FC Barcelona

I write this from Madrid, which should go a long way to explaining the column's title. The Champions League quarter-finals get underway tonight...

Diego Costa's sending off was more significant perhaps because it was a game that many of us were clinging onto as the one that could keep LaLiga alive.

Atlético fought as far as they could in LaLiga but it was written in the stars that Barça would reclaim the title - in large part, due to Leo Messi.