LONDON (AP) -- Cristiano Ronaldo scored both goals to lead Manchester United over visiting Portsmouth 2-0 Wednesday night and back into first place in the English Premier League.
Ronaldo scored in the 10th and 13th minutes and leads the league with 17 goals, one more than Arsenal's Emmanuel Adebayor. Ronaldo has 27 goals in all competitions this season.
Manchester United (18-3-3) and Arsenal (17-1-6) each have 57 points, and Manchester United leads on goal difference.
Third-place Chelsea (16-3-5), which trails by four points, beat visiting Reading 1-0 on a 33rd-minute goal by Michael Ballack, who headed in Paulo Ferreira's cross. The Blues stretched their league-record home unbeaten streak to 75 games and won their ninth straight in all competitions, matching their club record.
Tottenham (7-10-7) drew 0-0 at fourth-place Everton (13-7-4); Manchester City drew 1-1 at last-place Derby, which got its first point at home since September; and seventh-place Liverpool (10-3-10) lost 1-0 at West Ham (10-7-6), which scored on a 90th-minute penalty kick by Mark Noble following Jamie Carragher's foul of Fredrik Ljungberg.
ROME (AP) -- Alberto Gilardino headed in a cross from Andrea Pirlo in the 18th minute, and AC Milan beat Reggina 1-0 in a rescheduled Serie A game.
Milan (8-5-6) moved into sixth place with 30 points, 20 behind league-leading Internazionale.
Inter advanced to the semifinals of the Italian Cup, beating Juventus 3-2 as 17-year-old Mario Balotelli scored twice. Inter won the home-and-home quarterfinal on 5-4 aggregate.
Inter's semifinal will be against Lazio, which defeated Fiorentina 2-1 on goals from Aleksander Kolarov and Tommaso Rocchi to advance on 4-2 aggregate.
In Sicily, Japanese forward Takayuki Morimoto scored in the 89th minute to lead Catania to a 2-1 win over Udinese, putting the Sicilian club in the final four for the first time. Catania advanced on away goals after losing the first leg 3-2 and next plays defending champion AS Roma.
MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Valencia and Getafe advanced to the Spanish King's Cup semifinals despite losses.
Atletico Madrid beat Valencia 3-2, but an own goal by Cleber Santana and a score by Juan Manuel Mata was enough for Valencia to advance following its 1-0 first leg win.
Getafe got an 82nd-minute goal from Esteban Granero and advanced despite a 2-1 loss to Mallorca.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Mario Gomez scored in the 29th, 32nd and 43rd minutes to give Stuttgart a 3-2 win over Werder Bremen's reserves and take the Bundesliga champion into the quarterfinals of the German Cup.
Wolfsburg beat Schalke 5-3 on penalty kicks after a 1-1 tie in overtime, and Hamburg SV advanced to the quarterfinals for the first time in 11 years when it won 3-0 at third-division Rot-Weiss Essen on goals by Rafael van der Vaart, Piotr Trochowski and Ivica Olic.
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) -- Rangers reached the final of the Scottish League Cup final, getting goals from Barry Ferguson and Jean-Claude Darcheville.
Celtic's Scottish Premier League match at Motherwell was postponed because of a waterlogged field.
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