Oihan Sancet hit a hat-trick to gasoline Athletic Bilbao’s Champions League push with a 3-0 win over Girona on Saturday in La Liga.
The Basque facet, fourth, path third-place Barcelona by some extent with the Catalans visiting Sevilla on Sunday.
Later Saturday, league leaders Actual Madrid host rivals Atletico, second, in a tantalising derby conflict.
Athletic’s snug win at San Mames leaves them seven factors away from Villarreal in fifth, who face Las Palmas in a while Saturday.
Spain worldwide Sancet opened the scoring when his workforce have been awarded a smooth penalty and nodded dwelling one other 4 minutes later, simply earlier than the break.
Sancet accomplished his hat-trick late on as Athletic reached 14 video games with out defeat in La Liga.
Elsewhere Antony netted his first purpose for Actual Betis after becoming a member of on mortgage from Manchester United in January, though his workforce collapsed in a 3-2 defeat.
The Brazilian winger, United’s second costliest signing ever at £81.3 million ($101.5m) from Ajax in 2022, broke the impasse with a advantageous end earlier than Diego Llorente doubled Betis’ lead.
Nevertheless Celta Vigo launched a stirring second-half comeback and triumphed with objectives from Fran Beltran, Javier Rodriguez and Williot Swedberg.
rbs/pb