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MADRID -- Cristiano Ronaldo was kept waiting for his 100th career goal in European club competitions as Real Madrid swept to a 5-1 victory over Legia Warsaw in the Champions League on Tuesday.Gareth Bale opened the scoring with his first goal in the Champions League since December 2014. An own-goal by Tomasz Jodlowiec, followed by further strikes from Marco Asensio, Lucas Vazquez and Alvaro Morata, then sealed an emphatic victory for the holders.The win at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium allowed Madrid to keep pace in Group F with Borussia Dortmund, which held on for a 2-1 win at Sporting Lisbon. Madrid and Dortmund have seven points each after three matches, with Sporting staying on three points and Legia with zero.Ronaldo remains two short of 100 career goals in Europe. He had scored six goals in his previous three matches, including five for Portugal in World Cup qualifying, but the forward failed to find the net on Tuesday despite a few good scoring chances.We always want Cristiano to score goals, Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said. But he did well and created a lot of chances. He scored on Saturday and hopefully he will score again in the next match.Ronaldos best opportunities came late, first with low shot that missed the far corner in the 83rd minute and then with a close-range strike that was saved in the 88th.There was no specific strategy for Ronaldo, Legia coach Jacek Magiera said. He is a very good player but we contained him well. Our defenders did well, we conceded five goals but we didnt allow him to score, which is positive.Ronaldo had been crucial when Madrid rallied late to beat Sporting in its last home game in the Champions League.Against Legia, Madrid looked vulnerable in defense during the early stages, but stayed mostly in control despite conceding a penalty that cut the teams lead to 2-1 in the 22nd minute.We took some risks by playing with a very offensive scheme, Zidane said. It was expected that defensively we would have more difficulties, but we created a lot of chances on offense and thats what we wanted.Bale had opened the scoring with a cross shot into the far corner from inside the area in the 16th, and Madrid quickly added to the lead when a shot by Marcelo deflected off defender Jodlowiec and into the net in the 20th.Miroslav Radovic converted the penalty for Legia after being fouled by Madrid defender Danilo, but Asensio restored Madrids two-goal advantage after a short pass by Ronaldo in the 37th.That 5-1 was too harsh a scoreline, Magiera said. Had we scored twice and they scored four it might have been fair.Madrids substitutes increased its lead in the second half, with Vazquez scoring in the 68th and Morata, set up by a pass by Ronaldo, in the 84th.Madrid was without defender Sergio Ramos and midfielders Luka Modric and Casemiro because of injuries.Before the game, there were a few confrontations between Legia fans and local police outside the Bernabeu, and a few officers sustained minor injuries. There were no incidents reported during the game.---Tales Azzoni on Twitter: http://twitter.com/tazzoni. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/tales-azzoni Custom Nike Washington Nationals Jerseys . -- Vincent Lecavalier got everything but the desired result in his return to Tampa Bay. Custom Nike Chicago Cubs Jerseys . 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So if she agrees with the suggestion that her teams Game 4 victory in Los Angeles was one of the gutsiest wins shes been a part of with the Lynx, its not an overstatement.That victory kept the Lynx alive as they aim for their fourth title in six seasons. Minnesota meets Los Angeles on Thursday with the WNBA championship on the line in front of whats expected to be a sold-old Target Center for Game 5 (ESPN2, 8 p.m. ET).The Lynx dealt with foul trouble for defensive stalwart Rebekkah Brunson, and a very intense -- if marred by a few key mistakes -- effort from the Sparks to triumph 85-79 at Staples Center on Sunday and tie the WNBA Finals best-of-five series at 2-2.Natasha Howard came in to play important minutes in place of Brunson, who has primarily guarded Sparks center Candace Parker throughout the series. And Maya Moore, who was the game-high scorer with 31 points, also spent time defensively on Parker.We fortunate, I think, to get through it, Reeve said of the time spent on the bench by Brunson. I think Tashas minutes were extremely solid, and Maya gave us a different dimension that they hadnt really had to prepare for before. She was adequate, for sure, with post defense. I thought we handled it as well as we could.In this series between the teams with the two best records in the WNBA, weve seen a little of everything.Its been an emotional Finals, just the highs and the lows of both teams being so tightly matched, Moore said. You just feel the devastation of a loss, and the highs of a win. It takes a lot to get back to that place of competing with focus.But Minnesota is the franchise that has done that the most consistently over the past six seasons. A victory Thursday would give the Lynx their fourth championship, tying the Houston Comets record.The Lynx have been carrying around this historical goal all season, but it hasnt been a burden. They came into 2016 thinking that this could be the organizations best team, and that was the case through the regular season as the Lynx set a franchise record for wins (28-6).Now theyve reached the end of the line with one more winner-take-all game, and thee fundamentals are solidly in place -- and have been for years now.dddddddddddd This coaching staff and core group of players know what theyre doing.I think because of our preparation and how weve approached every game this season, we have the ability to do some great things in situations like this, Moore said. Nothings ever guaranteed. But I think we have enough experience, that understanding of what it takes to have a game where you have no regrets. We know how to strive for perfection on the big stage. And were looking forward to this challenge again.The Lynx went through a Game 5 just last year, in fact, after a back-and-fourth WNBA Finals series with Indiana. The Fevers offense, though, just seemed spent by that point, after theyd given all they had to win Game 4 and send the series back to Minnesota. The Lynx prevailed 69-52 at Target Center.Lynx center Sylvia Fowles, who was the MVP of that series, expects this Game 5 to be close.I think its going to be very gritty, said Fowles, who has been so key both with her rebounding and clogging up space inside that the Sparks post players want. Nothing is going to come easy. We have to do what we do well.We have this thing we call hot spots, and thats where other teams are at their best shooting. We just try to take them away from those spots, let them see traffic there a little bit.The Lynx were most dominant in this series in Game 2. They made defensive adjustments from their Game 1 loss and won 79-60, which tied for the Sparks lowest point total this season. The Lynx were able to hold league MVP Nneka Ogwumike to just six shots in Game 2, and force Parker to take a lot of her 12 shots in places she didnt prefer to take them.A defensive effort similar to that will make the Lynx very hard to beat.But I feel like even in Game 3, we had a good mindset, Lynx point guard Lindsay Whalen said of Minnesotas 92-75 loss last Friday, which was the game in which the Sparks were the most in control.Both teams are just fighting so hard. This series really has been what you want the Finals to be about. ' ' '