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Barcelona's La Liga win 'tastes of glory', says Andres Iniesta

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Luis Suarez scored a hat-trick at Granada as Barcelona won La Liga title for the second successive season

Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta says the club's La Liga crown is the "ultimate gauge of consistency".

Saturday's 3-0 win over Granada confirmed Barca as champions of Spain, with the club picking up their sixth title in eight years.

A run of just one win in five games had seen the Catalan club allow Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid back into the title race, but five straight wins to finish the season saw them top the league ahead of Real by just a single point.

"We've worked really hard for this all year," Iniesta said. "We suffered right at the end, but it tastes of victory, it tastes of glory.

"This league is the ultimate gauge of consistency, it's the one we really want to win every year. We try to win every competition, but this is the big one."

Luis Suarez celebrates Barcelona's second goal
Image: Suarez celebrates Barcelona's second goal on his way to a hat-trick

The Iniesta and Lionel Messi generation have won a remarkable eight league titles - out of 24 total titles in Barcelona's history - but the Spaniard sent out a warning to the competition just minutes after the game.

"To have won eight titles says a lot about this generation," Iniesta said. "But we are going to try and keep this going and win as many titles as possible."

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Luis Suarez scored all three goals on the day with a hat-trick to confirm his Pichichi crown as the division's top goalscorer.

And centre-back Gerard Pique celebrated with his young sons on the pitch after the game at Granada, and told Sky Sports' Guillem Balague that it was a title that Barcelona deserved to win.

"We are really happy, we deserve this league," Pique said. "To win six out of eight is incredible."

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