Rayo Vallecano once again dedicated himself to a knot for his guest, FC Barcelona, by defeating him 2-1 on Wednesday, in the thirty-first stage of the Spanish Football League, which also witnessed an important victory for Atletico Madrid over Real Mallorca 3-1.

Rayo Vallecano scored Alvaro Garcia (19) and Francisco Garcia (53), while Poland's Robert Lewandowski scored Barcelona's only goal (83).

The Catalan team has not been able to beat Vallecano in the last four confrontations between them.

Before losing Wednesday, they tied negatively in the first leg of the league this season last August, and before that Barcelona lost on two occasions: the first at home with a clean goal last April, and with the same result away from home in October 2021.

With this third fall for Barcelona this season, the “Blaugrana” balance remained at 76 points at the top of the league standings table, while Rayo Vallecano raised its balance to 43 points in ninth place.

The landlords were racing to come down pressing since the start of the match, amid the brilliance of German goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen.

But Vallecano managed to open the scoring in the 19th minute, when Alvaro Garcia received a pass inside the penalty area from Sergio Camilo, so he put it into the net to the left of Ter Stegen.

Barcelona tried to equalize on more than one occasion, and it was in the 42nd minute, but the referee canceled it due to offside Lewandowski.

With the start of the second half, Francisco Garcia succeeded in adding Rio Vallecano's second goal in the 53rd minute, when he took advantage of a mistake from the Dutchman Frankie de Jong to cut the ball from him and go off and alone with the goalkeeper and inhabit the net.

And Lewandowski succeeded in scoring the goal of reducing the difference for the Blaugrana in the 83rd minute, when ordinary Frank Kessier started an attack through which he hit a ball that hit the defense, and it rebounded in front of “Leva”, who shot hard into the net, but that did not prevent the Catalans from losing, which appears to be the result of a decline in enthusiasm with The feeling that the league title is within reach.

And Atletico Madrid regained its balance in time and achieved an important victory over its guest, Real Mallorca, 3-1, taking advantage of the severe loss of its arch-neighbor, Real Madrid, to reduce the difference with it to two points.

With this victory, Atletico, who celebrates the 120th anniversary of its founding, returned to the winning streak after falling 1-0 to leaders Barcelona in the last stage, and achieved full benefit from Real Madrid's humiliating loss against Girona 2-4 on Tuesday.

Although Mallorca opened the scoring through Serbian Matia Nastasic (20), Colchoneros returned from a distance with three turns scored by Argentine Raul de Paul (45 + 2), Alvaro Morata (47), and Belgian Yannick Carrasco (77), knowing that the two goals The first and third were with two assists from the brilliant Frenchman this season, Antoine Griezmann.

By snatching the three points, Atletico strengthened its position in third place with 63 points, two points behind Real II, and 13 points behind the leaders Catalan club.

Also in a second match, Almeria regained the taste of victory after two consecutive losses, by defeating Getafe 2-1.

Almeria achieved this important victory in the battle to move away from the danger zone, thanks to the double of Colombian Luis Soares (7 and 58), while Borja Mayoral scored Getafe's only goal (71).

Almeria raised its score to 33 points in the fifteenth place, while Getafe, who did not win in five consecutive matches, remained in the seventeenth place with 31 points.

Celta Vigo also beat bottom club Elche with a clean goal.