Bellingham silenced critics, Barca saved by La Masia & Correa best squad player

Jude Bellingham burst Girona's bubble, Real Sociedad romped home in the Basque derby and Barcelona put a pre-match directors dinner spat behind them to beat Sevilla.

Match day eight in Spain also brought a comeback from Atletico Madrid thanks largely to their brilliant stand-in striker, and there was a clear winner of fan of the week.

Here are 10 things we learned from this weekend's La Liga action.

In front of watching Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman Daly Blind made the mistakes that helped give Real Madrid the perfect start against Girona.

The home side could already have been 2-0 up but Yangel Herrera had sent a free-header over and Viktor Tsygankov had hit the post.

Then Blind’s defending helped the visitors take an unassailable advantage. Girona are still in the European places and that’s probably why their supporters were still in good voice even after the third goal went in.

Jude Bellingham has now scored seven goals in eight games in all competitions but the critics can use even achievements as sticks to beat you with and some had questioned his ability as a midfielder because of Ancelotti playing him as a second striker.

There were even suggestions he’d been lucky to score so many goals from close range. His brilliant outside of the foot assist to set-up Joselu against Girona was Modric-esque and might keep the critics quiet… for a while.

There were no visiting directors at the pre-match meal or in the directors box of the Olympic Stadium before and during Barcelona’s win over Sevilla after they decided to boycott the game and issue a pre-match statement stating the club’s: ‘total indignation and repulsion for the practices carried out by the ex-officials of FC Barcelona charged in the Negreira case, practices that