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Real Madrid, leader, with Real Sociedad and Getafe down

The first four days of the Santander League played after the break by the coronavirus pandemic show an intractable Real Madrid, with four victories that allow him to have regained the leadership lost before the interruption, while at the other end Real Sociedad and Mallorca barely they have added a point.

Zinedine Zidane’s Real Madrid has returned strongly to the competition. At least effectively. As a visitor he has beaten Real Sociedad and at home, at the Alfredo Di Stéfano stadium in Valdebebas, he has counted his three games by victories against Eibar, Valencia and Mallorca.

Those four victories, together with Barcelona’s draw against Sevilla, allow Real Madrid to be the leader of Primera tied on points with the Catalan team, although superior in the direct confrontation.

The Catalan team that Quique Setién directs is the only one in the Primera Division that has not conceded goals in these four games after the break, although he suffers a lot to get his games ahead. In fact, his only comfortable victory was against Mallorca, although he also beat Leganés and Athletic Club de Bilbao.

Atlético de Madrid has also returned strong, having taken a step forward to dispel their doubts about whether the course would finish in the top four. His football has been more pragmatic than showy at times, but the victories by the minimum against Valladolid and Levante, the brilliant win against Osasuna and the draw with Athletic have allowed him to snatch third place from Sevilla and open the gap with fifth place.

That distance has widened because two of the ‘Champions’ contenders, Getafe and Real Sociedad, have started off on the wrong foot. The Madrid team has not yet won and seems to have paid for the draw (Espanyol, Eibar and Valladolid) after losing to Granada. In the case of the San Sebastian team, his balance is worse, since he tied with Osasuna in the first game after the break and since then has chained defeats against Alavés, Real Madrid and Celta de Vigo.

The new rival for those European positions is Villarreal, who has ten of the last twelve points at stake and has regained hope of playing in European competition. Another candidate, Valencia, is not having good numbers in this return to competition either and his great goal of repeating the Champions is getting further and further away.

In the area below, the latest results have reopened the gap. The victories of Celta and Eibar put in an even more complicated situation for the three members of the red zone, Mallorca, Leganés and Espanyol, whose reaction has been slowed down in the last two games with the defeats against Levante and Betis, which in the premiere of Alexis Trujillo as coach after the departure of Joan Francesc Ferrer ‘Rubi’ added the first victory of this phase.

Of the twelve points at stake the bottom club Espanyol has added four and is eight from the life that Eibar marks right now, reborn with his victory against Valencia; Leganés has achieved two and has a deficit of seven; and Mallorca, with just one under their belt, is six.

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