Lyon

The thrilling race at the top of La Liga came to a head last week­end, when Barcelona dropped two points at surg­ing Almería, and Real Madrid fought back from a 0–2 deficit to win against Sevilla in the sec­ond minute of stop­page time 3–2.  Now the two exem­plars of Span­ish foot­ball are tied for the […]

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The Almería — Barcelona match had not con­cluded when Real Madrid took to the pitch, but a few min­utes into their match with Sevilla, they knew that Barça slipped at the Esta­dio de los Jue­gos Mediter­rá­neos and dropped two points with a 2–2 draw against Almería.  Expec­ta­tions were that Real Madrid would not have the […]

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The mar­quee matchup of the week­end is the late Sat­ur­day kick­off between top four teams Real Madrid and Sevilla.  The reverse fix­ture in early Octo­ber was one of the matches of the sea­son, and while Sevilla’s title chances faded away dur­ing the dregs of mid-season, they still lie fourth in the league, they have the […]

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This week­end, the focus will be on those teams who will play in Euro­pean com­pe­ti­tion in the fol­low­ing mid­week.  The ques­tion of domes­tic vs. Euro­pean respon­si­bil­i­ties remains an indi­vid­ual club deci­sion, but for some teams, choices become more plen­ti­ful than oth­ers. Real Madrid faces Xerez at El Chapín, but Los Blan­cos have the capa­bil­ity to […]

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