Diego Simone’s side, Atletico Madrid missed to seal La Liga title at home with a win over Malaga as draw prolonged the question of the new league champion to the last game which will be played at Camp Nou.
Atletico against Malaga from the 66th minute was behind as Samuel Garcia finded the net , but one point to Simeone’s side brought Toby Alderweireld eight minutes later . From the 86th minute Malaga played without Marcos Angeleri who was sent off , but the Los Rojiblanco failed to take advantage of it to win and seal the title.
Barcelona away at Elche had even 72 percent of the ball possession, but Messi and company failed to score. This was the tenth consecutive home game in which Elche did not lose.
Real Madrid surprisingly lost away to Celta 2-0 and both goals in the meeting has scored Charles. Two previous consecutive draws prcatically kicked Los Blancos out of the race for the title, which team from Vigo used to enter their last this season’s home win.
The gap between the leading two teams, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona is 3 points, and the new winner will be decided at Camp Nou. Match is simple here, Barcelona needs to win or otherwise Atletico Madrid would become a new league winner.
La liga, round 37
Atletico Madrid – Malaga 1:1 (Alderweireld 74 / Garcia 66)
Celta – Real Madrid 2:0 (Charles 43, 64)
Elche – Barcelona 0:0
Espanyol – Osasuna 1:1 (Colotto 21 / Acuna 44)
Getafe – Sevilla 1:0 (Escudero 70)
Granada – Almeria 0:2 (Verza 11-m, Parreu 83-11m)
Betis – Valladolid 4:3 (Pena 6-ag, Molina 54, Martin 76, Juanfran 90 / Guerra 1, 59-11m, Pena 51-11m)
Athletic (B) – Real (S) 1:1 (Muniain 49 / Agirretxe 75)
League table ahead of the last round
1. Atletico Madrid 37 28 5 4 76-25 +51 89
2. Barcelona 37 27 5 5 99-32 +67 86
3. Real Madrid 37 26 6 5 101-37 +64 84
4. Athletic Bilbao 37 20 9 8 66-39 +27 69
5. Sevilla 37 17 9 11 66-51 +15 60
6. Real Sociedad 37 16 11 10 61-53 +8 59
7. Villarreal 37 16 8 13 58-43 +15 56
8. Celta Vigo 37 14 7 16 48-52 -4 49
9. Levante 37 12 12 13 35-42 -7 48
10. Valencia 37 12 10 15 49-52 -3 46
11. Rayo Vallecano 37 13 4 20 45-78 -33 43
12. Espanyol 37 11 9 17 40-48 -8 42
13. Malaga 37 11 9 17 38-46 -8 42
14. Elche 37 9 13 15 29-47 -18 40
15. Almeria 37 11 6 20 43-71 -28 39
16. Getafe 37 10 9 18 33-53 -20 39
17. Granada 37 11 5 21 31-56 -25 38
18. Osasuna 37 9 9 19 30-61 -31 36
19. Valladolid 37 7 15 15 38-59 -21 36
20. Real Betis 37 6 7 24 35-76 -41 25