Real Madrid vs Barcelona: Six times when La Liga's leader lost the title on the last day

#5. Real Madrid lost out to Barcelona... again

Romario (seen here in action against AC Milan in the UCL) was on fire in LaLiga

The year?

1992-93

What happened?

It is said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Before we get to that let us see the story of the season, though.

Benito Floro’s Real Madrid played second and indeed third fiddle to Cruyff’s Barcelona and Bebeto inspired Deportivo La Coruna as those two traded punches at the top till the last four gameweeks when Madrid made their late charge – leaving it late but going going into the final day with the lead over Barcelona and Depor.

As happened the previous year, Barcelona hosted a Basque outfit (Real Sociedad this time) and Real Madrid travelled to Tenerife (who were now being managed by Real Madrid legend Jorge Valdano). This where history decided to do a repeat. Sort of.

Barcelona beat Sociedad 1-0 while Real Madrid outclassed a Tenerife side fighting for UEFA Cup qualfication but ended up losing 2-0 to the Canary Islanders. Much like before, there were threee 50-50 penatly calls for Madrid that all went the Canary Islanders (and therefore, the Catalans’) way! Again, little blame can be attached to the referee as without the benefit of TV replays there was no way he could have been 100% sure about the calls

"To give a penalty you have to be very sure and I was not.”

Rank	Club (20 team league)	Points
1.	Barcelona	58
2.	Real Madrid	57
3.	Deportivo La Coruna	54