There are only two teams in Spain and both of them lost on Wednesday night.
Barcelona manager Ernesto Valverde hadn’t even arrived in the press room at Butarque where his team had just been beaten 2-1 by Leganés when 542km away Real Madrid went a goal down to Sevilla. He hadn’t been sitting there much more than 60 seconds – about the time it had taken Leganés to score twice – when a ripple went round the room, as Madrid went two down. And he’d only just walked out when Madrid conceded a third, Sergio Busquets still standing there through a side door, head bowed, while outside happy fans headed home, car radios on, edging past the multicoloured 10m-high Lega-ness monster rising from its roundabout lake, barely able to believe what they’d seen – or what they were hearing.
Written by Sid Lowe
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/sep/27/barcelona-real-madrid-la-liga-underdogs-leganes-sevilla under the title “‘Barça bad, Madrid worse’ – the night the underdogs bit back in La Liga”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
