One of them is the clásico in a fortnight's time, the chance to take points off their rivals and close to within a solitary point.

'Madrid break free,' cheered AS.īarcelona are only four points behind Real Madrid at the top, one behind Atlético Madrid in second, and there are still 11 matches to go. The following night, Real Madrid defeated Levante 3-0 at the Bernabéu. and we were ashamed of them,' ran the headline in Sport, yellow lettering screaming out from a cover in funeral black. The only surprise was that they said 'half.' Others didn't they insisted that the entire season had escaped. El Mundo Deportivo feared that Barcelona had left 'half a league' behind in Valladolid. Outside the stadium something was launched at Gerard Piqué the following morning everything was launched at all of them. That, at least, is the way it was greeted, and not entirely without reason. It is the noise of someone flushing Barcelona's title challenge down the pan. This was, he said looking at the camera, a 'bad game.' The video is 30 seconds long and towards the end there is a suspiciously familiar noise. Valdés positioned his camera and filmed a video résumé of the game, a kind of selfie press conference with a wall of white tiles replacing the usual collage of sponsors. But here, in the visitors' bathroom, all was quiet. Somewhere in the distance, along the passageway, the Serbian central defender Stefan Mitrovic was smashing his way through the door of the home dressing room in celebration. At the end of Barcelona's 1-0 defeat at Valladolid on Saturday afternoon, Víctor Valdés took refuge in the bathroom.

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