Last season was the best league I've ever watched, and that after near 40 years of following soccer everywhere. If you love the sport, you owe it to yourself to watch La Liga. Honest.
Definitely looking more even than it did 2011-2015; at that point it was Madrid, Barcelona and everybody else with Leti playing the spoiler. La Liga has two teams (and Leti under Simeone), but the challenge is the difference in revenues and profits usually prevents others from truly staying competitive over a season.
Especially with fairy tale stories like Girona, the atmosphere in Girona for the Barcelona match was special.
Dahoud just hangs on the ball too long there. Good job by Pulisic to win it back just outside the box.
No one really knew it in the moment, but that time that Pulisic was snubbed in the CL game against RM that lead to Dortmund not making it through the group stages, was the catalyst for CP to use his anger to take his game to another level, put Dortmund on his back and become the best player in the Bundesliga while leading BVB to a historic league season as Champions of the Bundesliga...
from 2011-2015- atleti could've won the premier league probably three times, serie a twice (maybe three) and bundesliga twice.
...before leading the United States to the World Cup by scoring a hat-trick in the final against who else, Germany?
Yes, I agree, and I was in their stadium a good bit those years and consider myself a Leti fan when it comes to La Liga (although I also attended Barcelona, Real Madrid, Getafe, Osasuna, and Real Sociedad matches). Leti had a perfect strategy, especially for Barcelona in their total defense soccer. Watching them press defensively as a team was really inspired. That said, it doesn't change the revenues disparity top to bottom in La Liga.
I'm hoping in the next decade we see a lot more Yanks there. Would love see one to play for a Sevilla level side.
Soccerwise, there is a lot of anti-Yank prejudice in Spain. It's even worse than in Italy... and it's quite bad in Italy already.
I didn't understand the double sub. After that there was little play to Yarmolenko who was wide open on the right and had created some good chances including switching play to Toljan on the left. Plus Weigl really doesn't look ready yet. I get the feeling Pulisic is a better CL player than Phillip. I'd play Yarmo right and Puli left. Piscek doesnt check all the right boxes for me and has been piss of late. Castro's form seems to be improving. Overall, RM just made BVB look inefficient. Check out the 3rd goal . Ronaldo knows exactly when to step up because he knows Modric isn't going to stop to give the ball a Nagbe massage.
With the way they been playing the last 2 CL games, I am not even confident that they can beat APOEL both at home and away.
His lineup tonight reminds of Bruce Arena. When the going get toughs and you face a big opponent, let's go to the old veterans. Unfortunately, they are a little too slowed and not talented enough to go head on with of the best teams in the tournament. Pulisic is not a super sub, he's not going bring miracles in the last 10-15 minutes of the game. He's a player that consistently put pressure against the opponents and create threats all through 90 minutes. That will allow the team to have more space, attack more, and take more risk.