Barcelona stretched his lead as leader of the Spanish LaLiga by defeating Sevilla 3-0 led by Argentine Jorge Sampaoli and take advantage of the fall of Real Madrid, 1 to 0 against Mallorca. With these results, the Catalan team gained a difference of eight points (53-45) over the madridistas who this week will travel to Morocco to play the Club World Cup: on Wednesday, from 4:00 p.m., they will face Al Ahly from Egypt in the semifinals.
Spaniards Jordi Alba and Gavi and Brazilian Raphinha, all in the second half, scored the goals for Barcelona at the Camp Nou stadium. In Seville, world champions Gonzalo Montiel and Marcos Acuña started, who withdrew injured 20 minutes into the second half, and was replaced by ex-River Lucas Ocampos. While Erik Lamela, another exRiver, entered at the start of the second part. The defeat complicated the permanence of Sevilla, which was only two points from the relegation zone.
In the remaining games of the day Girona beat Valencia 1-0 and Valladolid by the same score as a visitor to Real Sociedad.
