Barcelona snapped the title by one point; amassing a total of 91 while second-place Real Madrid had 90 points.
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Ronaldo’s heroics were not enough to Real, who lost out on the chance to win La Liga on the final day of the season.
Hundreds of fans from both teams invaded the pitch as players struggled to find their way off the pitch.
With that said, he wasn’t looking at Barcelona or Atletico Madrid, he knew the focus had to be Real Madrid and just ensuring we picked up another victory.
Barcelona holds a one-point advantage and the tiebreaker over Madrid, so the team coached by Zinedine Zidane needs to beat Deportivo and hope Barcelona drops points to add to its record 32 titles. The former Ballon d’Or victor, who took over from Rafa Benitez in January, has also guided Real Madrid to the Champions League final.
The defending champions have won their past four matches, finding the net 21 times without conceding, after a run of four matches without a victory flung the title race wide open.
Luis Enrique lead Barcelona to the treble last season, winning in the process five trophies. It was his 34th league goal of the season and 50th of the season.
Luis Enrique also said he would not pay any attention to events in Coruna. “We’re all a bit disappointed, but in the end, after 38 matches, you have to recognize that Barcelona is ahead and we can’t change it”, Zidane said afterward. “Now we just have to put it away by beating Granada”. We can do things well and know that if we win the three points we can hope. “We’ll work for these next [14] days to arrive well at a game that will be very tough”.
But Atletico’s stunning 2-1 loss at already relegated Levante meant that it slipped back to third position behind city rival Real, which overcame Valencia 3-2 at the Santiago Bernabeu. “They’re going to make things hard but we’ll focus on what we have to do”.
The most notable top 10 absentees include Borussia Dortmund (11th on the list), Paris Saint-Germain (13th) and this year’s Champions League finalists Atletico Madrid (15th).
There is no doubting whatsoever that the wonderful trio of Luis Suarez, Lionel Messi and Neymar will be starting in attack.
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Real got off to an ideal start at Deportivo when Gareth Bale manoeuvred his way past a defender on the left and cut the ball back to Karim Benzema who squared it for Ronaldo to score in the seventh minute.
