Lionel Messi and Co. celebrated yet another Liga title victory on
Saturday, pipping rivals Real Madrid to the post. Barcelona have won another La Liga title after beating Granada 3-0, and they have done so in some style.
The
victory marks Barca’s sixth title victory in the past eight seasons,
their 24th in total, and they have earned their latest piece of
silverware in swashbuckling fashion.
Barca, led by the fearsome
attacking triumvirate of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez, have
scored a staggering 112 goals in La Liga in 2015-16 but, amazingly, that
haul is only the third best of their time in the top-flight; they
scored 115 in 2012-13 and 114 in 2011-12.
Suarez – the third
player to score 40 goals in a league season after Messi and Cristiano
Ronaldo – netted a hat-trick as Granada were downed, his sixth hat-trick
of the season. No other player across Europe’s top five leagues has
scored more than three.
Yet, despite their imperious form Barca
have won the league with 91 points, the lowest title-winning total they
have recorded since 2008-09, when they chalked up 87 under Pep
Guardiola.
The Catalan giants are heavily indebted to the MSN
trio, too, with Suarez (40), Messi (26) and Neymar (24) scoring an
incredible 90 goals between them.
And, finally, Luis Enrique is
the seventh manager to win the two consecutive Spanish league titles,
and is the second boss to do so for Barca, after Guardiola.
source: goal.com