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Sunderland came from two goals down to secure a 2-2 draw at home to Fulham in the English Premier League on Saturday.

Dimitar Berbatov stroked home a controversial penalty to give the visitors the lead at the Stadium of Light, before Sascha Riether's tap-in doubled the advantage.

A spot-kick from Craig Gardner halved the deficit on 37 minutes and Stephane Sessegon completed the comeback, smashing in a low effort from 20 yards out with 20 minutes remaining.

Neither manager made a single change from their previous line-ups as Danny Graham and Steven Fletcher were paired up front from the start for the hosts for the first time in a home game.

With the return leg of their Champions League tie with Manchester United on the horizon, momentum is beginning to gather within the ranks of Real Madrid.

Minutes before the referee called time on a second Real victory over Barcelona in five days here this afternoon, a cry of "Jose Mourinho, Jose Mourinho” began to drift round the Bernabeu.

As the observer sitting to my right in the press box murmured: "We haven’t heard that for a while”.

This is what it’s like for a coach in Spain and especially here in Madrid.

Shinji Kagawa, who performed poorly in the drawn opening leg of the last-16 tie, did the trick for Ferguson and his case for another tilt at José Mourinho's side no harm with an impressively taken hat-trick, before Wayne Rooney's late goal.

The Japanese stroked home his opener in added time at the end of the first half to give United a lead that their dominance, if not end product thus far, deserved.

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 Chelsea reclaimed third place in the Barclays Premier League in a routine 1-0 win over West Bromwich Albion at Stamford Bridge.

 Demba Ba's 28th-minute goal allowed Chelsea to return above Tottenham Hotspur for 24 hours at least, ahead of tomorrow's north London derby.

Central Coast coach Graham Arnold says he will look to appoint a specific penalty taker in the run-up to the A-League finals.

The Mariners suffered a 1-0 loss to Western Sydney on Saturday in a match in which Central Coast goalkeeper Mathew Ryan missed a penalty.

The Wanderers' win, their eighth in succession, came thanks to an 81st-minute goal from substitute Labinot Haliti, which broke the deadlock in an entertaining fixture.

The home side should have been ahead had Ryan nailed his penalty attempt, awarded when the Wanderers' Dino Kresinger was ruled to have pushed Patrick Zwaanswijk in the back.

Western Sydney coach Tony Popovic was delighted to see his rookie side move top of the A-League by beating Central Coast 1-0 on Saturday.

The result saw the new franchise claim their eighth victory in a row and leapfrog the Mariners into top spot in the standings.

The match had two key second-half turning points, firstly in the 52nd minute when Mariners goalkeeper Mathew Ryan missed a penalty, before substitute Labinot Haliti scored the decisive goal in the 81st minute.

Popovic thought the penalty was 'soft' and was glad the match wasn't decided as a result of it, and he was quick to praise his side's goal-scorer.

"Very, very pleased of course," Popovic said of substitute Haliti's winner.

Former Real Madrid player Santiago Solari has hailed Barcelona star Lionel Messi as 'inhuman'.

Messi has been in sensational form this season, netting 38 goals in 25 La Liga appearances so far, and Solari believes the Argentina international is on another level compared to Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo.

"What's really incredible about Messi is his consistency over the past four to five years. It's practically inhuman to keep going like him," Solari told Sport.

"What Messi has achieved in recent years far outweighs what Cristiano Ronaldo has done. This difference is reflected in the number of Ballons d'Or he has won."