Ronaldo leads Madrid rout of Eibar to warm up for Wolfsburg

By foxsports
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) Cristiano Ronaldo scored his Spanish league-leading 30th goal of the season and set up two more to help Real Madrid rout Eibar 4-0 and provisionally reduce Barcelona's lead Saturday.

Coach Zinedine Zidane rested several first-choice players for Tuesday's critical Champions League match, when Madrid will need to overturn a shock 2-0 defeat to Wolfsburg to advance to the semifinals.

Little did it matter against modest Eibar as James Rodriguez, Lucas Vazquez, Ronaldo and Jese Rodriguez all scored before halftime at the Santiago Bernabeu.

Gareth Bale, Marcelo and Toni Kroos never left Madrid's bench while Karim Benzema, Luka Modric and Keylor Navas weren't on the squad.

Madrid provisionally moved past Atletico Madrid into second place at four points behind Barcelona.

Barcelona visits Real Sociedad later after Atletico is at Espanyol.