Cristiano Ronaldo made a goalscoring debut in La Liga on Saturday,helping Real Madrid squeeze through their first test of the season 3-2 at home to Deportivo Coruna. Raul gave Real the lead after some great work from Kaka,another of their big-money signings,only for poor marking to gift Deportivo their first equaliser. World Player of the Year Ronaldo restored the lead with a penalty and after Deportivo had once again come back a long range strike from Lassana Diarra gave the home side the points. The result will come as a relief to new coach Manuel Pellegrini after the club spent 250 million euros ($359 million) on players,including a world record fee to sign Ronaldo from Manchester United,following Florentino Perez's return to the presidency. Real,obliged now to mount an effective challenge to treble-winners Barcelona,started briskly,with Brazilian playmaker Kaka looking particularly dangerous. RAUL TAP-IN Kaka's pass in the 26th minute should have been cleared but the ball fell to Karim Benzema and Raul was on hand to tap in the rebound when the Frenchman's shot came back off a post. Riki was left unmarked four minutes later to head Juca's deep cross past Real goalkeeper Iker Casillas before Raul was felled by Depor keeper Daniel Aranzubia and Ronaldo stroked the resulting 35th-minute penalty into the bottom left corner. Depor stunned Real with a second equaliser immediately after the restart. Mexican midfielder Jose Guardado picked out Juan Carlos Valeron on the edge of the area and he drilled a superb shot low past Casillas. Diarra grabbed the winner on the hour when he rounded Juca and struck a powerful shot into the far corner. Barcelona's opening match against Sporting Gijon has been put back to Monday because of the champions' European Super Cup match against Shakhtar Donetsk on Friday,which they won 1-0. The 80,000 spectators at the Bernabeu gave world 100 and 200 metres champion Usain Bolt a huge ovation when he came on to the pitch before kickoff and showed off some ball skills.
