MADRID, 12 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
FC Barcelona further strengthened its solid leadership in the Primera Iberdrola 2021-2022 after its clear victory against Real Madrid (1-3), which already allows it to enjoy more than ten points of advantage over Real Sociedad and Atlético de Madrid, who stumbled against Sporting Huelva (2-2) and Sevilla (0-0), respectively.
There was a lot of expectation this weekend for the duel between the current champions and the Madrid team, but Jonatan Giráldez’s team showed that there is still a certain gap between the two, largely thanks to a devastating start.
Barça threatened to endorse another of their well-known thrashes against Alberto Toril’s team. At 23 minutes, and with the local goalkeeper Misa Rodríguez as the protagonist, the visitors dominated 0-3 with goals from Lieke Tuesday, twice, and Irene Paredes.
Real Madrid couldn’t do much, although it did find energy to improve in the second half. Asllani’s goal at the beginning gave him some life and allowed him to compete much better, but the leader always managed the game with some comfort and extended to 22 points of distance over the Madridistas, who remain eight of the League area of Champions.
In addition, this thirteenth day was positive for the Catalan team who saw how their two main rivals, Real Sociedad and Atlético de Madrid only added one points and are already eleven and fourteen points, respectively.
The realists could not with a Sporting de Huelva that took a draw in the 90th minute through a goal from Krissy Fisher, while the mattresses signed a 0-0 in their visit to Sevilla, in a match marked by the penalty scored by Deyna Castellanos and that he was annulled for being executed with a ‘paradinha’.
These setbacks were taken advantage of by Athletic Club and UD Granadilla Tenerife Egatesa to get closer to those places of access to the Champions League. The Bilbao team stopped Deportivo Alavés with a 4-1 win and the Tenerife-born beat Eibar 0-2. The one that did not take advantage of it was Levante, surprised at home by bottom Villarreal (1-2), who had not won since September 12.
In addition, Madrid CFF settled in the middle of the table by beating Valencia 1-3 despite playing with ten almost the entire second half and Betis broke their bad dynamics in Vallecas (0-2) and moved away from the danger zone.