Oihan Sancet hit a hat-trick to fuel Athletic Bilbao's Champions League push with a 3-0 win over Girona Saturday in LaLiga.
The Basque side, fourth, trail third-place Barcelona by a point with the Catalans visiting Sevilla Sunday.
Later Saturday, league leaders Real Madrid host rivals Atletico, second, in a tantalizing derby clash.
Athletic's comfortable win at San Mames leaves them seven points clear of Villarreal in fifth, who face Las Palmas later Saturday.
Spain international Sancet opened the scoring when his team were awarded a soft penalty and nodded home another four minutes later, just before the break.
Sancet completed his hat-trick late on as Athletic reached 14 games without defeat in LaLiga.
Elsewhere Antony netted his first goal for Real Betis after joining on loan from Manchester United in January, although his team collapsed in a 3-2 defeat.
The Brazilian winger, United's second most expensive signing ever at £81.3m ($101.5m) from Ajax Amsterdam in 2022, broke the deadlock with a fine finish before Diego Llorente doubled Betis' lead.
However Celta Vigo launched a stirring second-half comeback and triumphed with goals from Fran Beltran, Javier Rodriguez and Williot Swedberg.
RESULTS
Celta 3 (Beltran 63, Rodriguez 65, Swedberg 87) Betis 2 (Antony 10, Llorente 22)
Athletic Club 3 (Sancet 42-P, 45+1, 79) Girona 0
Friday
Vallecano 1 (Garcia 71) Valladolid 0
