FC Barcelona won Lionel Messi’s 500th league game 1-0 at SD Huesca (the highlights in the video). The leaders in the Primera Division remain Atletico Madrid, who won thanks to a last-minute goal by former Barca star Luis Suarez in Alaves (the highlights in the video).
Atletico won 2-1 (0-0) at Deportivo Alaves at the start of the year on Sunday and with 38 points pushed themselves back in front of city rivals Real Madrid (36).
For Diego Simeone’s team, who also have two games up their sleeves, Marcos Llorente (41.) and Luis Suarez (90.) scored. Despite being outnumbered after the red card against Victor Laguardia (63rd), the hosts came to an interim level with an own goal by Felipe (84th).
FC Barcelona with Lionel Messi returning from special leave in the starting eleven solved its mandatory task lackluster. Against the bottom of the table, SD Huesca, Frenkie de Jong (27th) scored the goal of the day to just under 1-0 (1-0) after the Argentine superstar presented them. This moves Barca (28) to fifth place in the table. For Messi it was the 500th game in Spain’s elite league.
The royal team around international Toni Kroos had already presented a 2-0 (1-0) win against Celta Vigo on Saturday. Athletic Bilbao also came as a surprise when they parted ways with their coach Gaizka Garitano, who had been in office since December 2018, after beating FC Elche 1-0 (1-0).
Just a few hours later, the club announced a successor: Bilbao made a “fundamental agreement” with the Spaniard Marcelino Garcia by June 30, 2022. The contract is still pending.
Primera Division: The current table
| place | Team | Sp. | Tore | Diff | Pts. |
| 1. | Atletico Madrid | 15 | 29:6 | 23 | 38 |
| 2. | Real Madrid | 17 | 30:15 | 15 | 36 |
| 3. | Real society | 18 | 27:13 | 14 | 30 |
| 4. | FC Villarreal | 17 | 22:17 | 5 | 29 |
| 5. | FC Barcelona | 16 | 30:15 | 15 | 28 |
| 6. | FC Sevilla | 15 | 18:11 | 7 | 27 |
| 7. | FC Granada | 16 | 19:25 | -6 | 24 |
| 8. | Celta Vigo | 17 | 22:24 | -2 | 23 |
| 9. | Athletic Bilbao | 17 | 19:19 | 0 | 21 |
| 10. | Betis Sevilla | 17 | 20:31 | -11 | 20 |
| 11. | SD Eibar | 17 | 14:16 | -2 | 19 |
| 12. | Cádiz | 16 | 11:20 | -9 | 19 |
| 13. | Levante | 16 | 21:23 | -2 | 18 |
| 14. | Deportivo Alavés | 17 | 15:20 | -5 | 18 |
| 15. | Real Valladolid | 17 | 16:24 | -8 | 18 |
| 16. | Getafe | 16 | 12:17 | -5 | 17 |
| 17. | Elche | 15 | 13:18 | -5 | 16 |
| 18. | FC Valencia | 16 | 22:24 | -2 | 15 |
| 19. | CA Health | 16 | 15:25 | -10 | 14 |
| 20. | Huesca | 17 | 14:26 | -12 | 12 |
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