Barcelona boss Ernesto Valverde has told his players to focus on beating Levante and winning La Liga before thinking of the Champions League.
The Blaugrana host Liverpool in the first leg of the European semi-final next week but first Levante visit the Camp Nou, with a home win completing the title for the Catalan giants.
“You always have upcoming rivals in your head, you're watching their games, analysing them,” Valverde said of Liverpool in his pre-match press conference for the Levante clash, as cited by ESPN FC.
“But I want to try and put Liverpool to one side because of the importance of Saturday's game. I want the Levante game to be the crowning moment of our league season.
“If we win, we're champions and that will give us a huge push going into Wednesday's game.
“It's possible that there will be some changes, but there are four days between the two games, winning the league would be a massive boost for the Liverpool match.
“What this team is doing is really difficult, last year, we won the league with games to spare. We're in the same position this year. That's not easy.
“We win titles because we have extraordinary players. We give a huge amount of value to winning the league, it's what marks the season.
“I know there are other competitions, like the Copa and the Champions League, but they depend on certain moments.
“The league is months of competition, of winning home and away and that has so much value. And the fact the club has won so many titles in recent years says a lot about how things are taken on a day to day basis.”
