FC Barcelona's Luis Alberto Suarez from Uruguay celebrates in the wake of scoring against Granada amid a Spanish La Liga soccer match amongst Granada and Barcelona at Los Carmenes stadium in Granada, Spain, Saturday, May 14, 2016.
With Barcelona sticking to a one-point lead in the La Liga table over adversary Real Madrid, Saturday was set up for an emotional completion to the title race in Spain. Yet, in the event that we're being straightforward, the last matches of the season for Barca and Real were only conventions to another household crown for the Catalans.
There was no chance Granada was going to play spoiler against Barcelona, which required a street triumph or a Real draw or misfortune at Deportivo La Coruna with a specific end goal to secure. Luis Suarez ensured it. The Uruguayan stowed a cap trap to secure Barcelona's 24th La Liga title in a 3-0 triumph, making Real's 2-0 win at Depor (and Cristiano Ronaldo's prop) disputable.
Suarez additionally secured the Pichichi Trophy as La Liga's top scorer, completing with 40 alliance objectives to surpass Ronaldo's 35. Any early Ballon d'Or talk must start with Suarez, who has been Barcelona's rock and has scored a mind blowing 59 objectives in all rivalries this season.
His second objective of the day, coming shorty after Ronaldo scored his second, was a wondrous thing and made conceivable by a fabulous pullback by Dani Alves.
Two months prior, Barcelona looked bound to accomplish a notable treble with the first-ever Champions League title rehash. Be that as it may, late-season weariness brought on sudden and inconvenient battles. And after that enemy Atletico Madrid sent Barca slamming out of the Champions League in the quarterfinals.
Frustration may in any case be waiting among Barcelona supporters. Supervisor Luis Enrique, in his postgame question and answer session, just saw the positives.
"There were numerous weeks in the lead position, numerous weeks playing great football," Enrique said. "[In winning La Liga] you are remunerated for consistency, you make into note of the whole season. This group knows how to overcome troublesome minutes.
"We are extremely cheerful for all the Barcelona fans. We endured a considerable measure of troublesome minutes. Also, we have an opportunity to win another title [in the Copa del Rey final]."
Enrique reminded everybody exactly how prevailing Barcelona has been locally. Barca has now won six of the last eight La Liga titles.
"Which lets you know the club has a triumphant element," Enrique said. "You need to esteem that."
"You need to praise these minutes," he included.
After the last shriek on Saturday, Enrique and his players did only that.
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