{"id":578512,"date":"2026-04-11T20:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/578512\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T20:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:24:12","slug":"barcelona-go-9-points-clear-but-insist-laliga-title-not-won-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/578512\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona go 9 points clear but insist LaLiga title not won yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

BARCELONA — Hansi Flick says the LaLiga title is not won yet despite seeing his Barcelona<\/a> team thump Espanyol<\/a> 4-1<\/a> on Saturday to move nine points clear of Real Madrid<\/a> with just seven games to play.<\/p>\n

Ferran Torres<\/a> scored a brace and Lamine Yamal<\/a> and Marcus Rashford<\/a> were also on target at Spotify Camp Nou as Bar\u00e7a made it eight wins in a row in the league.<\/p>\n

Bar\u00e7a’s latest victory came after another Madrid slip up, with Los Blancos following up last week’s loss to Mallorca<\/a> with a draw against Girona<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

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“It’s not done yet,” Flick insisted in the post-game news conference. “Nine points is good. It is a good feeling. But we have to do our homework.<\/p>\n

“We can’t have the attitude that it’s done. That is the wrong way and I would not accept this. Until it’s done, we have to play our best.”<\/p>\n

Torres scored twice in the first half to edge Bar\u00e7a into a two-goal lead at the break in Saturday’s Catalan derby.<\/p>\n

Ferran Torres celebrates with Lamine Yamal after scoring Barcelona’s first goal against Espanyol.\u00a0Pedro Salado\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

They were the striker’s first goals since Jan. 31, ending a run of 13 games without finding the net, and he celebrated by cupping his ears in response to the criticism he has faced during that barren spell.<\/p>\n

“Of course forwards are judged by goals,” Torres told reporters. “It had been a while since I had scored, but I always believed in what I was doing and that it would yield results in the end.<\/p>\n

“There is always a lot of noise around me on the outside — more negative than positive. What I do bothers them. Sometimes things don’t come off, but it’s not down to a lack of work.”<\/p>\n

Pol Lozano<\/a> struck in the 56th minute to get Espanyol back into the game, but Yamal’s 15th LaLiga goal of the season and a late effort from Rashford sealed the points for Bar\u00e7a.<\/p>\n

After the game, supporters stayed inside the stadium chanting “Yes we can,” as attention turned to Tuesday’s Champions League quarterfinal second leg at Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Atl\u00e9tico won the first leg 2-0 at Camp Nou last Wednesday, but Flick and his players believe they can produce a comeback in Madrid.<\/p>\n

“The team is in a good mood, you can see that,” Flick added. “The atmosphere is good. The players are in a good moment.<\/p>\n

“We need the perfect game and we are able to do this. I know Atl\u00e9tico is a fantastic team, but we also have a great team.<\/p>\n

“I think everyone is ready for that. Everyone wants to show we can do this. We want to go there and put up a great fight — often games are decided by momentum and hopefully on [Tuesday] it’s ours.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BARCELONA — Hansi Flick says the LaLiga title is not won yet despite seeing his Barcelona team thump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-578512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}