La Liga Round Up: Basque derby draw as Real Betis chase UCL place

The La Liga promotion of Sunday was packed with a 0-0 Basque derby-yellow game while Real Sociedad held Athletic Club in San Sebastian.

Elsewhere, after the early 3-2 victory of Real Madrid over Celta Vigo, Real Betis stimulated their push for the UEFA Champions League qualification in Espanyol and Leganes kept their survival loop alive with a draw in Sevilla.

Let's see how the promotion unfolded …

Sevilla 2-2 Leganes

Leganes showed their willingness to continue fighting in the relegation scrap while pulling a valuable point at Seville.

Both parties have a terrible series of recent form, but Sevilla seems to have about enough to survive, because Leganes remains four points on the drift of the safety line.

The chances went early when Munir El Haddadi curled a free kick and brought Kike Salas up close.

Isaac Romero then walked Sevilla late, but Leganes showed their grain, while Javi Hernandez nodded home for a draw.

Espanyol 1-2 real betis

Real Betis has half a half date of the Midweek Conference League with Fiorentina on the Horizon, but Manuel Pellegrini does not relax in its own country.

Los Verdiblancos is ready to combat Villarreal completely in the race for the fifth, while the on-Fire Antony won a victory at Espanyol.

In a chaotic last five minutes in Catalonia, Giovani Lo Celso equalized to break the Espanyol resistance before Antony continued his fantastic run with an added time wonder goal.

Real Sociedad 0-0 Athletic Club

Athletic Club will also be in European promotion in the coming days while the Ernesto Valverde team goes to Manchester United.

The visitors bear a 3-0 loss from the first leg to Old Trafford and they were forced to compete a tapping 0-0 at La Real.

Sergi Gomez brought the only half chance of the first half of the target while both parties were deleted.

Brais Mendez forced an excellent rescue from Unai Simon after the restart, while the hosts pushed to win, but the road side caused a moral = a boost point.

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