MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid is making it clear it’s still in the fight for the Spanish league title.With a convincing victory in the Madrid derby on Saturday Cheap Soccer Uniforms , Real Madrid returned to second place in the Spanish league for the first time since September and moved within five points of leader Barcelona, which has a difficult away match against Athletic Bilbao on Sunday.“We reached our goal, which was to regain second place and move closer to the lead,” Madrid captain Sergio Ramos said. “The league isn’t over yet. There are many points still up for grabs. We will keep fighting until the end and we will keep trying to make things difficult for Barcelona.”In a derby marked by video review, Real Madrid defeated Atletico Madrid 3-1 at Wanda Metropolitano Stadium with an overhead kick by Casemiro, a penalty kick converted by Ramos, and a second-half goal by Gareth Bale.“You need to play a complete match to win here, and we did that,” manager Santiago Solari said.Antoine Griezmann scored for Atletico, which lost at home for the first time this season. Diego Simeone’s team stayed six points off the lead.Griezmann’s goal was initially disallowed for offside but the VAR reversed the call. Video review also had to be used to confirm the penalty that led to Ramos’ goal just before halftime, and to verify another offside call that disallowed a second-half equalizer by former Real Madrid forward Alvaro Morata. It was also used when Morata wanted a penalty call — not awarded — later in the game.Atletico, coming off its first league loss since the third round, played a man down from the 80th minute after midfielder Thomas Partey was sent off for a second yellow card.The city rivals drew their last four league matchups, and Real Madrid’s last win against Atletico was nearly two years ago in the Champions League semifinals.Casemiro opened the scoring with an overhead kick after Atletico’s defense could not fully clear a corner kick.Griezmann equalized less than 10 minutes later by sending a shot underneath goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. It took a while for the video review to reverse the offside call that initially disallowed the goal Cheap Liverpool Soccer Jerseys , keeping a record crowd of more than 67,752 at the Metropolitano from being able to celebrate.Vinicius Junior made a great run down the left side and was brought down from behind by Jose Maria Gimenez just inside the area. Ramos converted the 42nd-minute penalty.Madrid sealed its fifth straight league win with Bale’s low shot from a pass by Luka Modric in the 74th. Bale, who replaced Vinicius Junior earlier in the second half, appeared to provoke the Atletico crowd during his celebration near the sideline.Courtois, who used to play for Atletico, was loudly jeered from the start. Atletico fans threw stuffed rats toward the goalkeeper from behind one of the goals.GETAFE NEAR THE TOPTen-man Getafe defeated Celta Vigo 3-1 at home to lift the southern Madrid club into fifth place, one point behind Sevilla.Getafe conceded two minutes into the match but rebounded despite playing a man down from the 37th because of a red card to forward Maxi Gomez. All three Getafe goals came after the red card.Celta stayed 16th in the 20-team standings.OTHER RESULTSEspanyol defeated Rayo Vallecano 2-1 at home with a winner by Sergi Darder five minutes into stoppage time, ending a four-game winless streak in the league.The result kept Rayo in the relegation zone, one point from safety.Girona, the first team outside the relegation zone, had its winless streak extended to 13 matches in all competitions after losing at home to last-placed Huesca 2-0. PARIS (AP) — Emiliano Sala waited near the penalty spot, anticipating the ball’s trajectory. When it finally came, he lurched forward and sent a powerful header into the bottom corner of the net.It was the last goal Sala would ever score.The Argentine forward, who scored that goal for Nantes on Dec. 5 in a 3-2 win over Marseille Cheap Manchester City Soccer Shirts , was killed in a plane crash in the English Channel last month and his body was recovered from the seabed wreckage this week.Sala had been flying from Nantes to Cardiff, where he had been planning to start a new career in the English Premier League. He was 28 years old, the prime age in soccer for a striker.“Emiliano will always be among the legends who have written the great history of Nantes,” the French club said Friday. “We have lost a friend, a talented player, an exemplary teammate.”The fans there greatly appreciated what Sala did for their team.After scoring that last goal, his 12th of the season, Sala sprinted toward the cheering Nantes fans that formed a mass of yellow shirts and scarves behind the goal. He leaped over the advertising hoardings with ease and stood with his chest proudly puffed out as the fans surged forward with open arms.A few fans even rushed from the stands to hug him, and the man wearing the No. 9 shirt received them warmly.In honor of Sala, Nantes will retire the No. 9 jersey, and a minute’s applause for him will be held at stadiums in France this weekend. Nantes will next play Nimes at home on Sunday.Tall, strong, and good at heading, Sala had the attributes to succeed in the physically demanding Premier League.He was also a man of loyalty Cheap Manchester United Soccer Jerseys , and the very reason he went back to France was to say goodbye to his teammates. Many of them were his friends.His heart, as big as it was, also told him to say thank you to Nantes coach Vahid Halilhodzic.Although their stint together was brief, lasting half a season, the mutual respect quickly grew. As a hard-working and combative center forward himself during a successful era for Nantes during the early 1980s, Halilhodzic appreciated Sala’s work ethic, team work and sheer determination.“Even when I replaced him near the end of games he never said a word,” said Halilhodzic, who scored more than 100 goals for Nantes and won the league title in 1983. “He trusted me. We had deep discussions and strong relations between us.”While Sala’s goal against Marseille showed his prowess as a center forward — and prompted Cardiff to pay a club-record 17 million euros ($19.3 million) to sign him — what he did next in that match really typified him.After Marseille regained the lead at 2-1, Nantes equalized on the stroke of halftime — and Sala was at the heart of it. A high ball was lofted hopefully into the penalty area by defender Nicolas Pallois, who is now grieving his friend.Sala had a defender on his back yet took the ball down expertly with his right foot, showing a surprisingly velvet touch for a tall player. Then, two more defenders came across as he cushioned the ball with his left foot, still holding them off with his back to goal. Sala momentarily lost control of the ball Cheap Paris Saint-Germain Soccer Jerseys , which was unacceptable to someone with his fighting spirit. So he slid and stretched to reach it with his right foot and hooked it to teammate Abdoulaye Toure , who curled it in from the edge of the box.It was Sala’s last assist, and a perfect one in the sense of defining him as a player: Strong, tenacious, dexterous, clever and, perhaps more than anything, unselfish.Nantes fans will do much to remember him this weekend, as they did recently when they chanted his name for 90 minutes during a home match against Saint-Etienne. The referee halted the match after nine minutes so the crowd could applaud him. Sala was still presumed missing then, so fans and family clung to a glimmer of hope.That has gone, but Sala’s name and number will be around forever.