La Liga Talk

Barcelona are for all intents and purpose done. Their failure to come up with the three points in Huelva virtually made it a two-team race. Both of them will be playing tomorrow.
An injured Samuel Eto’o was partnered with a recovering Lionel Messi, but that was still not enough as former River Plate […]

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Argentine star Marco Ruben was bought by Villarreal just a few days ago, but the former U-20 is not quite ready to unpack just yet as his final destination will be in Huelva.
Because of the impact of forwards Giuseppe Rossi and Nihat up front along with others that are integral to Villarreal’s success, that […]

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As The Gaffer already mentioned Sevilla kicked off their season on Saturday with a 4-1 win over Getafe. While I had been looking forward to the Madrid derby, I decided to watch the Sevilla-Getafe match and was not disappoined at all. The game had plenty of excitement, flair and talking points. In the first half […]

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If GolTV and Spain’s Primera Liga wanted to advertise the superiority of La Liga, today was the perfect advertisement. The triple bill of Deportivo La Coruna v Sevilla, Recreativo Huelva v Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid v Barcelona was simply astounding.
The most impressive two-sided match was Recreativo Huelva’s two goal comeback against Real Madrid only […]

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Here are some of my observations from last weekend’s La Liga matches:
Chelsea shouldn’t have a lot to fear in the Champions League with Valencia although the Blues still shouldn’t take the Spanish side lightly. Against Racing Santander, Valencia looked pretty average. And I didn’t think much of the atmosphere at the Mestalla stadium, the fifth […]

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