Real Madrid did its homework in the first turn, waited for a stumble by its staunch rival Barcelona and celebrated. He Meringue, which defeated Cádiz 3-0 at the Santiago Bernabéu, sealed the Spanish league title after Girona beat Barça 4-2. Four dates before the end of the season, the team led by Carlo Ancelotti was 13 and 14 points ahead of its immediate pursuers, who faced each other on this date. He was the 36th winner at the domestic level.
Although they were unable to break the deadlock in the first half, Madrid deployed their repertoire in the final stage and gave Mauricio Pellegrino’s team a rout thanks to goals from Brahim Díaz, Jude Bellingham and Joselu. Ancelotti had the luxury of taking care of his best players, who had just achieved a draw at Bayern Munich’s home in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals, which they will define at home next Wednesday.
Those from Andalusia, who counted on the Argentines Jeremías Ledesma and Gonzalo Escalante As starters, they were seriously committed to relegation: they are 18th and are five points below Celta de Vigo, who will host Villarreal tomorrow (9th).
With this new trophy (36th), Real Madrid stretched the gap with Barcelona in the general table. The culés have 27 and are followed by Atlético Madrid with 11, Athletic Bilbao with 8, Valencia with 6, Real Sociedad with 2, Deportivo La Coruña, Sevilla and Betis with 1. Furthermore, the capitalians were on the verge of the triplet after having beaten Barça 4-1 in the final of the Spanish Super Cup at the beginning of the year and on the eve of the Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich.
It was not the afternoon of dreams for Barcelona, who intended to remain as the only escort and also postpone Madrid’s celebration. Although he started on the right foot due to the Dane’s goal Andreas Christensen In just 2 minutes of play, only another couple of minutes passed for Girona to equalize through the Ukrainian Artem Dovbyk. Before the first half was over, the Pole Robert Lewandowski He once again overtook the Catalans thanks to a penalty. But everything would change.
In just 9 minutes, a burst from Girona gave shape to the home team’s victory at the Municipal de Montilivi stadium. A double of For your (which entered in the complement) and the remaining Miguel Gutierrez They meant a knockout blow for the Blaugranas. The Argentinian Paulo Gazzaniga He saved for the Gerona team, which with this victory sealed its qualification for the next Champions League.
The other thing that will remain to be defined in the four remaining dates is the title of top scorer: Dovbyk has 20 conquests, Bellingham 18 and Lewandowski 17 (like Villarreal’s Norwegian Alexander Sørloth).
Barcelona will close a season with negative numbers, taking into account that it added new frustration after losing the Spanish Super Cup with Real Madrid, being eliminated in the Copa del Rey in the quarterfinals (they lost 4-2 to Athletic Bilbao in extra time) and having fallen in the same instance of the Champions League against PSG (6-4 overall in favor of the Parisians).
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