More than a climb to the impressive top of the Primera División, the Segunda season is resembling a kind of time trial with a large chainring and a small pinion, at least for the big candidates for direct promotion. Outside of leader, a Mallorca that with 41 points is comparable to the 42 of Betis 2010-11 and Elche 2012-13 (both went up), never the second and the third added so much at this stage of competition. Espanyol and Almería make up the most expensive fight in history to go up without a playoffs, and on top of that they will face next Sunday at the RCDE Stadium.
Are 39 points those who in 18 days have accumulated the Spanish, which places him above the best seconds ever – since victories are worth three points, from the 1995-96 season onwards – that all of them reached this point in LaLiga with 36 points. Its about Malaga in the 2007-08 campaign, the Real society 2009-10, the Celtic 2010-11, the Girona 2012-13 and Sporting de Gijón 2014-15. Of the five, tris they finally got the promotion –Málaga, Real Sociedad (as champion) and Sporting–, while Celta and Girona were not enough.
Regarding the 38 points that serve the Almeria to be third, the closest were only two teams, which adds more asperity to this year's promotion. Its about Merida of the 1996-97 season and the Malaga of 2018-19, which had 35 at this point, and of which only the Extremadura team ended up rising.
In other words, with its current 39 points, Espanyol would march as leader after matchday 18 in all the seasons in the history of the Second Division except four, while Almería, with 38, would also have been first always except for six seasons. Figures that turn this year's fight into titanic and exciting next Sunday's confrontation between parakeets and rojiblancos, at 4:00 p.m., at the RCDE Stadium.
Season | First | Second | Third |
2020-21 | Mallorca 41 | Espanyol 39 | Almeria 38 |
2019-20 | Cadiz 39 | Almeria 32 | Huesca 32 |
2018-19 | Grenada 37 | Sporty 35 | Malaga 35 |
2017-18 | Huesca 33 | Lugo 33 | Cadiz 32 |
2016-17 | Lift 37 | Girona 30 | Getafe 28 |
2015-16 | Alaves 33 | Cordoba 33 | Oviedo 31 |
2014-15 | Las Palmas 36 | Sporting 36 | Betis 33 |
2013-14 | Sporty 33 | Recreational 32 | Sporting 31 |
2012-13 | Elche 42 | Girona 36 | Almeria 34 |
2011-12 | Elche 34 | Sporty 33 | Hercules 33 |
2010-11 | Betis 42 | Celtic 36 | Rayo Vallecano 34 |
2009-10 | Hercules 36 | Real Sociedad 36 | Cartagena 30 |
2008-09 | Salamanca 32 | Zaragoza 30 | Xerez 30 |
2007-08 | Numantia 37 | Malaga 36 | Sporting 31 |
2006-07 | Valladolid 35 | Almeria 31 | Sporting 31 |
2005-06 | Xerez 38 | Recreational 35 | Valladolid 29 |
2004-05 | Cadiz 37 | Alaves 35 | Elche 31 |
2003-04 | Lift 35 | Numantia 34 | Sporting 31 |
2002-03 | Zaragoza 33 | Murcia 30 | Lift 30 |
2001-02 | Athletic Madrid 40 | Zerez 35 | Oviedo 29 |
2000-01 | Tenerife 34 | Seville 34 | Betis 32 |
1999-00 | Salamanca 40 | Lift 34 | Extremadura 32 |
1998-99 | Numantia 37 | Rayo Vallecano 34 | Toledo 33 |
1997-98 | Rayo Vallecano 33 | Alaves 33 | Extremadura 31 |
1996-97 | Eibar 36 | Mallorca 35 | Merida 35 |
1995-96 | Hercules 39 | Extremadura 31 | Toledo 30 |
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