Barcelona(Agencies): Atl tico Madrid honored the club's victims of
the coronavirus pandemic and earned a hard-fought victory in its first home
game since the Spanish league resumed.
Substitute Victor Vitolo Mach n
scored the winner in the 81st minute of a 1-0 win over Valladolid on Saturday.
The victory lifted Diego
Simeone's team past Sevilla and into third place on head-to-head goal
difference.
Barcelona leads the league by
three points over Real Madrid, which can pull level if it wins at Real Sociedad
on Sunday.
Madrid holds the tiebreaker
between the two in case of a tie. Atl tico and Sevilla trail Barcelona by 13
points with eight games left.
Atl tico used the occasion of its
first match at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in more than three months to pay
tribute to its former coach Radomir Antic, three former players, and a
14-year-old youth player who died during the pandemic.
A jersey with Antic's name was
placed on a seat next to Simeone on the bench, while the four players had
shirts with their names draped on seats in the empty stands.
A violinist played the club's
anthem to honor all of Spain's over 28,000 virus victims before kickoff.
Vitolo went on in the 73rd and
broke the deadlock when he headed in after goalkeeper Jos Caro failed to punch
a corner away, leaving his goal undefended. The ball fell to Vitolo at the far
post and he guided his header home.
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