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Villarreal (Spain): Villarreal thumped Atletico Madrid 3-0 to vault into the fourth place in La Liga football, dropping them to sixth.<\/p>\nVillarreal (Spain): Villarreal thumped Atletico Madrid 3-0 to vault into the fourth place in La Liga football, dropping them to sixth.<\/p>\n
Adding to Atletico’s misery, midfielder Tiago and goalkeeper Jan Oblak left the match in the first half with injuries here on Monday, reports Efe.<\/p>\n
The hosts took a 1-0 lead in the 28th minute, when Manu Trigueros took advantage of a mispass by Tiago and beat Oblak with an angled shot.<\/p>\n
Stung by the goal, Atletico did their best to respond and Antoine Griezmann would have equalised but for a fine stop by Villarreal keeper Asenjo.<\/p>\n
Oblak set up the home side’s second goal with a poor clearance that ended up at the feet of Jonathan Dos Santos, who hit the post once before putting away his own rebound to make it 2-0 in the 38th minute.<\/p>\n
Asenjo needed to be sharp again at the start of the second half to stop Kevin Gameiro’s shot off a cross by Juanfran.<\/p>\n
Atletico fought hard to make it a contest, but a disciplined Villarreal held the visitors at bay until Roberto Soriano settled the matter with a third goal for the hosts in stoppage time.<\/p>\n
The outcome brings Villarreal to 26 points from 15 matches, the same as the fifth-placed Real Sociedad, but with a significant advantage on goal difference.<\/p>\n
Atletico Madrid has 25 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Villarreal (Spain): Villarreal thumped Atletico Madrid 3-0 to vault into the fourth place in La Liga football, dropping them to sixth.<\/p>\n
Adding to Atletico’s misery, midfielder Tiago and goalkeeper Jan Oblak left the match in the first half with injuries here on Monday, reports Efe.<\/p>\n
The hosts took a 1-0 lead in the 28th minute, when Manu Trigueros took advantage of a mispass by Tiago and beat Oblak with an angled shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4243,12975,466,19337,2291],"class_list":["post-30623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-football-news","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-football-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-la-liga-football","tag-villarreal"],"yoast_head":"\n