Angel Correa and Saul Niguez scored as Atletico Madrid prolonged its Spanish league lead with a 2-0 victory over Sevilla.
Atletico moved 4 factors away from crosstown rival Real Madrid and likewise has two video games in hand as Diego Simeone’s staff challenges for its first league title since 2014.
Correa gave the hosts the lead within the seventeenth minute after accumulating a go from Kieran Trippier within the field and controlling the ball along with his proper foot earlier than swiveling and slotting a low shot into the online along with his left.
Niguez got here off the bench so as to add the second within the 76th. Marcos Llorente made a run down the fitting flank earlier than sending in a low cross to Niguez, who had loads of time to regulate the ball earlier than scoring with a low shot from the sting of the world.
It was a fifth straight league win for Atletico, which bounced again from being eradicated within the Copa del Rey by third-tier membership Cornella final week.
Granada beat struggling Osasuna 2-0 in Tuesday’s different recreation.