MADRID: Substitute Achille Webo scored the winner in injury time on Wednesday and Osasuna edged Atletic Bilbao 3-2 to move atop the Spanish league.

The Cameroon striker sent a rising shot past Daniel Aranzubia after the Bilbao keeper parried a chance by Valmiro Lopes.

The victory was Osasuna's fourth in five games and gave the club 18 points, moving it one past Getafe, two ahead of FC Barcelona and Celta Vigo and with three more than Real Madrid, Villarreal and Valencia.

Mallorca beat Celta 1-0, Villarreal won 3-2 at Real Betis, while Getafe was to play at Real Sociedad and Valencia was to host Sevilla on Thursday.

Landmark for Ronaldinho

In other ninth-round matches, Ronaldinho converted an 81st-minute penalty in his 100th appearance for FC Barcelona and Henrik Larsson added a goal to give the defending champion a 2-0 win over Malaga.

Defender Juanma Delgado scored on two headers and Canadian Julian De Guzman added another goal to help Deportivo La Coruna beat Real Madrid 3-1.

Carlos Gurpegi gave Bilbao the lead at Osasuna's El Sadar stadium in the 27th minute. Raul Garcia equalised for Osasuna from distance in the 44th and then sent in a cross for Serbia-Montenegro striker Savo Milosevic to head in in the 61st. Bilbao tied the game in the 81st through an own-goal by defender Rafael Clavero only to be beaten just before the final whistle by Webo's late strike. Bilbao's defeat extended its winless run to four games and left the Basque team in last place with five points.

Barca dominates

Barcelona dominated Malaga at the Camp Nou, but struggled to beat former goalkeeper Francesc Arnau. Barcelona finally made the breakthrough in the 81st minute, capitalising on the penalty after midfielder Juan Rodriguez was adjudged to have tripped Ronaldinho.

Substitute Larsson, who had replaced Samuel Eto'o, sealed Barcelona's fourth win of the season in the 88th minute by curling the ball around Arnau.

Madrid, which was without four injured players — Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo, Julio Baptista and Michel Salgado — and suspended Thomas Gravesen, remained without a victory at Deportivo's Riazor Stadium since 1991. The defeat was Madrid's fourth of the season.

The results: La Liga: Real Betis 2 (Ricardo Oliveira, Javi Venta — own goal) lost to Villarreal 3 (José Mari, Juan Pablo Sorin, Juan Roman Riquelme — penalty); Mallorca 1 (Cristiano Doni) bt Celta Vigo 0;

Osasuna 3 (Raul Garcia, Savo Milosevic, Pierre Webo) bt Athletic Bilbao 2 (Carlos Gurpegi, Juan Manuel Ortiz — own goal); Barcelona 2 (Ronaldinho — penalty, Henrik Larsson) bt Malaga 0;

Deportivo La Coruna 3 (Julian de Guzman, Delgado Manuel Juanma 2) bt Real Madrid 1 (Raul).

League Cup: Birmingham 2 (J. Pennant, J.Jarosik) bt Norwich 1 (M. Taylor — own goal); Bolton 1 (J. Borgetti) bt West Ham 0; Cardiff 0 lost to Leicester 1 (N. Johansoon); Chelsea (J. Terry) drew with Charlton 1 (D. Bent); Everton 0 lost to Middlesbrough 1 (J. Hasselbaink); Grimsby 0 lost to Newcastle 1 (A. Shearer); Manchester United 4 (L. Miller, K. Richardson, G. Rossi, S. Ebanks-Blake) bt Barnet 1 (D. Sinclair). — AP

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