Tremendous week with Champions semi-finals so exciting that we have lived. In principle, favorable results for the Premier teams. That also translates into our ranking. City and Chelsea soar overhead, although they cannot be considered finalists yet. They would do wrong to feel already in Istanbul.
As for Leagues, Barcelona gave one of lime and one of sand in Spain. Anyone who would have thought that Koeman would go from ogre to perfect father-in-law would be called a madman. And it is costing him. The matter is clearer in Germany, Italy and England. The emotion is transferred above all to France. Onrubia, we are all in your boat …
| 1 | MANCHESTER CITY FACT: You see the first half in Paris and you would never believe that today City is the leader of our ranking for another week. But it is like this. Comeback in Paris, the Champions League final just around the corner and the 'Guardioleavers' in 'on fire' mode. | = | |
| two | CHELSEA FACT: We hope that the cave from which the good old Frank Lampard is watching the Champions League has enough food. His Chelsea, the one he left dying a few months ago, gave a great image against Madrid. Little result for the first leg, yes. | ||
| 3 | BARCELONA FACT: Victory in Villarreal but considerable blow against Granada at the Camp Nou. It seemed that Koeman's men were heading straight for the league title and that Koeman has achieved the impossible: plugging in Griezmann. But this is too long … | ||
| 4 | INTER FACT: Piano, piano. Inter advance to the title with their last five Serie A victories achieved by the bare minimum. The work of Antonio Conte could only have a rubric as concise as this one. He will be champion, in short. | ||
| 5 | PSG FACT: Onrubia and Al Khelaifi, in that order, promised them very happy at halftime in the semifinal against City. But if something has characterized PSG these years, it is their ease of falling apart. It happened again and he is facing the abyss. | = | |
| 6 | REAL MADRID FACT: Good poker player. It seems he has no cards, but it is impossible to kill him. This was the case against Chelsea in a first half from which only Madrid could come out alive. Much of the blame is on Benzema, the new white leader. | ||
| 7 | LILLE FACT: It started as a kind of curiosity, the Lille of the Turks, which brought Burak Yilmaz with 35 years, but in the absence of very few days he leads Serie A and is in a position to be champion. What PSG lacked this season … | ||
| 8 | MONACO FACT: The best season since he was champion a few years ago, nobody gave a penny for the Monegasques or Nico Kovac, but there they are winning and winning games and they are fully involved in the fight. Of course, a 35 euro hamburger in Monte Carlo. | ||
| 9 | SEVILLE FACT: The apartment in Nervión for Julen Lopetegui already covers the two floors, terrace and garden. Another victory in the title fight and the feeling that if they had focused on the fight before, they would give the greats a scare. | ||
| 10 | BAYERN MUNICH FACT: The week was marked by the announcement that Nagelsmann will be his next coach. It's 25 million for a coach, but what a coach. This weekend there is a cup and he will not be able to be a champion. You will have to wait for the next … | ||
| eleven | NAPLES FACT: When no one was betting on Gatusso's men, they have become the most fit team in Italy and are heading straight for the Champions League. Not only that, but they have gotten Milan and Juventus into serious trouble. One of the two will fall from there. | ||
| 12 | ATALANTA FACT: Neither the elimination of the Champions League, nor the departure of Papu Gómez, nor the injuries of some of his best footballers … Gasperini's Atalanta continues to be a spectacular team. Second in Italy and the Champions very close. | ||
| 13 | M. UNITED FACT: He will finish the season second in the Premier and, above all, he has in his hand to be champion of the Europa League, a European title that for a great club never exceeds. Solskjaer was told that he was not worth because of his good face. Well thank goodness. | ||
| 14 | B. DORTMUND FACT: Haaland's men have become serious, several consecutive victories in a row and a blow to Wolfsburg in their own stadium that makes those who promised them so happy in the Champions zone tremble. Haaland is Champions. No doubt. | = | |
| fifteen | ATHLETIC FACT: Mattress friends, enjoy this feeling of being in our Power Ranking while it lasts. Defeat in Bilbao, the League that seemed to have won is a little further away and a general drop from its fans. Very Atleti. |
Bruno Alemany was betting on Dinamo Kiev for this week and Andrés Onrubia on Lens. Good teams, no doubt, but we're talking about bigger things in our rankings at this point in the season. So tight is the thing that teams like Leicester or RB Leipzig fall out of the top 15. Relax, if they manage to tie the qualification for the Champions League they will be there again.
More complicated is that some of the great and illustrious who are kneeling the knee lately sneak in. Juventus or Liverpool are two of those who are suffering the most. Cristiano and Klopp, due to their winning character, will not like a hair to be left out of the Champions League. Not even being left out of this Power Ranking.
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Prize for the national leagues in the biggest raises of the week. Inter, which climbed 5 places, and Lille, which climbed 9, are consolidated as the most important promotions. In a week marked by the Champions semi-finals, it is good to remember that are leading their respective championships ousting two giants like Juve and PSG.
Bayern and United are the ones with the most positions falling from one week to the next. Little at stake for the people of Munich and the normalization of United in games that used to be a ball and now surpasses with solvency. We have gotten spoiled this season with those of Solskjaer. We recognize it.
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