Before traveling to Espanyol's RCDE Stadium, Barcelona had temporarily been reduced to 11 points by second-placed Real Madrid. Previously, in the early match on May 14, the "White Vultures" had a comfortable 1-0 victory over Getafe.
Given the importance of the match, coach Xavi fielded his strongest squad. After the referee blew the whistle, Blaugrana immediately pressed forward to the opponent's half to gain an advantage.
Not letting the fans wait long, in the 11th minute of the match, left-back Balde made a run, he passed Oscar Gil before passing to Lewandowski to score from close range, opening the score of the match.
In the 20th minute, after a delicate pass from midfielder Pedri, defender Balde directly put his name on the scoreboard with an easy tap-in, raising the score to 2-0 for the "Catalan" team.
Before the first half ended, the score was 3-0 for Barcelona when striker Lewandowski completed his double in the match after Raphinha's assist. Notably, with 2 goals scored in this match, the Polish striker has scored 21 goals, continuing to top the "bombing" list of La Liga and 4 goals ahead of the second-placed Benzema of Real Madrid. At the same time, by scoring 21 goals after only 30 appearances for Barcelona in La Liga, Lewandowski also became the 4th fastest player to reach 20 goals in this tournament in the 21st century, after Julio Baptista in 2004 (30 matches), Radamel Falcao in 2012 (26 matches) and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2010 (24 matches).
Lewandowski is still leading the scoring list in La Liga with 21 goals.
In the second half, Barcelona continued to attack and Jules Kounde did not take too much time to increase the score to 4-0 in the 53rd minute of the match. The two goals scored by Javier Puado and Joselu for the home team in the 73rd and 90+2 minutes respectively were only honorary.
With a resounding 4-2 away win, Barcelona officially became the Spanish champions with 4 rounds to go. This is also their first championship title since the 2018-2019 season and the 27th time in history that the club has won La Liga. Coach Xavi's team has 85 points, 14 points ahead of the second-placed Real Madrid with only 4 rounds left in the tournament.
Barcelona has officially been crowned La Liga champions 4 rounds early.
As for Espanyol, they have now gone 26 consecutive derbies without a win against Barcelona in La Liga (drawn 7, lost 19). They are also in the relegation zone with only 31 points, 4 points away from the safe zone.
In the next round, Barcelona will host Real Sociedad on May 20. Meanwhile, Espanyol will continue their relegation battle with a trip to Rayo Vallecano one day later.
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