Barcelona can clinch La Liga title with a win and another stumble by Real
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona could clinch a second straight La Liga title this weekend if it maintains its winning form and Real Madrid endures another stumble.
Barcelona leads Madrid by 11 points with five games left. If Barcelona wins at Osasuna on Saturday, then Madrid must also win at Espanyol on Sunday to prolong the title race for at least one more round.
If everything goes Barcelona’s way this weekend then it will host Real Madrid in a clasico in the following game as the newly crowned champion.
While Hansi Flick is on the cusp of a third major title (including the 2025 Copa del Rey) in his two years in charge of Barcelona, Madrid is facing a second straight season without a major piece of silverware.
Barcelona is running away with the domestic title. It has won nine straight in La Liga, a domestic winning run marred only by a loss to Atletico Madrid in the Champions League quarterfinals.
Barcelona can’t expect an easy victory in Pamplona, however.
Ninth-placed Osasuna has lost only twice at its El Sadar Stadium this season and is on a run of 10 straight home matches without defeat.
Madrid, meanwhile, has only one win its last six games across all competitions as it limps to the finish of a disappointing season in which Xabi Alonso was fired and — barring a drastic change of events — Álvaro Arbeloa will also be ousted in the offseason.
Espanyol has been in an even bigger rut than Madrid.
Espanyol was in fifth place at the start of 2026 but it has yet to win this year — an astonishing run of 16 games — and fallen into the large group of teams trying to avoid relegation.
Atletico Madrid plays at Valencia on Saturday before Diego Simeone’s team visits Arsenal next week with their Champions League semifinal poised after a 1-1 first-leg draw.
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约瑟夫·威尔逊，美联社