Bilbao ready for a treble. Ernesto Valverde’s side defeated this season’s poor Sevilla 2-0 at Sanchez Pizjuan for matchday 19 of La Liga and are now level with Atletico Madrid and Barcelona, with the Blaugrana having a game in hand and later facing Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, so they might be -7 off the top, with the Basques remaining unbeaten in seven league games.
In contrast, the Europa League holders remained +1 from the bottom three places and are still fighting to move further away from the relegation zone, making it two league defeats in a row.
Osasuna moved up to the middle places, which defeated 1-0 in Pamplona the trailing and almost doomed Almeria, which was -11 from the relegation places.
The program of the 19th matchday:
Tuesday 2/1
Getafe-Rayo Vaguecano 0-2
(45’+1′, 47′ Cameo)
Real Sociedad-Alavés 1-1
(90’+6′ Thubimendi – 76′ pen. Rioja)
Valencia-Villarreal 3-1
(4′ Yaremchuk, 27′ penalty, 57′ penalty Pepelou – 73′ Moreno)
Wednesday 3/1
Granada-Cádiz 2-0
(22′ Uzouni, 70′ Tharagotha)
Celta-Betis 2-1
(16′ Aspas, 90+6′ Swedberg – 6′ Ruybal)
Real Madrid-Mallorca 1-0
(78′ Riedinger)
Girona-Atletico Madrid 4-3
(2′ Fernandez, 26′ Savio, 39′ Blind, 90+1′ Martin – 14’/44’/54′ Morata)
Thursday 4/1
Osasuna-Almeria 1-0
(27′ Budimir)
Sevilla-Bilbao 0-2
(30′ Vesga, 76′ Paredes)
Las Palmas-Barcelona (22:30)
The next (20th) matchday:
Friday 12/1
Sevilla-Alavés (22:00)
Saturday 13/1
Las Palmas-Villarreal (15:00)
Mallorca-Thelta (17:15)
Athletic Bilbao-Real Sociedad (19:30)
Betis-Granada (22:00)
Sunday 14/1
Almeria-Girona (15:00)
Cádiz-Valencia (17:15)
Source: Sport Fm
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