Full-time: Barcelona 6-0 Sporting Gijon

The referee puts Sporting out of their misery. Barcelona go top after being off the perch for around six hours. Suárez scored four for a second game running after a much-improved second-half performance in which Sporting just ran out of gas. Vranjes should appeal against his sending off, though. He didn’t even appear to foul Neymar for the third penalty so a booking was a very harsh decision. They remain in the bottom three. What a strange game. It didn’t look like it was going to turn into a shellacking. It did. Football is a cruel world. Suárez has now scored 54 goals in all competitions too. Not bad. Thanks for your emails. GoodnighWith four games remaining, United remains fifth, 4 points behind Arsenal. Manchester City is a further point ahead in third place after beating Stoke, 4-0, in one of four league games.

Newcastle remained in the relegation zone even after coming from behind to draw, 2-2, at Liverpool. Southampton preserved its outside shot at qualifying for the Europa League by defeating already-relegated Aston Villa, 4-2. Chelsea, the deposed champion, won, 4-1, at Bournemouth.

The focus shifts to the title race in the coming days. Leicester, which has a 5-point lead over Tottenham, hosts Swansea on Sunday. Tottenham faces West Bromwich Albion at White Hart Lane the following day.

BAYERN NEARS TITLE Bayern Munich ground past Hertha Berlin, 2-0, and Borussia Dortmund kept the Bundesliga title race alive for at least one more week with a 3-0 victory at Stuttgart. Bayern would have won the title with a win and a Dortmund loss.

Bayern can seal an unprecedented fourth title with a win at home against Borussia Mönchengladbach next weekend, but it first visits Atlético Madrid for the opening leg of their Champions League semifinal on Wednesday.

“It’s not easy to keep pushing every three or four days, especially when everyone expects you to win,” Bayern’s Thomas Müller said.

Arturo Vidal scored three minutes after the break, and Douglas Costa sealed the win late to keep Bayern 7 points clear of Dortmund with three games left.

P.S.G. ON COURSE FOR TREBLEÁngel Di María scored with his side down to 10 men as Paris St.-Germain beat Lille, 2-1, to win the French League Cup and remain on track to defend its domestic treble.Henrikh Mkhitaryan starred for Dortmund, setting up Shinji Kagawa, then Christian Pulisic before the break, and crowning his effort by scoring in the 56th. Pulisic, an American, scored for the second straight game and, at 17, became the youngest player to score two goals for Dortmund.

P.S.G., the French champion, can repeat the treble by beating its bitter rival Marseille in the French Cup final on May 21.

Lille dominated much of the second half only to be undone by Di María’s 75th-minute goal.

The win may ease some of the recent disappointment of P.S.G.’s elimination from the quarterfinals of the Champions League, where it was knocked out by Manchester City.

INTER KEEPS HOPES ALIVE Stevan Jovetic scored twice, and Inter Milan beat Udinese, 3-1, in Serie A to preserve its hopes of catching Roma for the final Champions League spot.

With three matches remaining, fourth-place Inter moved within 4 points of Roma, which hosts second-place Napoli on Monday.

The match was the first time in Serie A history that neither squad had an Italian in its starting lineup.

Juventus, which visits Fiorentina on Sunday, can clinch a fifth straight title if it gains more points than Napoli in this round.