Villarreal certified for subsequent season’s Champions League with an entertaining 3-2 win at newly-crowned La Liga champions Barcelona on Sunday.
Elsewhere Kylian Mbappe struck as Real Madrid gained 2-0 at nine-man Sevilla, whereas Leganes gave themselves an opportunity of survival with a win at Las Palmas.
Barcelona stars celebrated their twenty eighth league title on an open-top bus on Friday however Hansi Flick warned that “those who party, can work” and chosen a robust aspect.
However the guests took the lead by means of in-form striker Ayoze Perez, who slotted previous Marc-Andre ter Stegen after Nicolas Pepe set him up.
Lamine Yamal, who scored an important objective as Barca clinched the league on Thursday at Espanyol, scored one other stunner to degree.
The 17-year-old breezed previous two defenders and arrowed a shot into the far backside nook.
Yamal hit the bar earlier than Fermin Lopez despatched Barca forward, walloping house from the sting of the field.
Santi Comesana lofted over Ter Stegen to equalise for the guests, who nosed in entrance by means of Tajon Buchanan within the eightieth minute.
Barca fell to their first house defeat of 2025 and likewise their first league reverse this yr, however chants of “champions” rang across the Olympic stadium, on probably the crew’s final sport there earlier than a return to the renovated Camp Nou subsequent season.
The home treble winners had been offered with the league trophy on the finish of the sport.
Villarreal booked their return to Europe’s high competitors as they opened up an enormous hole on Real Betis, sixth, as they had been thrashed 4-1 at Atletico Madrid.
Julian Alvarez scored two and created one other as Diego Simeone’s aspect, third, ran out snug winners.
French famous person Mbappe netted his twenty ninth league objective of the season to assist Real Madrid to a slim win over nine-man Sevilla in coach Carlo Ancelotti’s penultimate match on the helm.
Loic Bade’s twelfth minute purple card for knowledgeable foul on Mbappe set again the hosts, after which Isaac Romero was dismissed firstly of the second half for a excessive sort out on Aurelien Tchouameni.
Eventually the division’s high scorer Mbappe drilled house Madrid’s opener from vary and Jude Bellingham nabbed a second from shut vary late on.
At the underside of the desk Leganes took their battle for survival to the final day of the season with a 1-0 win at downed Las Palmas, due to Dani Raba’s early strike.
The Madrid minnows, 18th, are two factors from security and face relegated Real Valladolid of their final sport.
Espanyol’s 2-0 defeat by Osasuna leaves them in peril of the drop and the Catalan aspect, seventeenth, welcome Las Palmas subsequent weekend realizing a win would maintain them up.
Source: www.anews.com.tr