The Santiago Bernabéu didn’t want to wait for Barcelona’s result and shouted, this afternoon, “champions, champions” at the top of their lungs in the last minutes of Real Madrid’s victory against Cádiz.
The title was really well underway, but not yet confirmed: to be closed this Saturday, Barça would have to not win in the trip to Girona.
Well, the blaugrana they did their rival’s bidding and Real Madrid are Spanish champions.
In a game between second and third placed, Girona won at home against Barcelona, 4-2, and the roles were reversed in the league table.
In the Catalan derby, João Cancelo was a starter in Xavi’s team and João Félix started on the bench (he came on in the second half). And the start wasn’t bad. After three minutes, Andreas Christensen, as a striker, made it 1-0 with a beautiful goal.
Seconds later, however, the home team equalized, with a goal from Artem Dovbyk.
Lewandowski once again put his culés ahead at half-time, from a penalty, but the second half was torture for Barça.
At Girona, Portu was launched in the 65th minute and changed the match. In that same minute, he equalized, after a mistake by Sergi Roberto. But he wasn’t going to stop there.
Two minutes in, Miguel Gutiérrez made it 3-2 for the team coached by Michel and at the start of the last quarter of an hour, Portu scored twice with a great goal and made it 4-2.
With this result, Girona moves up to second place, with 74 points, and is one ahead of Barça. The lead is no longer lost to Real Madrid: they have a 13-point advantage, with 12 to be played.
You meringues They regained the title two years later and reached 36 Spanish championships: now nine more than Barcelona.
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