Analysing Champions League qualification scenarios in Europe's top 5 leagues 

#2 La Liga

With Champions League already secured, which Madrid side will finish as the 'best of the rest'?

Qualified: Barcelona (champions), Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid, Valencia

Thankfully, La Liga spared me the pains of extrapolations and calculations as this is the only league where top four positions have already been decided.

The only thing left to fight for here is a higher position. Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are on 72 and 75 points each, but the Merengues have a game in hand over their crosstown rivals.

Valencia are fourth with 67, and the only way by which they can finish third is by winning both their remaining games and Real going down in all the 3 games left.

Los Blancos have finished outside of top three just once in the last 14 years - in 2013/14. To avoid a repeat of it this season, they'll have to win all the remaining games and hope the Rojiblancos drop some points. A second-place finish for Diego Simeone's men would mean the best finish to a La Liga season since being crowned as champions in 2014.