Certainly, you could have been forgiven for thinking that as the weekend’s football games drew to a conclusion.
But one late live betting twist was all it took to open up the La Liga title race and betting odds on a Real Madrid championship are no longer as clear cut.
Their lead at the summit has been cut to one point (with a game in hand) as they chase a first Primera Division since Jose Mourinho guided them to victory in 2012.
Deportivo La Coruna 0-0 Villarreal
It was hardly a classic. In fact, it was pretty dour at times.
But you suspect the hosts will be happier with the point than the Yellow Submarine who never really got going.
Florin Andone came closest to breaking the deadlock with an overhead kick which hit the post but there was little to write home about.
Atletico Madrid 1-0 Real Betis
They may have struggled to get going at times, but Atletico will take a win all day long.
Diego Simeone’s third victory in a row was secured through Nicolas Gaitan’s eighth-minute strike.
Simeone knows his side aren’t playing well but to win when you’re not is the sign of a good team.
Barcelona 5-0 Las Palmas
Barca could not contemplate anything other than a win, and three points were never really in doubt.
Not once Lionel Messi scored a poacher’s goal – his first ever against Las Palmas – to double the home side’s lead early in the second half.
After being under par of late, what this result – coupled with Real’s defeat – could do for their confidence remains to be seen.
Leganes 0-0 Athletic Bilbao
With results like this, Leganes will do themselves the power of good.
The promoted club battled to hold seventh-placed Bilbao who missed the chance to climb into the top six.
A disallowed Raul Garcia goal meant they had to settle for a second successive goalless draw.
Sevilla 2-1 Real Madrid
Oh what drama! The enormity of this result is as yet unknown.
But the occasion will live long in the memory after this famous victory earmarked Jorge Sampaoli’s side as genuine title contenders.
This was a show of character as the Andalusians had been beaten by Real in both the European Super Cup final (in extra-time) and the Copa del Rey.
Yet just three days after their second leg Copa collapse, the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan witnessed exciting scenes to end Real’s 40-game unbeaten run which stretched back 284 days.
Never mind 284 days, what a crazy six days it has been for match-winner Stevan Jovetic – arrival in Seville on Tuesday, debut goal on Thursday, league debut last-gasp winner on Sunday!
Sporting Gijon 2-3 Eibar
You have to win your home games, and Gijon’s failure to do so could cost them dearly.
They remain in the drop zone after a spirited showing wasn’t enough to prevent defeat.
The Eibar success story, they are up to ninth, continues.
Granada 1-1 Osasuna
The result neither side wanted.
That the hosts finished with nine men may yet cost them dearly when suspensions kick in.
Uche Agbo’s 73rd-minute dismissal was followed by a second yellow card in stoppage time for Ezequiel Ponce as the bottom two stay adrift.
Celta Vigo 1-0 Alaves
There was certain inevitability that Celta would take advantage once the visitors were reduced to 10 men early in the second half.
The newly promoted club battled hard following the 46th-minute dismissal of Zouhair Feddal.
In the end, they held out until Nemanja Radoja’s 89th-minute intervention.
Valencia 2-1 Espanyol
How this has eased the tensions.
A first win since October, coupled with Sporting’s defeat, has given them some wriggle room above the drop zone.
Despite the protests against the club owner and president, Peter Lim and Lay Hoon, the hosts oversaw a nervy finish, courtesy of goals from Martin Montoya and Santi Mina.
Malaga 0-2 Real Sociedad
Sociedad are up to sixth and can even climb a place higher should they win their game in hand.
It’s an attractive position for a club hoping to recapture the heady heights of 2012-14 when they claimed fourth and seventh place finishes.
Keep a look out for the clinching second goal from Juanmi – it was so comically offside, the former Southampton player even laughed!
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