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Barcelona earned a hard-fought 4-1 win at struggling Sevilla on Sunday thanks to goals by Robert Lewandowski, Fermín López, Raphinha and Eric García to edge them closer to the top of the table.
The win lifted third-placed Barça to 48 points, one behind Atlético Madrid and two adrift of leaders Real Madrid after the capital rivals drew 1-1 on Saturday.
Lewandowski gave Barça the lead from close range in the seventh minute but Rubén Vargas hit right back to equalise for the home side from a quick counter one minute later.
López came off the bench and put Barça back in front two minutes after the break and Raphinha extended their lead in the 55th minute with a brilliant strike from outside the box. Five minutes later, Barça were reduced to 10 men after López was shown a straight red card for a studs-up challenge on Djibril Sow, but the visitors held off Sevilla and managed to score their fourth through García’s header in the 89th minute.
Napoli missed the chance to move six points clear at the top of Serie A after being held to a 1-1 draw at home to Udinese on Sunday, their second successive stalemate.
Napoli, who drew 1-1 at Roma last week, have 55 points, four clear of second-placed Inter, who host Fiorentina on Monday. In an eventful first half, both teams had chances to break the deadlock before Scott McTominay opened the scoring for Napoli in the 37th minute with a pinpoint header from close range after a corner by Matteo Politano.
Udinese’s Jurgen Ekkelenkamp equalised three minutes later with a swerving long-range right-foot shot that deceived the goalkeeper Alex Meret and flew into the bottom corner.
Paulo Dybala scored his first goal of 2025 to help a much-changed Roma to a 1-0 win at relegation-threatened Venezia. Dybala powerfully converted a second-half penalty after Angeliño was tripped by the defender Alessandro Marcandalli. The Roma manager, Claudio Ranieri, had rotated his team before Thursday’s Europa League playoff first leg against Porto.
Venezia stay second from bottom, three points above Monza and five below safety. Roma remain ninth.
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Lazio moved back into fourth place with a dominant 5-1 win over the bottom club, Monza. Adam Marusic’s header gave Lazio a slender lead at the break and the floodgates opened in the second half with Pedro Rodríguez scoring twice and Taty Castellanos and Faruq Dele-Bashiru adding the others for the home team.
Lazio leapfrogged two points above Juventus. They are nine points below Napoli ahead of the Serie A leader’s match against Udinese later on Sunday.
Paulo Fonseca pledged to bring attacking football back to Lyon, and his players obeyed him by routing Reims 4-0 in Ligue 1. Fonseca took over as manager at the end of January when Pierre Sage was sacked after six games without a win.
In Fonseca’s first game, Lyon played well despite losing 3-2 at Marseille last weekend. This time they completely dominated against Reims, with four scorers underlining the slick teamwork.
After the left-back Nicolás Tagliafico volleyed in a cross from Corentin Tolisso late in the first half, Tolisso headed in Rayan Cherki’s cross midway through the second. Cherki made it 3-0 in the 79th minute and, after the Reims midfielder Patrick Zabi was shown a red card, Georgia’s Georges Mikautadze turned in a cross from the lively Cherki.
