FC Barcelona is already cherishing the 2022-2023 League champion title with both hands. He has the trophy well tied up, in his pocket. The accounts are very clear and everything is a matter of time.
Last Tuesday, Jordi Alba's solitary goal against Osasuna in the 85th minute was celebrated in style. It was not be for lowerly. Those three points and the defeat of Real Madrid in San Sebastián left the League seen as a sentence.
Barça has 82 points and enjoys a 14-point advantage over the white team with five games remaining to play (with 15 points at stake). If Madrid won everything they have left, they would get 83 points. With these numbers and taking into account that the azulgranas have lost goal scoring against Madrid, the Catalan team only needs to add two points to win their twenty-seventh League.
Of course, Barça will not be able to sing the alirón next weekend, since the domestic competition makes a parenthesis to give all the prominence to the final of the Copa del Rey, a title that Real Madrid and Osasuna will play this Saturday, the 6th of May at the Cartuja stadium in Seville (10:00 p.m.).
All eyes are thus on the following weekend (from Friday the 12th to Monday the 15th of May). FC Barcelona plays on Sunday, May 14, against RCD Espanyol at the Cornellà-El Prat stadium (9:00 p.m.). Yes, Xavi Hernández's men could be proclaimed league champion if they are able to win the great Catalan derby, where the rival is in a dog-fighting fight not to be relegated.
It may even be the case that the culé team is champion before facing Espanyol, although it is not an easy carambola; Atlético should lose against Cádiz (matchday 33) and Elche (34) and Real Madrid lose against Getafe on Saturday, May 13.
On the contrary, if Barcelona loses against Espanyol and Real and Atlético win their commitments, they should wait another week for the coronation. Real Sociedad (matchday 35), Valladolid (36), Mallorca (37) and Celta (38) are the remaining opponents for the Catalans, but everything indicates that it will not be necessary to complete the calendar to see Barça win the domestic competition after three years of drought.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
