Atletico Madrid earned a good 1-0 win at Elche to keep up their two-point lead at the prime of La Liga with 4 video games remaining, with second-place Real Madrid beating Osasuna 2-0.
Diego Simeone’s facet survived a late penalty, missed by Fidel Chaves, as they battle for his or her first league title since 2014.
Atletico striker Luis Suarez got here shut in the opening phases after which the Uruguayan had a objective dominated out for a slim offside.
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Marcos Llorente fired the Rojiblancos forward in the twenty third minute along with his twelfth league objective of the season from Yannick Carrasco’s cross.
Suarez had one other dominated out for offside early in the second half as his staff continued to dominate the sport.
In the ninetieth minute Llorente turned villain when he dealt with the ball inside his personal space and handed Elche a penalty kick.
However, Chaves fired it towards the publish handy Llorente and Atletico reprieve, whereas Elche are nineteenth, in grave hazard of relegation.
“We got the three points and that gives us a lot of strength for what is to come,” stated Llorente. “We’re always positive and there’s not a long way to go, we have to give everything.”
Real Madrid weren’t intimidated by Atletico’s victory and began at a quick tempo at the Alfredo di Stefano. Eden Hazard, on his first begin since harm, was brilliant in the first half and was denied by a wonderful Sergio Herrera save.
The Osasuna goalkeeper was in glorious type and produced two additional stops from Madrid defender Eder Militao, who twice despatched highly effective headers in direction of objective.
At the different finish Thibaut Courtois needed to react shortly to tip over Manu Sanchez’s cross which was creeping in.
Coach Zinedine Zidane, who began with Toni Kroos and Luka Modric on the bench with the Champions League semi-final second leg in thoughts, stored religion in his staff to make the breakthrough they usually ultimately did.
Militao lastly obtained his objective with an excellent header from Isco’s nook in the 76th minute and Casemiro netted a lucky second when his tried management on Karim Benzema’s move spun into the internet.
Third-place Barcelona go to Valencia in a while Sunday, whereas Sevilla, fourth, host Athletic Bilbao on Monday.
