Villarreal temporarily snatched third place from Atletico Madrid with a valuable 3-1 win over visiting Real Sociedad on Friday, in the opening match of the twenty-ninth round of the Spanish Football League.The «Yellow Submarines» team opened the scoring early through Gerard Moreno (7), before Georgian George Mikotadze added his ninth goal in the league, and Ivorian Niolas Pepe added two more goals half an hour before the end in the 15th and 23rd minutes, respectively.San Sebastian reduced the gap at the beginning of the second half through Croatian Luka Sosic (47).Villarreal, which raised its score to 58 points, advanced in third place, one point behind Atletico, which will visit the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on Sunday evening to face its arch-neighbor Real Madrid.Barcelona, the league leaders, will play a theoretically easier match when it hosts Rayo Vallecano, which is in thirteenth place, on Sunday at Camp Nou.Villarreal have only lost at home twice this season, against Barcelona (0-2 in the 17th round) and Real Madrid (0-2 in the 21st round)....
On the other hand, Real Sociedad is in seventh place with 38 points, and is likely to decline in the standings pending the rest of the results of this stage.
