Rayo Vallecano’s Spanish midfielder Fran Perez celebrates scoring his workforce’s first aim within the rout of Atletico Madrid on Sunday in La Liga. Picture: AFP
MADRID:
Rayo Vallecano waltzed to a 3-0 victory over Atletico Madrid on Sunday in La Liga, leaving Diego Simeone’s facet 15 factors behind leaders Actual Madrid.
Atletico dropped to fourth after their heavy defeat at Leganes’s Butarque stadium, the place Rayo hosted the fixture on account of pitch issues at their very own Vallecas floor.
Actual Betis, fifth, have been in a position to reduce the hole to Atletico all the way down to 4 factors with a 2-1 win at Mallorca.
Fran Perez, Oscar Valentin and Nobel Mendy struck for Rayo, who completely deserved their triumph in opposition to an Atletico facet that had thrashed Spanish champions Barcelona 4-0 within the Copa del Rey on Thursday.
With the Spanish cup their greatest likelihood of silverware this season it has appeared that Atletico lack some focus in La Liga, and that was mirrored on this humbling by their metropolis rivals.
The Rojiblancos haven’t gained of their final three league matches.
“It looks like the league has slipped away, we won’t lose video games like this and we won’t play a recreation the best way we did right this moment,” indignant Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblak informed DAZN.
“Competing like that is going to be to powerful, you’ll be able to’t select your video games, each recreation needs to be performed on the highest stage…
“At this time they have been a lot better, congratulations to them, we misplaced and deserved to lose.”
Simeone, who rotated a lot of the workforce that beat Barca with Wednesday’s Champions League play-off in opposition to Membership Brugge in thoughts, didn’t agree with all of Oblak’s evaluation.
“I do not share (his opinion), I believed the workforce gave what it may, they have been higher, however the reality is there isn’t any must criticise the workforce when it comes to effort, work, of desirous to do effectively,” mentioned Simeone.
“We did not have a great match, the opponent was higher, congratulations to them and let’s take into consideration what’s approaching Wednesday.”
Inigo Perez’s Rayo took the lead within the fortieth minute when Perez completed Andrei Ratiu’s cross, and Valentin doubled their benefit after Clement Lenglet gave the ball away.
Mendy netted the third within the 76th minute after some extra poor Atletico defending to spherical off a depressing afternoon for Simeone’s facet.
Rayo, whose gamers have complained in current weeks about the best way the membership is being run, in addition to the state of the Vallecas pitch and their coaching floor services, backed by the teaching employees, climbed as much as seventeenth.
“This can be a battle-hardened workforce that adapts effectively to circumstances,” mentioned Rayo coach Perez.
“At this time’s match was very powerful each due to the opponent and due to our personal institutional and sporting scenario.”
Betis pushing
Betis doubled down on their win over Atletico in La Liga final weekend with a 3rd straight high flight triumph, boosting their hopes of Champions League qualification.
Manuel Pellegrini’s facet capitalised on Atletico’s defeat by Rayo on the street at Mallorca, due to first-half targets from Ez Abde and Cedric Bakambu.
Vedat Muriqi pulled one again for the hosts within the second half together with his sixteenth league aim of the season, behind solely Actual Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe within the scoring charts, but it surely was not sufficient.
Regardless of the Kosovan goal man’s targets Mallorca are 18th, a degree behind Rayo.
Valencia gained 2-0 in a derby conflict at Levante to maneuver as much as 14th, two factors away from the drop zone.
On Monday champions Barcelona go to Girona, aiming to return high after Actual Madrid usurped them on Saturday with a 4-1 win over Actual Sociedad.
