Last match of the season to decide La Liga title

Monday, May 10th, 2010

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Saturday night’s match was the penultimate of the season, and with a single point between Barcelona and Real Madrid and could have been decisive.

To ensure no team had any kind of advantage from knowing the result of another match, the Spanish league therefore decided all matches should be played at the same time; therefore at 21:00 across Spain on Saturday, Spanish fans were glued to their own game as well as their rivals. That meant that across Catalonia fans of FC Barcelona were keeping up to date with the Real Madrid match. And while it looked for a while like they were struggling, in the end they scored a decisive 5-1 win against Athletic Bilbao.

Meanwhile Barça were in Sevilla; and while much of the match looked like it was all going their way with goals from Messi, Bojan and Pedro, the last 20 minutes gave them a scare; two goals in the 69th and 71st minute from Sevilla meant that three points started to look far from certain.

The end result was a win from both Barça and Madrid, which means the final match of the league decide the league.

0-1, Messi (min 5)
0-2, Bojan (min 28)
0-3, Pedro (min 61)
1-3, Kanouté (min 69)
2-3, Luis Fabiano (min 71)

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1	Barcelona	37	30	6	1	94	24	96
2	Real Madrid	37	31	2	4	101	33	95
3	Valencia	37	20	8	9	58	38	68
4	Sevilla	37	18	6	13	62	47	60
5	Mallorca	37	17	8	12	57	44	59
6	Getafe	37	16	7	14	55	48	55
7	Villarreal	37	16	7	14	55	54	55
8	Athletic Bilbao	37	14	9	14	48	53	51
9	Atlético Madrid	37	13	8	16	57	58	47
10	Deportivo	37	13	8	16	35	47	47
11	Osasuna	37	11	9	17	36	45	42
12	Almería	37	10	12	15	41	52	42
13	Espanyol	37	11	11	15	29	44	44
14	Zaragoza	37	10	10	17	43	61	40
15	Sporting Gijón	37	9	13	15	36	49	40
16	Valladolid	37	7	15	15	37	58	36
17	Racing Santander	37	8	12	17	40	59	36
18	Málaga	37	7	15	15	41	47	36
19	Tenerife	37	9	9	19	40	73	36
20	Xerez	37	8	9	21	37	65	33