Villarreal “caught” a treble in La Liga. The ‘yellow submarine’ defeated Espanyol 2-1 in Barcelona for the seventh matchday of La Liga and found themselves +1 on Atletico Madrid, who currently play Celta Vigo and could find themselves above the Levantines again , who are avoiding it, but showed that they surpassed the top five from Barcelona, ​​leaving the second team from the Catalan capital just +3 from the dangerous positions.
Espanyol took the lead with Carreras at 45’+1′, Villarreal equalized with Ayothe Perez at 45’+6′ and he himself gave victory to Marthelino’s players at 63′.
Betis failed to beat Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and, with a 1-1 draw with the islanders, remained in the middle of the standings.
Moleiro opened the scoring for the hosts in the 9th minute, only for Lo Celso to equalize for the “Verdiblancos” in stoppage time.
The schedule of the seventh game:
Tuesday 17/09
Mallorca-Sociedad 1-0
(36′ pen. Prats)
Thursday 19/09
Leganes-Bilbao 0-2
(65′ Vivian, 76′ Inaki Williams)
Tuesday 24/09
Sevilla-Valladolid 2-1
(45′ auto. Torres, 85′ Etzuke – 56′ Peres)
Valencia-Osasuna 0-0
Real Madrid-Alavés 3-2
(1′ L. Vasquez, 40′ Mbappe, 49′ Rodrigo – 85′ Benavides, 86′ Garcia)
Wednesday 25/09
Girona-Rayo Vaguecano 0-0
Barcelona-Getafe 1-0
(19′ Lewandowski)
Thursday 26/09
Espanyol-Villarreal b1-2
(45’+1′ Carreras-45’+6′, 63′ Ayothe Pereth)
Las Palmas-Betis 1-1
(9′ Moleiro-45’+3′ Lo Celso)
Celta-Atletico Madrid 22:00
The next (eighth) matchday:
Friday 27/9
Valladolid-Mallorca (22:00)
Saturday 28/9
Getafe-Alavés (15:00)
Rayo Vagecano-Leganes (17:15)
Sociedad-Valencia (19:30)
Osasuna-Barcelona (22:00)
Sunday 29/9
Celta-Girona (15:00)
Bilbao-Seville (17:15)
Betis-Espanyol (19:30)
Atletico Madrid-Real Madrid (22:00)
Monday 30/9
Villarreal-Las Palmas (22:00)
Source: Sport Fm
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