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Former Barcelona player Luis Garcia acknowledged that Real Madrid was in better form to clinch this season’s title than its closest contender Barcelona. Madrid, he went on, had been able to build a solid team that had gone all out in the title hunt after the league resumed after a three-month hiatus.

Following its latest 2-1 win over Granada on Tuesday, Zinedine Zidane’s men will only need one more victory from Villareal in Thursday's match before they can kiss La Liga’s trophy.

“Real Madrid has brought all the good players and it has done a better job. But we still need to wait and see for the two of them,” Garcia, La Liga ambassador, said in an online meeting with Asian journalists on Monday. 

Unlike Madrid, he went on, Barcelona was still struggling to adapt to the new situation and at the same time address internal problems. The club management's decision to replace coach Ernesto Valverde with Quique Setien, which sparked controversy in and out of the club, is one of them. 

Many have seriously questioned the reason behind Setien’s presence in the club. Conflicts between top players like Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez might explain the club’s poor performance. 

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