A DREADFUL mistake from Barcelona keeper Victor Valdes gifted Valencia all three points and cut Frank Rijkaard’s side’s lead at the top of La Liga to six points at the Mestella last night.

IT WAS a good week to be German, less enjoyable for the Italians.

Sven-Goran Eriksson declared that Argentina are by no means ‘‘unbeatable’’ as he insisted he could find weaknesses in a team built around players he helped to nurture to the top.

Nestor Sensini traipsed off the Wembley pitch to a cacophony of jeers and you had to feel a jot of sorrow for the balding Argentinian.