Barcelona, the leaders, continued to tweet out of the squadron, by defeating its host, Elche, in last place, 4-0, on Saturday, in the twenty-seventh stage of the Spanish Football Championship .
The Polish Robert Lewandowski scored (20 and 66), raising his score to 17 goals at the top of the scorers list, and Ansu Fati (56) and Ferran Torres (70) goals.
It is the fourth successive victory for Barcelona and the 23rd this season, so it strengthened its position in the lead with 71 points, temporarily expanding the difference to 15 points from its arch-rivals Real Madrid, the defending champion, who hosts Valladolid on Sunday.
The Catalan club issued a stern warning to its traditional rivals and direct pursuers, the defending champion, Madrid, and increased the pressure on him, as he will be required to earn the three points tomorrow to raise the morale of his players before their visit to the “Spotify Camp Nou” stadium, Wednesday, in the second leg of the King’s Cup semi-final, after losing in the first leg. Zero-1.
Barcelona played the match in the absence of its Danish defender Andreas Christensen, midfielders Pedri and Dutchman Frenkie de Jong, and his French wingers Osman Dembele due to injury and Brazilian Rafinha due to suspension, while captain Sergio Busquets and defender Alejandro Balde sat on the bench.
Lewandowski gave Barcelona the lead when he took advantage of a header by Uruguayan international defender Ronald Araujo in front of the goal, after a side free kick that Jordi Alba took, so he prepared it for himself with his left and hit it with his right in the right corner of goalkeeper Edgar Badia (20).
Lewandowski wasted the opportunity to reinforce when he received a cross from Torres, who followed it up with his head from close range over the crossbar (43).
Midfielder Omar Mascarrel intervened at an appropriate time to push away a powerful ball from French defender Jules Conde from close range on its way to the goal and turned it into a corner (45).
Ansu Fati added the second goal when he received a ball in the middle of the field from Torres, so he set out on his own before he hit it crawling from outside the area to the right of goalkeeper Badia (56).
Lewandowski scored his second and third personal goal for his team when he took advantage of a ball that Gavi snatched from one of the Elche players, so he entered the area and hit it with his right hand into the goal (66).
Torres concluded the festival with the fourth goal when he received a ball from Araujo in front of the area, and hit it hard with his left from its edge to the right of goalkeeper Badia (70), scoring his third goal this season.
The crossbar denied Commander Fidel a goal of honor by returning his header from close range (85).

Coach Jose Luis Mendelibar succeeded in his first test at the head of the technical management of Seville when he led him to a valuable victory over his neighbor Cadiz 2-0 in the Andalusian derby.
And Sevilla contracted on March 21, to succeed Argentine Jorge Sampaoli, who was dismissed from his position due to poor results. He became the third coach to be contracted by the Andalusian club this season, after he sacked Julen Lopetegui last October.
Sampaoli did not support his leadership of the team to the quarter-finals of the European League competition “Europa League”, where he will face the English Premier League giant Manchester United, as the club’s worrisome position in the league led to his dismissal, especially after losing to Getafe 0-2 before the international break.
Sevilla suffered throughout the first half to create real chances to score, and waited for the beginning of the second half to score against its neighbor through Argentine midfielder Lucas Ocampos (51).
The Moroccan international striker reassured the supporters of Seville by adding the second goal in the 74th minute, following a pass from striker Brian Gill.
Seville took advantage of Getafe's stumbling in front of its host, Athletic Bilbao, negatively, and snatched from it the thirteenth place, by one point, after raising its score to 31 points, five points behind the positions leading to the second degree, while Cadiz fell to the sixteenth place after its balance frozen at 28 points.
Girona regained its winning streak and increased the misfortunes of its guest, Espanyol, when it beat it 2-1
Girona waited for the 53rd minute to open the scoring through his defender Arnau Martinez, but he received a painful blow by expelling his Brazilian midfielder, Rainier, in the 71st minute.
The guests took advantage of the numerical shortage and equalized after three minutes by Danish international striker Martin Braithwaite (74).
The two teams were equal in number on the field, by expelling Espanyol defender Sergi Gomes in the 84th minute.
Girona managed to score the winning goal through its veteran Uruguayan captain, Christian Stoiani, in the 88th minute.
It is the first victory for Girona after two losses and a draw, and the ninth this season, so it rose to the tenth place temporarily with 34 points, by goal difference against Celta Vigo, who hosts Almeria on Sunday, while Espanyol suffered its fourth loss in succession and the twelfth this season, so its balance frozen at 27 points in the seventeenth place.
Espanyol is now threatening to drop to the penultimate nineteenth place if Almeria beat Celta Vigo tomorrow, and Valencia beat Rayo Vallecano on Monday.
Sunday also plays Villarreal with Real Sociedad, and Atletico Madrid with Real Betis.