Lionel Messi scored his 20th and 21st goal of the league season to see that Barcelona avoid a defeat at home to Valencia. Despite the point dropped, Barcelona extended their lead at the top of the standings.
Briefings
February 1, 2019
Huesca 4-0 Real Valladolid
Huesca – Enric Gallego 19’ Jorge Pulido 50’ Moi Gomez 53’ Ezequiel Avila 77’
February 2, 2019
Levante 0-0 Getafe
Real Sociedad 2-1 Athletic Club
Real Sociedad – Mikel Oyarzabal 16’ Willian José 45’
Athletic Club – Raul Garcia 82’
Barcelona 2-2 Valencia
Barcelona – Lionel Messi 39’(pen) 64’
Valencia – Kevin Gameiro 24’ Daniel Parejo 32’(pen)
Celta Vigo 1-0 Sevilla
Celta Vigo – Okay Yokuslu 73’
February 3, 2019
Villarreal 2–2 Espanyol
Villarreal – Vicente Iborra 37’ Santi Cazorla 65’
Espanyol – Daniel Bonea 75’(og) Roberto Rosales 81’
Real Betis 1–0 Atletico Madrid
Real Betis – Sergio Canales 65’
Eibar 3–0 Girona
Eibar – Ruben Pena 37’ Charles 46’ 57(pen)’
Real Madrid 3–0 Alaves
Real Madrid – Karim Benzema 30’ Vinicius Junior 80’ Mariano Diaz 90+1’
February 4, 2019
Rayo Vallecano 1–2 Leganes
Rayo Vallecano – Álvaro García 83’
Leganes – Martin Braithwaite 36’ Youssef En-Nesyri 85’
Bottom table Huesca picked up 3 points from a ‘4-0’ win against Real Valladolid.
Levante and Getafe share the points after a goalless draw.
Athletic Club unbeaten run comes to an end on the 5th match after failing to come back from the two first-half goals conceded against Real Sociedad.
Lionel Messi delivers the goals to see his Barcelona side come from two goals down to avoid a home defeat against Valencia.
A struggling Celta Vigo dampings Sevilla’s hopes of putting pressure on the top three in the league. Okay Yokuslu scored the only goal of the match to end Celta Vigo’s winless run of matches at 6 games. Celta Vigo came into the match on a run of 5 successive defeats.
Espanyol overcomes two goals to get a draw with Villarreal
Atletico Madrid couldn’t make any progress towards the top of standings despite Barcelona failing to win their game. A ‘1-0’ defeat to Real Betis was Atletico’s first defeat since October 24th loss to Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League. (19 games)
It’s 12 straight winless matches for Girona with 5 successive defeat from recent matches after suffering ‘3-0’ defeat to Eibar.
Karim Benzema continues to score and Real Madrid continues to pick up wins. Real Madrid closes in on the top two after Barcelona and Atletico Madrid dropped points in their respective matches. The Madrid derby will be played with just two points separating 2nd place Atletico Madrid and 3rd place Real Madrid
A 10-man Leganes reinstated their lead within minutes after they lost it to keep Rayo Vallecano in the relegation.
