ijjysmith
Calm
Hola a todos!!!
Welcome to the La Liga thread for all your Spanish football needs.
A few people expressed an interest in this so i'll do this whenever I can.
So the Spanish season started a bit late as their players went on strike. For those who don't know what that was about, it was somthing about lower league players getting paid badly...or something.
But the season did get under way and we are 4 matches in. The table looks like this:
(Games then points)
1 Real Betis 4 - 12
2 Valencia 4 - 10
3 Malaga 4 - 9
4 Barcelona 4 - 8
5 Sevilla 4 - 8
6 Levante 4 - 8
7 Real Madrid 4 - 7
8 Atletico Madrid 4 - 7
9 Real Sociedad 4 - 7
10 Espanyol 4 - 6
11 Rayo Vallecano 4 - 5
12 Osasuna 4 - 5
13 Villarreal 4 - 4
14 Real Zaragoza 4 - 4
15 Mallorca 4 - 3
16 Granada 4 - 3
17 Racing 4 - 2
18 Athletic Bilbao 4 - 1
19 Getafe 4 - 1
20 Sporting Gijon 4 - 0
(Games then points)2 Valencia 4 - 10
3 Malaga 4 - 9
4 Barcelona 4 - 8
5 Sevilla 4 - 8
6 Levante 4 - 8
7 Real Madrid 4 - 7
8 Atletico Madrid 4 - 7
9 Real Sociedad 4 - 7
10 Espanyol 4 - 6
11 Rayo Vallecano 4 - 5
12 Osasuna 4 - 5
13 Villarreal 4 - 4
14 Real Zaragoza 4 - 4
15 Mallorca 4 - 3
16 Granada 4 - 3
17 Racing 4 - 2
18 Athletic Bilbao 4 - 1
19 Getafe 4 - 1
20 Sporting Gijon 4 - 0
As you can see awesome that Barca and Real Madrid are not up there (yet, they obviously will be).
Real Betis have been pretty awesome, promoted this season and playing like Blackpool did last season but without the awful defending and tittish manager. If you get to see them on TV do it!
Keep an eye out for my boys Athletico Madrid this season. Slow starters but Radamel Falcao is a goal machine.
This weekends fixtures look like this:
Saturday, 24 September 2011
Athletic Bilbao v Villarreal, 17:00 - Villarreal should win as Bilbao have started slow - Key Player: Guiseppe Rossi (V)
Sevilla v Valencia, 17:00 - Should be good this. Both started well. Draw likely - Key Player: Roberto Soldado (V)
Real Madrid v Rayo Vallecano, 19:00 - Now you'd think easy Madrid win but they have been awful last two games. Still going Madrid win here - Key Player: Mesut Ozil (RM)
Barcelona v Atletico Madrid, 21:00 - Barca were held to a draw by Valencia mid week and Athletico are just hitting form. I'm going draw as i'm biased. Key Player: Xavi Hernandez (B)
Sunday, 25 September 2011
Mallorca v Real Sociedad, 11:00 - Watched Sociedad this season and they are decent. Mallorca have a player called Chico. Sociedad win. Key Player: Antoine Griezmann (RS)
Levante v Espanyol, 15:00 - Ian Harte used to play for Levante. Weird huh?! Anyway, Levante punching above their weight so far this season so i'm going Espanyol win. Key Player: Romaric (E)
Granada v Osasuna, 17:00 - Osasuna were badly spanked by Barca the other week but should have enough to beat the new boys. Key Player: Dejan Lekic (O)
Sporting Gijon v Racing Santander, 19:00 - Two of the weaker La Liga team meet here but Racing did get a 0-0 against Real Madrid midweek. Draw. Key Player - Pedro Munits (RS)
Real Zaragoza v Malaga, 21:00 - Big spending Malaga have started well after a first day defeat. Zaragoza are average and have been since Nayim hit that shot against Arsenal beards ago. Malaga win. Key Player: Joaquin (M)
Monday, 26 September 2011
Getafe v Real Betis, 20:00 - As mentioned before Betis are on fire and Getafe will go down this year after clinging on for a few years. Betis to win again. Key Player: Iriney (RB).
So that's what I think about the weeks fixtures.
Madrid, Barca, Villareal and Valencia all in Champions League Action this week too.
Athletico and Bilbao in Europa League, the latter playing PSG which will be ace.
Hope you like the preview. Guillem Ballague can do one and I can have his job.
Results will come Monday night.
Adiós por ahora
