Spanish La Liga

Goals Scored:: 37

May 19, 2017

Granada               1-2           Espanyol

Andreas Pereira 22’                              Léo Baptistão 3’

                                                                 Ruben Vezo 8’(o.g)

Bottom of the table and a home defeat was how Granada left La Liga.

May 20, 2017

Sporting Gijon     2-2     Real Betis

Douglas 7’                                              Ruben Castro 22’ 59’

Carlos Carmona 79’

Relegated Sporting Gijon avoided a defeat at home to Real Betis in the final match of the season.

Deportivo La Coruna     3-0    Las Palmas

Florin Andone 4’ 28’

Carles Gil 39’

It was 5 straight league defeats for Las Palmas as they were demolished in the first half by Deportivo La Coruna.

Leganes                1-1          Alaves

David Timor Copovi 89’                         Nenad Krsticic 64’

Leganes got a late goal to make sure there wasn’t a defeat at home to end their season.

Sevilla                5-0           Osasuna

Vitolo 10’ 80’

Franco Vazquez 20’ 60’

Stevan Jovetic 35’

As expected, it was a convincing home victory for Sevilla when relegated Osasuna came to visit.

May 21, 2017

Valencia        1-3          Villarreal

Nani 54’                                      Roberto Soldado 1’

                                                    Manuel Trigueros 58’

                                                    Nicola Sansone 88’

Valencia could not extend their two-match winning streak to end the season.

Atletico Madrid      3-1      Athletic Club

Fernando Torres 8’ 11’                            Inaki Williams 71’

Angel Correa 89’

Fernando Torres contributed two early goals to help Atletico Madrid close out on Estadio Vicente Calderon with a victory over Athletic Club.

Celta Vigo        2-2         Real Sociedad

Iago Aspas 54’(pen)                            Mikel Oyarzabal 82’

Andrew Hjulsager 90’                        Junami 90’+4”

It was a thrilling 2-2 draw between Celta Vigo and Real Sociedad.

Barcelona           4-2         Eibar

David Junca 63’(o.g)                             Takashi Inui 7’ 61’

Luis Suarez 73’

Lionel Messi 75’(pen) 90’+2’

Lionel Messi scored two goals to finish as the top scorer for the 2016/17 La Liga season (37 goals).

It was looking like one another one of those games when Barcelona was going to fail to hit their necessary target.

It was a victory at the end for FC Barcelona. An ideal way to end their season and say goodbye to their coach Luis Enrique.  

But as most of us expected, a victory wasn’t going to be enough to help Barcelona defend their league title. 

Málaga         0-2      Real Madrid

                                                     Cristiano Ronaldo 2’

                                                  Karim Benzema 55’

Congratulations to REAL MADRID! The 2016/17 Spanish La Liga Champions!!

Two early goals in each half was how Real Madrid settled all nervousness and danced towards a 33rd league title.

Real Madrid needed to avoid an away defeat to clinch the league title. With Madrid’s current form, this was an easy game to call.