Barcelona beats Atletico Madrid, stays at the top and keeps distance to Real

O barcelona won the Atletico Madrid 1-0, this afternoon Sunday (23), not Camp Nouand kept the distance from 11 points for the Real Madrid in the leadership of Spanish Championship. the spanish striker Ferran Torres scored the only goal of the match. With the victory, Barça reached 76 points and do the math by the title of the LaLiga. Atlético continues in 3rd, with 60 points.

Real Madrid beat Celta de Vigo 2-0 on Friday (21), and had cut the gap to eight points. However, the triumph of Xavi Hernández’s team left the advantage as it was at the end of the 30th round – there are only eight rounds left.

The first half started with Atletico putting pressure on the home team. In the first ten minutes, the visiting team managed to take advantage of Barcelona’s ball exit errors and created good chances – Griezmann hit the crossbar in one of them.

The pressure dropped for the rest of the first half and the team led by Simeone let Barça play, betting more on their quick counterattack.

Second half has lost goals truck. Barcelona had numerous chances to expand, but sinned too much at the time of finishing. Atleti, in turn, had trouble creating good moves and finishing for Ter Stegen’s goal. The match was foul and had 12 yellow cards – four for Barcelona and eight for Atlético de Madrid.

Barcelona returns to the field on Wednesday (26), at 5 pm (Brasília time), to face Rayo Vallecano, away from home. The colchonera team plays at home, on the same day, at 2:30 pm (Brasília time), against Mallorca.