback al the hands of their most hated rivals was soothed in midweek by a 4-2 Champions League win over Porto in which their Brazilian talisman Rlvaldo - FIFA's World Player of the Year - again proved he was worth his weight in goal with two marvellous strikes - a 30-yard freekick and a solo dribble.
The burden of expectation is also a fact of life for third-placed Real Madrid who had the opposite experience to the Catalans.
Their joy al ech-.slng Barca quickly evaporated titer a 4-2 defeat in the Champ, as League by Bayern Munich
They should put i) • jgs right it the weekend with . trip to second-fromboltom Oviedo on Saturday although their French World Cup winning utility man Christian Karembeu Is Injured for 10 days with a strained left thigh.
with both Barca and Real still crith ground to make up on Superdepor" and Atletico Madrid in the relegation dogfight. hopes remain high that the title could leave Madrid and Barcelona for th. first time since 1981-4 when Basque clubs Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao established a shortlived dominance of the Spanish game. winning two titles apiece.
Ahead of the Meringues on goal difference in second are Real Zaragoza, who have the roughest assignment of the veckend on Sunday at ninth-flaced Real Mallorca, Impres-dve 4-1 victors over French 'irst Division leaders in the JEFA Cup on Thursday.
Perhaps the Karn with the least pressure In the leading quintet are Alaves. who have astonished everyone by reaching fourth spot, seven points behind Deportivo.
They visit lOrh-placed I Madrid-based Rayo Vallecano. FIXTURES:
Saturday: Oviedo v Real Madrid. Valencia v Athletic Bilbao. Barcelona v Numancia
Sunday: Rayo Vallecano v Alaves. Real Mallorca v Real
Zaragoza. Celta Vigo v Racing Santander. Seville v Valladolid, Real Sociedad v Es-panyo). Malaga v Deportivo La Coruna. Atletico Madrid v Real Bens