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After a club record 14-game winning run in all competitions, including eight victories in LaLiga, Atletico Madrid are Spain’s â€کwinter champions’, the unofficial and ultimately insignificant title handed out to the league leaders at the midway point. The only title that really matters, is the one that is decided in May, yet this race already … Read more

On one level, Manuel Pellegrini’s reign at the Benito Villamarin has been one of the most stable and successful periods in the entire history of Real Betis. The club won their first major trophy in 17 years during the 2021/22 campaign and are in Europe for the fourth season running. Before Pellegrini, only once had … Read more

During the 21st century, LaLiga has been home to some of the great pass masters and some of the most naturally gifted playmakers in the modern era. A new crop of Spanish midfield and attacking talent is starting to emerge and many locally produced players feature in our rundown of LaLiga’s most creative players in … Read more

Nine games into this season, Las Palmas already had the feel of a team doomed to their plight. Winless in 23 league games overall across a miserable 2024, there was even a serious chance that they might break Almeria’s record 31-game winless run in LaLigaset only earlier this year. That winless start to the current … Read more

It had been a relatively stable season for LaLiga head coaches, with only Las Palmas boss Luis Carrion having lost his job heading into the last day of November.آ However all that has changed over the past few days, with Paulo Pezzolano dismissed by bottom club Real Valladolidand more surprisingly, Alaves making a change with … Read more

We’re around a third of the way through LaLiga 2024/25, with most teams having played 13 of their 38 matches. The key battles are starting to take shape, with Barcelona leading the way at the top from the Madrid clubs, while Valencia, Real Valladolid and Espanyol are currently in the bottom three. LaLiga xG data … Read more

After a summer that saw Atletico Madrid splash the cash to the tune of €185 on new signings, the biggest spend of any Champions League club, hopes were high that Diego Simeone now had the tools at his disposal to be competitive on all fronts this season. However, with the campaign now two and half … Read more

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A storm had been brewing in Barcelona. This weekend’s announcement that Xavi would be stepping down at the end of the season, did not feel like a bolt from the blue. Yet cast your mind back to September, and it’s still extraordinary that we have reached this point so quickly. Crowned champions of Spain, and … Read more

Played 50, won 2. That’s the combined record of Almeria and Granada this season in LaLiga. Perhaps then, it should be no surprise that their weekend meeting at Los Carmenes, effectively a “must winâ€‌ for both teams, ended in a draw. Both look to be on course for a return to the Segunda Division, in … Read more

March is a month when the Spanish top flight pauses for breath with the final international break of the domestic season before one big dash for the finish line. For many a struggling club, it’s also often a time to decide to stick or twist with under pressure bosses. Three of LaLiga’s bottom four have … Read more

For the best part of a decade, the battle for Spain’s prestigious Pichichi Trophy was not so much a race, but more a personal duel between two of the best footballers to ever play the game.آ Cristiano Ronaldo’s exit from Real Madrid in 2018 unsurprisingly paved the way for Leo Messi to chalk up three … Read more

It’d be an exaggeration to call it 40 years of hurt. Since clinching the league and cup double in 1984, Athletic have defied the odds by continuing to compete valiantly against the best teams in Spain and occasionally beyond, all whilst stubbornly holding onto their famous â€کBasque only’ policy which sets them apart from just … Read more

Real Oviedo host Racing on matchday 3. The Segunda Division regular season is over and true to form, it was as tight as ever at the top, with the top four separated by just five points and just ten points splitting the top seven. Also true to form, Eibar narrowly missed out on promotion with … Read more

Espanyol are back in the top flight after beating Real Oviedo 2-1 on aggregate in the Segunda Division play-off final. It’s the second time in four seasons that Espanyol have won promotion to LaLiga, but this was a far bumpier road back to the big time than their pandemic-affected 2021/22 campaign when they won the … Read more

In the world of international football, 12 years is not a long time to go without a major trophy. Yet the aftermath of Spain’s tiki-taka inspired period of dominance between 2008 and 2012 has felt like a never-ending cycle of mistakes being repeated and Spanish attempts to win silverware ending in familiar and often embarrassing … Read more

It’s not quite 2010, when a number of Spain’s returning world champions were serenaded at away grounds as the country basked in its greatest football moment, but there was an air of that as the 2024/25 season of LaLiga kicked off after a golden summer for La Roja. We had everything from applause for Lamine … Read more

As Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid look set to continue to dominate Spanish football, the conversation surrounding the team that might lift the 2024/25 league title fails to escape without mention of one of the heavyweights above. Indeed, the last time a team other than Barcelona or one of the Madrid clubs won LaLiga … Read more

As defending Spanish and European champions, and with a squad boosted by the signing of the player many perceive to be the world’s best, logic would dictate that Real Madrid are going to take some stopping this season. They are the clear favourites to win LaLiga again according to the latest football betting odds. Even … Read more