Villarreal dampen Barcelona's title celebrations

Villarreal have dampened Barcelona's title celebrations by handing the Catalan club their first defeat of 2025 in the Spanish league.
Barcelona, who clinched their 28th league title midweek, presented the trophy to their fans in the team's final home match of the season at Montjuic stadium on Sunday.
Players were announced one by one after the game, which Villarreal won 3-2, before lifting the trophy. Barcelona's Spanish Super Cup and Copa del Rey trophies also were displayed at Montjuic.
"We can be proud of this team for winning these titles and for how it did it," Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen said. "We had a great season in all levels."
Real Madrid won 2-0 at nine-man Sevilla, with Kylian Mbappé extending his league-leading tally to 29 goals with one round to go. Madrid reached 81 points, four fewer than Barcelona.
Villarreal's victory secured their return to the Champions League for the first time since reaching the semi-finals in 2022.
They will join Barcelona, Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Athletic Bilbao in Europe's top club competition next season. Spain will have five clubs in the Champions League next season.
Real Betis clinched one of the Europa League spots. Celta Vigo, Rayo Vallecano and Osasuna will be chasing the final Europa League place and the Conference League spot.
Leganes and Espanyol will try to avoid the last relegation spot in the final round when Leganes is at last-placed Valladolid and Espanyol face relegated Las Palmas.
Barcelona, Madrid, Atletico and Athletic will play in next year's lucrative Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia.
All 10 games were played at the same time on Sunday.
Barcelona hadn't lost in the league since a 2-1 defeat against Atletico on December 21, with 15 wins and two draws since then.
Ayoze Pérez put Villareal ahead after a breakaway four minutes into the match. The hosts equalised when teenager Lamine Yamal curled in a left-footed shot from outside the area.
Fermín López put Barcelona ahead in first-half stoppage time, but Santiago Comesaña scored for Villarreal in the 50th and Tajon Buchanan netted the winner in the 80th.
Mbappé strengthened his chances of finishing as the league's top scorer this season with a goal from a low shot from outside the area in the 75th for Real Madrid.
Mbappé now has 29 league goals. Barcelona's Robert Lewandowski (25 goals) is his nearest rival.
Leganes kept their survival hopes alive by winning 1-0 at Las Palmas with a sixth-minute goal by Dani Raba.
They are two points behind the first team outside the relegation zone, Espanyol, who remained in danger after a 2-0 loss at Osasuna.
Alaves escaped the drop by winning 1-0 at Valladolid, while Getafe did the same by beating Mallorca 2-1.
Celta Vigo lost 2-1 at home to Rayo Vallecano but hold the final Europa League spot in seventh place. They are one point ahead of both eighth-placed Rayo — in the Conference League position — and ninth-placed Osasuna.
The top two teams in the league and the Copa del Rey finalists are awarded places in the Spanish Super Cup. Since this season's final was between Barcelona and Madrid, two other spots were made available through the league.
Third-placed Atletico guaranteed their spot with a 4-1 win over Betis with Julián Álvarez scoring twice, Fourth-placed Athletic Bilbao won 1-0 at Valencia with a goal by Álex Berenguer.
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