One down, two to go.
After breaking their Champions League quarter-final hoodoo in midweek, Barcelona's next target was wrapping up La Liga so that they could focus solely on their mouth-watering last-four tie against Liverpool.
With Atletico Madrid having reduced the Catalans lead at the top of the Primera Division to six points with a 1-0 win at Eibar on Saturday afternoon, that meant winning three games in three days: against Real Sociedad, Alaves and Levante.
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Step one has now been completed, but it was far from easy.