Barcelona defeated Atletico Madrid by 4-1 at Camp Nou on Sunday taking a 13 points lead from the 3rd placed Real Madrid and 9 points lead from the 2nd placed Atletico.
Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho now believes that its over for Real Madrid.
"The league is now impossible. It is the first time that I have been in a situation like this where my team are a long way off their objectives," he said.
"But I don't want to make a drama out of it, I will treat it as another stage of my life," he added.
Real were held to a 2-2 draw by Espanyol on Sunday morning. Sergio Garcia of Espanyol scored the first goal just before half hour and put his team ahead in the game. However, Cristiano Ronaldo equalized and kept his team in race.
Two minutes after the break Fabio Coentrao put Real in front for most part of the match but substitute Juan Albin made the score 2-2 just before 90 minutes.
surrendered La Liga title as 3 points behind bitter rivals Barcelona.
were disappointing home struggling before Barcelona compounded his misery by romping to a 4-1 win over second-placed Atletico Madrid, who are now nine points off the pace.
On the other hand, Barca too failed to start well in their match against Atletico as Radamel Falcao his team ahead after 31 minutes.
However Barca recovered in time and responded with two goals from Adriano and Sergio Busquets before half time.
After half time, Lionel Messi scored two goals, his 24th and 25th league goals and 90th in this calendar year taking the score to 4-1.
Now even if Real Madrid defeats Atletico Madrid in coming game they will be far behind their bitter rival Barcelona.
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