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Spanish Media Reacts to Real Madrid's Latest Setback in La Liga Title Race

The Spanish media no longer believes Real Madrid can win the 2015-16 La Liga title following their latest setback in Week 25, a 1-1 draw against Malaga that left the door to the Spanish title wide open for rivals Barcelona.

The Catalans battled to a 2-1 win over Las Palmas on Saturday before watching both Atletico Madrid and Real drop points. Atletico now trail the Blaugrana by eight points, while Real sit one point behind their city rivalsu2015a position from which no team has ever won the title at this stage of the season, per Marca's Javier Estepa:

Zinedine Zidane's men practically bowed out of the title race after failing to get the better of Malaga at La Rosaleda.