Barcelona thrash Valencia to stay in touch with LaLiga leaders Real Madrid

Barcelona thrashed LaLiga strugglers Valencia 7-1 to complete a memorable week and stay in touch with leaders Real Madrid.

Hansi Flick’s side produced one of their best displays of the season five days after their impressive Champions League fightback to win 5-4 in Lisbon.

Barca raced into a 3-0 lead after 14 minutes and led 5-0 at half-time thanks to goals from Frenkie de Jong, Ferran Torres, Raphinha and Fermin Lopez’s brace.

Robert Lewandowski added a sixth after Hugo Duro had pulled one back for the visitors and Cesar Tarrega’s own goal completed the scoring.

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Athletic Bilbao lost ground on the top two, slipping to fourth place after being held to a goalless draw at Leganes.

Randy Nteka’s late double sealed Rayo Vallecano a 2-1 home win against Girona and extended his side’s unbeaten league run to seven matches.

Girona had led through Bryan Gil’s second-half header, but Nteka scored twice in the last 10 minutes and Vallecano leapfrogged them into seventh place in the table, one point off the top six.

Getafe maintained their climb away from relegation trouble with a surprise 3-0 win at Real Sociedad, thanks to Christantus Uche’s second-half effort and two late goals from Carles Perez.

In Serie A, Lazio’s home game against Fiorentina ended in high drama with both managers sent off as the 10-man visitors held on to win 2-1.

La Viola, who snapped a six-game winless league run, dented Lazio’s top-four hopes in a chaotic finish at the Olympic Stadium, which saw Fiorentina boss Raffaele Palladino and Lazio’s Marco Baroni both dismissed.

Goals from Adli – later sent off for a second yellow card – and Lucas Beltran saw Fiorentina race into a two-goal lead before Adam Marusic’s stoppage-time header for Lazio, who then hit a post through Pedro’s effort.

Inter Milan kept pace with leaders Napoli by cruising to a 4-0 win at Lecce, which extended the reigning champions’ unbeaten league run to 16 matches.

Davide Frattesi and Lautaro Martinez gave Inter a 2-0 interval lead and further goals from Denzel Dumfries and Mehdi Taremi (penalty) sealed their win, which lifted them to within three points of Napoli with a game in hand.

AC Milan struck twice in stoppage time to beat Parma 3-2 – new loan signing Kyle Walker was watching at the San Siro Stadium – and climb back into the top six.

Matteo Cancellieri’s opener for Parma was cancelled out by Christian Pulisic’s first-half penalty and the visitors regained the lead through Enrico Delprato’s late effort.

But Tijjani Reijnders equalised for Milan in the second minute of added time and Samuel Chukwueze bundled in a winner three minutes later.

Second-half penalties from Lorenzo Pellegrini and Artem Dovbyk sealed Roma a 2-1 win at Udinese.

In the Bundesliga, Eintracht Frankfurt lost ground on the top two after they were denied victory at Hoffenheim by Adam Hlozek’s stoppage-time equaliser, which clinched his side a 2-2 draw.

Frankfurt striker Hugo Ekitike’s double, his first a penalty, sandwiched Gift Orban’s second-half equaliser for Hoffenheim before Hlozek struck in the fifth minute of added time.

St Pauli climbed six points clear of the bottom three thanks to a 1-0 home win against Union Berlin.

In Ligue 1, second-placed Marseille lost ground on leaders Paris St Germain after losing 2-0 at Nice, with Evann Guessand and Mohamed-Ali Cho on target for the hosts, who moved up to fourth.

Lyon, who remain sixth, took an early lead through Ernest Nuamah, but were denied victory by Mostafa Mohamed’s last-minute equaliser in a 1-1 draw at Nantes.

Lens sit seventh, level on points with Lyon, after Przemyslaw Frankowski’s second-half effort sealed a 1-0 home win against Angers.

Brest are two points further back after a 1-0 win at Le Havre and Montpellier climbed off bottom spot with a surprise 2-1 win at Toulouse.