La Liga Round-Up: Las Palmas rating large win, Rayo ship Alaves packing and Villarreal go above Atletico

La Liga Round-Up: Las Palmas rating large win, Rayo ship Alaves packing and Villarreal go above Atletico



Here’s what occurred on Saturday in Matchday 11 in La Liga, forward of El Clasico, with some massive outcomes.

Real Valladolid 1-2 Villarreal

Villarreal have been again to profitable methods after a disappointing draw with Getafe final week, and have been forward inside half an hour via Thierry Barry. The Yellow Submarine have been in management for a lot of the match, however a Moussa Sylla penalty on the hour-mark leveled issues.

However Villarreal huffed, puffed, and ultimately broke down the resistance on the Jose Zorrilla. Ayoze Perez nabbed his seventh purpose off the bench with simply six minutes to go, incomes a deserved three factors for Marcelino Garcia Toral’s facet. The reality Valladolid goalkeeper Karl Hein earned the person of the match award was symbolic of La Pucela’s struggles too.

Valladolid stay within the drop zone, and make it three defeats of their final 4 at house. Villarreal are as much as third forward of Atletico Madrid’s sport, and at this level, they appear pretty good to problem Diego Simeone’s facet for that spot.

Rayo Vallecano 1-0 Alaves

Inigo Perez’s facet began in wonderful style, forcing good saves from Antonio Sivera within the Alaves purpose, however their plan was torn to items after 20 minutes when Abdul Mumin was despatched off for a last-man problem on Toni Martinez.

Alaves took off to defend and went extra attacking, however weren’t completely convincing going ahead all the identical. Agustin Batalla was pressured into motion in three cases, arising massive for Rayo, however neither have been the house facet out of the sport. With simply 10 minutes to go, sensible work from Alvaro Garcia allowed him to put the ball off to Gerard Gumbau. He formed a beautiful strike in the direction of the highest nook, which Sivera tipped onto the bar, and sadly for him, deflected in for an personal purpose when he landed.

Even a purpose down, the Basque facet struggled to throw a lot at Batalla, and Rayo appeared extra seemingly within the closing levels, drawing one other couple of saves from Sivera. El Glorioso are in 14th, simply two factors above the drop now, whereas Rayo shoot as much as seventh, only a level faraway from European soccer.

Las Palmas 1-0 Girona

Las Palmas had gone 23 video games and eight months with out a win when Diego Martinez arrived, locked to the underside of the desk. His facet made it two wins out of two beneath him, and shot out of the drop zone within the course of, in a irritating defeat for Girona.

The Catalan facet took the lead via a superb outdoors of the boot strike from Donny van de Beek, however the referee disallowed it for a tender foul on Alex Suarez, who bumped into the again of Bojan Miovski arm as he laid it off. A vastly pissed off Michel Sanchez had little purpose to chill out extra thereafter.

As Las Palmas received again into the sport, Girona suffered one other harm, with right-back Alejandro Frances limping off simply earlier than half-time. While they have been changing him, a Viti cross was allowed to bounce within the field, and left-back Alex Munoz fired into the nook for his third of the season – from the identical facet Frances would have been on.

Las Palmas captain Kirian Rodriguez may have made issues extra snug, failing to transform an open purpose, however it was a second half of attrition for the islanders. They defended themselves with all they’d, in entrance of the superb Jasper Cillessen, who made a number of good saves to protect his clear sheet.

Evidence of Girona’s frustration was in a purple card for reserve goalkeeper Juan Carlos, who was dismissed for dissent. They lie thirteenth, with simply three factors separating them from Las Palmas. They are recent out of the relegation zone after beginning the week locked to the underside, sitting seventeenth.