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[caption id="attachment_4516" align="alignnone" width="580"] Barcelona are one win away from retaining their La Liga title : File Pic[/caption] Internet Desk: Barcelona are one win away from retaining their La Liga title after Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar all scored in their 5-0 thrashing over Espanyol in the Catalan derby on Sunday. Chasing Barca for the La Liga title is Real Madrid who moved into second place with a 3-2 win over Valencia. Cristiano Ronaldo scored a brace. However, Atletico Madrid's title hopes are over as they lost 2-1 at already relegated Levante. Barcelona will take on Grenada next week while Real Madrid faces Deportivo la Coruna on the final day of the season. Barcelona got off to a perfect start when Messi curled a delightful free-kick into the top corner after just eight minutes. However, they had to wait until seven minutes into the second half for the second as Messi set up Suarez to fire high past Pau Lopez. Suarez maintained his four-goal lead over Ronaldo as the league's top scorer as he powered home his 56th goal of the season from Neymar's corner. A howler from Lopez handed Rafinha an open goal to tap home his first goal since suffering a serious knee injury at the start of the season, before Neymar rounded off the scoring. Madrid shrugged off the absences of Gareth Bale and Luka Modric through injury to move above Atletico for the first time in 2016 with victory over Valencia. Ronaldo opened the scoring when he fired into the far corner for his 48th goal of the season. Valencia felt hard done by for Madrid's second three minutes before half-time as the referee overruled his linesman, who had flagged Karim Benzema offside, before he slotted home as the ball through to the French striker deflected off Valencia defender Joao Cancelo. The visitors' bright start to the second period was rewarded when Rodrigo pounced on an error from Raphael Varane to halve the deficit. Ronaldo quickly restored Real's two-goal advantage, but Andre Gomes ensured a nervy finish when he smashed home from the edge of the box before Valencia were reduced to 10 men late on when Rodrigo was shown a straight red card. Atletico paid for their exertions in setting up a second all-Madrid Champions League final against Bayern Munich in midweek, despite getting off to a brilliant start when Fernando Torres opened the scoring from Koke's pass after two minutes. Diego Simeone had left inspirational central defender Diego Godin and top scorer Antoine Griezmann on the bench and was made to pay when Victor Casadesus headed Levante level on the half hour mark. Griezmann was introduced for the second half and came closest to finding a winner for Atletico when Diego Marino turned his near post effort wide 15 minutes from time. But Giuseppe Rossi finished off a sweeping Levante counter-attack in the final minute to end Atletico's hopes of an unlikely second title in three years.