The Spanish league is actually a league that is not competitive. However, this season (at least until week 24), besides being less competitive, the performance of the champion candidates is also not convincing.
The Spanish league is indeed not competitive when seen from the distribution of champions. Because, the Spanish League champions in the last 10 seasons more often struggling at Barcelona or Real Madrid. Only once in the 2013-2014 season, Barcelona and Real Madrid failed to win. At that time, the winner was Atletico Madrid.
Then every Spanish League matches or more commonly called the La Liga starts, Barcelona and Real Madrid are in the forefront as candidates for champions, then behind them is Atletico Madrid. Although not competitive in the domestic league, the team from Spain is quite a major force in Europe.
In the last five seasons in the Champions League, four trophies were won by the Spanish team and one trophy by the English team. Details, Barcelona (Spain) get one trophy, Real Madrid (Spain) get three trophies, and Liverpool (England) one trophy. So even though it cannot be said to be competitive at home, teams from Spain are quite competitive in Europe.
However, in this season, at least until week 24, the Spanish League is like lethargic blood. Barcelona and Real Madrid aren’t very convincing in their performance. However, the victory was more due to Lionel Messi and Eibar’s poor defense, rather than the collectivity of the Barcelona players.
Messi’s three goals came because of his individual abilities. One goal from Messi was created because the Eibar player was unable to sweep the ball right. Meanwhile, Arthur’s goal occurred because of the poor defense of Eibar who could not anticipate the movement of new players, Martin Braithwaite.
Barcelona’s performance on the field is also not optimal. Antoine Griezmann hasn’t looked very sharp at Barcelona even though he has no competition after Luis Suarez was injured. In the match against Eibar, Griezmann has at least two golden chances to score, but nothing can be scored.
Luis Suarez and Ousmane Dembele are still injured. The change of coach also makes Barcelona have to re-adapt. Barcelona’s back line which is often guarded by Gerard Pique and Clement Lenglet, is often careless.
In 24 matches Barcelona have conceded 29 goals. Barcelona’s back line is worse than Real Madrid (conceding 17 goals), Getafe (conceding 22 goals), Atletico Madrid (conceding 17 goals), Sevilla (conceding 25 goals), Athletic Bilbao (conceding 20 goals), Real Valladolid (conceding 27 goals) ).
Even though Barcelona is currently at the top of the Spanish League standings, but Barcelona only has 55 points. Barcelona have felt four defeats. Compare with the top two standings in two other commercial leagues, namely the English League and the Italian League. In the English League, Liverpool have 76 points and have never been beaten. In Italy, Juventus are slightly better than Barcelona. Juventus has 60 points from 25 matches and lost three times.
Barcelona’s inconclusive performance has led some to assess that Barcelona will have difficulty competing in the Champions League this season. It is known, Barcelona will compete against Napoli in the middle of the week.
Meanwhile, Real Madrid looked windswept. They were unbeaten in the Spanish League after October 19, 2019. They were able to master the Spanish league top until before this weekend. In the midst of that performance, Real Madrid surprisingly lost 0-1 to Levante on Sunday. Able to control the ball to 62 percent and have seven chances to score goals, Madrid failed to score. Even though in the Spanish League this season only lost twice, but Madrid too often get a draw. Zinedine Zidane’s foster children were recorded eight times to get a draw in the Spanish League this season.
Madrid seems unable to move on after being left by Cristiano Ronaldo in the summer of 2018. This season is a season of proof for Zinedine Zidane. He was able to give three Champions League titles for Madrid, but at that time Madrid still had Ronaldo.
Currently, after Ronaldo has been transferred to Juventus, Zidane is challenged whether to get the Champions League and also the Spanish League. Madrid’s unstable performance has also become a great homework for Zidane. Moreover, they will soon face Manchester City in the Champions League.
One other leading team in the Spanish League is Atletico Madrid. During this time Atletico Madrid is a team that is staying will be able to overthrow Barcelona and Real Madrid. At the beginning of the season Atletico Madrid is often an unexpected winner. However, in this season, Atletico Madrid looked difficult.
After losing Antoine Griezmann, Atletico seemed difficult to find a good formula on the front lines. At present, Atletico Madrid are scattered in the top five of the Spanish League standings. Indeed Atletico was able to win in the Champions League with a score of 1-0 over Liverpool in the first leg. However, keep in mind that there is still a second leg at home to Liverpool.
It is undeniable, one of the selling points of the previous Spanish League was when there was rivalry between Lionel Messi (Barcelona) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid). After Ronaldo decided to move to Juventus, there was no more rivalry. Messi is currently a strong attraction in the Spanish League. However, it seems that soon Messi will sink because he is getting older. Moreover, lately Messi has rarely shown the ability to run speed. Messi more often walks and walks while utilizing his intelligence in controlling the ball. Apparently, the Spanish League needs a new icon to excite its surge.
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