A penalty in the 87th minute of the last day of the League ended up deciding relegation. Despite the fact that there were six fans with their breath held, the fall into hell was played in two fields: in Cornellà, with goals, and in Zorrilla, where there was more speculation than it was played. The descent fell from Valladolid to Almería to return to Pucela definitively when Adrián Embarba, from the penalty spot, beat Joan García to put a 3-3 scoreline that saved the Andalusians. And it is that everything happened in the field of a Espanyol that, although it arrived descended and showed its discomfort with the arbitrations by not playing the first minute of the game, put Rubi's team against the ropes.

Almería took the lead with a goal from El Bilal, but two minutes later Puado equalized. The point was enough looking at Zorrilla's draw to zero, but in the 49th minute Pierre-Gabriel scored and that 2-1 sent Almería to the Second Division. In Valladolid it was celebrated until Embarba tied and he did it again when Koleosho put Espanyol ahead again. But the penalty point decided and Espanyol could no longer save the Pucelanos.

UNEXPECTED GOODBYE FROM RUBI

Almería's joy was tarnished when Rubi announced in the same stadium press room that he will not continue on the bench. “I want to make public that the staff ends their cycle and we are not going to continue. We think that we have long met all the objectives, permanence, promotion and revaluation of players. Something that fills us with pride is the sporting growth of the club. When we arrived it was very empty”, revealed the Catalan coach. “At this moment we don't want to make the club waste time,” he settled.

GABRI VEIGA, EL SALVADOR

Celta needed a hero to appear to scare away the ghost of relegation that had settled in Balaídos in recent days and that was Gabri Veiga. The boy shone again in the final and decisive moments of a championship that Celta got complicated without realizing it. Barça's visit was not the best ending and they had to overcome scares until the first one by Veiga fell, which made Balaídos explode, and the second, made of beautiful Vaseline, which unleashed madness. It no longer mattered that the youth squad player, on the day of his greatest glory, did not finish the game due to injury. In case he does not set foot in the stadium again, the stands pronounced: «Hey, yeah. Mourinho, no”. Ansu Fati also sent a message to Barça, who barely enjoyed a few minutes in an inconsequential game in which he scored his tenth goal when the club's doors were open.

VALENCIA, AT JOAQUIN'S PARTY

Benito Villamarín wanted a party to say goodbye to Joaquín and he had it against a Valencia that was not in danger all night. The Bético captain took to the field in his 622nd game crying and did it again with the tremendous applause that the entire stadium gave him standing when they waited for the start of the second half. Nothing compared to what happened in the 58th minute when Pellegrini took him off the pitch so that more than 52,000 people made the entire field beat. Betis was able to pay homage to their myth while the lump in the throat, not of emotion but of anguish, was felt by the Valencian supporters. A victory gave Valencia salvation without looking at other fields, but a goal from Ayoze in the first minute complicated everything and forced him to live pending results that he always had in mind. Just in case, in the 71st minute, when everything was heating up and a mistake could be very expensive, a youth player appeared again, Diego López, to sign the tie and put an end to the Valencian suffering.

SERGIO SUPPORTS CÁDIZ

The coach chained his second tenure that guarantees the Cadiz team its fourth consecutive season in the First Division, something that has not happened for 30 years. He did it by drawing against Elche and without much suffering despite the fact that the Elche team had two goals disallowed. Then he had already taken the lead with a goal from Escalante in the 10th minute. Despite the fact that Elche tried by all means to say goodbye with victory, not even Boyé's draw in 71 put the people from Cádiz in danger.

OSASUNA, TO EUROPE

The last European place was also at stake for this last day of the League, which gives access to the Conference League. Osasuna won it by beating Girona with two goals from Budimir (2-1) and the Arrasate team will play in Europe again 16 years later. His last participation was in the 2006/07 season, in the UEFA Cup and he reached the semifinals in which Sevilla defeated him. The season is magnificent for the Navarrese since, a Cup finalist, next season they will play the Spanish Super Cup in Arabia.

GOODBYE TO MATEU LAHOZ

The Valencian referee refereed his last game in LaLiga at Son Moix and ended up being applauded by the stands, with a corridor from Mallorca and Rayo and through tears that failed to console his mother, his wife and his two children. One of the referees who has most humanized arbitration has directed 288 games in his career and he will still have one more left as an international because UEFA reserves a farewell for him in the next window of matches in June.