ROBBIE KEANE EASED the pressure at Ferencvaros by recording a first league win of his reign, holding off 10-man Fehervar 3-1.
Keane saw his side crash out of the Europa League in midweek, surrendering a 1-0 first-leg lead in a 3-0 loss away to Viktoria Plzen. Keane failed to win any of his first four league games in charge of the Hungarian giants, drawing the first two games before losing the next two, one of which was against league leaders Puskas Akademia.
Ferencvaros are second, and trail the leaders by five points with the same number of games played.
Ahead of the game, the Ferencvaros fans made clear their displeasure with recent results by unfurling a banner reading, ” if you lose today, hide tomorrow.”
Elsewhere, Gavin Bazunu enjoyed his first win as a Standard Liege player, winning 2-1 away to a Club Brugge side who upset Atalanta in the Champions League in midweek.
Standard Liege are seventh in the table, three points and one place outside of the title play-off places.
Troy Parrott’s AZ Alkmaar won 1-0 at home to Fortuna Sittard, lifting themselves to fourth place, level on points with a Feyenoord side who confirmed Robin Van Persie as their new manager.
In Spain, Real Madrid ended a three-match winless run in LaLiga after beating Girona 2-0 at the Bernabeu to move back to second in the table.
Los Blancos – who defeated Manchester City 3-1 on Wednesday night to secure their spot in the last 16 of the Champions League – went ahead just before half-time through Luka Modric’s superb strike from outside the penalty area.
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After Carlo Ancelotti’s side had dominated the second half but without adding to their lead, Vinicius Junior eventually put the result to bed with a low strike in the 83rd minute.
Real now sit level on points at the top of the table with leaders Barcelona, who were 2-0 winners at Las Palmas on Saturday, with Atletico Madrid one point back in third.
Elsewhere on Sunday, Athletic Bilbao extended their unbeaten league run to 16 straight games with a 7-1 thrashing of bottom club Real Valladolid, who finished with 10 men.
In Italy, Napoli missed the chance to go back to the top of Serie A after losing 2-1 at Como.
Como went in front following an early own goal from Amir Rrahmani, but Giacomo Raspadori had Napoli level in the 17th minute.
However, teenager Assane Diao struck with 13 minutes left to leave Antonio Conte’s men a point behind Inter, who had beaten Genoa on Saturday.
Fiorentina slipped to a third consecutive Serie A defeat after a stoppage-time goal from Antoine Bernede saw them beaten 1-0 at Hellas Verona, where Moise Kean was taken to hospital after appearing to pass out following an earlier blow to his head.
Italy international Kean had been involved in an accidental collision with Pawel Dawidowicz and Diego Coppola midway through the second half, taking a knee in the face, which left him with a cut above his eye.
Although Kean returned to the pitch following treatment, with his head bandaged, the 24-year-old soon fell, initially appearing unresponsive, before being taken off on a stretcher in the 67th minute.
Fiorentina later confirmed Kean had suffered a head trauma and was in hospital for tests.
Bayern Munich consolidated their lead at the top of the Bundesliga with a 4-0 win over Frankfurt.
With England captain Harry Kane starting on the bench as he manages a calf problem, Bayern eventually broke the deadlock in stoppage time at the end of the first half through Michael Olise following a sweeping move.
Hiroki Ito knocked in a second from a corner just after the hour, with Jamal Musiala’s fine solo run and Serge Gnabry’s late strike wrapping up a comfortable victory as Bayern move back eight points clear of champions Bayer Leverkusen.
RB Leipzig fought back to draw 2-2 against Heidenheim at the Red Bull Arena – where the hosts had fallen 2-0 behind inside the opening 13 minutes.
With reporting by PA
Sad to see a good county like offaly down like they are be nice to see them competitive again in the future
Up the cats