First-half goals from Pedro Rodriguez and an own goal by Marc Valiente were enough to keep the champions on track. Photo / AP
Barcelona celebrated lifting the La Liga trophy for a 22nd time with a 2-1 win over Valladolid yesterday at a rain-lashed Camp Nou.
The wet conditions resulted in the lowest attendance for a Barca home league match this season as 56,055 filled the 99,354-capacity ground.
First-half goals from Pedro Rodriguez
and an own goal by Marc Valiente were enough to keep the champions on track to match Real Madrid's league record of 100 points before Victor Perez's penalty halved the deficit a minute from time.
Club captain Carles Puyol left it to manager Tito Vilanova and Eric Abidal, who have missed large parts of the season because of a cancerous saliva gland and a liver transplant respectively, to lift the trophy as a reward for all the health problems they have had to overcome off the field this season.
"It has been a difficult year, but we have won the league and the best thing is that Tito and Abidal are with us," said Puyol.
