Hello everyone, welcome to this week's edition of the Spanish Football Podcast, we're recording

on Sunday night because we've got quite a busy week coming up with the return of the

Champions League, so we thought we would record on Sunday. That means that there is still

a couple of games still to be completed, but this is what's happened so far on match day

24. Hi Sydney, by the way, didn't say hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, how are you?

There's a couple of minutes to go to the halftime, the athletic day. Yes, we're actually,

I can see you're evidently watching it, so you've got your way while I tell the listeners what

happened elsewhere on match day 24, the Friday night games, or Real Betis continue their

excellent run of form in 2021, beating Hitafé by a goal to Nile, then on Saturday,

Elché ended their 16 match winless streak by beating A-Bar, 1-0, the first match back in charge

for Frannis Cribar and a winning return for the former Elché manager, then the surprise of the

weekend, or not, but certainly a very big surprise, actually it's a huge surprise, Levante

a winning 2-0 at the Estadio Wanda Metropolitano, beating leaders at Letico Madrid, it's their first

home defeat in La Liga since December 2019, also come off the back of a 1-1 draw in midweek against

Levante, so the side from Valencia taking four points off Athletico Madrid in the space of three days,

and then Valencia getting a really important 2-0 victory over Celter Vigo to move them further away

from the relegation zone and slightly into a more parable position in the table, are there still

12th in the tables, not good enough for Valencia, but they're further away from the relegation,

so and then on Saturday night, and we saw Real Madrid beat Vigo lead by a goal to Nile, the only

goal of the game scored by Casamero Header in the 65th minute, his 5th league goal of the season,

rather he is Real Madrid's second top scorer after Karim Benzema, who's got 12. Then on Sunday,

Barcelona dropping points in incredible fashion, Cadef, getting an 89th minute penalty scored by

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