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

#6. Deportivo La Coruna lost out to Barcelona

Johan Cruff’s Dream Team made a habit of leaving it late!

The year?

1993-94

What happened?

Johan Cruyff’s dream team was making a habit of this, weren’t they? Deportivo La Coruna lead La Liga for vast swathes of the season, including the last 23 gameweeks leading into the final day. Romario’s incredible goalscoring, though, had kept the Catalans in the hunt as the final round of fixtures approached (the Brazilian won the Pichichi scoring 30 goals that season!)

Needing a win, Depor hosted Valencia in the Riazor but only managed a 0-0 draw (they had a penalty saved – a goal that would have handed them the league crown!) while Barcelona hosted Seville and duly kept their nerves to thrash the Andalusians 5-2 thanks to goals from Michael Laudrup, Romario, Bakero and Hristo Stoichkov (a brace from the Bulgarian). This drew them level on points with Depor, but the Catalans succeeded thanks to their far superior goal difference (49 vs 36) – Depor had beaten them 1-0 at home, but had lost 3-0 away.

Real Madrid, meanwhile. reeling from those two consecutive knock-out punches at the death, didn’t even get into the top 3 at any point in the league season.

Rank	Club (20 team league)	Points
1.	Barcelona	56
2.	Deportivo de La Coruna	56
3.	Real Zaragoza	46
4.	Real Madrid	45