Ancelotti sets new European record as Madrid win 35th La Liga title
Carlo Ancelotti became the first manager to win the league in all five of Europe’s major leagues as Real Madrid beat Espanyol to win La Liga. Two goals from Rodrygo and strikes from Marco Asensio and Karim Benzema confirmed Madrid’s 35th Spanish title. Real Madrid are 17 points clear of second-placed Sevilla with four games […]
Real Madrid players, coaching celebrating their La Liga title win at the Bernabeu yesterday.
Carlo Ancelotti became the first manager to win the league in all five of Europe’s major leagues as Real Madrid beat Espanyol to win La Liga.
Two goals from Rodrygo and strikes from Marco Asensio and Karim Benzema confirmed Madrid’s 35th Spanish title.
Real Madrid are 17 points clear of second-placed Sevilla with four games to play.
Ancelotti has also won titles in Italy’s Serie A, France’s Ligue 1, the Premier League in England and the German Bundesliga.
Real Madrid needed only a draw to win the title, but victory was never really in doubt once Rodrygo stroked home from just inside the area.
Ancelotti was lured back for a second spell at Madrid last summer following the departure of Zinedine Zidane, quitting Everton after 18 months at the Premier League club.
The 62-year-old won five major titles in two years at the Bernabeu between 2013 and 2015, including ‘La Decima’ – their 10th European Cup – but the Spanish title eluded him.
His first league title as a manager was with AC Milan in 2004, the club where he won the league twice as a player in the 1980s.
The Premier League with Chelsea followed in 2010, before Ancelotti lifted Ligue 1 with Paris St-Germain in 2013 and the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich in 2017.