Real Sociedad’s recent years have been riddled with consistent midtable or lower midtable finishes. While the club’s home ground, the Reale Arena, is known for giant killings and regularly putting …
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Real Madrid’s first modern-day Galácticos brought goals, glitz and glamour to the Spanish capital – but few teams have underachieved so markedly. The term ‘Galáctico’, Spanish for ‘Superstar’, was first …
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Preparing for Success Upon taking over from Gregorio Manzano halfway through the 2011-12 season, Diego Simeone set about forging an identity for Atlético Madrid as a winning outfit. Their 3-0 …
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For just over ten years at the end of the last century and beginning of the new one, the Galician seaside city of A Coruña was home to one of …
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Picking a Best XI for this La Liga season was pretty difficult. The traditional big two not dominating in the way they used to has made the league much more …
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“For now, six or a six-and-a-half.” The self-assessment of Frenkie de Jong evaluating his first six months as a Camp Nou regular. The €75m signing from Ajax became an immediate …
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With both Luis Suárez and Ousmane Dembélé being sidelined long-term, it was clear that the Blaugrana needed to bring in some cover up front, but the way they went about …
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Nabil’s Fekir’s summer move to Real Betis caught plenty of keen-eyed football fans off guard when it was announced. Maybe more so the small €20m fee which married Fekir to …
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They combined to put Athletic Club on the verge of another Copa del Rey Final appearance and, with Euro 2020 on the horizon, Iker Muniain and Iñaki Williams have every …
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How do you move on from two of the game’s greatest ever players? In 2019/20 this question plagues both Real Madrid and Barcelona. For Madrid, the answer has included a …
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As per whoscored.com, they rank 17th overall in terms of shots per game (10.1); 18th in average possession (44.8%); bottom in terms of passing accuracy average (61.2%) and 15th overall …
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Athletic Club have stalled. The Bilbao-based side are in a troublesome patch as they head into a monumentally important February. They’re not at battle stations yet, but alarms bells are …