Real Madrid have been confirmed as La Liga champions for the 34th time after a 2-1 win against Villarreal on Thursday evening.
The club won the title for the first time since 2017 after the win over Villarreal gave them an insurmountable seven-point lead above Barcelona with one game left to play.
Madrid veterans Sergio Ramos, 34, and top scorer Karim Benzema, 32, made important contributions in the victory, while Thibaut Courtois will win the Zamora trophy for the La Liga goalkeeper with the best goals-to-games ratio.
Benzema scored both goals, one of which was a second-half penalty to wrestle La Liga back from Barcelona after two years.
There will be no title celebrations, including the traditional bus parade to the Cibeles fountain, with club and local officials asking fans to stay at home over concerns about further outbreaks of the coronavirus.
It was their 10th successive victory at home to Villarreal as coach Zinedine Zidane guided the players to his second league title as manager in his third spell at the club, having come back to a struggling team following their Champions League exit against Ajax last March.
The triumph now extends the club’s record haul to 34 league titles, eight more than Barca who had lifted the past two La Liga trophies.
Madrid will look to win another trophy this summer in the Champions League, as they try to overturn a 2-1 round-of-16 first leg deficit against Manchester City on August 7 to reach the final stages in Lisbon later that month.
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