Atletico Madrid and Villarreal have completed their 2024/25 LA Liga seasons with dominant victories with UEFA Champions League qualification.
Los Rojiblancos again finished third in the final ranking, behind champions Barcelona and Real Madrid, while the latter signed with a 2-0 home victory on Real Sociedad.
With La Liga, five places in the UCL for 2025/26, Villarreal lit in the fifth, to return to Europe's top layer next season.
Let's see how the campaign final unfolded …
The side of Diego Simeone landed in Girona with little left to play for – and the hosts who are already safe for relegation – while Leganes slid down this weekend.
A strange match in Catalonia was effectively pressed in the last 25 minutes, because the visitors scored four times after the 75 minutes.
Alexander Sorloth yielded a hat trick to bring the Norwegian international to 20 league goals in his debut campaign in the club, with his final goal of the general top scorer Julian Alvarez.
It is the second year in a row where Sorloth scored 20 league goals after 23 in his only campaign in Villarreal in 2024/25.
The yellow submarine is back in the largest competition in Europe, because they have survived a willful will with real betis in recent weeks.
Real Betis is now joining Celta Vigo in the 205/26 Europa League with Rayo Vallecano who takes the vacancy Conference League place.
The Marcelino team had the lead over a wild 4-2 victory over Seville on the last day, but they were forced to fight over the line.
Two goals on either side of the pause of Pape Gueye proved the decisive factor for Villarreal in Castellon, because they are now planning for the coming months with the Boost of Champions League money.
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