Neymar hat-trick keeps Spanish title race alive up to last week of season

TIL Desk Sports/ Neymar scored a hat-trick for FC Barcelona as the La Liga leaders won 4-1 in Las Palmas to ensure that the race for the title will go into the last weekend of the football season.

Barca remain level on points with Real Madrid, but Madrid’s 4-1 win at home to Sevilla means that if they take a point from their visit to Celta Vigo on Wednesday they will go to the top of the table and be favorites to be crowned champions next Sunday.

Barcelona had an early scare when Lucas Digne was lucky not to be shown a red card for bringing down Jese Rodriguez when Las Palmas looked to be clean through on goal, but goals from Neymar and Luis Suarez in the 25th and 27th minutes put Barca in the driver’s seat.

Pedro Bigas gave Las Palmas hope in the 63rd minute, but Neymar’s second of the game just four minutes later made it 3-1 and his hat-trick with just under 20 minutes remaining, sealed the win.