Villarreal is capable of taking points from Athletic Bilbao, although Marcelino's team has a frankly weak defense, so this will significantly reduce their chances in this match. Simione achieved an important victory in the match against Girona and now has a comfortable 5-point advantage over Bilbao. By the way, Barcelona beat Cadiz and now almost certainly became unattainable for Girona. Of course, they won’t be able to reduce the 8 points to Real Madrid in the remaining matches, but Barcelona’s position in the table looks good.
I thought everything was over for Villarreal when they got a red card and Athletic Bilbao got ahead later on. However Dani Parejo who is their very experienced player scored the equalizer in the last minutes. I was really surprised to see that. Athletic Bilbao lost points in really comfortable condition and they must have scored their second goal as quick as possible.
This must be a big relief for Atletico Madrid now as the gap between them is four points now. They can focus on their Dortmund game even more from now on to finish the job. From now on I don't expect Atletico Madrid to lose the fourth position as well. I believe they will make sure of it by beating Athletic Bilbao home in around two weeks.
Of course in the standings Atletico Madrid got peace of mind seeing Atletic Bilbao get a draw against Villarreal because of this he became distant with Atletico Madrid and could calm down to get into the champions league next season without worrying about Bilbao taking it. And Bilbao needs to be careful for himself because the Europa League ticket could have been taken by Real Sociedad even though it was difficult but it could have been caught up without him realizing it.