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Barcelona moves up Champions League quarterfinalists dominate poll
ATLANTA (CNNSI.com) -- Manchester United remains No. 1 and Barcelona has moved up to second in the CNN/World Soccer Top 10, the unique ranking of football clubs issued each Monday and determined through voting by correspondents from CNN Sports and World Soccer magazine. Man United leads the English Premier League by seven points over Leeds following a 4-0 pounding of Bradford on Saturday. United, which has reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League, won Group B in the competition with a 0-0 draw against Valencia on Tuesday. Barcelona swapped spots with Bayern Munich, moving up from third to second. The Spanish side has moved within striking distance of the league lead, two points behind Deportivo Coruna, and defeated Malaga 2-1 on Saturday. Barcelona has also reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League, and the club has been established by oddsmakers as the favorite to win the competition. Bayern Munich, also a Champions League quarterfinalist, is tied with Bayer Leverkusen for the Bundesliga lead. Both German sides played to draws at home on Saturday, with Bayern drawing 2-2 against fifth-place FC Kaiserslautern Italian side Lazio jumped three spots to fourth after beating Roma 2-1 on Saturday and also reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League with a 2-1 win over Chelsea. Argentina's River Plate and Brazil's Corinthians rank fifth and sixth with their continued strong showings in South America. Real Madrid, another Champions League quarterfinalist after a 1-0 victory over Rosenborg, moved from ninth to seventh. Real stands tied for fourth with Alaves in the Spanish table following a 0-0 weekend draw with Rayo Vallecano. Galatasaray also moved up two spots in the Top 10 after defeating Real Mallorca 2-1 to reach the UEFA Cup semifinals. Galatasaray became the first Turkish team in 11 years to reach the semifinals of a European Cup. AC Milan ended a 22-game unbeaten streak by Juventus on Friday. The 2-0 win allowed Milan to return to the rankings at ninth and bounced Juventus, rated fourth last week, out of the poll. Leeds dropped from sixth to 10th with a pair of losses. The English club fell to Leicester City 2-1 in the Premier League and advanced in the UEFA Cup despite a 2-1 loss to Slavia Prague.
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