Todays Latest Football News in the Spanish League

Provisional Spanish League Standings: Barcelona Start Post Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid Barcelona beat Elche with a 3-0 score.

Barcelona has enlivened the race to win the Spanish League 2020/2021. Because on Thursday (25/02/2021) early morning WIB, Barcelona beat Elche with a 3-0 score.

Barcelona was able to create many opportunities during the first half. However, for some reason, their attempts to score their first goal always met with a stalemate.

Lionel Messi and his friends only scored in the second half. Lionel Messi even scored two goals and was followed by one goal contribution from Jordi Alba.

After this victory, Barcelona is still stuck in third place in the standings. However, their gap from the top of the standings, Atletico Madrid was reduced to only five points.

Atletico Madrid itself just lost to Levante with a score of 0-2. Meanwhile, the difference between Barcelona and Real Madrid in second place is only two points.

Atletico Madrid still has one match in savings. However, a series of bad results obtained by Luis Suarez and his friends opened the Real Madrid and Barcelona opportunities again.

Let's scroll down to see this season's Spanish League standings.

Top 10 Provisional Spanish League Standings

VIDEO - Messi's request after the match makes goalkeeper Elche surprised

A unique incident involving Lionel Messi and Elche goalkeeper , Edgar Badia, colored Barcelona's 3-0 victory over Elche in the Spanish League continued match , Thursday (25/2/2021) early morning WIB. Barcelona completed Elche's resistance to the LaLiga party at the Camp Nou. Lionel Messi is again the talisman of the Blaugrana by recording Barca's first two goals. Jordi Alba completed Barcelona's solid win which took them only two points adrift of Real Madrid in second place in the Spanish league standings. Meanwhile, two goals from Messi led the megastar to the top of the list of top scorers in the Spanish League with a score of 18 goals. Messi is two goals ahead of his friend and former Barca colleague Luis Suarez, who is now strengthening Atletico Madrid. Moreover, Messi is now in a hot streak scoring 11 goals in the last 7 Spanish League matches.

Moreover, Messi is now in a hot streak scoring 11 goals in the last 7 Spanish League matches. After the referee's long whistle, there was a unique incident between Messi and the opposing goalkeeper, Edgar Badia. Badia was seen approaching Messi to ask for the megastar's jersey as a souvenir from the party. 

Badia is a native goalkeeper born in Barcelona and even played for the Catalonia national team. Naturally, the former Espanyol academy player is eyeing the Barcelona captain's shirt, whose contract will end at the end of this season.

Badia is a native goalkeeper born in Barcelona and even played for the Catalonia national team. Naturally, the former Espanyol academy player is eyeing the Barcelona captain's shirt, whose contract will end at the end of this season.

Quickly, Badia also tried to take off the jersey he was wearing while Messi was seen smiling. The two men then shook hands and hugged each other.

Even though the actions of the two players were classified as warm gestures, the comments of netizens in the Movistar tweet had a dark meaning. "It looks like Messi is saying goodbye to the whole league," tweeted @ 10MESSID10S. Meanwhile, an account named @ Ilicitano67 says this is "typical of Messi ... the humility of a great man ... meanwhile, Badia is certainly one of the top five goalkeepers in the Spanish League ... at Elche he is a god."

Lazio, Atalanta and Juventus are angry after feeling wronged by the referee in the Champions League

Three Italian Serie A clubs, namely Lazio, Atalanta and Juventus, are furious after feeling aggrieved by the referee in the Champions League this season.

The first leg of the Champions League last 16 has just ended. One thing that was interesting from the first leg of the last 16 of the Champions League yesterday was the compactness of all Italian Serie A representatives to experience defeat.

For information, the Italian Serie A still has 3 representatives in the Champions League, namely Lazio, Atalanta and Juventus. Meanwhile, Inter Milan, have been eliminated since the group stage when Shakhtar Donetsk was held to a draw.

It's a gray week for all representatives of the Italian Serie A because Lazio, Atalanta and Juventus have lost in a compact. Lazio were slaughtered by Bayern Munich with a very heavy score, 1-4.

Meanwhile, Atalanta had to give up at home to Real Madrid with a goal in the last minute. Meanwhile, Juventus, which is considered the strongest representative of Italy, also lost 1-2 when they visited Porto.

According to the Italian Football report , the three coaches from the Italian Serie A club were both unable to accept the referee's leadership in their respective matches. Both Andrea Pirlo, Simone Inzaghi and Gasperini expressed their outrage.

Indeed, a number of media in Italy are also busy questioning the referee's decision which is considered to be detrimental to the 3 Serie A representatives. Although they could not change the final result, Lazio, Atalanta and Juventus felt that Italy's representatives in the Champions League were very disadvantaged.