🔥 The survival battle is red-hot, this is matchday 37 in LaLiga | OneFootball

With just two matchdays left before the end of the championship, the bottom of the LALIGA table is red-hot.

With Real Oviedo mathematically relegated, there are still two spots left for the drop to Segunda División, and as many as seven teams are still, mathematically, glancing nervously at the abyss.

Today’s unified kickoff time of 19:00 promises ninety nerve-racking minutes, with radios and calculators at the ready. We analyze how the teams involved are coming into it, their chances, and the "finals" they are playing this afternoon.

Three teams tied on 39 points

The fiercest battle is between 17th and 19th place. Three clubs are level on points, right on the line between safety and disaster.

Elche CF (39 pts). They currently sit just outside the drop zone thanks to goal difference or the current head-to-head record, but they have no margin for error. They host a Getafe side right in the fight for Europe.

RCD Mallorca (39 pts). They are the first team inside the relegation zone. Their form at the end of the season is worrying (they lost their last match), and the psychological pressure of being in the bottom three is taking its toll. Today they face Levante in a direct life-or-death clash.

Levante (39 pts). They come in full of confidence after back-to-back wins at the most crucial moment of the season. They are in the relegation zone, but their positive momentum is their biggest weapon.

Alavés and Girona, no room for complacency

Just one point above the drop zone offers only the slightest breathing space, but a defeat today would drag them right back into the danger zone.

Girona (40 pts). They have the toughest scenario of the matchday. A trip to the Metropolitano to face Atlético de Madrid is a brutal away game.

Alavés (40 pts). They have the ideal scenario to secure survival. They visit an Oviedo side that is already relegated and psychologically broken.

Osasuna and Espanyol, almost safe (42 pts)

With 42 points, both teams are 3 points above the relegation zone with 6 still to play for. And today they face each other.

A draw at El Sadar would mathematically keep both of them up if Mallorca or Levante slip up in their direct clash. Since they are playing each other, the winner will celebrate mathematical survival today.

The loser would still have to keep an eye on the other grounds, but it would take a catastrophic chain of results on the final matchday for them to go down.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.

📸 ANDER GILLENEA - AFP or licensors