LONDON, Oct 24: Getafe thrashed Real Zaragoza 5-2 to go top of the Primera Liga, displacing Real Madrid who had David Beckham and Thomas Gravesen sent off in a dramatic 2-1 home defeat by Valencia in weekend action.

Zinedine Zidane missed an early penalty in the Bernabeu and that miss proved costly when Valencia’s Ruben Baraja scored from a free kick in the 22nd minute.

Raul levelled for Real in the 36th minute, but David Villa restored the lead from the penalty spot almost immediately.

Real finished the game with nine men after Denmark midfielder Gravesen was sent off for a high tackle and England midfielder Beckham was dismissed for dissent near the end.

Getafe are top with 17 points, a point ahead of Celta Vigo who beat Espanyol 1-0. Real are third on 15 points. Barcelona, who beat Osasuna 3-0 on Saturday, are sixth with 13 points.

Chelsea’s 100 percent record was ended by bottom club Everton, who held the leaders to a 1-1 draw at Goodison Park.

James Beattie’s penalty put Everton in front before Frank Lampard finished with aplomb to equalise soon after halftime.

The champions retained their nine-point lead, however, because second-placed Tottenham Hotspur drew 1-1 with Manchester United at Old Trafford.

Charlton Athletic rose to second with a 2-1 victory at Portsmouth while promoted Wigan are fourth thanks to a 2-0 win at Aston Villa. The most memorable moment of the weekend came at Highbury when Robert Pires and Thierry Henry comically bungled an elaborate penalty routine during Arsenal’s 1-0 win over Manchester City.

Injury-plagued Filippo Inzaghi scored his first Serie A goal in 19 months to give second-placed AC Milan a 2-1 victory over Palermo while leaders Juventus remain five points clear thanks to a 3-0 win at Lecce.

Third-placed Inter Milan also won with Argentine Julio Ricardo Cruz scoring in their 1-0 victory at Udinese and Sampdoria were held 3-3 at home by Siena.

Juventus equalled their club record best start to a season with an eighth successive victory coming via goals from Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Romanian Adrian Mutu and Uruguayan Marcelo Zalayeta.

The 1-1 draw in the derby between AS Roma and Lazio was marred when referee Gianluca Paparesta was hit by an object thrown from the stands.

Bayern Munich crushed MSV Duisburg 4-0 to storm back on top of the Bundesliga just one week after the defending champions relinquished first place to Werder Bremen, who were held to a 0-0 draw at Hanover.

Brazil winger Ze Roberto scored a spectacular back-heel goal while Germany captain Michael Ballack and Paraguay striker Roque Santa Cruz each headed in crosses before Claudio Pizarro made it 4-0.

Piotr Trochowski scored a late equaliser to salvage Hamburg SV a 1-1 draw at Borussia Dortmund and strengthen the north German side’s hold on third place.

PSV Eindhoven went top after Timmy Simons converted a disputed penalty in the 10th minute to give them a 1-0 victory over Ajax Amsterdam.

PSV have 22 points from nine matches, one point more than AZ Alkmaar, who crushed 10-man Willem II Tilburg 5-1, and Feyenoord, who dropped to third following a 2-1 defeat at RKC Waalwijk.

Referee Pieter Vink awarded PSV’s penalty when Jefferson Farfan went down under a challenge from Urby Emanuelson and Belgian international Simons converted from the spot.

Olympique Lyon’s flying start to the season continued with a 4-0 away rout of bottom-of-the-table Metz.

The four-times champions, unbeaten after 12 matches in Ligue 1, have 30 points and lead second-placed Paris St Germain, who beat Nancy 1-0, by seven points.

St Etienne beat Olympique Marseille 2-1 to go fourth. Monaco slumped to their first Ligue 1 defeat in five games when they were beaten 2-1 at struggling Sochaux.—Reuters