BARCELONA, Spain — The title belongs to Barcelona. The Champions League places are settled. What remains is a fight to escape the bottom three that involves fully half the league, with two rounds still to play.
Real Oviedo is already down. That leaves nine other clubs scrambling for the two remaining survival spots, spread across just five points in the table.
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The mathematics of survival
Rayo Vallecano sit comfortably in 10th place. Mallorca and Levante occupy the relegation zone in 18th and 19th. The gap between the m is precisely five points — meaning everything can change in one bad weekend.
Round 37 matches will kick off simultaneously on Sunday. The decisive fixture will be Mallorca's trip to Levante, where the winner likely climbs out of the drop zone while the loser heads into the final round in trouble.
Elche is level on points with both those clubs and hosts Getafe, which has nothing left to play for. Alaves, sitting 16th and just one point above the line, travels to face already-relegated Oviedo. Girona, also one point clear, visits Atletico Madrid.
Osasuna and Espanyol meet in Pamplona. Both are 13th and 14th respectively, and both sit only three points above the relegation zone. A draw would leave both still uncomfortably close.
The rest of the round
Sevilla, in 12th position but still only four points from the drop, hosts Real Madrid. Valencia, level on points with Sevilla in 11th, travels to Real Sociedad. Rayo welcomes Villarreal.
Mallorca striker Vedat Muriqi has scored 22 goals this season — just two fewer than Kylian Mbappé at Real Madrid. It has not been enough to lift his team clear of trouble.
Antoine Griezmann, Atletico's all-time leading scorer, will play his final home game at the Metropolitano. The club has announced he will leave at season's end.
Robert Lewandowski's last game at Camp Nou will come against Real Betis. The 37-year-old departs after four season s with Barcelona.
Barcelona forward Lamine Yamal is out for the remainder of the season. Real Madrid will be with out Rodrygo, Éder Militão and Arda Güler.