Mallorca celebrate beating Real Madrid
Mallorca celebrate beating Real Madrid

Watch: Mallorca inflict Real Madrid's first defeat of the season as Barcelona go top


A review of Saturday's action in Spain's La Liga as Mallorca claimed a famous victory over Real Madrid while Barcelona moved to the top.

Junior's early goal was enough to condemn 10-man Real Madrid to a shock 1-0 defeat at La Liga strugglers Mallorca.

Ivorian forward Junior stunned Real when he rifled home a low angled shot in the seventh minute and Mallorca held on to send Zinedine Zidane's side spinning to their first league defeat of the season.

Real played the last half an hour with 10 men after defender Alvaro Odriozola was shown a straight red card for his challenge on Junior.

Los Blancos missed the chance to climb back to the top of the table above arch-rivals Barcelona, who had leapfrogged them earlier in the day with a 3-0 win at Eibar.

Vinicius Junior and Marcelo both went close to an equaliser for Real before half-time and Eder Militao's header in added time was brilliantly saved by Mallorca goalkeeper Manolo Reina.

Mallorca made it back-to-back wins after halting their six-game winless run with victory over Espanyol before the international break.

Barcelona now sit one point clear at the top after securing their fifth straight win in all competitions with a routine victory in the lunchtime kick-off.

France forward Antoine Griezmann opened the scoring with his fourth league goal of the season and then set up Lionel Messi midway through the second half.

Messi converted his second of the campaign from inside the area into the bottom corner before setting up Luis Suarez to fire home his fifth goal in seven league appearances this season.

Atletico Madrid remain fourth, three points behind Barcelona and one adrift of surprise package Granada after drawing 1-1 at home against Valencia.

Diego Costa's first-half penalty, after the video assistant referee adjudged Valencia midfielder Denis Cheryshev to have handled, was cancelled out by Daniel Parejo's brilliant late free-kick.

Valencia's South Korea midfielder Lee Kang-in was sent off in stoppage time after his yellow card, for his challenge on Carlos Soler, was upgraded to a red by VAR.

Getafe registered their third straight win in all competitions thanks to forward Angel Rodriguez's second-half double in a 2-0 home victory against Leganes.

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