Last Week in La Liga
Looking at Spain’s top flight.
It can be argued that Spain’s La Liga is the top soccer football league in the world. However, most of us don’t get to watch La Liga matches because they aren’t shown on Fox Soccer Channel. I figured it’d be nice to shine some light on Spain’s top flight because the clips from La Liga always appear on Youtube a few days after the fact. It’s the beautiful game in its most beautiful form and it’s just waiting for some exposure. Oh, and if you’re sitting at work, you might want to wait until you get home to watch these. We wouldn’t want you to get fired…
Big Matches:
Great call in Spanish of Mahamadou Diarra’s goal. Look how excited Real coach Fabio Capello looks after his team scores.
Atletico Madrid 2 - Sevilla 1 (highlights in Spanish)
Many of you remember Maxi Rodgriguez for the incredible volley he scored for Argentina against Mexico in this summer’s World Cup. Last Saturday, with Sevilla down to nine men, Maxi scored twice in the final 5 minutes of regulation to lift Atletico to victory. Listen to that “delirious” Vicente Calderon. Music to my ears.
Valencia 1 – Barcelona 1 (German DUTCH highlights)
From Sid Lowe’s excellent Guardian column:
“In fact, it was a real belter of a match, the classic game of two halves and they were both right: Valencia proved that Barça can be rattled, Barça proved that they play the best football in La Liga, and both teams proved that they’re favourites for the title.”
The rest of the column deals with the return of Javier Saviola to the pitch at the Nou Camp. It seems that my main man Sid has become a wee bit clairvoyant. Saviola will be seeing more action because of the Eto’o injury.
Other results:
Getafe 0 - 0 Athletic
Nastic 2 - 2 Racing
Mallorca 1 - 0 Espanyol
Villarreal 3 - 2 Zaragoza
Recreativo 3 –2 Real Sociedad
Osasuna 2 – 0 Celta
Levante 2 - 0 Deportivo
Bonus Champions League highlights involving teams from La Liga. (All of these clips are in English.)
Ukraine’s best were no match for Real. Ruud “Horseface” Van Nistelrooy bags a pair as does Raul.
The genius of Leo Messi saves Barca at the end. This is the game that Samuel Eto’o was injured in, completely ruining my La Liga fantasy team that was built around his supreme goal scoring abilities. Messi’s mullet is still dangerously offensive, but “La Pulga” is an absolute prodigy.
Valencia 2 Roma 1Valencia win on goals from Miguel Angulo and David Villa. Angulo actually means “perfect running volley” in Spanish. David Villa (the screaming guy you’re looking at) is a goal scoring machine. In honor of basketball players calling themselves the truth, he shall be henceforth known as “la verdad.”
Coming up this weekend:
Real Madrid - Atletico Madrid: The derby between the “whites” and “indians” should be fascinating this year. Atleti have restocked on high quality talent and are looking to break their poor luck against their crosstown rivals.
Athletic Bilbao - Barcelona: Barca’s first match without Eto’o.
Sevilla - Getafe: The UEFA cup holders look to rebound from their first loss in 12 matches.
12 Responses to “Last Week in La Liga”
Sep.30 at 4:14 am
OKNARB says:
It really is a beautiful game.. and those sweet links prove it Jake. Football makes you appreciate the teamwork needed to score, unlike basketball where the end result gets most of the attention.
Sep.30 at 12:30 pm
Ned says:
I was at the atletico game and it was epic!
i went to see real madrid and i really didn´t like it, coming from england where the fans are really noisy and everything… the bernabeu just seemed ridiculously boring and quiet. Vicente Calderon was a far superior experience, so i have chosen them as my team for the year in madrid, and we are going to spank real tomorrow!!!
Sep.30 at 1:43 pm
Maha10k says:
I just discovered the football portion of the site today. Nicely organized and plenty on La Liga. I wish there were more games on World Sports HD but now I know where to find some good info. Cheers.
Sep.30 at 3:05 pm
Jake Appleman says:
Ned, You are carrying on where I left off. Cheers!
Sep.30 at 3:43 pm
The Ballatician says:
This ain’t German, this ist Dutch!!!! But thanks for the great videos. Loved the Maxi Rodriguez comeback!!
Sep.30 at 7:17 pm
Jake Appleman says:
Sorry about that. My Dutch friends are going to be pissed because I always tell them that Dutch sounds like a less offensive sounding version of German… whoops.
Oct.1 at 10:31 pm
Ryan Jones says:
Everton unbeaten in 7. I’m just saying.
Oct.2 at 12:56 pm
Jake Appleman says:
Yet they are winless in two. HA!
Dec.2 at 2:04 am
Ali Rasouli says:
Barcelona you’s are the best team ever.And Ronaldinho you the best player i all ever seen you play the best you play like a machine some time’s you play better than machine.That goal that you dan aginst Real M that was the best goal ive seen that is my fovert goal.Ronaldinho I liked you whan i was a 5 year’s old boy.I want to be like you one day fuomse help me get to you’r level thank you’s all for listing to comments good luck FB barcelona and good luck Ronaldino10 thak you’s all cohcas and player’s.
May.14 at 10:49 pm
jim says:
I watch both the premier league and the see a couple of la liga games each week. La liga is technically a great league no doubt with less fowling more technical skill and not as much long ball’s being used as the permier league. I still dunno why but even though i know la liga is better in terms of technical skill the defending is quite frankly awful because they consider attacking football more important then defense so half the great goals you see in la liga actually come from very poor defending. Also when i watch la liga games i find myself flipping channels i dunno theres a lack of atmosphere and the constant stoppages in the game make it seem boring. I definetly prefer the permier league and although technically behind la liga its still more enjoyable to watch keeps me glued to the match and also the technical level is getting closer and closer to spain every year.
Aug.20 at 10:15 am
margi says:
david is a great and so handsome player and i love watching his matches.i love you so much david. kisses kisses. te quiero tanto…
Sep.1 at 4:04 pm
Anderson says:
Hi
THIS IS ANDERSON IF SOMEONE KNOW WHERE I CAN WATCH LA LIGA IN SPAIN SEND IT FOR ME PLEASE
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