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La Liga Results 2016: Scores and Updated Table After Saturday’s Week 10 Matches
- Updated: October 29, 2016
Real Madrid are two points clear at the top of La Liga after Cristiano Ronaldo’s hat-trick helped beat Alaves 4-1 on Saturday. Yet the division’s main contenders answered Ronaldo’s return to form.
Reigning champions Barcelona answered the challenge posed by their old enemy by beating bottom-of-the-table Granada by just a single goal at the Camp Nou. The goal proved enough to put Barca second, ahead of Atletico Madrid who sit third, despite putting four past Malaga at the Vicente Calderon.
Here are the scores from Saturday’s matches:
Here’s what those results mean for the table:
Madrid Teams Holding Sway in the Title Race
Two goals apiece for Yannick Ferreira Carrasco and striker Kevin Gameiro helped Atleti see off a game Malaga squad. Belgian winger Carrasco’s importance to Madrid’s attack was underlined by these numbers from Squawka:
Atletico’s last 9 goalsCarrasco goal ⚽Carrasco goal ⚽Carrasco goal ⚽❌Carrasco assist❌Carrasco assistCarrasco goal ⚽Carrasco goal ⚽ pic.twitter.com/kYQncYZcix
— Squawka Football (@Squawka) October 29, 2016
Carrasco’s perceptive movement dovetailed superbly with Gameiro’s direct pace. The Frenchman is starting to look very comfortable in his new team after arriving from Sevilla during the summer.
In fact, like Carrasco, Gameiro is becoming increasingly influential in the final third, according to WhoScored.com:
Kevin Gameiro: Has now had a hand in 5 goals in 5 league appearances at home for Atletico Madrid (3 goals, 2 assists)
— WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) October 29, 2016
Malaga didn’t buckle easily, despite Atletico’s potency up top. In fact, the visitors breached a normally miserly defence twice, with goals coming from Sandro Ramirez and Ignacio Camacho.
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