MD22 of the 2024-25 La Liga season continued on Saturday with 4 extra matches, involving the likes of Atletico Madrid, Villarreal and Sevilla. The fixtures that occurred concerned sides within the title race, European hunt and the relegation battle, and this made for very fascinating viewing.
Atletico Madrid 2-0 Mallorca
After back-to-back winless matches in opposition to Leganes (1-0 defeat) and Villarreal (1-1 draw), Atletico Madrid have returned to profitable methods with a 2-0 victory over Mallorca on the Metropolitano. After a gradual begin, the hosts grew into the proceedings, and so they took the lead on 26 minutes after Giuliano Simeone performed in Samuel Lino, who made no mistake from simply contained in the penalty space.
Mallorca pressed for a winner within the second half, however as an alternative, it was Atleti that secured the end in stoppage time as substitute Antoine Griezmann completed properly after being arrange by Rodrigo Riquelme.
Villarreal 5-1 Actual Valladolid
It was a sport of two halves for Villarreal at La Ceramica, as they dispatched Actual Valladolid 5-1 to safe back-to-back complete dwelling wins, following the 4-0 success in opposition to Mallorca two weeks in the past. It took till the closing phases of the primary interval for the hosts to open the scoring, which they did courtesy of Ayoze Perez.
Within the second half, Marcelino Garcia Toral’s facet took management as they scored 4 instances with out reply. Pape Gueye made it 2-0, earlier than Santi Comesana, Thierno Barry and Denis Suarez added to the rating. Nonetheless, Valladolid did handle a comfort in stoppage time courtesy of Selim Amallah.
Getafe 0-0 Sevilla
Getafe and Sevilla couldn’t be separated of their lunchtime encounter, though either side did have massive probabilities to take dwelling the three factors. Juanmi, who was making his debut after signing from Actual Betis earlier within the week, was denied by Orjan Nyland, whereas Dodi Lukebakio missed the goal fully along with his effort.