Real Madrid freeze at Osasuna as snow brings much of Spain to a halt | Sid Lowe


An icy flight across Spain was in vain for Madrid as they were held in Pamplona while Atlêtico’s games in hand rack up

Athletic Club Bilbao parked the bus but couldn’t land the plane. The driver arrived early and waited outside Barajas Terminal Four on Friday evening while thousands of feet above him the pilot bringing the team to Madrid to play Atlético circled the city before giving up and going home. At around the same time Real Madrid’s players were sitting in another plane on the runway, watching snow fall and time pass. To the south, Rayo Vallecano’s footballers got off the coach and helped push stranded cars along the road, or tried to. “Do you think we should be travelling like this?” midfielder Mario Suárez asked.

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Simeone y la mayoría de jugadores han ido en los 4x4 habilitados por el @Atleti salvo...

… Yannick Carrasco, que ha ido con el FIAT PANDA 4x4 que le ha prestado un vecino porque “va muy bien” sobre la nieve pic.twitter.com/50NRQNJdRW

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Celta Vigo 0-4 Villarreal, Sevilla 3-2 Real Sociedad, Atlético Madrid P-P Athletic Bilbao, Granada 0-4 Barcelona, Osasuna 0-0 Real Madrid, Levante 2-1 Eibar, Cádiz 3-1 Alavés,  Real Valladolid 0-1 Valencia

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