The day after Spain learned its competition in the group stage of 2010 World Cup, La Liga continued toward crowning the best club team in Spain. League leaders, Barcelona went to the West Coast and beat Deportivo La Coruña 3-1 at the Riazor. The 2009 Balon D'Or winner Lionel Messi scored twice and Ibrahimovic added his 10th of the season to keep Barca undefeated. Ibra has scored in Barca's last 3 matches as Blaugrana have moved 5 points ahead with one more game played.

Los Merengues bounced back from the Clasico loss to defeat Almeria at home 4-2. Real Madrid trailed 2-1 in the 2nd half before scoring 3 goals in 11 minutes to earn the 3 points. Goals by Gonzalo Higuaín, Karim Benzema, and Cristiano Ronaldo pleased the crowd at the Bernabeu and punctuated the comeback.

Racing crushed Espanyol 4-0 on the road in Espanyol's new stadium, Estadi Cornellá-El Prat. Racing scored all their goals in the 2nd half as Sergio Canales scored his 1st two goals of the season. The win ended a 9 game winless streak and a 4-game goal scoring drought. Espanyol's loss extended their winless streak to 6 games as well as their goal less streak to 4 games.

Villarreal continued their climb up the standings with their 3-2 win over Getafe. The Yellow Submarine claimed the 3 points despite being a goal down and a man down in the 2nd half. Santi Cazorla & Joan Capdevila scored the game tying and game winning goals. Villarreal kept the 3 points despite going 2 men down in 2nd half injury time. Villarreal have won 4 of their last 6 matches after starting the season earning 3 points in the first 7 games.

Here are the results and standings from Fecha 13:

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5TH

Xerez 0 - 2 Atlético Madrid
ATM: Diego Forlán (29') & Sergio Agüero (65')

Sevilla FC 1 - 1 Valladolid
SEV: Luis Fabiano (pen 45')
VAL: Manucho (33')

Real Madrid 4 - 2 Almeria
RMA: Ramos (31'), Higuaín (73'), Benzema (82'), Ronaldo (84')
ALM: Soriano (58') & Kalu Uche (62')

Deportivo La Coruña 1 - 3 Barcelona
DLC: Adrián (39')
BAR: Lionel Messi (27' & 79'), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (88')

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6TH

Espanyol 0 - 4 Racing Santander
RAC: Henrique (47'), Sergio Canales (52' & 72'), Mohamed Tchite (pen 68')

Málaga 1 - 1 Osasuna
MAL: Apono (82')
OSA: Masoud Shojaei (47')

Mallorca 4 - 1 Real Zaragoza
MAL: Aritz Aduriz (38' & 68'), Suárez (75'), Alhassane Keita (83')
RZA: Ander Herrera (86')

Tenerife 2 - 1 Sporting Gijon
TEN: Ricardinho (55'), Juan Francisco Martínez (66')
SGJ: Diego Castro Gimenez (4')

Villarreal 3 - 2 Getafe
VIL: Joan Capdevila (17' & 86'), Santi Cazorla (67')
GET: Pedro León (3') & Roberto Soldado (pen 52')

Athletic Bilbao 1 - 2 Valencia
ATB: Muniaín (57')
VAL: David Villa (61') & Jérémy Mathieu (82')

STANDINGS