Barcelona on Saturday won its second straight
Spanish league title after defeating Granada 3-0, with a hat trick by Luis
Suarez.
The result concluded a five-game winning streak
that allowed the Catalan club to finish one point ahead of Real Madrid, which
had 90 points from 38 games.
Madrid defeated Deportivo 2-0 in La Coruna with two
goals by Cristiano Ronaldo, but it needed Barcelona to stumble to clinch its
first title since 2012.
After the final whistle in Granada, Barcelona
players formed a circle near the benches and jumped up and down while chanting
“Campeones, Campeones.”
Hundreds of fans from both teams invaded the pitch
as players struggled to find their way off the pitch.
Barcelona, which finished with 91 points, has won
six of the last eight Spanish league titles, and eight of the last 12. It has
24 trophies in total, eight less than Real Madrid, the league’s most successful
club.
Saturday’s win helped Barcelona avoid what would
have been a disastrous title loss after it led Madrid by 12 points with nine
rounds to go.
The title is a deserved consolation for the club
that crashed out of the Champions League in the quarter-final, losing to
Atletico Madrid.
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