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Welcome to La Liga 2019/2020. The league actually started yesterday but I was in Ontario wine country getting loaded and comparing the nose of a pinot gris to a lacquered table. Anyway, as like last year I'll provide a quick write up on the top 3 teams and maybe some other stuff depending on if I find something better to do in the next hour. Feel free to provide your own write ups or previews, but like mine, they should be purely objective. As always, please remember that his is a safe space (maybe the safest outside of Legoworld) for discussions of autism, ASD, and train scheduling. Barcelona  Last year: They won the league easily yet again which probably distracted from the fact that they relied far too much on Messi and played a lot of trash football. They actually transformed into a fairly strong defensive side (insert joke about La Liga defending) and relied less and less on their typical possession style. Dembele got hurt early and had trouble easing back into the squad, Lenglet stole Umtiti's job after he came back from the WC injured, and Coutinho was so loving bad they couldn't even sell him to a dumb English team. They also got completely embarrassed yet again in the CL semi because their manager thought playing a 422 for the first time all year in the second leg was a good idea. This year: Speaking of Valverde, despite on his way to winning 3 leagues in a row he'll probably get canned if they dont get to the CL final at least. This is both completely fair (because he is a choke artist) and completely insane (because they have lost like 4 games over the past two leagues). The main thing to watch this year is if their young midfielders like Arthur (who owns) De Jong and Alena can start to realistically replace the older guard of Rakitic and Busquets. The same thing goes for their front line, which is looking to ease out of the Suarez era and move towards a trident of Messi, The Greaseman and Dembele. Atletico Madrid  Last year: Like Barca, Atleti had a season that was both successful and disappointing. They came in 2nd yet again and are continually making the case for being the best team in their city. That said, they never really got close enough to Barca, they lost a bunch of winnable games and (also) choked like dogs in the CL. Last year was basically their final year of the squad that got them to the CL finals and won the league a few years back and so it was a bit disappointing they didn't keep it closer. This year I can't think of a team that has overturned their roster more radically than Atleti over the past few years. They basically sold what was left of their core from a few years back including some promising young players who developed over the past year. In their stead they added Joao Felix, some British fullback and a bunch of other younger players who might seemingly transform their entire style. I still expect Simeone to come out with his narrow rows of 4 but it'll be interesting to see if he opens things up more. Real Madrid  last year they were poo poo and couldn't score goals without Big Ron. They got 2 coaches fired and they had a terribly old and slow defense and midfield. Vinicius was cool for like 3 weeks but then got hurt. Eventually Zidane came back. They got owned in the CL and routinely lost games to the worst teams in the league. They also didn't score for like a month or something. Garry Bale refused to go for dinner after 8 pm which means he's not allowed to play. When he does he gets whistled but that might be a more racist thing, as spanish fans are known for making monkey noises at players. this year they are poo poo. They finally added someone who could score in Hazard who I guess is good because he played well in England. Zidane will probably threaten to step down for the first 3 months of the season and eventually finally take "time off to spend with his family" when they are down 15 points in February. Ramos will demand to take penalties and we will finally learn that the whole stadium rebuilding project has been yet another construction/money laundering scheme. They will be slightly less bad than last year. Other stuff -Getafe was really surprising and good last year so it'll be interesting to see how they fare. Betis and Bilboa are always exciting IMO, especially the former who seems to win or lose every game 3-2. -For news just read the Spanish rags like marca.com or sport.es. They are trash but fun and routinely fill their sites with slideshows of instagram models and half naked celebs. -Sid Lowe has a decent podcast where he talks about the league. Actually, it's pretty bad but it's better than any other i've come across. -You can watch on BeIn or most likely the Internet. -Dont @ me cus Ray Hudson owns.
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Aug 17, 2019 16:05
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It's funny, to me, that after all of that poo poo that went down over the summer, Zidane is starting Bale in the league opener
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Aug 17, 2019 16:08
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and he's playing really well.
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Aug 17, 2019 16:20
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good luck to not barcelona and not real madrid. i was in ontario wine country as well op where did you go.
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Aug 17, 2019 16:29
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Let us not forget that yesterday without a certain model train enthusiast the Barca boys got turned over by a 38 year old.
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Aug 17, 2019 16:34
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mila kunis posted:good luck to not barcelona and not real madrid. We were in Prince Edward County for a few days. Mostly hit up the wineries around Wellington. Domaine Darius and Traynord estates were my favourite and the lunch at Norman Hardie was excellent.
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Aug 17, 2019 16:41
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pro Franco/royalist VAR strikes again Lol VAR just got Modric a red what is happening holy poo poo that goal from Kroos BWV fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Aug 17, 2019 |
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Aug 17, 2019 16:52
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Trippier off to a good start https://streamvi.com/watch.php?video=1566159910
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Aug 18, 2019 21:30
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BWV posted:We were in Prince Edward County for a few days. Mostly hit up the wineries around Wellington. Domaine Darius and Traynord estates were my favourite and the lunch at Norman Hardie was excellent. "hitting up the wineries"
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Aug 18, 2019 22:03
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i plan to watch a bit of la liga this season but dont have too much to say at the moment barcelona seems to have signed the best players this year. griezmann and de jong are both world class. although so is hazard and probably also atleticos kid. on the other hand its dumb how they lost alcacer
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Aug 22, 2019 12:19
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trem_two posted:Trippier off to a good start https://streamvi.com/watch.php?video=1566159910 I both forgot he'd moved to atleti and assumed you were taking the piss
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Aug 22, 2019 12:31
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I am able to watch this league now so will be following my best team Sevilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWMdkGHL3-E
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Aug 23, 2019 20:19
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Badrid looking impotent and are trying to solve it by bringing in the fraud brazilian
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Aug 24, 2019 19:14
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seriously. they're flopping like crazy and just hoping for a penalty at this point gently caress Valladolid is playing pretty great. hope they can get something besides the satisfaction of hearing Madrid's fans whistle their players in the second week of the season. BWV fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Aug 24, 2019 |
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Aug 24, 2019 19:30
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we jinxed it cus Benz just buried a nice goal
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Aug 24, 2019 19:40
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that was really nicely done by Benz
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Aug 24, 2019 19:40
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Yes it was a great goal by Benz and also a great equalizer
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Aug 24, 2019 19:46
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I turn on Real Madrid/Real Valladolid and Valladolid score. You're welcome.
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Aug 24, 2019 19:46
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Madrid is basically Spanish ManU and obviously Navas would've had that
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Aug 24, 2019 19:46
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lmao badrid and lmao that Valladolid have some dude named Waldo
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Aug 24, 2019 19:53
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Simone Poodoin posted:lmao badrid Really good dude. We're starting to call him Rowaldo.
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Aug 25, 2019 02:38
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Grease man scored a goal https://streamja.com/vbwz
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Aug 25, 2019 20:48
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Why is Rakitic not playing? What the heck is Lolverde thinking?
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Aug 25, 2019 20:58
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Angry Lobster posted:Why is Rakitic not playing? What the heck is Lolverde thinking? Probably trying to get him to accept a transfer to Inter or PSG or whatever
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Aug 25, 2019 21:16
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Great goal by a total loving Moron
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Aug 25, 2019 21:45
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:Great goal by a total loving Moron Lol
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Aug 25, 2019 22:23
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just watched the second half and woah what a fun game. The Grease Man looks like a beautiful lion out for a majestic prowl. Getting these solo minutes with Suarez and Messi out will be huge down the road.
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Aug 26, 2019 02:09
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Sevilla - Celta has been fun so far
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Aug 30, 2019 19:21
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The best headline Marca has run in recent years https://www.marca.com/en/football/real-madrid/opinion/2019/08/31/5d6a46f946163f2e3b8b4622.html it actually turns out to be a pro Lucas Vasquez article but I'd prefer to stop reading after the second paragraph: quote:Lucas is so bad that Zidane, who knows nothing about football, always puts him on the pitch. Lucas is so ridiculously bad that he's played 185 games for Real Madrid, I'm sure that most of them were comfortable. He's so, so bad that Vicente del Bosque and Julen Lopetegui had no option but to take him to Euro 2016 and the World Cup in Russia. These are signs that he's so bad. And then Santiago Solari came and played him. And then Zidane returned and played him more than anyone else.
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Aug 31, 2019 13:36
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Barca playing like rear end and getting run over already by Osasuna e: 0 shots at the half. Messi, Suarez and Dembele all being out is rough but it shouldn't be this bad. Although Valverde picked another loser lineup so maybe he should take a hike bringing in the 16 year old out of necessity and he scores because he's the loving man BWV fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Aug 31, 2019 |
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Aug 31, 2019 16:08
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Lol last week they let a moron score and this week a young faty scores for them
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Aug 31, 2019 17:18
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Arthur is a loving baller Also I'm enjoying Osasuna's manager just wearing a random graphic tee e: loving Pique. he's great but he does such stupid things sometimes just swinging his arms about. As always, Barca without Messi are toothless and end up playing Real Madrid-esque cross heavy garbage ball BWV fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Aug 31, 2019 |
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Aug 31, 2019 17:25
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Chicharito to Sevilla seems to be almost done
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Aug 31, 2019 19:06
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Nice comeback by Atleti, will they gently caress it up in the end?
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Sep 1, 2019 19:56
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lol get hosed real edit: just had dinner
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Sep 1, 2019 21:32
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Bale'd
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Sep 1, 2019 21:52
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Were both of Bale's yellow cards legit? It seems bizarre that someone would get booked twice in stoppage time. I haven't seen any highlights to be fair.
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Sep 2, 2019 01:19
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So after 3 years Real finally got rid of their unloved keeper.
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Sep 3, 2019 08:29
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I tried telling Navas not to go to Madrid, but he wouldn't listen to me.
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Sep 3, 2019 20:05
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Malaga are so hosed financially that they've released okazaki after signing him on July 30th
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Sep 4, 2019 11:04
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