Barca beat Valencia in late drama, Atletico win marred by fan death

Sergio Busquets scrambled an injury-time winner as
Barcelona scraped past Valencia 1-0 to keep the pressure on
Primera Division leaders Real Madrid.
Valencia had been well worth a point at the Mestalla, more
than matching an off-colour Barca until the closing seconds of
the game.
Lionel Messi was far from his best all night but finally
produced a moment of quality as he found a wonderful ball for
Neymar, whose header was saved only to be rammed home by
Busquets.
It was his first goal of the season but a highly important one
that keeps the Catalan side within two points of their rivals.
The match ended on a sour note, though, with Messi hit on the
head by a bottle thrown from the stands as Barca players
celebrated the winner.
Atletico Madrid clinched an eighth win in nine matches as they
beat Deportivo La Coruna 2-0 thanks to goals from Saul and
Arda Turan. But this was a day when violent scenes on the
Madrid riverside before the game cast a dark shadow over
football.
Running battles between rival supporters began at breakfast
time and the Spanish league authorities made moves to
postpone the match that began at midday local time.
One man died following the clashes, with the players and staff
in the ground unaware of what had happened until after the
final whistle.
Elsewhere, Sevilla scored four times in the final 25 minutes to
record a morale-boosting 5-1 win over Andalusian rivals
Granada at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan.
Sevilla, who had taken just one point from their previous three
league games, went ahead through Carlos Bacca's 24th-minute
strike but Granada were level by the break thanks to Youssef
El Arabi's penalty.
That is the way the game stayed until the 66th minute, when
Sevilla got their noses back in front through Ever Banega and
then further goals from Bacca, Stephane Mbia and Kevin
Gameiro completed a one-sided scoreline.
Villarreal move up to sixth place after producing a
commanding performance to win 2-0 at bottom-side Cordoba.
Luciano Vietto hit his eighth goal of the season in all
competitions to put the visitors in charge after 24 minutes and
substitute Ikechukwu Uche put the game out of Cordoba's
reach with 20 minutes to go with a simple finish from a corner.
Marcelino's side are starting to look like the side that finished
in the top six last season again, while things are looking bleaker
and bleaker for Miroslav Djukic's men, who are still without
a win since returning to the top flight.