Spanish Football

47 articles tagged with "Spanish Football"

Sep 21, 2026

Valencia’s second equaliser was an own goal, and Real Sociedad still won it in the 91st minute

Carlos Soler scored a penalty against the club that raised him and then set up the winner. Valencia had four chances to level again in added time and...

Sep 20, 2026

Raphinha has 12 goals in seven games, and no Barcelona player including Messi has started a season like it

Youssouf Fofana put Sevilla ahead after 19 minutes at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan. Raphinha answered three minutes later and kept going until he had the...

Sep 19, 2026

Elche lost their captain in the sixth minute, and won at Espanyol with ten men

Fer Nino scored twice in three minutes and Elche held on for their first win of the season. Espanyol have now lost four times.

Sep 18, 2026

Four of Betis’s five wins have finished 1-0, and this one took 22 shots

Abde Ezzalzouli’s goal on the stroke of half-time beat Getafe at the Benito Villamarín and left Real Betis third in La Liga, level on points with Real...

Sep 18, 2026

Barcelona have won all six, and Sevilla’s only win in 12 meetings came at this ground

Barcelona go to the Sanchez-Pizjuan with a perfect record and 28 goals. The last time they lost their first-choice goalkeeper to a meniscus injury, th...

Sep 18, 2026

Mourinho’s last Madrid derby was in 2013, and Atletico’s stadium did not exist yet

Real Madrid sit second and Atletico fourth going into Sunday’s derby at the Metropolitano, a ground Jose Mourinho has never coached a game in, with th...

Sep 18, 2026

Villarreal were 1-0 down at La Rosaleda, and their first win of the season came at the sixth attempt

Carlos Dotor put Malaga ahead in the 12th minute. Alberto Moleiro and a Pape Gueye double turned it round, and Villarreal climbed out of the relegatio...

Sep 17, 2026

Miguel Sierra scored, won a red card, and ended Deportivo’s unbeaten return to La Liga

Sevilla won 1-0 at Riazor on Wednesday night. Sierra put away a rebound in the 52nd minute, and Angelino was sent off for a challenge on him seven min...

Sep 17, 2026

Julian Alvarez has missed two games, and Atletico have scored seven without him

Atletico beat Osasuna 4-0 on Wednesday without their first-choice striker, and the loan signing filling in has now scored in both of his league games...

Sep 17, 2026

Racing pulled a goal back twice at Camp Nou, and Barcelona replied within six minutes each time

Seven straight wins to open a season is a club record Barcelona had never held until Wednesday night. Racing Santander twice got within a goal of them...

Sep 16, 2026

Real Madrid were two up at half-time at the bottom club, and Carlos Espí won it in the 91st

Elche came back from 2-0 down to level with seven minutes left before a summer signing off the bench settled it in stoppage time. Real Madrid won 3-2...

Sep 15, 2026

Villarreal are 18th with two points, and their goalkeeper handed Betis both goals in four minutes

Gerard Moreno put Villarreal ahead at the Estadio de la Ceramica on Monday night. Cucho Hernandez and Natan scored either side of the 40th minute, and...

Sep 14, 2026

Atlético Madrid were goalless for 83 minutes at Anoeta, and then scored three

Real Sociedad and Atlético produced a match with almost nothing in it for 83 minutes. A handball, a penalty and two late goals later, Atlético had a 3...

Sep 14, 2026

Lamine Yamal has scored a brace in three of Barcelona’s first five games, and the last man to do that was Messi

Barcelona were three up at Levante and hanging on at 3-2 with two minutes left before Karim Adeyemi settled it. Five wins from five, and three points...

Sep 12, 2026

Yassir Zabiri had 42 minutes of Rennes football behind him, and he scored both goals as Racing beat Alaves

Alaves went to El Sardinero second in La Liga and unbeaten. They left having lost to a promoted side and to a 21-year-old on loan who barely played in...

Sep 8, 2026

Real Sociedad lost a two-goal lead and a man at Elche, and Sucic won it in the last minute

Job Ochieng and Yangel Herrera put the visitors 2-0 up before Jon Martin was sent off and Elche drew level. Luka Sucic settled it in the 90th minute.

Sep 7, 2026

Barcelona have scored 17 goals and conceded two, and Valencia have scored one

Lamine Yamal scored twice and Fermin Lopez had a hand in three goals as Barcelona won 5-0 at the Mestalla on Sunday. Valencia finished the weekend bot...

Sep 6, 2026

Atletico had 62 per cent of the ball at San Mames, and lost 3-0

Atletico Madrid’s first defeat of the season drops them to seventh, and the summer signing they expected to hand a debut to woke up on the morning of...

Sep 4, 2026

Mourinho has won all three, and Madrid still have not won at Betis since 2021

Three wins, ten goals and second place on goal difference. Real Madrid go to the Estadio de la Cartuja on Friday night, a ground where their last four...

Aug 31, 2026

Bellingham made the first two, and Mourinho’s Real Madrid have ten goals in three games

Malaga’s first month back in the top flight now includes a 4-0 defeat at the Bernabeu, and Jose Mourinho’s side have won all three of their league mat...

Aug 30, 2026

Alvarez was not in the squad, and Atletico were three up at Sevilla by half-time

Alex Baena scored twice on his first start of the season and Ademola Lookman added the other as Atletico Madrid won 3-1 at Sevilla, three days before...

Aug 30, 2026

Betis had not conceded all season and Levante had not scored, and it finished 5-2

Two 1-0 wins and two clean sheets for Manuel Pellegrini’s side, and no goals at all in two games for Levante. Both records went in 95 minutes at the C...

Aug 28, 2026

Marcos Alonso’s red card was upgraded by VAR, and Celta’s lead lasted three more minutes

Celta Vigo led through Iago Aspas for 40 minutes at Balaidos. A VAR-upgraded red card for Marcos Alonso at 51 minutes undid all of it, and Osasuna won...

Aug 27, 2026

Mbappe scored three in 40 minutes, and Mourinho’s first Bernabeu night back finished 4-1

Kylian Mbappe scored his first goals of the season in a 4-1 win over Real Sociedad, the first home league match of Jose Mourinho’s second spell as Rea...