Real Sociedad defeated Real Betis to book a spot for the Europa League, consequently sending them down.
• Girona got third place ever in the Spanish league and qualified for a Champions League spot.
- The Catalans ended in second place in the league and took a place in the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia.
Real Sociedad's 2-0 victory over Real Betis relegated them to the Europa League. In their home stadium, the Metropolitano, Atletico Madrid suffered a 4-1 defeat against Osasuna, who ended up in the middle of the standings.
Madrid won a valuable second place in the Spanish league by defeating Rayo Vallecano by a score of 3-0 on Sunday. Meanwhile, league winner Real Madrid was held to 4-4 by Villarreal. For the home team, Norwegian striker Alexander Sorloth scored all four goals.
Cadiz drew 0-0 at home to Las Palmas to become the penultimate team to go down to the second division. It means they will have nothing to play for in the final round next weekend.
Real Sociedad won against Real Betis to take away from them the chance to participate in the Europa League and closed the curtain with the last remaining place for itself..
Pedri scored twice and Robert Lewandowski scored once for Barcelona, which kept a four-point advantage over Girona with one round remaining in the competition. Girona is Barcelona's major challenger. Having defeated Valencia by a score of 3-1, Girona achieved their first ever third-place finish in the Spanish league. Before the tournament began, they had already clinched a spot in the Champions League.
Atletico Madrid will finish in fourth place after suffering a 4-1 defeat at the hands of Osasuna, who are now in the middle of the table.
The second is in Barcelona.
Lewandowski scored the first goal for Barcelona in the third minute, and Pedri added goals in the 72nd and 75th minutes, allowing Barcelona to claim second place and a position in the lucrative Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia.That was a fourth win in five games for Barcelona against the same opponent.
Quedaron como equipo clasificado para la final tanto de la Copa del Rey como para el Madrid, y de cara al próximo curso tendrán su revancha con el Athletic de Bilbao y Mallorca en la Super Cup.
A day after Xavi refuted a series of allegations published on Spanish media sites, the team achieved success. The allegations stated that the Barcelona administration is considering firing the coach because they believe that the club's lack of proper financial resources will prevent it from competing with Madrid.
Xavi explained, saying that the situation was the same. In my view, I will talk to the president tomorrow or the day after. To come second we had to win and we have done that.
Chants in favor of Xavi and against Laporta were sung throughout most of the game by a handful of spectators on Sunday.
Rayo is now sitting in sixteenth place.
Sorloth's doing good.
Down 3-0 at half after all of Madrid's goals, Villarreal's Sorloth managed to tie it singlehandedly with one goal in the first half and three in the second, leaving Villarreal in ninth place.
In preparation for the Champions League final match against Borussia Dortmund, which will take place in London on June 1, Madrid fielded a group consisting mostly of reserve players. Arda Guler scored twice, and Joselu and Lucas Vázquez each added a goal with their respective contributions.
Madrid captured its 36th league title three rounds earlier.
There was a protest of CADIZ.
For the first time since the 2019–20 season, Cadiz had to beat Las Palmas to avoid relegation to the second division.
Video review ruled out a goal for Cadiz, which had won only two matches in a row, for offside in the first half and sent defender Victor Chust off with a straight red card in the 74th minute. Cadiz came from two straight wins.
In the years before its promotion to the first division in the 2020–21 season, Cadiz had spent fourteen consecutive seasons in the lower divisions, including seven years in the third division.
Before Sunday's games, Almeria and Granada had already gone down.
SEVENTH SOCIEDAD A.
Betis, coached by Manuel Pellegrini, lost to Sociedad, which clinched the last Europa League place.
For Sociedad, which has won three of the last four, Brais Mendez and Mikel Merino scored first-half goals.
Athletic Bilbao clinched the other Europa League place with a 2-0 win at Sevilla. Sevilla was 13th.
In other matches, Celta Vigo beat relegation-bound Granada 2–1, while 17th-place Mallorca drew Almeria 2–2.
