They have been the great dominators of football in the Spanish League this season and both can be crowned this Saturday. Real Madrid in the men’s championship and Barça in the women’s championship already have the alirón in sight. Of course, the white team does not depend on itself to be crowned quickly, and the Barcelona players, on the other hand, will be champions simply by winning their match.
Madrid receives Cádiz at the Bernabéu. Barça visits Granada. Ancelotti’s team needs to overcome a rival distressed by the scythe of relegation and hope that the Barcelona men’s side does not prevail in Girona. Therefore, if Madrid are champions this afternoon, they will not be able to celebrate on the pitch, but they would remain very calm before hosting Bayern in the Champions League next Wednesday. After the 2-2 in Munich, the Madrid team will use all possible strength because they know that their 36th League title will fall under its own weight. It’s just a matter of time.
That is why rotations are expected in Ancelotti’s team, with minutes for Arda Güler and Eder Militão. What the Italian coach did confirm is the return of Thibaut Courtois to the white goal. The Belgian tore the cruciate ligaments in his left knee in August and was about to reappear when he suffered meniscus problems in his right knee. “Alright. He is going to play after a long time,” Ancelotti acknowledged at a press conference. “It is very good news for us that he is returning. He is very excited. “We are all delighted that he can return,” added the coach. Ancelotti announced that Lunin will play against Bayern and that he will be seen later. He did not want to get involved in which goalkeeper would start in a hypothetical Champions League final, so the debate will remain open. Nothing that has meant a trauma for Madrid, since at the time Ancelotti also alternated between Kepa and Lunin. The leader has managed to overcome Courtois’ loss throughout the season in a very solvent way, as he has only conceded 22 goals in 33 games and is by far the team with the fewest goals conceded in the category.
As is the indomitable Barcelona in the F League. Giráldez’s team faces a Granada team tonight that has yet to certify his salvation. The Blaugrana, who have won 24 of the 25 league games and have only conceded eight goals, face the match as the option to win the first of the three titles they aspire to this month of May. The League, the Cup final, which they will play in La Romareda on May 18 against Real Sociedad, and the Champions League final against Olympique Lyon, which they will play on May 25 in Bilbao. If they do everything, they will complete the perfect season, since they have already won the Spanish Super Cup. A triplet would not be unprecedented, but a poker would. What they would achieve today with a victory would be the fifth consecutive title in the League. A supremacy that seems to have no end.
