Atletico Madrid took full advantage of the fall of its arch-rival Real Madrid against Real Sociedad 0-2 on Tuesday, to remove it from the runner-up by defeating its guest Cadiz 5-1 on Wednesday in the thirty-third stage of the Spanish Football League.

And in light of Barcelona's tweeting in the lead and obtaining the opportunity to clinch the title by defeating its neighbor Espanyol in the next stage, Sunday, Real and Atletico are competing for the honorary runner-up, since they guarantee their participation in the Champions League as a result of the big difference with Villarreal V.

The team of Argentine coach Diego Simeone took advantage of the fall of Real on Tuesday to pounce on the runner-up by a point difference after its third successive victory, which was achieved at the expense of Cadiz thanks to the double of the brilliant Frenchman Antoine Griezmann (2 and 27), who became the club’s fourth best scorer in the history of the league (110), and the goals of Alvaro Morata. (49) and the Belgian Yannick Carrasco (57 from a penalty kick) and the Argentine Nahuel Molina (73), while the Honduran Anthony Losano (72) scored the only goal for the guests.

And Valencia, threatened to play in the second division for the first time since the 1986-1987 season, saved a point at the expense of its guest Villarreal, who is trying to stay in the struggle to qualify for the Champions League, by drawing with it 1-1.

Under the leadership of coach Ruben Barajha, who assumed his position in mid-February to succeed the Italian Janoro Gattuso, Valencia scored its seventh point from the last four matches thanks to Brazilian Samuel Lino, who equalized in the 72nd minute, after Villarreal was the first to score 10 minutes ago through Senegalese Nicholas Jackson.

With this tie, the "bats" raised their score to 34 points in the seventeenth place, three points behind temporarily from each of the eighteenth Espanyol and the nineteenth Getafe, who play with Seville on Thursday and Celta Vigo later on Wednesday, respectively.

The match against Espanyol in the penultimate thirty-seventh stage may be fateful for Valencia, who is awaiting two difficult confrontations in the last five stages against Real Madrid, the defending champion, and Real Betis, who is fighting for continental participation, similar to Villarreal, whose task has become difficult to catch up with Real Sociedad, who is in fourth place. The latter qualifies for the Champions League, as it lags behind the Basque club by 7 points after the latter’s victory over Real Madrid.

Getafe became the same distance from Valencia, but behind it by goal difference only, after it achieved its eighth victory of the season and came at the expense of its guest Celta Vigo with a goal by Turkish Anis Onal (3 from a penalty kick) in a meeting that the guests completed with ten players in the last 13 minutes after the expulsion of Ghanaian Joseph Udo ( 77).