Waching daily Mar 28 2018

Ten years ago, Real Madrid took a giant stride towards taking possession of LaLiga championship 2007/2008.

Bernd Schuster's side finished the thirtieth matchday of the season top of the table with a six point lead over their

nearest rivals, Villarreal.

Los Blancos overcame Sevilla in the Santiago Bernabeu in a game which went their way early on thanks to a goal

from Heinze, his first as a Real Madrid player.

Frederic Kanoute, soon pulled one back for the Andalusian team but a few seconds later, Raul put his

side back ahead with a cracking goal that would enter the club's history books, as it put him equal with

Santillana on 290 goals in official games.

Gonzalo Higuain, sealed the victory with another goal in the second half, to make the final result 3-1.

Barcelona flopped at Betis' Benito Villamarin stadium and dropped to third place.

After a determined first half Barça went into the dressing rooms 2-0 up.

But to the delight of the home fans two strikes from Edu and a goal from Juanito turned the game on its head.

Rijkaard's side were now 7 points adrift of the top place.

Villarreal took full advantage of Barça's slip-up. They were in superb form in their 3-0 defeat of Atletico in the

Madrigal, which saw them jump into second place.

Santi Cazorla got one of the goals thanks to a marvellous piece of play from Robert Pires, and Nihat

netted a brace in a game which featured the return of Diego Forlan to his former club.

Another team to come out on top ten years ago was Racing Santander, who were worthy winners in Montjuïc

and now equal with Atletico Madrid in an impressive fourth place.

Goal of the game came from Ivan Bolado with a brilliantly tricky shot to seal a 3-0 victory.

Dani Güiza, Xisco Jimenez and Vicente Iborra were the other stand out players from Matchday 30.

The Mallorca striker struck twice in the Mestalla making him the top Spanish goalscorer with 17 goals.

Xisco got his one and only LaLiga hat-trick at the Riazor, an achievement that gave a great boost to Deportivo's

chances of staying up.

A youthful Iborra scored his first goal in the best league in the world in Almeria,

though it wasn't of much use as Levante lost at the Mediterráneo stadium, and were now well adrift at the

bottom of LaLiga.