La Liga

Los Blancos have an unbeaten run to 20 matches, during which they have conceded only nine goals and scored 45

With Lionel Messi rested, Antoine Griezmann proved the saviour for the Catalans, scoring twice in the second half

Barcelona and Real Madrid have also hit a century of points in the Spanish league over the past decade

Setien’s side face Granda, while Zidane’s men take on Sevilla

La Liga clubs were responsible for 332 million euros of the increase

55-year-old Spanish manager is the first coach the club has sacked mid-season since Louis van Gaal in 2003

Los Blancos remain top of the table but only on goal difference, their two-point advantage removed after Madrid’s win

Diego Simeone’s climbed to third, five points behind Real, after they beat Levante 2-1

Club’s 1-1 loss gives Barca, Real chance to pull further clear in La Liga

Real Madrid are second on the list with an average basic pay of around £8.9 million

Sunday's result leaves Madrid on 37 points, two points off Barcelona who top the table on 39

Real's Karim Benzema has nine goals in his last eight games while Barca’s Lionel Messi has scored 14 in 12

Frenchmen has 16 goals in 21 matches -- more than Argentine’s 14 in 16 -- and he has nine in his last eight

Madrid will pull two points clear at the top of the table if they win away at in-form Valencia on Sunday

Argentinian's 86th-minute strike keeps the Catalans level on points with Real Madrid at the top of the table

Catalans sit three points ahead of Madrid in the table and have a game in hand to come against Real

Karim Benzema scored his sixth goal in five games, before Fede Valverde and Luka Modric wrapped up a 3-1 win

They head to the Santiago Bernabeu sitting two points behind Los Blancos

Barca have already lost three games out of 11 this season while Atletico have managed only five wins from 12

Perhaps the only question mark was Eden Hazard, who still appears short of his best in a Madrid shirt

Striker scores two, assists for two more in 5-1 victory on return from injury

Welsh international says the only thing he follows from back home is the golf

The win was also their third in their last four matches, all of which have been single-goal victories

This was only the third time in 13 games this term that Simeone’s men have won by more than a single goal

Spain's most prominent fixture delayed due to pro-independence protests in Catalonia

1-0 defeat halts the resurgence of Zidane's side just as the defending champions appears to be gathering pace

The fixture will be the club's first at home since nine Catalan independence leaders were jailed on Monday

30-year-old forward was involved in a tense stand-off with coach Zinedine Zidane in the off-season

Lionel Messi scored his first goal of the season by curling in a brilliant free-kick at Camp Nou

By the end of the eighth round in Spain, seven teams could potentially go at the top of the table

Real avoided another defeat that would have left them facing their first ever group-stage exit in this competition

Former Atletico Madrid star joined a team that after five games had posted its lowest points total in 25 years

Belgian is yet to get off the mark during the new season with his appearances restricted to four matches due to injury

Unbeaten Los Blancos are a point ahead of promoted Granada and Diego Simeone's side in La Liga

Los Blancos will be facing seven games in 21 days, the next of them against city rivals Madrid on Saturday

Los Blancos play newly-promoted Osasuna on Wednesday and could go top of La Liga with a victory

Valverde will face questions about his captain's readiness and whether the 32-year-old was rushed back too soon

The Spanish champions are in an unlikely eighth position after five Liga games on seven points

With seven points on the board, this is their worst start to a season since 1994

Hazard also came off the bench for the final half-hour to make his first La Liga appearance after a thigh injury

Sacking of Marcelino, 54, by owner Peter Lim exposes frictions at club

Belgian's return is timely for Madrid who also start their Champions League campaign against PSG next week

Several big-name players did change clubs but Europe didn’t see any mega moves

Partey's 90th-minute winner at the Wanda Metropolitano means Atletico have won all of their three La Liga games so far

It was six years to the day that Real paid 100 million euros to sign the Welshmen, who now has 104 goals for the club

Both attackers were at the heart of things, their energy and enthusiasm appreciated by the crowd

Attackers Luis Suarez and Ousmane Dembele are also sidelined with muscle problems

It was the first time in La Liga that a penalty was ordered to be re-taken

When the striker tweaked his calf, it was assumed an attacking roster of Suarez, Griezmann and Dembele would cope.

Simeone’s 126 million euro signing Joao Felix also showed great signs who looked right at home