Real Madrid regained the top spot in the Spanish Football League after beating arch-rivals Barcelona 3-1 in a match that brought them together tonight, on the ninth round of the competition.
Real Madrid’s hat-trick was scored by Karim Benzema in the 12th minute of the match, Federico Valverde in the 35th minute and Rodrigo Goes in the first minute of stoppage time via penalties, while Barcelona’s only goal was scored by Ferran Torres in the 83rd minute.
With this victory, Real Madrid increased their lead to 25 points, taking the lead, 3 points ahead of Barcelona, who suffered their first defeat of the season and dropped to second place.
In the second match today in the same round, Real Sociedad beat Celta 2-1 to raise their tally to 19 in fourth place, while Celta’s balance sheet froze at 10 on 11. -th place.
