{"id":22747,"date":"2026-05-13T15:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/22747\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:36:29","slug":"atletico-beat-osasuna-real-betis-qualify-for-champions-league-football-supersport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/22747\/","title":{"rendered":"Atletico beat Osasuna, Real Betis qualify for Champions League | football | SuperSport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atletico Madrid consolidated their fourth place in LaLiga with a 2-1 victory over Osasuna on Tuesday while Real Betis beat Elche to guarantee themselves a Champions League spot.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dstv.com\/shop\/en-za\/dstv-packages\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mah-fifa-world-cup-1200x200.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Atletico&#8217;s English forward Ademola Lookman opened the scoring from the penalty spot in the 15th minute after Javi Galan was carded for handball.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Sorloth made it two with 20 minutes to play, the Norwegian heading in from close range past Aitor Fernandez.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">FT: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OsasunaAtleti?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#OsasunaAtleti<\/a> 1-2<\/p>\n<p>Atleti grind it out!! \ud83d\udd34\u26aa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LALIGAEASPORTS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#LALIGAEASPORTS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DESENLACELALIGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#DESENLACELALIGA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Co0S17mt92\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Co0S17mt92<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LALIGA English (@LaLigaEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaLigaEN\/status\/2054314159777443958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only blot on Atletico&#8217;s copybook up until then was a red card for Marcos Llorente for two bad fouls.<\/p>\n<p>Kike Barja made the game tighter than it should have been at the end with an injury-time strike to pull a goal back for Osasuna.<\/p>\n<p>But Atletico held on for a result that leaves the Madrid side fourth on 66 points behind newly-crowned champions Barcelona (91pts), Real Madrid (77) and Villarreal (69), all three with a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the table, Levante climbed out of the bottom three after twice coming back from behind to win 3-2 at Celta Vigo who lost ground in the race for a Champions League spot.<\/p>\n<p>They are one of five clubs on 39 points hovering around the relegation zone, including Elche who were beaten 2-1 at Real Betis, and Espanyol who host Sevilla on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">FT: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BetisElche?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#BetisElche<\/a> 2-1<\/p>\n<p>Heart, fight, and victory \ud83d\udc9a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LALIGAEASPORTS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#LALIGAEASPORTS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DESENLACELALIGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#DESENLACELALIGA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cxoTH7avgQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/cxoTH7avgQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LALIGA English (@LaLigaEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaLigaEN\/status\/2054291923469238441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Real Betis&#8217; win means that they qualified for next season&#8217;s Champions League by finishing at least fifth. They currently have 57pts, now seven ahead of sixth-placed Celta Vigo.<\/p>\n<p>It will be Real Betis&#8217; first foray into the elite European competition since the 2005-06 season.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atletico Madrid consolidated their fourth place in LaLiga with a 2-1 victory over Osasuna on Tuesday while Real&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2417,313,301,273,109],"class_list":["post-22747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seville","tag-article","tag-football","tag-la-liga","tag-news","tag-seville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}