Regarding la liga's decline, I both agree and disagree. Yes, watching games in La liga isn't as entertaining as before...the refereeing is absolutely horrendous.
But how many teams from other top european leagues right now except Manchester City (and maybe Arsenal) can actually confidently take on any of the top 5-6 La liga teams and beat them comfortably. So maybe the football isn’t as eye soothing as before, but it sure is effective.
German and Italian leagues will do just that bro.[with reference to your second paragraph]
Wait, have you seen Inter Milan this season? Even City will be wary of them, if we must tell ourselves the truth.
How many teams in Germany and Italy qualified for the next round of the CL? Even AC Milan that dropped out, dropped into the Europa. about should tell us something about league strength.
You should see that blog. Whichever way you look at it, the Spanish league is on the decline. You can literally see that there's more competition in those leagues I mentioned above.
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No no, I agree La Liga has declined. What I am trying to say is, it is not like because of the decline any of the top teams from other european leagues like Inter Milan or Bayern Munich etc will be confidently taking on the la liga teams or beating them easily.
Regarding competition in the leagues, I agree there. Competition in La liga has always been much less than that of the premier league. But you can't say it is less than the Bundesliga where Bayern won the league for 11 years in a row. Or in Serie A where Juventus won 9 years in a row. Bundesliga this season is different so far - but I think eventually Bayern will win it, again.
I have seen the stats in your post and I see your point, but objectively speaking every single one of these big teams would rather not face any of the spanish sides for as long as possible in the tournament.
All 4 la liga teams proceeded as group champions.
Whereas from the most competitive league in the world, only 2 teams proceeded to the next round. Newcastle had a tough group sure, but Man united?
The 3 Italian teams that went through were all group runner ups and who were the group champions in their groups? A spanish team, in all 3 of their groups.
So to sum it up, despite declining La Liga, the rest of the european leagues have also declined and no one except Man City can actually take on any team easily.
Yeah I know you have no qualms with the La Liga decline, but your first paragraph negates your knowledge of the La Liga decline you agree with.
I talked of how difficult it would be for City to tackle this season's Inter and you are talking about other La Liga teams who are not half as good as City. I don't think you are being sincere here.
You said you have seen the stats in my blog. Those La liga teams you said can't be easily beaten by a Liverpool for example, were in the Europa League and they have not stopped the La Liga ranking from plunging southward. Whereas an English team like Brighton(not a top team you are referring to) is doing wonders. Someone will say Brighton beat Marseille yesterday because Marseille already knew they had qualified before the game ended. Ok I would recall that Inter made plenty of changes in their penultimate match to rest players(as they were leading their CL group and Serie is so tough) and it ended in a 3–3 draw– the ultimate reason they finished 2nd, but on SAME POINTS with Sociedad.
Not just Brighton, West Ham,Liverpool. Where are the Spanish teams sir? Real Betis were beaten AT HOME by Rangers. Amazing! Rangers topped that group and Real Betis finished 3rd, so they are out. Ok Villareal is through, topping their group. But 3 English clubs are through, ALL TOPPING THEIR GROUPS.
If you read my blog well, you will notice that it says, the Spanish league has no single representative in the Conference league. That's poor.
So we can not stand here and talk only of the CL, when the EL and the ECL are also bonafide UEFA competitions(I said this in my blog, you implied you read). Infact a victory in the CL gives a team exactly same points as a victory in the ECL in the coefficient calculation.
It's unjust, to consider only the CL to get the strength of a league, UEFA doesn't even do that. The rankings are there in my blog, the Spanish league is correctly sat at 4th, despite what they have done in the CL(and they can't go higher).
There are teams that will beat La Liga teams easily, not just City.
Yeah you are correct in that. I did only take the champions league into consideration as I do not really follow the europa league or the conference league. So these are just my points of view regarding the games I enjoy watching. Yes, sure the spanish teams might be doing shit in the europa league, but I am not really talking about that as I don't even watch the europa league until the semi finals. So I'd say your point is correct.
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