| Rolling the dice on a one-cent flight
BARCELONA, Spain -- Traveling is like playing Monopoly. All the possibilities for making a fortune in real estate or going to the poor house are laid out before you. You just roll the dice and occasionally make a decision, like whether to buy Park Place. .
Barcelona travel to Liverpool in good heart but in poor form
Hamburg - Holders Barcelona travel to Liverpool for Tuesday's Champions League showdown in good heart - but in poor form, and needing to overturn a 2-1 deficit from the first leg in Spain. The good news for coach Frank Rijkaard is that - after six months of injury problems - he now has a fully fit squad and no suspensions. The bad news is that is team is in poor form, without their usual sparkle and leaking goals alarmingly. .
Surprises in Spanish football
Athletic Bilbao has stunned title contenders Valencia 1-0 to lift itself out of the relegation zone, while Real Zaragoza scored a deserved victory over league leaders Barcelona to throw the Spanish Primera Liga title race wide open.
Valencia arrived at Bilbao hoping to put itself third on the table ahead of the second leg of its Champions League quarter-final with Chelsea, but things did not go to plan as Igor Gabilondo scored the only goal of the game in the first half.
Valencia pushed for an equaliser with a series of attacks in the second half, but it was not to be its day as Athletic kept finding ways to deny David Villa.
Valencia began the game well enough with Miguel Angulo heading narrowly over the bar with only five minutes gone.
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