Overview
- Alavés beat Barcelona 1-0 with Ibrahim Diabate scoring in first-half stoppage time, lifting the hosts out of the relegation places for now.
- The champions failed to score in LaLiga for the first time this season after a 35-match run of finding the net.
- The result snapped Barcelona’s 11-game league winning streak and halted their push for a 12th straight victory.
- Barcelona sits on 91 points with two games left against Betis and Valencia, capping their possible total at 97, three short of the club record from 2012–13.
- Coach Hansi Flick had set a 100-point goal, and the defeat also dims hopes of reaching 100 league goals.