Hello everyone, welcome to this week's edition of the Spanish Football Podcast, I'm Phil

Kitt from the ladies, Sid Lowe joins me fresh off a plane back from Bilbao to discuss

match day 18. Hello Sidney. Hello Philip, how are you? I'm alright, how was Bilbao? It

was good. It was, it's a proper game as you know. It's a proper kind of classic match

where the atmosphere is brilliant, where in this case at least you've got two teams that

kind of go for it, admittedly, majored player that are slightly sort of deeper team and

a slightly more defensive on the normal, but they still created chances. It's a proper

good stadium as well. It was good, yeah, it was fun. Yeah, Sid's talking about athletic

club against Real Madrid, which took place last night, and which Real Madrid won by two

goals to NIL. The other results from match day 18 on Friday, me go to be Celter by a goal

to NIL. Saturday, Sidney was at the Estadio de Valleca, has to see Real, Sociedad win their

ninth consecutive game in all competitions, a record run from Imano Algoa Thielsemen, the

beat RIO to NIL. Espanyol won back-to-back lead games for the first time in 15 months. I

mean, Betis won NIL at home. Athletico Madrid produced possibly their best performance of

the season, certainly in the first half, where they blew away via the lead, and they ended

up winning by three goals to NIL. And Sevilla got a monstrously important one-nil victory

at home to Cadet. And then on Sunday, Virreal scored a penalty in the 100th minute against

Girona to beat the Catalan's one-nil, still no clean sheet for Girona this season, although

they probably won't come much closer than they did on Sunday. Elchio and Osasuna played

out a 1-1 draw, still no win for so Elchio and season, they're still bottom of the table.

They're 11 points from safety now, and they are on course for the lowest points, Tally,

in La Liga history, which, as Sid will delight in doing my leave anyway, is sporting

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