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European weekend preview

AFP
Preview of league action over the weekend in major European leagues:
Primera Liga
MADRID
A week is often referred to as a long time in politics but five days last week must have seemed like an eternity to Real Madrid coach Carlos Queiroz.
First, his team crashed out of the Champions League in Monaco and then they lost at home for the first time in the Spanish league this season, going down 3-0 to Osasuna to hand over pole position in the championship race to Valencia.
The question now is, can Queiroz reverse the decline in Saturday's local derby at Atletico Madrid?
"There are six pages still to be read in the book of this season. I hope that they contain stories about us getting six victories. And I am convinced that we will win them all. I am not going to throw in the towel. Never," said Queiroz earlier this week.
To try to get Real Madrid back on track in their bid to end the season with a trophy, Queiroz has taken the team to the holiday resort of La Manga.
However, most of the players have bitterly resented having to make the excursion.
"If the club wanted to concentrate our minds, then they should have just talked to us (in Madrid). That's what we are all thinking," said Real's Brazilian left back Roberto Carlos, apparently speaking for the squad.
Real will go into action without the Spanish fist division's leading scorer Ronaldo, although the reigning Spanish champions hope the Brazilian World Cup winner will be back to face his former club Barcelona in a week's time.
Queiroz hasn't yet indicated how he intends to replace Ronaldo, who is suffering from a slight hamstring strain.
One option would be to bring in Santiago Solari on the left flank and use Raul Gonzalez in his former role as the main target man.
Another would be to give Javier Portillo, who is rumoured to be interesting several English Premiership clubs, a rare start.
Atletico currently lie seventh but only goal difference separates them from Osasuna and Athletic Bilbao, who occupy the two slots above them which will qualify clubs for the UEFA Cup.
Leaders Valencia have 69 points from 31 games, two ahead of Real, and will be looking to defend their position at home to Real Sociedad on Sunday.
Champions League semifinalists Deportivo La Coruna and Catalan giants Barcelona are in a race for third place, and maybe higher if Real Madrid continue to stumble, with both teams on 60 points.
Deportivo are ahead on goal difference and play host to Valladolid on Saturday while Barca host Malaga on Sunday.
Barcelona have gone 14 games unbeaten, a run which was extended in lacklustre fashion by a 1-1 draw at Real Betis on Wednesday.
Premiership
LONDON
Liverpool are in a battle with Newcastle for the Champions League spot that would save the Reds' season, according to under-fire Reds boss Gerard Houllier.
With Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United almost certain to finish in the top three in the English Premiership, both sides are scrapping for fourth place, with Liverpool just ahead of the Magpies on goal difference.
The Reds must visit Newcastle on the last day of the season and are out for maximum points against Fulham at Anfield on Saturday to ease the pressure on Houllier and pile it back onto the Magpies' trip to sixth-placed Aston Villa on Sunday.
Newcastle secured a UEFA Cup semi-final date with Marseille midweek thanks to goals from veterans Alan Shearer and Gary Speed.
Champions League semifinalists Chelsea host in-form Everton, who have lost just one of their last eight matches and have yet to lose after taking the lead in the Premiership this season.
Manchester United are vying with the Blues for the second spot with Arsenal, still unbeaten in the championship, heading for the title.
Serie A ROME
League leaders AC Milan travel to Tuscany to face struggling Siena on Saturday when the spotlight will be on the referee rather than the players.
Last Saturday Milan beat Empoli 1-0 thanks to a highly dubious 86th-minute penalty which enabled the European champions to remain on course for the Serie A title.
Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti will be without striker Filippo Inzaghi for Saturday's match.
The 30-year-old Italy international has a swollen left foot and has been told to rest for seven days before he can return to training.
Siena, playing Milan in a league match for the very first time in front of a 13,000 sell-out crowd, are sixth from bottom on 31 points.
Second-placed Roma, who have a game in hand on Milan, play away to Modena on Sunday looking to take advantage of any slipup by the league leaders.
Francesco Totti returns to the Roma starting line-up following a one-match ban, but midfielders Emerson and Olivier Dacourt are both suspended.
After their trip to Modena, Roma face Lazio on Wednesday in the rearranged Rome derby. Last month's match at their shared Olympic stadium was abandoned shortly after half-time due to crowd trouble. Bundesliga
BERLIN
In a season of many lows Borussia Dortmund's loyal followers would view ruining arch rivals Bayern Munich's chances of retaining their German crown as an undoubted highpoint when the two powerhouses meet on Saturday at the Westfalen Stadium.
Bayern are under pressure to cut the seven-point lead of leaders Werder Bremen, who host Hannover on Sunday, but Dortmund will be out for revenge against their old foe with the 4-1 hammering earlier in the season remembered, for different reasons, by both sets of fans.
The stakes are always high in this powder-keg encounter but this time the bar has been raised with Bayern gunning for the Bundesliga crown and Dortmund battling for the final UEFA Cup spot.
Munich manager Ottmar Hitzfeld will be the focal point of the fixture on his return to the club he guided to domestic titles in 1995 and 1996 along with Champions League in 1997.
The red carpet will not be rolled out for Hitzfeld, 55, or German international goalkeeper Oliver Kahn, a doubt for the match, who is public enemy number one in Dortmund.
Kahn, 34, performed a kung-fu kick on Borussia's Swiss striker Stephane Chapuisat back in April 1999 earning him the title 'Genghis Khan'.
Bayern have won six out of their last eight Bundesliga outings thanks in a large part to Dutch international Roy Makaay who has scored in each of hislast seven matches.
Bayern have yet to collect a point in the Ruhr area of Germany - losing to Schalke 04 (2-0) and VfL Bochum (1-0) - and anything but victory could end their hopes of silverware in 2004.
Bremen, unbeaten in 19 games, have a home match with Hannover 24 hours on and know the games are running out for Bayern to chop their points cushion.