All posts tagged "victories"
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Spotlight Season: The title finally leaves Madrid as Valencia dominate – 1970/71
Why 1970-71? La Primera title had not left Madrid for a decade, with either Real Madrid (8)...
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Spotlight Season: The Basque conquest of La Liga begins – 1980/81
Background At the start of the 1980’s, Spain was a country that was experiencing huge economic and...
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Five Star! – How Madrid made light work of the trip to Pamplona: Tactical Analysis
AS.com A key game and one, which according to the prevailing wisdom, was a potential banana skin...
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Top of the Flops – La Liga stats that don’t make the headlines
GETTY IMAGES Most statistic articles in the world of football, although stats are still very much in...
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‘Can we fix it?’ – Manolo Jiménez looks to pull off the great escape
LigaBBVA.com ‘Sí se puede’. Yes we can. Fortunately this is not a reference to a new Spanish...
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The race for European football’s promised land hots up in Spain
EFE The race for La Liga’s fourth place is as tight as ever this season with any...
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Basque Brilliance – When Real Sociedad shook-up Spanish football.
EFE The period between the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco in 1975, and 1982 when the elected...
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ESPANYOL SLUMP AS THE EUROPEAN DREAM BEGINS TO SLIP
GETTY IMAGES There could have been few Espanyol fans confident their team would return from Sunday’s game...
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ANOTHER REAL STROLL FOR MADRID AS MOURINHO LAYS LOW
Jasper Juinen/GETTY IMAGES In a week when he allegedly went house hunting in London in an area...
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FIRST THINGS FIRST FOR JAVIER CLEMENTE AND SPORTING DE GIJON
Last week Javier Clemente decided to take on the difficult challenge of saving Sporting de Gijón after the...
