Champion Madrid bids to crown perfect week with victory at Zaragoza

Newly proclaimed champion Real Madrid can complete a perfect week when it visits lowly Zaragoza in the Spanish league's penultimate round on Sunday.

After beating Osasuna 2-1 last Sunday to lift the title for a record 31st time, Madrid kept its momentum and produced its best soccer of the season to rout its archrival FC Barcelona 4-1 on Wednesday.

Madrid has mounted a run of six wins and one draw in its past seven games to take a 10-point lead and bring Bernd Schuster his first major trophy in an 11-year coaching career.

"I didn't expect this before the season started. I thought we would be a title candidate but not that we would be so far …