Barcelona are in one of the best forms at the top of La Liga. But such a sudden defeat really surprised the fans. In the last match of Barcelona, Barcelona tried to use new tactics compared to the opposition team, but I think the Barcelona players failed to adapt to this strategy. As a result, Barcelona lost.
That's football for you, you don't expect the perfect team, they have the relaxing moments where even the lesser club will strike them unexpectedly. What I see in that match is that Barcenola is just unprepared, but by the time they would be more serious, it's too late. Rayo Vallecano is not a team I expect to beat FC Barcelona but that's the reality yesterday. It was bad to point out that they (Rayo Vallecano) scored twice before Barca could be able to score once towards the end of the game.
Most clubs get relaxed when they are at a wide-gap level, but it boomerangs at times, just like in the case of Arsenal in EPL.
I mean they were 11 points ahead and Real lost, so that means that we are talking about a situation where Barcelona didn't give a damn, and that obviously resulted with a loss for them too. But there is no difference between 14 point leading and 11 point leading at this point.
They know they are the champions, they won't be even too happy when they finally win it, because it wasn't a last minute thing and they knew for a while that they won, so it won't come as a surprise anymore, it gradually became more and more obvious that they will win so they celebrated that each game so by the end when it is a sure thing they are not going to celebrate too hard since they knew it already. So in that situation you do not play with 100%, there is really no reason for it, you can still lose and get the title anyway.