After another round of league games in the Spanish top flight, it’s as you were.

Barcelona perched above Atletico Madrid via the head-to-head rule, with Real Madrid just a point behind.

All three had their big players to thank for keeping them in the title hunt for another week at least.

Gareth Bale continues to cement his place as a Galactico signing, Antoine Griezmann’s match winner just 42 seconds after coming on showed exactly how important he has become for Diego Simeone, whilst Luis Suarez continued firing the bullets to keep him ahead in the race for the Pichichi and the European Golden Shoe.

It’s worth dwelling on exactly what it is that the Uruguayan brings to his side too.

After all, it wasn’t that long ago that he was being castigated by all and sundry for yet another bite – this time on Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini – and sparking debate as to whether he did even deserve a future in the game at all, post World Cup 2014.

Almost two years on from that low point, Suarez is on the verge of helping Barcelona to the double.

Two wins from their last two games will secure the league title whatever happens elsewhere and Sevilla will potentially have one eye on the Europa League final when they meet the Catalans in the Spanish Cup Final - should the Andalusians come through the second leg of their semi-final against Shakhtar Donetsk unscathed.

As Neymar’s form has dipped and Lionel Messi has been marked out of some games, Suarez has very much come to the fore.

A goal against Real Betis at the weekend settled the match, and was his ninth in three outings.

He has recently become only the second player in Barcelona’s illustrious history – after Lionel Messi - to score more than 50 goals in a season.

Not even the great Ronaldo ‘O Fenomeno’ Nazario could manage that.

Nor could Samuel Eto’o, Ronaldinho, Romario, Hristo Stoichkov and any of the other magnificent strikers Barca have had in their ranks for the last 117 years.

The significance of those numbers will only be known at the end of the season of course, but what’s crystal clear is that a player who some likened to a cannibal in the recent past has been rehabilitated in the best possible way.

His movement is astonishing for a front man - and Messi’s mesmerising pass for Barca’s second against Betis was only made possible by the intelligence of Suarez who saw the possibilities in the first place.

He is a modern day striker par excellence and scores every type of goal. Yet his best quality has to be his incredible work rate.

Tireless is an understatement and it’s that incessant ethic which perfectly complements the more skilful aspects of Neymar and Messi’s natural game.

Indeed, the trio are less than half a dozen goals short of 250 in two seasons. That’s utterly preposterous whichever way you look at it.

El Pistolero by name and, evidently, by nature.