In the early morning of January 9, Beijing time, the 20th round of the 2021-22 La Liga season began, and today took the lead in four games of competition. After a lot of fighting, Real Sociedad won 1:0 at home to Vigo Celta, Barca were tied 1-1 by Granada, Real Madrid beat Valencia 4-1 at home, and Mallorca lost 0-2 away to Levante.
Barca's record this season is extremely unstable, only one consecutive win in the first half, and only 2 consecutive wins were terminated by Betis at home, and they have not won consecutively in the past month, the last round of away wins over Mallorca, today away to granada in the middle and lower reaches, Xavi is also trying to lead the team to hit the winning streak again. In the opening seven minutes, Garvey crossed from the left and De Jong flicked his head to attack the goal, but the ball was offside in the first goal. In the 20th minute, Dembele's exquisite oblique block, De Jong entered the box to get a half-one-handed opportunity, but he fell to the ground with unsteady feet and missed a great opportunity. Although Barca had the advantage, they could not break the goal until the 56th minute, Alves accurately crossed from a 60-degree angle on the right side of the field, De Jong seized the opportunity this time, the small penalty area forward flicked his head to attack the goal, Barca broke the deadlock 1:0.
After that, Barca could not continue to expand the score, but also mastered the situation on the field, and there was a turning point in the 79th minute, and the 17-year-old Garvey was sent off for a second yellow card for a completely unnecessary tackle. In the last 10 minutes, more than one person Granada launched an onslaught, in the 89th minute left corner opportunity, Neva sent the ball to the front point, the ball hit Pique's thigh and bounced to the back point, the unguarded Puertas seized the opportunity to turn around and shoot vigorously, the ball was in the net, Granada drew 1:1 with Barca, and Barca, who conceded the ball in the last moment, once again missed a winning streak. Real Madrid have also been a bit unstable lately, but today they returned home in time to find the feeling of winning. Like Barca, they did not score for a long time, and in the final stage of the first half, Casemiro made a point, Benzema took the lead and Real Madrid broke the deadlock 1:0.
After that, Real Madrid and Barca were different, in the second half they took advantage of the chase, in the 52nd minute, Vinicius and Benzema made a collision with the wall and then entered the box to push a single knife to win, Real Madrid led 2:0. In the 60th minute, Real Madrid counterattacked quickly, Benzema in the middle of the road should be obliquely blocked on the right, Asensio's follow-up blast was saved, and Vinicius's head hammer that followed up in the middle scored twice, and Real Madrid led 3:0. In the 76th minute, Mendilla brought down Andre to send a penalty, Guedes took the penalty and was saved by Courtois, but he followed up with a goal and Valencia pulled a goal back 1-3. In the 88th minute, Mendy knocked back from the left side of the bottom of the triangle, Benzema stopped the ball and turned away from the defense to push the shot twice, Real Madrid won 4-1 against Valencia.
In terms of the standings, after Real Madrid regained the feeling of winning, it led by 8 points in the case of 2 more games than Sevilla, Barca would have had the opportunity to temporarily reach the top 3 if they could win today, but after the final moment was drawn, they not only could not rise in the ranking, but also were overtaken by Real Sociedad, who stopped the 6-round winless decline, and fell out of the top 5 again. After Real Sociedad won, it temporarily surpassed Atletico, ranking 4th on goal difference.
In terms of top scorers, after Benzema and Vinicius both scored twice, Benzema extended his lead with 17 goals to dominate the top of the table, and Vinicius caught up with Juanmi, and the two were tied for second place with 12 goals. Aspars, Joselu tied for 4th with 10 goals. Guedes, Oyasabal scored seven goals to catch up with Suarez and others to squeeze into the top ten.