This Saturday, Atlético de Madrid crushed Real Valladolid. On cloud nine after having stringed together six victories in a row in all competitions, the Colchoneros played again this Saturday after beating Sparta Prague on Tuesday (6-0). While Clément Lenglet opened the scoring after a great action (0-1, 26th), Julian Alvarez showed opportunism to double the lead (0-2, 35th) before Rodrigo De Paul added to the score in stride (0-3, 37th).
Returning from the locker room, Atlético de Madrid continued to establish their domination thanks to a superb action concluded with class by Antoine Griezmann (0-4, 51st). At the end of the match, Alexander Sorloth joined the party by finishing in the empty goal (0-5, 90+2nd). With this manita, the Matelassiers temporarily take second place and come back to two points behind Barça. Valladolid sinks to last place in the ranking.