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Real Madrid have won the 2019/20 season’s Spanish La liga title following a 2-1 win over Villarreal at the Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano stadium.

The win on Thursday night gave Real Madrid an unassailable 86 points and four-point advantage with just one game left to the end of the season.

It is a record 34th league title for Real Madrid, the club’s first league title since the 2017/18 season and second in eight years.

The Los Merengues had endured third place finishes in the last two seasons after conquering Europe in the past five seasons. They however prioritised the domestic league and have met their set objective with the triumph.

Zinedine Zidane, who was the last manager to win the league title for Real, added a second one and an 11th silverware in his short coaching career.

Real Madrid won all nine games since restart of the league and made it ten games unbeaten, thanks to Benzema’s goals.

They took the lead on 29 minutes through their top scorer who scored his 20th league goal of the season. The French striker was put through on goal by Luka Modric’s slide-rule pass and he slotted beyond the keeper’s legs.

Benzema doubled the lead with his 21st goal when he dispatched a penalty kick on 75 minutes after Sergio Ramos was brought down inside the Villarreal penalty area.

Villarreal, who had Super Eagles of Nigeria’s Samuel Chukwueze on for 45 minutes before his substitution at halftime, got a goal back seven minutes from the end through Vincente Iborra’s looping header but could not influence the game further.

Real Madrid’s title win was made sweeter on the night due to Barcelona’s 1-2 loss at the Camp Nou stadium to ten-men Osasuna. Lionel Messi’s free kick goal was not enough to save the Catalans who conceded a last-minute goal to hand mid-table Osasuna a famous win.