MADRID.- He Real Madrid sang the alirón as the new monarch of the Spanish League on Saturday thanks to the fact that Barcelona They succumbed 4-2 on their visit to Girona.
The meringues had done their part after beating Cádiz 3-0 hours before; They went home with the opportunity to win their 36th Spanish football crown if Barça did not get a victory at the Montilivi Stadium.
Real Madrid conquers the title by having 87 points, after having gone 28 days without defeat (22 wins and six draws); displaces Barça as champion of Spain.
Now Girona – classified for the next Champions League with its victory – is the runner-up with 74 points, one more than Barcelona with four games remaining and the definition of one of the teams that will go to the Super Cup next year. Spain in Arabia.
The meringues set off the alarm about a potential coronation after Brahim Díaz (51 minutes), Jude Bellingham (68) and Joselu (90+3) scored the goals in the rout against the Cádiz team.
For Madrid, goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois had a sweet return to the field with his debut this season after having suffered a rupture of the cruciate ligament in his left knee during the preseason. The Belgian figured in an action in which he prevented his team from being at a disadvantage.
For their part, the Blaugranas were unable to maintain the advantage on a couple of occasions. They first went ahead with a goal from Andreas Christensen after three minutes.
Artem Dovbyk equalized for the hosts immediately at four, to reach 21 goals on the course and establish himself as the scoring leader.
Robert Lewandowski once again put the culés in front, with a penalty in the first minute of compensation before the break.
In the second half, the culés collapsed after a double from Portu (65 and 74) and the same from Miguel Gutiérrez (67).
Girona once again repeated a victory with a score of 4-2 against Barça after what they had achieved in the first round at the Montjuic stadium.
Real Madrid remained calm:
Despite the opportunity to be crowned, Italian strategist Carlo Ancelotti had ruled out after his match that the team would wait for Barcelona’s result to go celebrate the title with its fans at the Cibeles Fountain.
“We have to be patient, wait because Wednesday is very close and we have to recover, rest to bring out our best version,” said Ancelotti, ruling out a team celebration if they were crowned on this day. “It doesn’t matter to me whether it’s today or next Sunday, we deserved to win this league and we have to reach it whenever it is.”
Madrid will show off their new league title in front of their fans on Wednesday when they host Bayern Munich in the second leg of their European Champions League semi-final series, a match that is tied 2-2 after the first leg in Germany.
Source: AP
