Barça beat Betis 4-0 and resumes its march to win the Spanish League

Ap y Afp

Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday April 30, 2023, p. a10

Barcelona thrashed and takes another step towards the title in the Spanish League.

After the setback three days ago, the club had no problems to resume its march towards the coronation, after beating Betis with a resounding 4-0, yesterday, on matchday 32 of the Spanish League.

The Barca win came hours after Real Madrid beat Almería 4-2 with a hat-trick from Karim Benzema at the Santiago Bernabéu.

With the victory, the culé team is close to winning the title by reaching 79 points. He retains the advantage of 11 over the meringues when six dates remain in the contest.

The Catalan club showed a different face from the one it offered in the middle of the week, when it lost 2-1 against Rayo Vallecano. He went to the front of the board with a header from Andreas Christensen. The striker Robert Lewandowski extended the advantage with a cross shot from the heart of the area.

Raphinha sealed a dreamy first half and Guido Rodríguez, at minute 82, scored on his own goal and liquidated the aspirations of the Andalusians.

Lewandowski maintains a couple of goals ahead in the fight for the Pichichi in relation to Benzema, who reached 17 goals.

A promise from La Masía made his debut for Barça, Lamine Yamal, aged 15 years and 290 days, to be the youngest to play for the Catalans in the top flight.

The albiverdes, without Andrés Guardado, are still in a slide after suffering their fourth setback in the most recent six days; they add 49 units and are sixth in the table. Elche, meanwhile, avoided relegation this weekend by beating Rayo Vallecano 4-0.

Brighton 6-0 a Wolves

In England, Brighton, one of the revelation teams, thrashed Wolverhampton 6-0 on date 34 of the Premier League, in a game where Raúl Jiménez did not appear in the squad for the fifth consecutive time. There was a rain of goals in London, with Crystal Palace’s victory over West Ham (4-3); They move away from the relegation zone, while their rivals put their permanence in jeopardy.

In Serie A, Roma (4) and Milan (5) drew 1-1 on date 32, which did not favor either in the close fight for a ticket to the Champions League. Both were equal in 57 points, in a day in which Napoli could be crowned today, after 33 years if they beat Guillermo Ochoa’s Salernitana and if Lazio (2), 17 points behind the Neapolitans, falls in their sights against the Inter.