Barcelona Clinches La Liga Title with Derby Win at Espanyol
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Sulaiman
- . May 16, 2025
- . Update: May 16, 2025 2:16 pm
With a 2-0 win over Espanyol, Barcelona ensured they would be La Liga champions in 2024-25. This win is their 28th league title, making them champions again, and it also helped them finish another set of trophies in Spain. The breakthrough came in the 53rd minute when teenage player Lamine Yamal kicked the ball really hard from far out and scored a goal with it going right into the top corner. Fermin Lopez put Barcelona up for good in the last minutes, helping them move seven points ahead of Real Madrid before the season ends.
Head coach Hansi Flick has made Barcelona good at attacking this season, and the team is nearly ready to score 100 goals in the league. This win means Real Madrid have now won the La Liga championship for the second time in six years and, by a strange twist of fate, they did it at Espanyol’s stadium, which is the same place where they won six years ago.
The match wasn’t without drama:
- Espanyol fans had to deal with a traffic accident before the game when a car crashed into the crowd near the stadium, but luckily no one was seriously hurt.
- The hosts tried to go ahead in the first half by making counter-attacks, but Wojciech Szczesny was able to save one great chance taken by Javi Puado.
- Yamal was on the receiving end of a red card given to Espanyol’s Leandro Cabrera for elbowing him.
- Stadium staff turned on the sprinklers after the match so that Barcelona’s players could do a mini-celebration.
Barcelona won the title when they beat Real Madrid 4-3 on Sunday, leaving them without a chance to win the Champions League this season.
