Updated / Saturday, 7 Dec 2024 **23:58**
Jude Bellingham starred again as **Real Madrid** kept the pressure on La Liga leaders Barcelona with a convincing 3-0 win at **Girona**.
The England midfielder scored for the fifth successive league game to give Real a half-time lead and provided an assist for Arda Guler to make it 2-0 before Kylian Mbappe completed the scoring.
Carlo Ancelotti's side climbed to within two points of the league leaders with a game in hand after Hansi Flick’s **Barcelona** side were held 2-2 at **Real Betis** earlier on Saturday.
Giovani Lo Celso’s penalty cancelled out Robert Lewandowski’s opener for Barca, who struck late on through Ferran Torres, only for Assane Diao to fire a stoppage-time equaliser.
**Rayo Vallecano** registered their fifth league win of the season, 1-0 at second-bottom **Valencia** and **Las Palmas** won 2-1 at home against **Real Valladolid**.
**Bayern Munich** stretched their lead at the top of the Bundesliga to six points and extended their unbeaten league start to 13 matches with a 4-2 home win against **Heidenheim**.
Mathias Honsak cancelled out Dayot Upamecano’s first-half opener for Bayern, for whom Jamal Musiala struck twice in the second half, either side of Leon Goretzka’s effort, while Niklas Dorsch netted the visitors’ second.
First-half goals from Florian Wirtz and Jonathan Tah were enough to seal **Bayer Leverkusen** a 2-1 home win against **St Pauli**, which lifted Xabi Alonso’s reigning champions up to third.
**Eintracht Frankfurt** remain second after being held 2-2 at home by **Augsburg** and **RB Leipzig** climbed up to third after a 2-0 win at **Holstein Kiel**.
**Borussia Dortmund** sit fifth after drawing 1-1 at **Borussia Monchengladbach** and W**erder Bremen** won 1-0 at **Bochum**.
**Juventus** missed the chance to make up ground on the Serie A pacesetters after they came back from 2-0 down to snatch a point in a 2-2 draw at home against **Bologna**.
Teun Koopmeiners and Samuel Mbangula’s stoppage-time equaliser spared Juve’s blushes after they had trailed to goals from Bologna pair Dan Ndoye and Tommaso Pobega.
**Roma** halted a run of four straight league defeats with a 4-1 home win against **Lecce**.
In France, **Monaco** cut Paris St Germain’s lead at the top of Ligue 1 back to five points with a 2-0 home win over **Toulouse**, Stephane Singo and Breel Embolo netting in the second half.
**Lyon** were 3-0 winners at **Angers**, extending their unbeaten league run to nine matches in the process, while **Nice** overcame **Le Havre** 2-1.