Key factors behind Barca's La Liga title triumph

- Yamal level - Barcelona's teenage star Lamine Yamal's superb displays in the second half of the campaign helped guide his team to back-to-back Spanish titles. The 18-year-old winger scored 16 and set up 12 goals in La Liga, leading the team in both counts. Yamal appears slightly less frequently within games than he did last season, when he ran relentlessly at defences, but this year he has become far more decisive in the final third.

With a groin issue plaguing him during the early months of the campaign, as well as off-field issues bringing him down, the Spain international still made vital contributions without shining consistently. Yamal said he was feeling far happier in February after hitting a hat-trick against third-place Villarreal and that showed in his performances during Barca's run-in. - Helping hands - Barcelona's other outstanding talent beyond Yamal is midfielder Pedri Gonzalez, who is one of the best players in the world in his position.

In other areas the Catalans have relied on contributions from multiple players to make up for gaps in the squad. Neither Robert Lewandowski nor Ferran Torres have performed consistently enough to make the striker spot their own this season, but in La Liga both have scored over 10 goals each. Despite various injury struggles Raphinha has surpassed that mark too, while on-loan Marcus Rashford, Fermin Lopez and Dani Olmo all have 10 more goals and assists combined.

Barca do not have the financial strength to put out a star-studded line-up from top to bottom, unlike Real Madrid, but with many players chipping in they had enough to get over the line. A word too, for Eric Garcia and Gerard Martin, two players whom many thought were likely to leave last summer and lacked the quality to start regularly, but have proven their doubters wrong. - Madrid misery - Barcelona's main rivals for the title, Real Madrid, have endured a difficult season and finish without a major trophy for the second year running.