Barcelona recovered from an early setback to secure a 3-1 victory over Alavés, with first-half goals from Lamine Yamal and Dani Olmo and a late second for the latter sealing the win at the Camp Nou.
The win lifts the defending La Liga champions to the top of the table on 34 points, two ahead of second-placed Real Madrid, who have a game in hand at Girona on Sunday.
Alavés stunned the hosts in the first minute when Pablo Ibáñez struck from close range but Barça hit back seven minutes later, with Raphinha assisting Lamine Yamal to hit a powerful one-touch finish into the top corner. Raphinha was instrumental again in the 26th minute with another assist, this time for Olmo who expertly curled the ball home first-time from inside the box as the Blaugrana went ahead. Olmo put the result beyond doubt in added time, finishing off a smooth one-two with Lamine Yamal, whose through ball left him free inside the box to slot home with composure.
Atlético Madrid’s Alexander Sørloth struck twice to give the home side a comfortable 2-0 victory over struggling Real Oviedo, extending Diego Simeone’s winning streak to seven matches in all competitions. The Norwegian needed just 26 minutes to wrap up the points against the bottom side, who have managed only two competitive wins all season. The victory extended Atlético’s unbeaten league run to 13 matches and lifted them to third on 31 points, one point behind Real Madrid.
The Bundesliga leaders, Bayern Munich, needed stoppage-time goals from Luis Díaz and Nicolas Jackson to beat struggling St Pauli 3-1, coming from behind for the second straight week and hitting the woodwork three times. Bayern’s comeback win means they set a Bundesliga league record of 44 consecutive rounds at the top of the table.
Díaz headed in for a 2-1 lead early in stoppage time and Jackson slotted in their third goal as the hosts bounced back from their first defeat of the season across all competitions, Wednesday’s 3-1 loss at Arsenal in the Champions League.
Bayern found themselves 1-0 down in the sixth minute when St Pauli, who have now lost their last nine league games, pressed high and won possession, Andréas Hountondji finishing the move with a powerful shot. With more than 80% of possession in the first half, Bayern desperately tried to come back as they had done last week when they recovered from two goals down to crush Freiburg 6-2.
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They hit a post with Lennart Karl’s curled shot in the 23rd and again through Tom Bischof’s deflected effort 12 minutes later. Raphaël Guerreiro, however, made no mistake when he drilled in from a Díaz assist a minute before half-time to level.
Bayern were again in control after the break but St Pauli stayed compact and disciplined. Harry Kane hit a post with a volley late in the game before Díaz put them in front early in stoppage time and Jackson added his goal at the very end to lift them to 34 points.
Borussia Dortmund scored once in each half and survived a late Bayer Leverkusen comeback to win 2-1 on Saturday and leapfrog the hosts into third place in the Bundesliga. The Argentina youth international Aaron Anselmino headed home a Daniel Svensson free-kick after 41 minutes to put Dortmund in front before Karim Adeyemi headed in Fabio Silva’s cross in the 65th.
Leverkusen pulled a goal back through the substitute Christian Kofane in the 83rd after Jonas Hofmann had rattled the crossbar with a powerful shot. Dortmund had conceded late equalisers in their last two league matches but despite late Leverkusen pressure they held on this time to earn the three points.
“It was not easy. After the goal we conceded they put pressure on us,” said the Dortmund coach, Niko Kovac. “Today it was a good team performance.”
Milan secured a hard-fought 1-0 home win over Lazio thanks to Rafael Leão’s goal early in the second half to take over at the top of Serie A. The victory put Milan on 28 points, one above second-placed Roma before their Sunday game at home to Napoli; the defending champions are third on 25 points. Lazio are eighth with 18 points.
The Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan produced a moment of brilliance inside two minutes when he somehow clawed away Mario Gila’s point-blank header with a fingertip save. Despite the intense start, the first half produced few other clear chances. Maignan repeatedly snuffed out Lazio’s early attacks with solid saves, while Milan created only a handful of half-chances with the teams going into the break goalless.
The hosts, however, came out with renewed vigour after the break. A well-worked move released Fikayo Tomori on the right, allowing him to drive in a low cross that Leão met with a sliding finish six minutes into the second half.
In the final seconds, tension rose when Lazio appealed for a penalty after a last-ditch attempt, believing Strahinja Pavlovic handled to clear a cross. Milan’s manager, Max Allegri, was sent off for protesting against the referee reviewing the incident on the pitchside monitor; Lazio’s assistant manager, Marco Ianni, was dismissed for dissent seconds later. In the end, the referee Giuseppe Collu ruled out a penalty, judging that Pavlovic had been fouled first.
Juventus claimed a 2-1 win over Cagliari after a Kenan Yildiz double turned the match on its head. The victory brought some relief for Juve after two league draws, putting them in seventh place on 23 points.
Sebastiano Esposito gave Cagliari the lead after 26 minutes, tucking the ball home from close range after a low ball from the byline found him unmarked. But Yildiz refused to let the visitors enjoy their advantage for long. Barely a minute later, he levelled the match by bending a low shot from the edge of the box into the far corner.
Juve had seized the momentum. In first-half stoppage time, Weston McKennie’s clever back-heel went to Pierre Kalulu, who found Yildiz at the edge of the area. With two deft touches, the Turkish forward slipped between two defenders and guided a precise finish into the far corner.
Takumi Minamino’s solitary strike earned Monaco a 1-0 home win against the Ligue 1 leaders, Paris Saint-Germain, who slipped to their first league defeat since September and second of the season.
The Monaco midfielder Lamine Camara was fortunate to escape with a yellow card early on for a dangerous lunge on Lucas Chevalier, violently catching the goalkeeper’s right ankle after he kicked the ball. Chevalier recovered and made a good one-handed save from Minamino’s volley later in the first half.
The Portugal midfielder Vitinha, who scored a brilliant hat trick in the Champions League in midweek, was kept quiet by Monaco’s hard-working midfield. PSG were exposed to counterattacks and Minamino made no mistake in the 69th, expertly controlling Aleksandr Golovin’s pass from the left and clipping the ball past Chevalier.
The Monaco defender Thilo Kehrer was sent off in the 80th following a video review after shoving a PSG player in the back. Paul Pogba came off the bench in the closing stages for Monaco.
PSG’s coach, Luis Enrique, said: “It’s hard to maintain consistency when you make individual errors. It was our worst match of the season. They deserved it more than we did. It was a bad night for us, a very bad night.”
PSG are seven points ahead of sixth-place Monaco and one above Marseille, who were denied top spot by Santiago Hidalgo’s stoppage-time equaliser for Toulouse in a 2-2 draw, while Paris FC were held 1-1 at home by the bottom club, Auxerre.
