CHECK THE COMPLETE CLASSIFICATION OF LALIGA SANTANDER 2021-2022
LaLiga (and club football) is going on vacation due to the national team break. The Spanish championship ends with an exciting twenty-ninth day in which the the great Clásico between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabéu in the that the azulgrana team changed history in direct confrontations between the two greats of Spain. A balsamic win to remember that Barça is back.
The match was a display from start to finish of the azulgranas. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang opened the scoring before the half hour mark and the next three came almost effortlessly. Barça had a very quiet night, even more so than against Galatasaray, and left Chamartín with a historic result. The Gabonese finished with a double, plus another goal from Araújo and Ferran Torres.
Real Madrid is at the top of the table, with 69 points. The team led by Carlo Ancelotti has been consistently in the championship and wants to win the title. His closest pursuer is Sevilla, who have run out of steam in this last stretch of LaLiga and aim to abandon ship in the fight for second place in the standings. They add, at the moment, 57 units.
The team led by Julen Lopetegui has drawn again this weekend, this time against Real Sociedad (0-0). They have recorded their third draw in the last five games in LaLiga Santander (and two other victories), so they will have to ‘reinvigorate’ after the national team break, when they will play against Barça for the thirtieth day, at the Camp Nou, which follows them in the standings with 54 points.
Atlético de Madrid, after a hesitant start to the season, has once again become hooked on the championship and against Rayo Vallecano, this Saturday, They added their fifth consecutive victory, to stay with 54 units. It is not the same case of Betis, in any case, which has sinned by being very disconnected in the last month.
Manuel Pellegrini’s men, who came after their elimination from the Europa League, sealed the draw against Celta de Vigo (0-0) and have 50 points, with only two wins in their last five matches, as well as one draw and two losses. It is followed by Real Sociedad, after the draw against Sevilla, with 48 units.
Villarreal have not managed to win this matchday either and fell to Cádiz (1-0) to move further away from the European positions. They remain in seventh position with 45, ahead of Athletic (41), Valencia (40 and Osasuna (38), which close the ‘top 10’.
Like this it is the rest of the classification of LaLiga
In the middle of the table, not much has changed. Espanyol is in eleventh position, after beating Mallorca by the minimum (1-0). They have 36 units, ahead of a Rayo Vallecano (32) that does not lift its head and has four losses and a draw in the last five games. follow the Elche (32), Getafe (29), Granada (28) and Cádiz (26).
Granada has been one of the great protagonists of the day, after a crazy match in Mendizorroza that ended with a victory ‘in extremis’ (2-3) to move away a little from the relegation zone, where Mallorca are ( 26), Alavés (22) and Levante (22).