Barcelona and Sevilla all but mathematically sealed their places in this year’s cup final after both clocked up big wins in their semi-final first leg ties. On Wednesday Barcelona made mincemeat of Gary Neville’s Valencia, Luis Suárez scoring four and Messi squeezing in a hat-trick in-between for a massive 7-0 win, the biggest scoreline in a semi-final in 57 years! And the following day Sevilla also thumped their opponents Celta 4-0, including two from Gameiro, to set up a repeat of last summer’s European Super Cup. Some of you may recall that that game ended 5-4 to Barça, so we are probably in for a treat!
A bit quieter at the weekend this week, although Luis Suárez was on target again on Sunday as Barcelona beat Levante 0-2 to maintain the three point gap at the top. The day before Atlético had thrown down the gauntlet with a 3-1 victory over Eibar, Fernando Torres finally getting his 100 th goal in an Atleti shirt after a drought which had lasted nineteen weeks (curiously his last goal was also against Eibar half a season ago)! Real Madrid stay a point behind their city rivals after they won 1-2 at Granada, but although Benzema started things off by scoring for the sixth week in a row, it look a last gasp effort from Modric to finally tie up the three points. Elsewhere though only two of our “Pichichis” added to their tallies, Charles netting for Málaga in a 3-0 win over Getafe on Friday night, and Rubén Castro getting the only goal for Betis against a Valencia side who haven’t won in the league now for eleven weeks. (10.02.16)
Pichichi | League | Cup | Europe | Total (Penalties) |
Luis Suárez (Barcelona) | 20 | 5 | 11 | 36 (2) |
Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | 19 | 0 | 11 | 30 (7) |
Aduríz (Athletic Bilbao) | 13 | 6 | 6 | 25 (3) |
Messi (Barcelona) | 12 | 6 | 6 | 24 (2) |
Benzema (Real Madrid) | 19 | 0 | 4 | 23 (0) |
Neymar (Barcelona) | 16 | 3 | 2 | 21 (4) |
Griezmann (Atlético) | 12 | 3 | 4 | 19 (0) |
Gameiro (Sevilla) | 12 | 3 | 2 | 17 (5) |
Borja Bastón (Eibar) | 15 | 1 | 0 | 16 (2) |
Lucas Pérez (Deportivo) | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 (1) |
Bale (Real Madrid) | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13 (0) |
Agirretxe (Real Sociedad) | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 (0) |
Bakambu (Villarreal) | 8 | 1 | 3 | 12 (0) |
Williams (Athletic) | 7 | 3 | 2 | 12 (0) |
Iago Aspas (Celta) | 9 | 2 | 0 | 11 (0) |
Alcácer (Valencia) | 9 | 2 | 0 | 11 (2) |
Rubén Castro (Betis) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 (2) |
Sanabria (Sporting) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 (1) |
Charles (Málaga) | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 (0) |
Javi Guerra (Rayo) | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 (0) |
Nolito (Celta) | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 (1) |
Jozabed (Rayo) | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 (0) |
Sergi Enrich (Eibar) | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8 (0) |
Caicedo (Espanyol) | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8 (0) |
Guidetti (Celta) | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 (1) |
Negredo (Valencia) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 (2) |