BARCELONA – After the tightest victory in recent times, after an awkward night that he could not have suspected, Barcelona has achieved the impossible. Inconceivable when he closed the first round with ten points behind Atlético Madrid, even with another game in mid-January, the return of Barça, supported by the collapse of the mattress, placed him on Monday, with nine games to play, just one point behind . of Simeone and depending on himself to conquer the League. Atlético, Barça and Real Madrid will play for the title (it is a utopia that Sevilla could host options) with the first two without having to look at anyone else, being enough to ensure their results to be champions while the team of Zidane, who will host Barcelona in Valdebebas on Saturday, would need, in addition to winning the matches, at least one defeat for the reds, considering that the average of the goals between them is favorable.
The last ten games, since the beginning of February, are the ones that have changed the ranking. January ended with Atlético de Madrid winning in Cádiz (2-4) and, with one game less, leading by ten points to Barcelona (defeated Athletic 2-1) and Real Madrid (defeated by Levante 1-2) the Valdebebas). From there, the collapse of the mattress was, is, a reality, mixed with the regularity of the meringue and, above all, the take-off of Barcelona.
Atlético added 16 of the last 30 points, with four wins, four draws and two losses, while Real Madrid added 23 of 27 points thanks to seven wins and two draws, and Barcelona, fired, reached 25 of 27, winning eight matches and drawing only one, at the Camp Nou against Cádiz. All this, until this month’s victory against Valladolid, in a superb series of 19 games (a complete round) without knowing the defeat and yielding only three draws (Valencia, Eibar and Cádiz) to add 51 of the last 57 points that you disputed.
In the same space, taking into account the days postponed for postponements, Atlético added 40 points
Thus, La Liga, which in mid-January was understood as rojiblanca, enters its last step, in the last nine meetings, with an unsuspected tie three months ago and with a Classic on the horizon, on Saturday, which ventures if not decisively yes transcendental in the fight for the championship.