Barcelona beat Espanyol 4-2 within the derby on Sunday evening to clinch their first LaLiga title in 4 years and a primary since Lionel Messi left the membership in 2021.
Xavi’s facet wanted simply two factors to clinch the title, which meant a win on the RCDE Stadium would seal their twenty seventh LaLiga crown and Robert Lewandowski scored twice both facet of an Alejandro Balde effort because the Blaugrana went three targets up earlier than half-time.
Defender Jules Kounde made it 4-0 to Barça eight minutes into the second half of a one-sided contest and though Javi Puado pulled one again for the house facet in a while and Joselu netted in added time, there was solely ever going to be one winner.
The Blaugrana have clinched the title with 4 rounds remaining and will but end the season with 97 factors, three fewer than the report of 100 set by Jose Mourinho’s Actual Madrid in 2011-12 and Tito Vilanova’s Barça the next season.
It’s a twenty seventh league title for the Catalan membership and a primary since they gained it in 2018-19 below Ernesto Valverde.
Messi was additionally nonetheless at Camp Nou on the time and that is Barça’s first main silverware since he left in 2021.
Earlier this season, Barça beat rivals Actual Madrid in Saudi Arabia to say their first trophy below Xavi.
In the meantime, Espanyol stay in hassle on the incorrect finish of the desk, second to backside and 4 factors adrift of Seventeenth-placed Actual Valladolid with 4 rounds remaining.
