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Barcelona did not start well saturday the year to tie at home to Villarreal (1-1), in advance party of the 16th round of the Spanish league, so you could lose the lead if Real Madrid beats Osasuna Sunday.

The Catalan club, who won six titles in 2009 and not attended by its star Leo Messi Argentina, who enjoyed a few days holiday in his country, was ahead in the scoring through Peter in the 7th minute .

Canaries striker, who managed the feat of scoring in six contests with Barcelona the year just ended, stopped the ball with his chest, hit the crossbar after a French Thierry Henry, and finished to the net unopposed.

But Villarrreal, ninth in the standings, managed a draw in the 51st minute through David Fuster, who had previously had two clear chances, and he managed to reach out on both a cross from the right at the far post, beating Victor Valdes with a cross shot.

England captain David Beckham made his first practice today with his return to Milan in the Italian club after six months in the U.S. soccer league.

Beckham was applauded by his teammates, with whom he shared the first half of 2009 to be released by Los Angeles Galaxy. The U.S. team, which was the star for the rest of the course, returned to lend to the "Rossoneri", this time until June 2010.

The midfielder arrived Thursday morning at Milan, where he hopes to get the right shape to be taken into account by Fabio Capello, England coach for the World Cup in South Africa.

The Italian player had warned that he must participate in a competitive tournament if he wanted to partake of the next World Cup and today gave his support publicly.

"I'll take the World Cup if he plays safe and is now fit," the coach said in an interview published today by the Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport.

Chelsea leader of the Premier League football after his comeback 2-1 at Fulham in Week 20 championship, which lets you temporarily widen its advantage over Manchester United and Arsenal, its main pursuit.

With these three points, the Blues are reunited with the victory after recent setbacks and are placed temporarily with five and seven points ahead of United (2nd) and the Gunners (3rd), which have respectively with one and two games less , so that the margin could be reduced.

Things started badly for Chelsea, with both the Hungarian Zoltan Gera for Fulham in the 4th minute after a mistake by John Terry, which disturbs the locals, who could only turn the collision of two magical minutes of the second part, thanks to Didier Drogba (73 ') and an own goal by Chris Smalling (75').

Despite the resounding win in the derby, the image of the pupils of Carlo Ancelotti was again disappointing and failed to satisfy their fans, especially in the defensive end, where the English runner faltered again and vulnerable.