Barcelona top LaLiga with a perfect record after matchday nine

Barcelona continued to top the Spanish football league standings after the ninth round, with 27 points from 9 wins without a single draw or loss, scoring 39 goals and conceding just 9.

Atletico Madrid came in second place with 22 points, 5 points behind the leaders, after achieving 7 wins, one draw and a single loss from 9 matches.

Real Madrid finished third with 21 points from 7 wins and two losses without any draws, while Real Betis occupied fourth place with 19 points, and Real Sociedad fifth with 16 points.

The midtable group included Sevilla in sixth place with 14 points, Alaves seventh, Celta Vigo eighth, Deportivo La Coruna ninth, and Osasuna tenth, all with 11 points each.

Also in the midtable zone, Athletic Club and Villarreal came with 9 points each, followed by Espanyol, Rayo Vallecano, Getafe and Racing Santander with 8 points each.

At the bottom of the table, Levante occupied seventeenth place with 7 points, level with Elche, while Valencia came in nineteenth place with 6 points.

Malaga finished bottom of the LaLiga standings in twentieth and last place with just 4 points from 9 matches, without a single win, with 4 draws and 5 defeats.