Saturday’s La Liga motion featured one other key twist within the thrilling title race as Atletico Madrid stormed to a 3-0 victory away at Valencia.
Each step within the title race will likely be rigorously managed by Diego Simeone and Co. however they’ve sealed a key edge this weekend.
Rayo Vallecano noticed their push for European qualification hit by defeat at residence to Villarreal as Espanyol left it late to win at Alaves.
Let’s see how Saturday video games unfolded…
Alaves 0-1 Espanyol
Espanyol struck the important thing blow late on in a battle between two out of shape sides within the Basque Nation.
The hosts suffered a late loss, to make it 5 La Liga video games with out a win, as Espanyol sealed their first away win of 2024/25.
Early probabilities had been at a premium and Alaves had been denied a penalty after the restart.
Nevertheless, the one alternative late on landed for Espanyol, as Fernando Calero shrugged off his marker to move residence a late free kick.
👊 Soy Fernando Calero, 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐎 𝐄𝐍 𝐄𝐋 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐎 𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐎.
🐦 El gol de @fcalero5 que vale más que tres puntos.pic.twitter.com/wVOmoRE5uN
— Offsider (@Offsider_ES) February 22, 2025
Rayo Vallecano 0-1 Villarreal
Rayo Vallecano are aiming to clinch a European spot for the primary time in 20 years however their latest kind has stuttered.
Defeat at Barcelona in midweek ended their unbeaten streak T the beginning of 2025 they usually misplaced out at residence to Villarreal to slide down the desk additional.
Regardless of the prospect of harnessing the ability of Vallecas, the primary half dismissal of Jorge de Frutos disrupted the house aspect.
Equally to the Espanyol win at Alaves, one late likelihood determined the end result, as Ayoze Perez fired residence from shut vary.
11 – Ayoze Pérez ha anotado 11 goles en 18 partidos en LaLiga 2024/25, siendo el primer jugador del @VillarrealCF que alcanza esta cifra tras sus primeros 18 encuentros de una campaña en la competición desde Gerard Moreno en la 2020/21 (13). Destacado. pic.twitter.com/9Jjp61b8PF
— OptaJose (@OptaJose) February 22, 2025
Valencia 0-3 Atletico Madrid
Issues had been extra routine for Atletico Madrid at Valencia as Julian Alvarez introduced himself as much as 9 league objectives for the season with a primary half double on the Estadio Mestalla.
That dented any likelihood of Los Che producing one thing particular towards the title chasers as Angel Correa got here off the bench to clinch victory for Diego Simeone.
Julián Alvarez is UNSTOPPABLE for Atlético Madrid 😎🇦🇷 pic.twitter.com/6RVfAqapQJ
— OneFootball (@OneFootball) February 22, 2025
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