A pretty rubbish week for Spanish sides in Europe was completed by Deportivo's 6-1 aggregate thrashing by Aalborg and Valencia going out to Dynamo Kyiv on away goals after a 2-2 draw at the Mestalla.

to be fair valencia weren't that bad. they had chances to finish the game off but didnt and kiev kept plugging away.
as for depor...

If Atlético's new "high-line" defensive set-up performs like it did on Tuesday against Barcelona this Sunday the 6-1 from earlier this season will look like a good result.

However the actual result was even better, so I'll take that.

What a game.

Athletico 4 Barca 3.

So another crazy weekend in La Liga leaves the table looking like this, it's all on for the 4th CL spot and the UEFA places and that last relegation spot looks wide open too, it looks like there may also be a title race too, Real have wiped 8 points out of Barcelona's lead in the last three weeks.

¿cóme se dice "bottling it" en Catalan?

Barcelona 60
Real Madrid 56
Sevilla 47
Villarreal 42
Atlético 39
Valencia 39
Málaga 39
Deportivo 39
Valladolid 33
Almería 31
Athletic 31
Racing 30
Recreativo 29
Getafe 28
Betis 27
Mallorca 27
Sporting 27
Osasuna 25
Espanyol 21
Numancia 20

Have Barca been thinking that they had the league won already and gone about the CL abit more? Certainly not the same the past 4 weeks.

Amazing result
Shame it did the other half a favour eh?

Nope, and hopefully we'll take one for the city and country next week in the derby.*


*It's not like there's any chance of Atléti actually beating Real so might as well put a positive spin on it!

A minor miracle might have to occur at the moment fro Atleti to beat El Real.
But its not beyond belief, is it?