European competitions returned this week, with Barcelona and Real Madrid both in action in the Champions League. Barça’s participation is likely to be short lived however after they lost 4-0 at Paris Saint Germain, but Madrid are well placed to go through after they came from a goal down to beat Napoli 3-1, Benzema, Kroos and Casemiro the scorers. On Thursday it was the turn of the Europa League sides, although Villarreal and Celta both lost at home respectively to Roma (0-4) and Shakhtar Donetsk (0-1), and only Athletic found the net, Aduríz and Williams amongst the scorers in a 3-2 victory over APOEL Nicosia.
Zidane rested several key players at the weekend, but Real Madrid still ran out 2-0 winners over Espanyol, Morata taking advantage of a rare start to head the opener, and Bale making it two just minutes after coming on for his first appearance following a long injury lay-off. With two games in hand they remain a point above Barcelona, who struggled to beat Leganés 2-1. Messi got both of the goals, the second from the penalty spot in the last minute. Sevilla stay third though, Sarabia and Vitolo the scorers in a 2-0 victory over Eibar, and Atlético consolidated fourth place with a 1-4 win at Sporting, Carrasco starting things off just a minute in to the second half, and substitute Gameiro helping himself to a hat-trick in a five minute period near the end. Elsewhere Iago Aspas was on target as Celta beat bottom club Osasuna 3-0, the result taking the Galicians safely up to mid-table. (21.02.17)
Pichichi | League | Cup ** | Europe * | Total (Penalties) |
Messi (Barcelona) | 19 | 5 | 10 | 34 (5) |
Luis Suárez (Barcelona) | 18 | 5 | 2 | 25 (0) |
Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | 14 | 1 | 6 | 21 (5) |
Iago Aspas (Celta) | 12 | 2 | 2 | 16 (3) |
Griezmann (Atlético) | 9 | 4 | 3 | 16 (0) |
Aduríz (Athletic) | 8 | 1 | 7 | 16 (6) |
Ben Yedder (Sevilla) | 8 | 5 | 2 | 15 (3) |
Benzema (Real Madrid) | 5 | 1 | 7 | 13 (0) |
Arda Turan (Barcelona) | 3 | 6 | 4 | 13 (0) |
Gameiro (Atlético) | 9 | 2 | 1 | 12 (1) |
Carrasco (Atlético) | 8 | 2 | 2 | 12 (0) |
Willian José (Real Soc) | 9 | 2 | 0 | 11 (2) |
Morata (Real Madrid) | 7 | 2 | 2 | 11 (0) |
Sergi Enrich (Eibar) | 9 | 1 | 0 | 10 (0) |
Juanmi (Real Sociedad) | 6 | 4 | 0 | 10 (0) |
Vietto (Sevilla) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 (0) |
Neymar (Barcelona) | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 (3) |
Sandro (Málaga) | 7 | 2 | 0 | 9 (0) |
Raúl García (Athletic) | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 (1) |
Rubén Castro (Betis) | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 (1) |
Gerard Moreno (Espanyol) | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 (0) |
Pedro León (Eibar) | 7 | 1 | 0 | 8 (0) |
Sansone (Villarreal) | 7 | 0 | 1 | 8 (1) |
Sarabia (Sevilla) | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8 (1) |
Ramos (Real Madrid) | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 (1) |
Bale (Real Madrid) | 6 | 0 | 2 | 8 (0) |
* Includes Club World Cup
** Includes Spanish Super Cup