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Barca passes Lazio Change dominates with five new teams on the Top 10
Posted: Monday October 25, 1999 05:30 PM
ATLANTA (CNN/SI) -- Change is again the dominant theme on the CNN/World Soccer Top 10, a unique ranking of football clubs issued each Monday and determined through voting by correspondents from CNN Sports and World Soccer magazine. Barcelona and Lazio ran away with the top two spots, while many of the rest of the positions were wide open after several of the world's top clubs suffered losses. Six new teams joined the list last week, and five new clubs appear for Week 12. Defending Spanish champ Barca leapfrogged Lazio on the strength of a 4-2 win over Arsenal on the road at Wembley Stadium, clinching a spot in the Champions League round of 16. Barcelona also seized first place in the Primera from Rayo Vallecano with a 4-0 win over Athletic de Bilbao. Italian Serie A leader Lazio also advanced in the Champions League after a 4-0 win over Maribor of Slovenia. In league action, the club recovered from a slow start to defeat Lecce 4-2. Defending French champion Bordeaux joins the list at number three after defeating former Top 10 club Spartak Moscow in the Champions League and Olympique Marseille in the French first division. Treble-winning Manchester United of England hangs on in the number four spot despite losing to Olympique Marseille in Champions League action and Tottenham Hotspur in the English Premier League. AC Milan returns to the list in the fifth spot after defeating Ronaldo and Inter 2-1 in a Milan derby. AC Milan lost, however, to Hertha Berlin in the Champions League and faces elimination this week against Chelsea. Despite losing to Barcelona, second-place English club Arsenal comes in sixth after defeating Chelsea 3-2 on the road Saturday. Perennial Norwegian champion Rosenborg earned an appearance at number seven after defeating last week's number two team, Germany's Borussia Dortmund, by a 3-0 score. Rosenborg leads Group C going into this week's game against Portugal's Boavista. Bayern Munich slides from fifth back to number eight after drawing with Valencia in the Champions League and defeating Kaiserslautern 2-0 Saturday in the Bundesliga. English Premier League leader Leeds United slides one spot to ninth after drawing with Everton, while Italy's Juventus returns at number 10 after drawing Bari 1-1 at the weekend and winning 3-1 Sofia's Levski in the UEFA Cup. Falling from the list were Borussia Dortmund, PSV Eindhoven (lost to Rangers), Spartak Moscow, River Plate (inactive), Inter Milan, Bayer Leverkusen (drew Freiburg; lost to Dynamo Kiev) and Corinthians (drew Atletico de Parana).
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