Reporter Han Bing reported that Real Madrid, which only needed 1 point to win the championship four rounds in advance, made the Bernabeu Stadium an ocean of joy with a relaxed 4-0. Although for next week's Champions League semi-final second leg, Ancelotti hid Six main players from Benzema, Vinicius, Kroos, Valverde, Carvajal and Mendy, plus the suspended Militan and the injured Alaba. Even if the back Camemiro cameo at the centre-back, this Real Madrid second team is more than enough to deal with the relegation of the carefree Spanish.
Mariano, who had been out of the game for a long time, started with Benzema, Rodrigo replaced Vinicius with Marcelo on the left, and Asensio formed an offensive and defensive passage with Vazquez on the right. Midfield veteran Modric did not have a break, Ceballos and Camaringa came on, while Due to the injury of Alaba, Militang and Nacho were suspended, and the 4th centre-back Bayejo started with Cameo Casemiro. Real Madrid do not want to wait until next weekend's Champions League semi-finals to lock up the championship trophy at the Metropolitan Stadium of atletico Madrid, but they want Simeone's players to line up to pay tribute to the new champions in accordance with tradition, which is the best "mental blow" to the sworn enemy.
The Real Madrid are determined to win, and the Espanyol army, which was similar to real Madrid's traditional philosophy and has been relegated to basic success, has no intention of fighting. Espanyol already had a poor away record, with the last time he won at the Santiago Bernabeu back in April 1996, when Laddin scored twice to give the Parrots a 2-1 win over Real Madrid. It was the 37th round that year, and Camacho led the Spaniards in 4th place, and Real Madrid only ranked 7th. After 24 visits to Madrid in La Liga, espanyol's record was 3 draws and 21 losses. Even the last goal was scored back to May 2014: it had been lost six games in a row, conceded 16 goals, and had lost nothing.
The winner was out of suspense in the first half: Brazilian youngster Rodrigo scored twice to seal the victory for the Galaxy Fleet early, and Asensio and Benzema added the icing on the cake in the second half. Wu Lei came on as a substitute for De Thomas in the 65th minute, and he only experienced the fiasco of sending Real Madrid to the championship throne, continuing the team's 26-year winless win over Real Madrid and the record of being clean sheeted in the past 8 years.
Before this campaign, only 15 players in the Real Madrid first team played more than 1,000 minutes in La Liga, and the championship should have belonged to them, but the title battle was won by 7 substitute starts. Real Madrid president Florentino visited Sporting City during his last pre-match training session and awarded players the commemorative shirts of Benzema (600 games), Rodrigo and Valverde (100 games), encouraging them to take charge of their own destiny during the most crucial week of the season.
The president of the Spanish Football Association, Rubiales, led a delegation to the Santiago Bernabeu stadium to witness the birth of the La Liga champions this season. As is customary, the president of the Football Association can award the trophy to Real Madrid after the match. The title was meaningful to both Carlo Ancelotti and Marcelo, who started: the Italian coach became the first coach to win the league in all five of Europe's major leagues, while Marcelo surpassed Hento (23), Ramos (22) and Benzema (21) to become real Madrid's most trophies winner (24).
This is the 35th La Liga title in Real Madrid's history, and in terms of the number of La Liga championship trophies, the gap between the Galactic Fleet and their sworn enemy Barca has widened to 9. This is the fourth time in Real Madrid's history that the La Liga title has been sealed in the first four rounds, the previous three times in the 1985/86, 1987/88 and 1989/90 seasons.
However, this is not the best performance in real madrid's history to win the title early. In the 2-point era, Real Madrid in the 1960/61, 1962/63 and 1974/75 seasons all locked up the championship in five rounds, and only Barca did it once (1973/74) of the other La Liga teams. The first two seasons were 16 teams and the last two were 18 teams. In the 1995/96 La Liga season, a three-point system was introduced, making it more difficult to win the title in multiple rounds earlier. In the 1997/98 season, Barca won La Liga in the 34th round, five rounds ahead of schedule, but there were 20 teams in La Liga at this time.
This is the 22nd time Real Madrid have sealed the title at home, including 20 at the Santiago Bernabeu, 1 at Chamartín (1932/33) and 1 at the Di Stefano (2019/20). This is also the second time that Real Madrid has won the La Liga title during the new crown epidemic in two years. Compared with the "irregular schedule" that was postponed by 3 months after the season two years ago, Ancelotti's team this time can be described as undisputed and worthy of the name. The trophy, which will be won sooner or later, still has enough incentives for Florentino's more important Champions League - the La Liga title is only the first set, and the Champions League trophy is the big dish that Florentino wants most.