Week 22 Review
Change is afoot in the 2024/25 LaLiga EA Sports season thanks to some results among the top three teams. While these potential changes are visible to all parties involved, the current status quo is just as visible. This means that the next few weeks will feature epic battles between the top three teams and their opponents as they try to ensure their goals are achieved. The same battle is ongoing at the bottom of the table, with two of the bottom four teams coming up with important results that could be built upon in the coming weeks to ensure their safety. Let us now take a look at the action that played out in game week 22 of the 2024/25 LaLiga football season.
Real Madrid drop points, Rayo Vallecano move into European places as Real Sociedad slip further down the table
The biggest result of the 2024/25 LaLiga EA Sports season game week 22 was Espanyol defeating Real Madrid, who had just come off a wonderful week of football in LaLiga and the UEFA Champions League.
The reigning champions thrashed RB Salzburg in their UEFA Champions League fixture two weeks ago before travelling to Valladolid to defeat the home 3 – 0 last weekend. Then in midweek, they were back to the Champions League and put in a strong performance to come away with another 3 – 0 win over Stade Brestois. They were in high spirits going into their game with relegation strugglers Espanyol, but the Catalan team had other plans.
Defending resolutely from start to finish, they would strike in the last five minutes of the game to break the deadlock and keep all three points from the encounter. This helped them to go two points ahead of Deportivo Alaves, who would lose to Barcelona by the same margin and slip into 18th place.
As a result, Madrid’s lead over Atlético de Madrid has been cut to one point and their lead over third-placed Barcelona is now four points. This puts the ball firmly in the courts of Los Rojiblancos and the Blaugrana in the top three race for the title, and in the courts of Espanyol and Valencia (who scored their fourth win of the season by defeating Celta Vigo 2 – 1) in the safety race.
Meanwhile, Osasuna packed up Real Sociedad to score their seventh win of the season and move into seventh place while sending the Basque team into eleventh.
All these teams started well but have now fallen and allowed Rayo Vallecano to move into sixth place with their consistency and solid football that all of Europe will be excited to witness if they somehow qualify for European competition in the 2025/26 season.
Results
Here are the results of the 2024/25 matchday 22 fixtures in LaLiga EA Sports!
Leganes 0 – 1 Rayo Vallecano
Getafe 0 – 0 Sevilla
Villarreal 5 – 1 Real Valladolid
Atlético 2 – 0 Mallorca
Espanyol 1 – 0 Real Madrid
Barcelona 1 – 0 Alaves
Valencia 2 – 1 Celta Vigo
Osasuna 2 – 1 Real Sociedad
Real Betis 2 – 2 Athletic Club Bilbao
Table
Week 22 ends with the standings looking like this:
Top Scorers
Robert Lewandowski scored in his second-straight match after a three-game drought and is now on 18 league goals, which is three more than his closest challenger Kylian Mbappé. Ante Budimir of Osasuna got a brace in week 22 to draw level with Raphinha on 12 goals to round up the top three goal scorers so far of the 2024/25 LaLiga season. So far, the Pichichi race is shaping up to be as close as it was last season.
Article Last Updated on 3rd February 2025
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