The Colchoneros maintained their home record with 1: 3 over Valencia and opened a 7-point gap at the top • Suarez on his birthday completed the turnaround • Felix and Correa also took part in the celebration
Luis Suarez celebrates Madrid's second.
happy Birthday
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In Madrid do you smell a plate?
Atletico Madrid maintained tonight (Sunday) a 7 point lead at the top of the Spanish league after putting together a seventh win in the league!
This time with a huge 1: 3 over Valencia.
Diego Simeone's team, which has not lost a home game in the league for more than a year and 20 consecutive games, is on the safe path to the championship, regardless of the fact that it still has a game in hand.
It was the Bats who came first on the board after an impressive conquest by Orosh Rachic, who found the net with a huge kick from 20 meters, but 12 minutes later the equalizer was recorded when Joao Felix pushed close inside.
Valencia players claimed Luis Suarez committed an offense during the occupation, but the referee decided to approve the goal.
In the 54th minute, the turnaround was completed with Felix cooking for Luis Suarez, who had no trouble determining a justified 1-2 on his 34th birthday.
Reason for party, have we already said?
18 minutes to go, Angel Correa was honored to celebrate the Colchoneros' third.
Get along without Messi
Without the dismissed Leo Messi, Barcelona managed to put together a fourth consecutive victory with a not particularly difficult 0: 2 over Elche, in the 19th round of the Spanish league.
The Catalans climbed to third place just 3 points away from Real Madrid and 10 from leading Atletico Madrid.
In the 39th minute Barça went up to 0: 1 after a confusion in the Elche defense, which in the end Gonzalez pushed to his own goal, but Frankie de Jong was quickest of all to push the ball in from zero distance and to score a fifth goal of the season to his credit.
A minute before the end of the 90 minutes, the excellent Frankie de Jong added a brace with a clever wide ball, substitute Ricky Pouch, who came in just two minutes earlier, got up and miraculously slammed his first hair of the season.
First goal and more with a jab!
In other games: Osasuna - Granada 1: 3, Salta Vigo - Eibar 1: 1.