BARCELONA – After the tightest victory in recent times, of an uncomfortable night as he could not suspect, Barcelona achieved the impossible. Unthinkable when he closed the first round ten points behind Atlético Madrid, even with one more game in mid-January, the Barça comeback, supported by the fall of the mattress, placed him this Monday, with nine days to play – at a single point of the team of Simeone and depending on himself to conquer the League. Atlético, Barça and Real Madrid will play for the title (a utopia is understood that Sevilla could host options) with the first two without having to look at anyone else, enough to ensure their results to be champions while the team Zidane, Who will receive Valdebebas in Barcelona on Saturday, would still need, in addition to winning their matches, at least one defeat of the mattresses, given that the goal average between the two is favorable.
The last ten games, since the beginning of February, are the ones that gave this round to the classification. The month of January closed with Atlético de Madrid winning in Cádiz (2-4) and, with one game less, leading by ten points in Barcelona (won 2-1 at Athletic) and Real Madrid (defeated by the East 1- 2 in Valdebebas). From here, the mattress collapse was, is, a reality, mixed with the meringue regularity and, above all, the Barça take-off.
Atlético have added 16 of their last 30 points, with four wins, four draws and two defeats, while Real Madrid added 23 of 27 points thanks to seven wins and two draws and Barcelona, shot, came 25 of 27 , winning 8 matches and drawing just one, at the Camp Nou against Cadis. All this, until this Monday’s victory against Valladolid, in a superb streak of 19 matches (a full round) without losing and losing only three draws (Valencia, Eibar and Cádiz) to add 51 of the last 57 points he has contested.
In this same space, attending the days interposed by postponements, the Athletic one added 40 points
Thus, the League, which in mid-January was understood to be white and red, enters the final stretch, in the last nine dates, with an unsuspected equality three months ago and with a Classic on the horizon, Saturday, which is adventure if not decisive if transcendental in the fight for the championship.