By AFP 09 January 2022 | 6:10 pm Sevilla stayed in touch with Real Madrid at the top of La Liga on Sunday after Rafa Mir’s goal sealed a 1-0 win at home to Getafe. Sevilla stayed in touch with Real Madrid at the top of La Liga on Sunday after Rafa Mir’s goal sealed a 1-0 win at home to Getafe. Mir’s flicked finish in the 22nd minute squirmed past David Soria and was enough for Sevilla to cut the gap to Madrid to five points, with Sevilla owning a game in hand. Madrid thrashed Valencia 4-1 on Saturday. With Real Madrid away in Saudi Arabia playing in the Spanish Super Cup this week, Sevilla will have the chance to reduce the difference to two points by beating Valencia next weekend.Sevilla’s Spanish coach Julen Lopetegui (L) points at Spanish assistant referee Miguel Martinez Munuera during the Spanish league football match between Sevilla FC and Getafe CF at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville on January 9, 2022. (Photo by CRISTINA QUICLER / AFP) Julen Lopetefui’s side appears to be the chief challengers to Real Madrid this season, with Atletico Madrid and Barcelona both well adrift. Sevilla is now unbeaten in six games in all competitions. Getafe, who stay 16th, were undone by a driving run from Luis Ocampos, who beat both Florentino Luis and Jonathan Silva, before firing in a low cross. Mir flicked the ball behind his standing leg and Soria was taken by surprise, the goalkeeper allowing the ball to creep through his hands and inside the post. Latest 1 day ago Julio Tavares scored the winner as Cape Verde began their Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a 1-0 victory on Sunday over Ethiopia who played most of the game with 10 men. 1 day ago At least 19 people have died and dozens are injured after a fire tore through a high-rise apartment building in the New York borough of the Bronx, Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday. 1 day ago Nottingham Forest dumped 14-time winners Arsenal out of the FA Cup on Sunday after Tottenham and Liverpool survived scares against lower-league opposition to progress. 1 day ago Leicester’s match away to Everton in the Premier League on Tuesday has been postponed for the second time after Covid-19 cases and Africa Cup of Nations call-ups left the Foxes unable to field a team. 1 day ago Israel could see up to nearly 40 percent of the population infected by coronavirus during the current wave, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday, as testing facilities nationwide buckled.
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