Zinedine Zidane’s side remain one point clear of Barcelona with a game in hand
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The champions under performed again after Tuesday’s 4-0 UEFA Champions League defeat at Paris St-Germain and had goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen to thank for a string of great saves
Barcelona had only scraped a draw at Real Betis earlier on Sunday, but Madrid put everything in full gear when they hosted Sociedad at Bernabeu
Elsewhere in La Liga on Saturday, Nicolas Gaitan’s eighth-minute goal strengthened Atletico Madrid’s hold on fourth place as they beat Real Betis 1-0, while Athletic Bilbao were held 0-0 at Leganes
The Uruguayan is the third-fastest player to reach a century of goals for FC Barcelona
The former Chelsea and Real Madrid midfielder has been named as an assistant coach to Clement, who took over as head coach earlier this month
The European champions had ended FC Barcelona’s record-breaking run last season with a 2-1 win at the Camp Nou
The former Granada boss oversaw five league games and three Copa del Rey clashes, losing seven matches and earning his sole victory against his former side before Christmas
The 45-year-old Spaniard had spells in charge at FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich before replacing Manuel Pellegrini at City last summer
The Nigerian international, who boasts 78 caps with the Super Eagles, has found himself frozen out by new Blues boss, Antonio Conte, as league-leading Chelsea evolved their style under the Italian coach
A much-changed Barcelona were held to a 1-1 draw by third-tier outfit, Hercules, in the Copa del Rey in midweek – the Catalan giants’ third draw in their last four matches in all competitions
Following the split with the French publication, the ceremony, which will be held in Zurich on January 9, has been renamed: “The Best FIFA Football Awards”
It also made him top scorer in the history of the derby with 18 goals
It took until the 15th minute for Barcelona to register a proper attempt on target and that came from Lionel Messi, whose powerful strike from the edge of the box was saved by Oblak
Real, without Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo for the trip to the Cornella-El Prat stadium, made it four wins from four this season
The Catalan giants entered Week 38 leading second-place Real Madrid by one point and knowing that a win would secure a 24th La Liga crown and make it back-to-back championships after wrestling the crown from Atletico Madrid last season
The 45-year-old has been handed a three-game ban after a ball was thrown onto the pitch during his side’s 1-0 win over Malaga last Saturday
While Shehu Dikko, the Chairman of the LMC, singed for the Nigeria Professional Football League, the President of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, signed for the Spanish League, with Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, and the Spanish Ambassador to Nigeria, Alfonso Barnuevo Sebastian de Erice, counter-signing as witnesses for their respective national leagues
The LMC Chairman, Shehu Dikko, and Hon. Nduka Irabor, the Chief Executive Officer, were in Madrid, Spain from February 29 to March 1 for follow-up talks with the La Liga initiated when both Leagues met at the Forum of World Leagues in Germany
The Argentine had gone more than 500 minutes without registering a goal or assist for Barcelona before netting against Los Che – his longest such drought since becoming a regular starter for the club in 2008