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In the end of 2019 the LIGA BBVA could be divided inn to four groups.
F.C. Barcelona and Real Madrid was the first group. They still dominated Spanish league football and had divided the league titles between them all the way back to 2003 and that didn’t look like it would change this year either.
A now 32-year old Lionel Messi was still the creating force in Barcelona now with a competent backup crew of Cavani, Hélton and a 22-year old Spanish/Saudi Mohammed Al-Harbi as up and coming super star.
Real Madrid had moved on from C Ronaldo (Sporting) and was now lead by Lucas Ocampos and Álvaro Vadillo.
The second group was the contenders that were not good enough to catch Real and Barcelona but instead had to fight for the remaining places in Europe every year. Teams like Valencia, At. Madrid, Sevilla and Betis were “members” of this group.
Then there was a big grey group in the middle of eight to ten teams. This was teams that lived a quiet existence in the middle of the league year after year. In a good year they might be fighting for a spot in the Europa League and in a bad year they were fighting against relegation. But for the most part they were never in any kind of real trouble.
This was teams like Granada, Malaga, Espanyol and Zaragoza.
And then there were the bottom feeders. The teams that were in the relegation fight every year. This was elevator teams that moved up and down between the LIGA BBVA and the LIGA adelante on a regular basis. Levante, Ray Vallecano, Ponferradina and Deportivo.
This year the group had gotten two new members in C.D. Constància and R.C.D. Mallorca.
Mallorca had for several seasons been part of the middle group that always found themselves on the edge of relegation but who managed to save themselves every year. But this year it looked even worse than normal for the team from the Mallorca capital.
The teams in the last group were the teams we had to get good results against. If we could get 20 points (wins at home and draws on the road) against the five teams we would "just" need other 17-20 points against teams from the middle layer to stay afloat.
Our results had not been spectacular. After an expected loss to Real Betis we were accused of grand theft when we got away from Madrid with a 2-2 result against Rayo Vallecano after scoring two goals in extra-time.
We had some time off due to a break for international games and we used the break to play a friendly against UD Alcudia and give some of the backups some much needed match practice.
We had picked up another win in the first leg of the fourth round of the Spanish Cup in a 1-0 home win against Levante and we had our first road win in the Liga BBVA after a 1-0 win over Zaragoza on a late goal by Francisco Coloma.
That left us with 12 points after the first 13 games and we were behind schedule.
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In the end of 2019 the LIGA BBVA could be divided inn to four groups.
F.C. Barcelona and Real Madrid was the first group. They still dominated Spanish league football and had divided the league titles between them all the way back to 2003 and that didn’t look like it would change this year either.
A now 32-year old Lionel Messi was still the creating force in Barcelona now with a competent backup crew of Cavani, Hélton and a 22-year old Spanish/Saudi Mohammed Al-Harbi as up and coming super star.
Real Madrid had moved on from C Ronaldo (Sporting) and was now lead by Lucas Ocampos and Álvaro Vadillo.
The second group was the contenders that were not good enough to catch Real and Barcelona but instead had to fight for the remaining places in Europe every year. Teams like Valencia, At. Madrid, Sevilla and Betis were “members” of this group.
Then there was a big grey group in the middle of eight to ten teams. This was teams that lived a quiet existence in the middle of the league year after year. In a good year they might be fighting for a spot in the Europa League and in a bad year they were fighting against relegation. But for the most part they were never in any kind of real trouble.
This was teams like Granada, Malaga, Espanyol and Zaragoza.
And then there were the bottom feeders. The teams that were in the relegation fight every year. This was elevator teams that moved up and down between the LIGA BBVA and the LIGA adelante on a regular basis. Levante, Ray Vallecano, Ponferradina and Deportivo.
This year the group had gotten two new members in C.D. Constància and R.C.D. Mallorca.
Mallorca had for several seasons been part of the middle group that always found themselves on the edge of relegation but who managed to save themselves every year. But this year it looked even worse than normal for the team from the Mallorca capital.
The teams in the last group were the teams we had to get good results against. If we could get 20 points (wins at home and draws on the road) against the five teams we would "just" need other 17-20 points against teams from the middle layer to stay afloat.
Our results had not been spectacular. After an expected loss to Real Betis we were accused of grand theft when we got away from Madrid with a 2-2 result against Rayo Vallecano after scoring two goals in extra-time.
We had some time off due to a break for international games and we used the break to play a friendly against UD Alcudia and give some of the backups some much needed match practice.
We had picked up another win in the first leg of the fourth round of the Spanish Cup in a 1-0 home win against Levante and we had our first road win in the Liga BBVA after a 1-0 win over Zaragoza on a late goal by Francisco Coloma.
That left us with 12 points after the first 13 games and we were behind schedule.
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