Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone has hailed Antoine Griezmann's continuing importance to the club after his goalscoring display in Wednesday's 3-2 victory over Valencia.
Atletico had to win to keep the La Liga title race running until at least the weekend:
LaLigaud83eudd81 @AthleticClub > 7th ud83dudc38 @LevanteUD > 14th #LaLigaSantander https://t.co/lnz0OQhMac
It was a tough victory over Los Che, but Atleti came through thanks to goals from Alvaro Morata, Griezmann and Angel Correa.
The French striker's strike was his 15th of the league season:
OptaJose3 - @atletienglish's @AntoGriezmann is one of the three players to have scored 15+ goals in LaLiga in each of the last five seasons, alongside Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.