BARCELONA – After the sharpest victory of recent times, after an awkward night as he could not have imagined, Barcelona achieved the impossible. Unthinkable as he closed the first round ten points behind Atlético Madrid, even with one more game in mid-January, Barça’s comeback, bolstered by the mattress collapse, put him just one point behind this Monday, with nine games to play. from Simeone and dependent on itself to conquer the League. Atlético, Barça and Real Madrid will play for the title (it’s a utopia that Sevilla could organize options) with the first two without having to look at anyone else, enough to ensure their results become champions while the team from Zidane, who will host Barcelona in Valdebebas on Saturday, would still need at least one defeat for the rojiblancos in addition to winning their matches, given that the goal average between them is favorable.
The last ten games, since the beginning of the month of February, are the ones that changed the rankings. The month of January ended with Atlético de Madrid beating Cádiz (2-4) and, by one game less, ten points ahead of Barcelona (they defeated Athletic 2-1) and Real Madrid (defeated by Levante 1-2 in Valdebebas ). From there, the mattress collapse was, is, a reality, mixed with the regularity of merengue and especially the start 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, sacked, reached 25 out of 27 and won. eight games and only one draw, at Camp Nou against Cádiz. All this, until Monday’s victory against Valladolid, in a superb run of 19 matches (a full round) without knowing a defeat and only producing three draws (Valencia, Eibar and Cádiz) for 51 of the last 57 points you disputed to add.
In the same space, taking into account the days intervened for postponement, Atlético added 40 points
Thus, La Liga, conceived as rojiblanca in mid-January, begins its final leg, in the last nine dates, with a draw that was not suspected three months ago and with a classic on the horizon, on Saturday, which is not so decisive. yes transcendental in the battle for the championship.