With many things to be played in all key battles at each end of the table, Laliga is really superior to Matchday 30, with drama and storyline for a month that is packaged in one wild weekend.
Even more extraordinary, considering Barcelona and Real Madrid both at home, each away side managed to avoid defeat, with a tone set with an amazing 4-0 victory for Espanyol who was threatened with degradation at Vallecas against Rayo on Friday night.
We also have a teammate who almost entered the memo on the bench at Jose Zorrilla where Getafe also scored four, two winners of the first stop and victory of the League this season for Valencia, at the Santiago Bernabeu from all places.
There is no cage that won in Laliga Matchday for the first time since 2006
It was only the second victory from the campaign for Espanyol who started, because their resurrection continued with speed under Manolo Gonzalez who was silent doing very good work with a very limited budget at the Catalan club.
The first three matches on Saturday also all served victory, with a series only broke out in the final match at the Estadi Olimpic where Barcelona dropped points for the first time since January against the real calf team that was much better who lost Talisman Isco to suspend the city.
Sunday follows the same pattern, with away victory for Real Sociedad, Atletico Madrid and Getafe, followed by a draw in the final match between fellow Champions League candidates Villarreal and Club Athletic.
A little history recently was sealed on Monday night, even though the Leganes battle was late against Osasuna in the game that ended 1-1 at Buterque. According to Laliga Stats Guru @2010Misterchip in X, it made him the first time since Matchday 32 from the 2005/06 season that the full match day had been completed without a home victory.
If Dani was not fired in the 87th minute penalty for Leganes, it would also be the first LaLiga match to produce eight away wins.
Fisty-Cuffs at Valladolid, Valencia won at Bernabeu, whistle for Vinicius & unwanted notes for Guye
The most surprising results from this weekend were no doubt at the Bernabeu, where the Real Madrid problem was deepened by the Valencia team who rose again who won 2-1 thanks to goals from Mouctar Diakhaby and Hugu Duro, with the last to finish the game in the 95th minute.
At some level, this is actually a better performance than Los Blancos than a few recent matches that they finally won, but there is a new target that is surprising for the children of Bernabeu Boo, with Ballon D’Or Runner-Up Junior Junior wholling, despite scoring what only the third goal in 16 matches.
While the defeat of Real Valladolid at home for Getafe was unexpected, their 4-0 capitulation against what before the match was the two lowest scores of the two LaLiga, felt like the lowest new in a sad campaign. Another forgotten afternoon became worse by an angry confrontation between his teammate Luis Perez and Juanmi Latasa in the bench.
In a slightly less surprising tone, there is also a red card for Villarreal’s Pape Guye in their draw against Athletic. That is the shipping of the five midfielders in only 42 appearances on the top of Spain, making him the fastest player to reach the target in the history of competition.
Key shift at a surprised weekend
With only eight matches now for most teams, we arrive at the stage in the season where only one result is truly able to change the view of the key race at each end of the table.
Not much has changed at the top of this weekend, considering the two top two dropped points, even though Atletico Madrid might have been handed over by Pablo Barrios’s Lifeline who scored the 93rd minute in Sanchez-Pizjuan. They are still the third favorite far in the title race, but with a profitable run-in and there is no trophy disturbance, there is a glimmer of hope for the Diego Simeone team that does not seem to be there before the weekend.
The Champions League football race remains as before, after a draw in the Ceramica between two leading competitors, and one point for Betis in Barcelona.
However, the battle for European League and Conference League places took an interesting turn, with Celta Vigo to see fellow Mallorca 2-1 candidates in Palma. Real Sociedad’s victory at Gran Canaria also saw the Imanol side jumping several places to the 8th place and they were seen as the best side to reach the 7th place which was almost certain to be good enough for the European League qualifications.
At the bottom, Valencia is now six points clean from the lowest three and almost certainly towards safety now under Carlos Corberan.
The degradation battle remains a strict business and another big winner this weekend is Espanyol and Alaves, with the Basque team dragged Girona back to the problem after Carlos Vicente’s solitary goal completed their meeting in Montilivi.
Apart from Real Valladolid, whose fate is as well as sealed for several weeks now, it is also a terrible weekend for Las Palmas who is now four points from safety after losing to La Real, and without victory in 13 matches in all competitions in 2025.
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